Tag Archives: Germany

After he accurately predicted the winner in six straight matches, Spain’s Minister of Fisheries says he will ask the German government to ensure that Paul The Octopus is never eaten and will be allowed to die naturally of boredom during the next World Cup.

The entrance to a subway station in Berlin has been outfitted with a temporary slide, much to the delight and puzzlement of commuters. Man, I’d love to see this next to that horrid six-story monster at Lex and 53rd. (Or at DC’s Dupont Circle.) But you know, America. Lawsuits. The Berlin installation is a promotion for Volkswagen.

I sort of called it back on March 28th, although I really wanted Lithuania to win.

Catholic Church officials in Germany set up an abuse hotline for parishioners wishing to report their priests. The line “melted down” on the first day with thousands of calls. The numbers were far more than the handful of therapists assigned to deal with them could cope with. In the end only 162 out of 4,459 callers were given advice before …

I think this and the one from Lithuania are my favorites so far. This one feels like it could be a hit on the American charts.

Berlin’s memorial to gay victims of the Holocaust is an austere concrete block with a small window that displays a “never-ending” video loop of two men kissing. Installed in 2008, original plans for the display called for the gender to the two people in the video to change every two years. But now that it’s almost time for the switch …

Back when Pope Palpatine was the mere Archbishop of Munich, he transferred a pedophile priest to another assignment, presumably to cover up the crime. In the new location, the pervy priest molested again. Yesterday, he was finally suspended amid charges of the Pope’s complicity in the widening German child molestation scandal. According to the Archdioceses of Munich and Freising, the …

Right at takeoff, a flock of 200 starlings got sucked into the engine of a Germania Airlines flight from Dusseldorf to Kosovo. The plane circled and landed safely. Hitchcockian, eh? Lucky for them, it wasn’t 200 Canada geese. (Tipped by JMG reader Barry in Bonn)

With the re-election of Angela Merkel as chancellor, it appears that Germany will get its first openly gay foreign minister in Guido Westerwelle. The German press is eating it up. Guido Westerwelle and his gay partner are Germany’s new “power couple” — at least according to the nation’s leading daily, which splashed a photo of the pair hugging on election …

Kraftwerk, Numbers, 1981. Arguably the most influential electronic act in history, it was 1981’s Numbers that brought Germany’s Kraftwerk to mass notice in the U.S. after several critically raved (but low selling) albums in the 70s. The track was an immediate smash with break dancers and has been sampled uncountable times. You can finder snippets of Numbers in Soulsonic Force’s …

Copyranter reports that a German organization called Das Comitee is using the images of Hitler, Mussolini, and Saddam Hussein to promote the upcoming World AIDS Day. Go here for their possibly NSFW videos. (YouTube has removed them.) Opinions?

Those sexually suggestive ads recently put out by Burger King and Quiznos have nothing on this Sprite ad from Germany. NSFW! NSFW! This is just a spec commercial, so claiming it was banned from the airways isn’t quite truthful.

Germany’s Eurovision entry is a Ricky Martin-ish big band/pop mashup featuring an orchestra led by German house DJ Alex Christensen. Vocals are by openly gay California-born Oscar Loya, a first generation Mexican-American who resides in Munich. Eurovision doesn’t care much about the contestants’ actual nationality. After all, Celine Dion won for Switzerland in 1988.

Pop star Nadja Benaissa of the multi-million selling girl group No Angels has been arrested by the German government for having unprotected sex while knowing she is HIV-positive. Lawyers for Nadja Benaissa, a 26-year-old singer with the succsessful girl band, is accused of having had unprotected sex with three men in 2004 and 2006, according to state prosecutors in Darmstadt, …

Germany has banned a series of ads by PETA which compares Holocaust victims to animals in slaughterhouses. The posters, sponsored by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), bear photographs of concentration camp inmates, both alive and dead, along with pictures of plates piled with meat and animals ready for slaughter, accompanied by the slogan: “The Holocaust on your …

This is actually a giant optical illusion painting by German artist Edgar Mueller, who paints what appears to be a 3D image directly onto a street surface. Drivers and pedestrians swerve to avoid “falling in.” More examples of Mueller’s work at the link, including a video of how it’s done.

German doctors are claiming to have cured a man of HIV infection with a stem cell transplant from a person naturally immune to the virus, a process I mentioned here last week. A 42-year-old HIV patient with leukemia appears to have no detectable HIV in his blood and no symptoms after a stem cell transplant from a donor carrying a …

German pop star Kim Petras has revealed that she underwent gender reassignment surgery late last year at the age of 16, becoming what some are calling the world’s youngest transsexual. In Germany, such operations are not usually allowed until the patient is 18. However Kim managed to convince doctors when she was just 12 that she should have the surgery. …

Copyranter emailed to tip us to this image he found on a gay German travel site. From his guest post on Coilhouse: Mount Assmore! This is truly one of the funniest ads (click here for closer look) I’ve seen in my 20 years in this fucked-up business. It’s for German website queer-travel.de, who for over 12 years, have made “gay …