Germans Design Dual Mouthwash / Toilet Duck

This German cleaning product sure looks like it is meant to be held upside down and squirted into your toilet bowl. But no – it’s mouthwash, in a small ceramic bottle. Truly strange people.

German Lessons Abandoned

On day four of my German class, the teacher asked us our professions, and one student replied a chef.

If you are learning English, chef is pretty easy, like most nouns. Plurals and definite/indefinite articles follow basic rules. That’s it. Just like German . . . almost.

The German word for chef is der Koch. Simple, right? [...]

Germans are too precise

Precision is great, especially when you build cars, but a reasonable person can see that such precision should have limits.

I got in an elevator in Germany, and saw that the floors were not demarcated as 1, 2, 3, but instead as 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, etc.

Is this really necessary? There were no half floors, or anything [...]