If hamsters were bipedal, dancing theme park entertainers, would they have blond, curly hair? And wear cowboy hats? Would they engage in heinously choreographed line-dancing and booty shake for curiously large crowds of potentially deranged peeps?
Remember the shrieking German kid? (How could you forget him?) The amazing musician Lasse Gjertsen has turned his annoying shrieks into percussive music. Now that, my friends, is talent!
Just when we thought the 2 Girls, 1 Gross-Out phenomenon had lived its full 15 minutes of shame, it reemerges to ruffle the feathers of one angry German kid. He's got one hellavuh short fuse, so when all the reaction vids, pop-up ads, and Net Nanny filters get in the way of his "girls and cup" fix, all insanity breaks loose. (Warning: Language NSFW)
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I've always found it fascinating that dogs "bark" in different languages. Though we say "ruff ruff" in English, that same noise is expressed as "ouah, ouah" in French. Now here's something even cooler: German researchers have started to think that babies' wails sound different depending on what language their parents speak.
When the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago last week, East and West Germany had to integrate two very different cultures. Freedom may have spread quickly through the East, but nudity — the East's favorite and perhaps only freedom — never caught on in the West.
Freikörperkultur (FKK), or liberal body culture, was really the only way to rebel in the East, where the most quotidian details of people's lives were observed by the Stasi, East Germany's secret police.
But I doubt it will be catching like wildfire here! I have no other words for you guys. Just watch.
Wow. "Deutschland sucht den Superstar," Germany's answer to American Idol, does not disappoint. Check out the guy singing Michael Jackson's "Triller" (no, that's not a typo) and the third guy, who seems to be sucking on spaetzle during his rendition of "Angel."
Poor Keanu went on some German talk show and got hooked up to a lie detector. Watch him struggle through the host's questions (and her heinous dentist-office-wallpaper jacket). He's totally cute though.