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• Commented on Is It Too Early To Start Drinking at the Airport?
  There's a very nice bar in the airport of Mahé (Seychelles). Never too early for a Mai Tai or something, just be sure not to overdo it. In the right dosis it also helps with the sleeping on the plane....
• Commented on Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing the elimination of copyeditor jobs
  Outsourcing, and I don't know how else to say this, this not being my mothertongue and all, but outsourcing really is the source of all evil. It might be cheaper, but it is never better. Writing and editing is best...
• Commented on Put This On: web video series for dudes on "dressing like a grownup"
  Good grief, get over the price point. No product ever is meant for everybody, if you don't like it or don't see the point of spending so much - why whine that it's too expensive?...
• Commented on Awful 1962 marriage textbook speaks out against feminism, communism and interracial dating
  Am I the only one who is surprised to see eugenics included in a schoolbook about dating and marriage? I mean, seriously, eugenics? This book is roughly twenty years after Hitler and contemplates "superior" and "inferior" races?!...
• Commented on Comic strip explains World Wars in five minutes
  It's so weird to see something about the Second World War without the mere mention of Nazis, just with the whole set of clichés Americans and Europeans have about each other. Deeply weird....
• Commented on Germany's top fashion magazine bans models over "anorexia"
  The woman on this cover is, of course, a model. Brigitte will start with the "No Models" campaign next year in january. As much as I like the idea, and I like the idea a lot, I have to say...
• Commented on Portable office built into a steamer trunk
  Needs some solar cells to power the Mac and a satellite dish. And maybe an old oil lamp. Pretty....
• Commented on The American Burqini, and modesty throughout the ages.
  The thing is, we don't really follow Victorian rules anymore, in my case, I don't have Kaiser Wilhelm any more (and I don't want him back). The past is a foreign country. In the 1920ies, people in Germany started to...
• Commented on Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Burqini
  First of all, one pool in Paris is not "backlash fromn governments in Europe". As far as I know there are several pools (for example in Germany) with special days/hours ONLY for (muslim) women. Which opens a whole other can...
• Commented on Jenna Bush, NBC <s>White House</s> correspondent -- the American Meritocracy
  It is one of the saddest facts in life: You nearly never get a job because of what you've learned, what you are, how competent you are in your field. You get a job because of who you know. Connection...
• Commented on Wikileaks publishes large cache of US neo-Nazi group's emails
  As soon as your sole source of confidence and pride are things you didn't do anything for - e.g. being born in a country or being born with a specific skin color - you've got a real problem. Nationalism and...
• Commented on Iraq: Honored female soldiers tell their own stories.
  Lynndie England was a female soldier, too. Everything else I'd like to say has already been said, but have some more fuel, a quote by my favourite German of all times, Kurt Tucholsky: All soldiers are murderers. Now fire away....
• Commented on Japanese pig rodeo
  @Takuan: I see your Sumo Bribery Scandal and raise it to Sumo Murder Scandal. It's more pig wrestling than pig rodeo, does Takeshi Kitano have to do anything with that?...
• Commented on Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  More fuel for the Vimes Theory of Boots: I've bought a pair of Prada boots during a sale in 2000 or 2001. I can't remember exactly how much I paid, let's say 250 Dollar. They are extremely comfortable, the leather...
• Commented on Adventures in ill-advised graphic design: Singapore anti- sex trafficking poster
  Isn't that rather a bodyshop campaign for a handcream from which part of the profit will go to a n organisation involved in the fight against sex-traficking? There's a bodyshop logo and the webaddress. The bodyshop often does campaigns like...
• Commented on Former French President says Bush invaded Iraq to thwart Gog and Magog's apocalyptic mission
  I've always thought the war was about the oil. It was pretty much clear from the beginning that there were no "weapons of mass destruction". Now, remind me again, what actually is the war in Afghanistan good for? Maybe that's...
• Commented on Latvia says no more British bachelor parties
  Why don't they go the the Mediterranean? Because they don't love drunk Brits any more than Latvians do, apparently: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jul/19/official-alert-boozy-brits-abroad "In a survey released this month by the travel agency Expedia, Britons were said to be the "worst behaved" for...
• Commented on Photo of the day: Bill Clinton with Kim-Jong Il
  The woman on the right side is either on North Koreas Taekwondo-Team or a male bodyguard in costume. Probably both....
• Commented on Berlin's luxury car arsonists
  Ah, and usually we have pretty long words for everything. I think Peterbruells hit the nerve: mostly it's social envy, and the ever present fear of "gentrification" (is that even an English word?). I really don't think the burning of...
• Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
  Offer to sell them to German TV stations or the magazine "Der Spiegel", there is quite a bit of that stuff on TV over here, so I guess they'd be interested....
• Commented on Music downloads offered on Chinese military's new website
  @12: I'm waiting for "Smashing the Uyghur Uprising with Patriotic Vigor" or "Then Truths against the hundred Lies of the Dalai Lama Clique"....
• Commented on Jesus in caked-on cooking grease
  Could be Mohammed, too. Or Charlton Heston. Or Moses. Do these things actually only happen in summer?...
• Commented on Race and book covers: why is there a white girl on the cover of this book about a black girl? -- UPDATED
  "I've done some translations and I was quite surprised to find out in the backcover what the book was all about - I'm sure the author would be surprised, too. So you've seen some bad cover copy, or some...
• Commented on Race and book covers: why is there a white girl on the cover of this book about a black girl? -- UPDATED
  I have long given up the looking at a cover and deciding whether I like it or not. Most covers have nothing whatsoever to do with the content, it's more a weird contest of what is marketable than an illustration...
• Commented on Massive dance-number wedding entrance
  Now that's a wonderful thing. If I'm marrying the husband again, I want these guys to perform. And Jeffster....
• Commented on Baltimore transit wants to use microphones to record all conversations on trains and buses
  That's just insane. Apart from the obvious fact of breaching civil rights, who is supposed to listen to all the crap you usually hear on trains or buses? Quite often, there's hardly any entertainment to it, just people talking to...
• Commented on History of pantyhose
  And in fifty years they have not yet developed a pantyhose that won't get runs....
• Commented on North Korea's first beer commercial
  Europeans are also not allowed to watch this important moment in the history of North Korea. My feelings are hurt....
• Commented on German cemetery nixes sexualized tombstone for sex-worker/advocate's grave
  You probably won't read this, Iaminnocent, but I'll answer anyway: The Joke: Tommi Ungerer is quite well known, not only for his illustrations of childrens books but also for his more grown-up sketches and books and I've always thought of...
• Commented on German cemetery nixes sexualized tombstone for sex-worker/advocate's grave
  And there is of course also the question if she would want to have a tombstone in the form of giant marble breasts. There is more to this story, because Domenica herself did feel her breasts to be a burden...