He said in an interview that he always considered Garak to be gay as all get-out, and thought that it was perfectly obvious, and that Garak should’ve had an affair, preferably with Bashir.

So Andrew Robinson finally got his wish. Love it.

I had it once, and I thought it tasted like most subways smell.

We have a climate chamber ("Klima-Kammer in German) at work for testing products, and my Ukrainian coworker kept referring to it as the “camera”, I thought that was funny.

And if it’s really bad, it’d be “putain de bordelle merde”, or so I’ve been told.

My favorite anecdote revolves around the many meanings of shit, which is hardly surprising, since the way this word is used in English is in no way forthcoming to a non native speaker.

So I was sitting in this call between my company (a medium size German tech company) and a big US corporation, discussing the development of a tool that we were doing for them. The people on both sides all knew each others at least in passing, and one of the people asked if one of my collegues was in the call, too.

Them: “So, is mr. X here, too?” Us: “No, mr. X had another appointment.” Them: “Ah okay. Mr. X really is the shit.” My collegues: wait…what? did they just…? Me, to my collegues: it’s good, it’s good, it wasn’t an insult! My collegues, getting more and more aggrevated: “Did you just call mr. X ‘shit’?” Them, not understanding: “What? NO!”

The Americans did not understand what the problem was, because they did not really think about what they said and that it might not be understood the way it was meant by a non native speaker.

It took a lot of explaining from my side after the call to cool my people down. They were completely bewildered, and they could not believe that calling someone “the shit” could possibly be a compliment. Me, I had a big big laugh the entire time.

Problem with that is that almost everyone who was interesting is dead. Actor wise.

What’s that about, O’Neill sitting in a fishing chair next to a pond, opening a cold one and going “yeap.”?

Renegade Nell

There is no money for a center, so just Disease.

Strict name rules that still allow parents to name their children “Ralf-Rüdiger” or “Ronny-Horst”, both of which are real life examples (Ralf-Rüdiger worked at my company!).