Not much is known about him, except that he’s 30, from Stockton, California, and used to be a forklift operator. [...] “He’s going to walk in the shows in Paris,” says Jordan.

Agreed. I really don’t want this coming back to bite her. The “Sansa is so whiny and weak” crowd is finally warming up to her, I want her to win. (Not the throne, but something. Winterfell. A nice husband. A political position. Whatever will make her happy.)

How does this even work? I take it there isn’t a loop hole about dating your biggest fan, so the idols aren’t actually “available” to anyone, they’re very high profile nuns.

I don’t believe the Blackfish took back Riverrun. Baelish is scheming again. I don’t know whether he wants to tempt Sansa to go South again or have her and Jon believe that their army is greater than it actually is, but he’s up to something. Plotwise her lie confirmed it for me, Jon and Davos might have had the sense…

speaks Estonian to her son

It’s been ages since I saw National Treasure, but I’m pretty sure she played a character who’d moved to the US from Germany. Diane Kruger is German herself, the correct accent can’t have been a problem for her.

People still don’t care. Last night, after it was reported that a smaller train operator was introducing women only compartments, many women took to twitter and started sharing their experiences of sexual assault on trains. The hashtag is #imzugpassiert, for those who read German, it translates as “happened on a…

There are certain guidelines when it comes to assigning gender to words (nouns, only, adjectives only take the gender of the noun they belong to). Certain groups (like trees) usually have the same gender: die Eiche (oak), die Buche (beech), die Birke (birch). Suffixes determine a noun’s gender, e.g. -chen is neuter,…

Jürgen Klinsmann. Diacritics aren’t decoration, they serve a purpose. Leaving them out is akin to using an t when an d is needed.

Actually, in the article you linked it says that 27 % of women stated :“I don’t know how to insert them or worry about inserting them.” That’s not the same as having problems inserting them. I know how to insert them, I don’t worry about using them, but I happen to have very short fingers, so I prefer applicators over…

I’m going to answer this even though I live in a largely applicator free country, too. First of all, I don’t know if my fingers are too short, but I never managed to get one in deep enough. The place where they ended up was uncomfortable while walking or sitting down. Secondly, there’s less risk of TSS when using…

Replying to myself because I’ve been reading up and down thread that ibuprofen doesn’t work for so many of you. Most kinds don’t work for me either. The ones that do have one thing in common: they also contain lysine. A pill with lysine and 200 mg of ibuprofen will take care of most of the pain within 10 minutes, a…

A very accurate description. I’m fortunate enough as ibuprofen works for me, but for years I was made believe that my cramps were somehow my fault that they were caused by my very untrained abs or lack of this or that, that it was unusual to have cramps this bad. It’s actually thanks to the comment sections on…

Not a medical professional here, but I think it’s the same as being constantly pregnant or nursing which is what the female part of humanity would do for millennia. They’d have the first kid really young, nurse it for a few years, get pregnant with the next one as soon as their body was able to again. Summa summarum…

Precisely! I’d rather nurse three broken bones and a head ache without pain killers if I could chose between that and period cramps.

I’m lucky in the sense that ibuprofen works for me (at least a few brands* do). That being said my monthly cramps are the only reason I take pain killers. When I break a bone or after surgery I prefer to hang in there until the pain goes away. I’m the kind of person who actually reads the leaflet and the possible side…

Germany has opened its doors to an unlimited number of refugees; the United States keeps proposing laws to keep them out.

as David recalled on a German TV program

That line once earned me an “As long as you’re not married, you’re still single.”

He’s Norwegian.