First of all, it's Romy, not Romi. Second: Sisi was the spelling her friends and family used. 'Sisi' in Southern German dialects is pronounced like 'Sissi' in all the other dialects. They had to add the second s for the Romy Schneider movies, because without most Germans would have pronounced it as Zee-zee.

There's a musical about her life - narrated by her murderer - in which Death is a main character who is wooing her - and still the musical is more authentic to her life and her person than any film adaption I've ever seen. Look at how pretty it is.

They might be fraternal twins. In which case they wouldn't look identical but be as different as 'normal' siblings, who differ in height, weight, eye color, hair color, heck, sometimes even skin color.

Please do tell.

I hardly ever use tampons because only the ones with applicators work for me and the local stores carry them very rarely. (Different country, tho.)

Maybe it was payback? Having a little Potter named after him would've made Snape furious. ;)

Almost everyone is portrayed as very human, a person with both good qualities and bad qualities. There's a good side and a bad side, but the anti Voldemort crowd isn't necessarily all good, just like his supporters aren't always the embodiment of pure evil. Often a person's background and upbringing played a major…

Also, there is no right choice when you have to choose between a child staying alive and happy or saving the lives and happiness of millions of others.

Rowling on Snape and Dumbledore:

Sounds like his sexuality is the real problem, but she doesn't want to say that outright. Invent a female friend of a friend who'd also be interested in renting the room and wants to know whether her girlfriend can stay over for a weekend every now and then. If she opposes this imaginary lesbian as well (on whatever…

The cops in question thought they'd shot a young men around 20. I wouldn't trust the eyesight of someone who can't tell a prepubescent kid from an adult to notice the warning tip on a toy pistol.

Exactly! Plus: I love your username.

I've heard people argue in earnest that Piet is black, because he came down the chimney. I fail to see how ash and grime could give someone full red lips and very curly hair. And why none of the ash and grime ended up on his clothes.

Astrid Lindgren grew up in a time when no one batted an eye about how she (and many contemporaries) presented other cultures and different races. She also seems to have been genuinely found of children. I doubt she would object to the changes made as she did not intend to hurt anyone with the words she used.…

Actually it is our job. Any society that wants to survive for longer than the next generation depends on a birthrate that at least maintains the current population size. Otherwise you have more old people who drain the system (healthcare, welfare, pensions, ...) than younger people who pay for it.

Done.

Ah yes, if only people without decent jobs would refrain from having children. Not only would it ensure that the poor will eventually die out, it might even help with worldwide overpopulation. You and christmastree703482 should have coffee some time.

Between this and that (I only read about it today) I've had enough. Off to bed now.

When I was a kid my parents would try to become friends with my friends' parents (often a friend's parents would initiate it, too, so it's not like my folks imposed themselves on unwilling others), which weirded me out. Know that I'm older I get that they probably wanted to know what kind of background a new friend of…

You are absolutely right, of course. The reasons I only mentioned maternity leave are that a) this specific case is about a mother and b) I wasn't sure what the equivalent to maternity leave for men and women is called in English.