With his “German Survival Bible”, SPIEGEL is remarkably fostering intercultural understanding…

“GERMAN MEN: Hunky, Handsome, Wimpy and Weak”

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,419029,00.html

I’m quite silent about its truthfulness ;-)) Anyway, don’t miss this entry:

BRUTALLY HONEST
“Have You Gained Weight?”

Don’t beat around the bush in Germany. If someone asks a question, answer it honestly and expect the same in return. “Yes I have put on a few pounds,” is the correct answer.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,416920,00.html

To be honest, one must categorize German females into three groups, none of which have any clue about what they really want — which, I suppose, doesn’t make them much different from American women. There are the Britney teenie boppers, very uncool in my book and many of them are pierced and tattooed to the point of grossness; the 25-40 crowd who think they are great bargains but always hook up with losers and wonder what went wrong; and the over 40s, who were crazy enough to lie in the sun every chance they got or use cheap tanning beds until they turned radioactive orange and had skin like 150-year-old leather.

I’ve only had one German girlfriend in those 23 years out of my own personal “selecao” of about a dozen. The ones I have been “fortunate” enough to know were largely superficial, always indirect when forced to make unpleasant decisions, stressed WAY too easily, and usually SMOKED (YECH!). And oh yes, a few even had hairy legs.

MUCH better are South American women, who are much more beautiful and naturally tan, kind, gentle, MUCH more feminine, more self-confident, more cheerful and YES! quieter as a general rule.