Do you have any tall, muscular, male German friends, who'd be willing to tell him for you? If he doesn't respect the boundaries you set, he might react differently if a man (and a physically intimidating one at that) tells him no directly.

German here. His behaviour is very uncommon in Germany and against social norms.

Leaving the rudeness aside (be kind to cats, they can kill you in your sleep) the friend sounds like the kind of person I'd hang out with.

I'd rather have another season of Bunheads.

I wish I could manipulate myself to separate music and musician. If I did I might be able to enjoy Aerosmith again, which I haven't been able to ever since the story broke that Steven Tyler dated a 16 year old, whose mother signed over guardianship of her to him. Now listening to him creeps me out.

Can trans people legally change their gender in Russia? It seems like the kind of thing that wouldn't be allowed there. If they want to be homophobic about this, they first have to accept that trans women are women. If they want to be transphobic about this, there are no legal grounds to object to this gay marriage,…

So Robert Downey Jr. did not listen to Stephen Fry, who'd asked him to name the kid Uppy, when they were both on the Graham Norton Show. Uppy Downey.

I ventured into the BC tag today, because I was kind of hoping to witness a tiny shitstorm, but tumblr took it remarkably well. Most folks commented how genuinely happy they were for him. A few were said, but there was no hate directed at either BC or his fiancee. My faith in humanity was partly restored.

There's one thing I've been wondering about ever since I first came across this way of typing. Do you just randomly hit the shift key while typing or is there some kind of pattern or system? Is there a way to get it wrong? And doesn't it get annoying when you type more than one word? My mothertongue capitalizes more…

Laying siege to Halloween? If only. It already got Easter.

by Harry Styles, or the cast of Teen Wolf, or Dr. Who and Benedict Cumberbatch at the same time

I assume that Lifehacker is following you, but Jez isn't. That's the magic key to getting out of the grey.

Schwangerschaftsdemenz is the term. Pregnancy dementia for those who don't speak German. It's followed by Stilldemenz (nursing dementia).

Benedict, honey, asexuality - like all sexualities - isn't a choice. Chastity is. Don't listen to your show runner when it comes to terms that describe Sherlock. He tends to ignore their definitions.

If this was a video of a woman getting groped 100 times in 10 hours, they'd argue that she shouldn't whine about it because it's not like she was raped.

Save me a place on the ferry boat.

Czech garlic soup tops them all. (When you make it right. For some reason recipes in English take only a few cloves for 4 persons. That is wrong. I you want to cook for several people, you use several bulbs.)

She's the leader of a party that traditionally opposes any improvements for women. Marital rape was only made illegal in Germany in 1997, because up until then the conservatives had always blocked a change in legislation. In 1997 the notion only made it through because the party allowed its members to break party…

Let me take a minute to say how much I loved the conclusion of Christina Yang's story line. Way too often a female character gets the guy or a baby when the writers want to give her a happy ending. Grey's always maintained that Christina wasn't the family type, but it never judged her for it. She was always married to…

I'm really rooting for Dan Stevens to become Hollywood's next big breakthrough actor. The shitstorm his leaving Downton started was insane. Even the 'nicest' among his haters predicted that Downton would remain the only success he was ever to have and that his Hollywood dreams would soon burst like a bubble, leaving…