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The Germans have figured out a way around the emotional, messy lets-be-friends talk: hire a "separation agent" to do the dirty work for you. For $88, a "suave man in his 50s" will break the news to your now-ex. [Independent] More »
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Ramma Damma, aka Ulli Hopper, a German pop star who dresses entirely in green, has gotten married…to a pineapple. He paid about $16 for his fruit (because he wanted a bride who wasn't cheap). The couple honeymooned in Scotland. [Metro] More »
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I know what you're thinking - it's-a-friggin'-small-world-after-all this week! Well, that is, if the figurines were all drunk. And got dressed in the dark. In the most picked-over Salvation Army in the whole city. And then walked down a Munich red carpet at something called "DEV: Movie Meets Media" at "discotheque P1." So hideous were the accumulated fashions at the aforementioned event that I was forced to do the unthinkable: throw out all pre-existing categories and present you with an uncategorized melange of varying degrees of "bad". (There was no "good," kids.) Now, it would seem I'm woefully ignorant of German pop culture (and that three weeks of "Beginning Yiddish" at the Y do not a German Wikipedia-reader make) so I call upon any Deutch Jezzies out there to give us the dirt on these people...after the jump. More »
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"The vagina and particularly the clitoris attract almost no attention through naming and tender touching (neither by father nor mother) and thus make it hard for girls to develop pride for their sexuality." — instructions from a German guidebook called Korper, Liebe, Doktorspiele ("Body, Love, Doctor Games"), currently causing a well-deserved uproar in Switzerland. Maybe we're prudes, but your child's clitoris should not be a known entity. [The Sun] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=356737&view=rss&microfeed=true The naughty, nasty Germans made her do it. More »
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