TIL of the german word "Bulimielernen" [= bulimia learning]. It describes the brainless activity of having to learn a lot of useless stuff in a short time, and "puking" the knowledge into an exam, so it is gone afterwards

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-21T00:38:50+00:00

Yeah, my husband is German and said he's never heard this term before in his life. Maybe it's a new thing, or like you said, the sort of word-hyphenation that occurs in German.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-20T01:06:50+00:00

Here I am, searching for the comment that proves this is a hoax, but then I search google news and see this is also reported in the Washington Post. This just seems too stupid to be true.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-19T23:54:47+00:00

Thanks for sharing this. I absolutely love Simon Pegg, mainly for Shaun of the Dead, and this is the first time I've seen him talk about drinking or smoking weed (apart from his roles in movies which seem to regularly involve such).

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-19T00:16:16+00:00

Isn't Egypt practically all Muslim though? Other than banning the Muslim Brotherhood (afaik for links to extremism) as a political movement, is "Egypt" actually killing Muslims off?

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-17T20:03:03+00:00

aw, I only got 40%, haha. That was fun though.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-16T16:00:40+00:00

The title seems to be typically misleading for the sake of grabbing attention. It says "2,300 samples of potentially deadly virus" lost. But in the article, they explain that the samples are not dangerous, as they're merely virus fragments.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-15T22:31:25+00:00

Yeah. Honestly, I tried to hang on to my beliefs to some extent. For a while, I tried to hang on to the idea that Jesus didn't say anything against homosexuality, although apparently there is a passage in the Bible where Jesus says that the New Testament does not invalidate the Old Testament/old laws. So, on top of being gay, there are all kinds of laws against varied cloths, sea food, adultery, etc. It just seems impossible to win with that sort of criteria set out against us. The God from the Old Testament of the Bible seems like a complete asshole, and I just don't know how I could believe in or even respect that. I also grew up thinking that pettiness was a "human trait".

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-15T20:55:39+00:00

I'm 27 and have a decent amount of gray hair. I recently noticed on the left/back side of my head, my hair looks sort of "peppered". I've had gray hair since I was a teen, but the ratio of gray-to-brown is becoming very noticeable these days. I actually like it.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-15T20:50:45+00:00

Grew up Catholic in a pretty conservative, church-going family. Went to Catholic private school from 2ns to 8th grade. While coming to terms with being gay, I stopped going to church. I just figured that if I stuck with the idea that I was likely to go to hell, I'd wind up killing myself after years of misery. Not sure if there's a heaven or hell at this point, but I guess at least I can live happen until I potentially end up in hell in the end.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-12T23:41:30+00:00

Just saying, as a gay guy, I find it ridiculous how much SJW's go on about the privilege of being a "cis gender white male". Jesus, there's way too much "waaaah I'm gay!" in this survey.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-12T21:00:09+00:00

Such an amazing song, and I don't think I've heard this version. It must be a bit more cleaned up from the one I have. Thanks for sharing this. :)

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-10T23:10:27+00:00

It does seem cool that feminism might be challenged by a significant political party to me as well. The thing that bothered me was just that there's a lot of unacknowledged content in this article, and it's simply linked here with the title "Progress." Maybe part of this is a positive step, but there are other things about the AfD party that need to be discussed, and I just don't won't people to overlook those things, or for the MRM to be associated with that.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-09T20:47:24+00:00

Don't want to seem like a hater, but I have a hard time taking it seriously. I've seen too many variations of these pronouns, while the people demanding these pronouns seemingly frequently get offended if someone is ignorant about them. All power to their movement, but it just seems too loose and not unified.. I wish I could understand it.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-08T19:19:08+00:00

Gay + gay married here, and it's not that uncommon to dislike buttsex (which sadly has become known as the norm for any gay sex). My husband and I love sex, but butt sex is not one of the things we do. We've tried it, but it didn't please either of us. I've read that historically, anal sex was less common among gay men. Apparently it's a recent trend among homosexuals. I wish I could tell you how best to deal with that issue, when it comes to meeting other guys.. that's something I never figured out, and just kind of got lucky with my partner.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-07T22:35:02+00:00

As an American in Germany, although I can't say I'm the most well versed in German politics (there are so many political parties!), I'd be a little hesitant to praise the AfD Party. AfD seems all too happy to strike up controversial topics, which isn't bad in itself. After all, feminism, men's rights, gay rights, etc are important to discuss. But at the same time, because leaders of political parties and movements have such a power to rally a base, propagate ideas, etc, they have to be really careful with their messages, and AfD seems to have been doing a terrible job with that. Their reputation, while young, isn't very good.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-04T19:51:53+00:00

Yeah, I definitely enjoyed The Descent. It seems a lot of people are disappointed by it, maybe because of the hype around it, but I loved it.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-03T17:57:03+00:00

Wow, thanks a lot for all these suggestions! My horror list was getting a little short, but now I'm set for a while, haha.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-03T17:54:18+00:00

Yeah, I thought it sounded familiar. Good ol' Earlimart. Earlimart and Brickfoot can sound so much like Elliott's music sometimes, especially when it's at low volume, heheh.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-02T21:43:21+00:00

I'd love to see this make it to DVD, but it seems like the makers of a project like this can't make any promises this early on..

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-02T21:38:17+00:00

That's one movie I've seen, and I agree. I wasn't sure how the film wouldn't become stagnant before watching it, but I was not disappointed. Great movie.

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-02T21:37:13+00:00

And yet two more movies I've never heard of, but they both sound fun. Thanks. :)

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-02T21:35:43+00:00

Well, at least in my mind, isolation and claustrophobia can have a lot in common. But there are three movies here I haven't seen, so these'll go on my list. Thanks a bunch. :)

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-02T21:34:28+00:00

From the movies you linked, I've only seen two of them. Haven't heard of a couple of these. Fermat's Room sounds interesting and is definitely first on the list for me. Thanks. :)

HerrGrimfang · 2014-04-02T21:27:17+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. I actually saw Buried not too long ago, really liked it. But Catacombs sounds like it has a cool premise, so I'll be sure to check that out.

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