A Bunch of Stuff

A few links for you: this one is funny, this one has over 17,000 page views as of me posting it here (which is, like, a LOT), and this one is a cleaner post for you to feel better after looking at the last one.

And, a few random bits of info before I go to Madrid for the weekend:

1. I wrote about how the English hate Germans because they're still pissed about the Blitz. I still thought it was weird that they talked about Germans and Nazis all the time, but I'm starting to understand why Prince Harry dressed up like a Nazi at that party a little better. Obviously, I still think it was stupid and insensitive, but now I know why he did it -- it wasn't because he thought the Nazis weren't so bad, it's because he was making fun of them. That's all they do here. They "take the piss out" of them. My boss was talking about doing a stag weekend (a stag party is a bachelor party) in Germany for his friend, and he mentioned that one of them would probably end up getting dressed up like Hitler. It's not because they don't think he was such a bad guy; it's the exact opposite. They're just more into black humor here.
2. Speaking of humor, I've mentioned how I love getting the tabloid London Lite on the way home from work now. There's one page that I love the most, the Message Board, because it has a section where people text message in different, often random, thoughts. They either share something funny or embarrassing, ask a question, whatever. One guy said that he hated not knowing if a girl was single or not and proposed that Friday be Single Girl Green Shirt Day. Somebody responded the next day, and someone else responded to them the day after that. That's why I have to get it every day -- so I know what's going on. One of the funniest things I read was a corny joke: "The seven dwarfs were sitting in a tub and they all felt happy. So Happy got out." There was also something about, due to the state of the economy and concerns over carbon emissions, the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut off.
3. I read the paper on the Underground, not the subway. "Subway" actually means something different here. It's not the underground trains, but any underground walkway, usually passing beneath a busy street. This confused the hell out of me the first time I encountered it.
4. Unrelated: There is a kid in my program interning at Parliament and he met Gordon Brown. I don't know him, but I thought that was pretty cool.
5. Even more unrelated: I saw a milk truck the other day. Actually, I've seen a few. Like, actual trucks that bring bottles of milk to your door. It was very cute.

Adios!