Comments on: Moving air causes death

By: Ebo

Ebo — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 02:59:58 +0000

What about the American obsession with ice cubes in their drinks (except in beer, wine and coffee) in summer and winter? Can anyone explain that? That can’t be good for your teeth or your stomach. And what about the ordering of speed limits to save lives while refusing to disarm the citizens? What costs more lives? Speeding or shooting? Where’s the logic?

By: Florian Blaschke

Florian Blaschke — Sun, 09 May 2010 03:36:45 +0000

There are far weirder mass hysterias than the Korean one, even:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koro_%28medicine%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanganyika_Laughter_Epidemic

By: Schmitt

Schmitt — Sat, 08 May 2010 06:43:32 +0000

haha- so true!

Ich lebe in den Tropen und ALLE Deutschen die hierherkommen beschweren sich ueber die Klimaanlagen. Wahrscheinlich, weil sie es, halbnackt, an ihrem Urlaubsort schoen warm haben wollen und keinen Gedanken an die Bevoelkerung verschwenden, die im Gegensatz zu ihnen ordentlich gekleidet zur Arbeit geht.

By: db

db — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:25:14 +0000

@Leonie, hey, I am german but live in Switzerland. And many (swiss) people here have the exact same strange beliefs about Zug. But then, maybe this weirdness was introduced to switzerland by the german immigrants

By: Leonie Eggenberger

Leonie Eggenberger — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:15:56 +0000

This is the most entertaining site I have visited in a very long time - thank you all! I am Swiss but used to live in Germany (Bavaria and Baden Württemberg) for some years and learnt the following: you don’t just randomly open the windows in order to get some fresh air into your rooms. no, what you do is “Stoss- und Querlüften” and this means as much as opening the windows/doors that are opposite each other in order to achieve the best impact/result in the shortest possible way (saving energy and stuff). So please remember to “lüft” correctly.

And yes: Swiss girls do shave their armpits

cheers!

By: Tanja

Tanja — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:24:17 +0000

For example, if a German woman sits on cold concrete, she will lose the ability to become pregnant.

Definitely not true, sorry.
They tell us that we’ll get BLADDER INFECTIONS though.
The RUSSIAN women lose the abilty to become pregnant if they sit on cold concrete tough…seriousely, I’m in Russia right now, and people told me that

By: Reminiscences (German)

Reminiscences (German) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:06:07 +0000

I can’t resist that one …

Kreislaufkollaps is actually a symptom, not an illness. It’s a circulatory collapse, caused by anything from low/high blood pressure, over anaphylactic shocks, over high/low blood sugar levels, up to such stuff as brain tumors or epilepsy. Or in other words, a feinting fit. I used to have them (due sudden high blood pressure flashes) in my teens.

I won’t go near AC. It’s wasteful. The draft/draught problem however is certainly not exclusive to Germany or Germans. The Brits invented wing chairs to combat the drafts in their castles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_chair

A “Zug” is precisely what the Prinz explained, onesidedly stiff musles where draft cooled muscle and nerves too much for comfort, resulting in a strain (of that muscle). The worst case scenario, which isn’t totally impossible in a country as perennially cold as Germany, may indeed be a (head) cold. Either is called “einen Zug haben”. In the US it’s simply called either a strain or a cold.

By: Newcomer

Newcomer — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:54:10 +0000

EVERYTIME I went to see my daughter (living in the USA) I got a cold in the airplane, the air condition was set too low, until I learned to cover myself with a windproof coat. I appreciate my A/C when it is really hot, but diudn’t mankind invent clothes to cover and ancover to our needs? (There are undergarments, blouses, sweaters, jackets..) An alle Deutschen: hier in Texas kann es morgens 5 Grad (Celsius) sein, da laufen junge Maedchen mit flip-flops rum, weil es ja mittags 20 Grad sein koennte. By the way, becoming infertile by sitting on cold concrete or stones has a reason: It can cause a pelvic infection - which can cause the fallopian tubes to glue together - no way for the fertilized ovum to get to the uterus!!!

By: Mel

Mel — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:08:01 +0000

The difference between the two countries is:
In Germany, you put your jacket on, leave the house and take it off when you’re at work.

In the US, you leave the house, taking your jacket with you to put it on at work, because all your American colleagues are still feeling hot when the AC is set to 68 degrees..

Not to speak of the waste of energy caused by air conditioning and bad insulation.

A lot of people get sick in summer just because it’s warm enough for summer clothing outside but all the restaurants, offices and malls are air conditioned about 30 degrees below outside temperature.

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:50:32 +0000

HAHA! Als ich klein war hatte ich fürchterliche Angst vor dem “Zieht”. Nächtelang lag ich wach im Bett und habe nach Zug-Geräuschen gelauscht, damit ich gegebenenfalls rechtzeitig ins Zimmer meiner Eltern flüchten konnte, bevor der schreckliche “Zieht” in mein Zimmer eindringen konnte.