A cold bath? I've never actually tried it, but I frequently find myself fantasizing about gliding into a tub filled with crushed ice, when my period cramps reach a someone-please-shoot-me-now level.

I'm rewatching Fringe, because I started watching the X-Files (too young to have watched them when they originally aired) and Scully made me miss Olivia Dunham. Do you have any suggestions for similar shows with a leading lady (mystery/sci fi/fantasy as well as thriller/crime elements and a long story arc)? I've…

Was that the guy who also carried tiny pebbles in his pockets at all times, because the OT demanded he stone his gay friends?

A while ago I read an article about how an oppressed group behaves in regard to the oppressing group. There are two main strategies. An individual will either embrace all the qualities and behaviourisms that are supposedly typical for the oppressed group or they will completely reject them and try to raise their own…

As long as you punch them with a bloody tampon.

Maybe we should just bleed on everything they love. Let's see how they think about subsidized tampons then.

Never mind the food, you guys. Russia has banned the import of EU goat, bull and ram sperm! Now what will we do with all the sperm we can't sell them? (http://www.themoscowtimes.com/article/504755…)

Have you heard the (conspiracy? - Sadly I don't remember where I read it, so I don't know how reliable the source was) theory that Putin had intended to shoot down a Russian passenger plane and to blame Ukraine for it? It all went wrong, because the men handling the BUK weren't local, so they brought the BUK system to…

Finland isn't happy either. One of the main reasons for not joining the NATO was that Russia is such an important trading partner. Guess that argument went up in smoke now.

You're looking at this the wrong way. Making a profit (or at least not losing money) is not important. Putin learned his trade as a KGB officer in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union (as well as the other communist and socialist states) were often very close to a massive collapse. The Olympics and the World Cup are…

Historically the Crimean peninsula belonged to the Crimean Tartars, who Stalin had deported in the 1940s. They were allowed to return in the late 1980s, where they are now a minority. They opposed the Russian annexation of the Crimea because they feared to be subject to Russian oppression once again.

The super rich can still take a trip to the Finnish border and smuggle in all the expensive cheese they want. Unless they close the border but I don't see that happening any time soon.

Well, I'd take Emmental cheese over Gudbrandsdalen any day.

Obviously he was extraordinarily talented

For several years I lived in an area with large numbers of Canada geese (and Barnacle geese). I never saw them bothering anyone. They just went about their own business, eating grass, swimming and raising the most adorable little feathery fuzzballs. Everytime I see this comic strip I'm utterly stunned at the…

My story doesn't involve any exotic animals, but rather weird behaviour from a domestic one.

Even if this version of what happened were true, I'd still judge the shit out of them for leaving their fatally ill newborn behind. If they were unaware of the boy's condition until after he was born, they were looking forward to welcoming twins into their home, had probably bought clothes for two children, picked out…

Does this mean he won't have time anymore to guest star on Doctor Who ? If yes, I thank the tv gods.

The Scorps are still around, but they're currently on their farewell tour. They started said tour in 2010, though, so I don't expect them to retire any time soon.

pre-1989: Renft, Puhdys, Karat, City, Stern-Combo Meißen, Silly, Karussel, Gerhard Schöne, Ute Freudenberg, Keimzeit. (A selection based on who came to mind first.)