"BEKANNT SEIN WIE PARIS HILTON"

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Danke. Ich verzichte.

MORE BADEN-WURTTEMBERGIANS IN THE SILICON VALLEY

I am not the only Baden-Wurttemberg expat here 😉

DIFFERENCES IN MORAL ETHICS BETWEEN THE U.S. AND EUROPE

For Europeans, it’s always difficult to understand some moral ethics in the U.S. To cut a long story short: violence is OK, naked skin (or even worse…) is bad!

When going to the movies last week I saw the rating for Live Free or Die Hard (“Die Hard 4.0” for you Europeans) – “PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and a brief sexual situation” (in Germany, the movie is rated “16”, so no one under the age of 16 is allowed to go see it in the theaters). Knocked Up on the other side (that movie shows some… naked skin… but not more than you can see all day in these pr0n-alike music clips on MTV) is “rated R for sexual content, drug use and language” – in Germany, you can watch it if you’re 12 years or older.

For further information, see an explanation of the movie ratings on the MPAA website.

And to make things worse, today I was sent two links to an article from the German Spiegel news magazine and one on Boing Boing – male genitalia either in 0.5 millimeter size (that’s 0.019685 inch) in an illustration of a museum scene in a children’s book or in the form of concrete phalli (formerly known as “cement posts”) are terrorizing the U.S.! As if there weren’t more… serious… problems…

MAY I INTRODUCE MYSELF? JEAN P. SIMPSON

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Go create your own avatar on the Simpsons website.

(via vowe)

FOOD FOR THE MOVIE JUNKIE

The only online DVD rental offers I know from Germany are Lovefilm.de/Amazon.de (which allows you to rent up to 6 movies per month for 19 Euros) and Amango (which has unlimited rentals, 3 DVDs at a time for about 20 Euros per month).

So, to satisfy the DC interns’ need for movies, I signed up for a Blockbuster subscription today. That costs about $19 a month (incl. tax) and I will have three movies checked out at a time. The next Blockbuster store is only a few blocks away, so I can always return them in the store and get a free “regular” rental for each DVD I bring in. Nice 😉

Hope I can manage to cross some movies off the “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die” list.