Germany's New Cabinet

Here you can learn about the people controlling one of the world's largest economies.

Spiegel Online presents an interactive guide to Germany's new cabinet. The government is once again formed as a collation, this time between the dominant Christian Democratic Union (teamed with their Bavarian sister-party the Christian Social Union) and the Free Democratic Party (Liberals, in the original European sense of the word). It seems the favourite wonderkid is the vietnam-born Philipp Rösler, who is at once the youngest member and the first foreign-born minister (Health) in Germany. He's also been a member of the Free Democrats since 19.

$music in $city at $link

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

$music = Experimental;
$city = Berlin;
$link = Echtzeitmusik; # <http://www.echtzeitmusik.de/index.php>

    print "For all your $music music needs in $city visit $link!\n";

exit;

German for Sissy

German's have some interesting ways of telling men they're sissies. I wouldn't read too much into them, but perhaps they give a clue into the male German psychee. Many are expressions which describe sissy-like actions.

Here are my favourites:

• Warmduscher - Warm-showerer
• schattenparker - Shadow-parker (so your car doesn't overheat)
• foliengriller - Foil-griller (you put your meat on aluminum foil instead of directly on the grill)
• s-bahn-in-fahrtrichtung-sitzer - in-the-direction-of-travel-sitter (as to avoid nausea from looking out the window in the wrong direction)
• sitzpinkler - pee-sittinger
• Joghurt-mit-Löffel-Esser - Yogurt-with-spoon-eater
• Frauen-über-die-Straße-lasser - Women-across-the-road-letter
• bei-gelb-Bremser - Yellow-light-braker
• Frauenversteher - Women-Understanderer
• Sauna-unten-Sitzer - Sauna-under-siter (You sit on the lower level of the sauna where it's cooler)
• Turnbeutel-Vergesser - Sports-bag-forgetterer
• Homobremser - Homo-braker

But there are also easier ones:

• Weichei - Soft eggs (eggs = testicles)
• Flachwichser - lousy wanker
• Boxershortsbügler - Boxershorts-ironer
• Muttersöhnchen - Little mama's boy
• Memme - Sissy/coward
• softi - softie
• Lappen/Waschlappen - Wash cloth
• Sissi - Sissy