December 2007 (3)

Thursday, December 20 2007

The Credit Card Hell

Monopoly by Mc Donalds

I have already tackled one of the aspects that sometimes makes me think that Germany is a backwards country. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's an OK backwards country, but there are a few things that just drive me nuts. One of those is the fact that having a credit card in Germany is like owning a  […]

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Friday, December 14 2007

The Toilet in the Bathroom

We've just moved appartments. Apart from the fact that we now have double the surface, there is one very important thing to me, French woman, in this new appartment, and that is the toilet. In Germany, toilets (except in restaurants) are in the bathroom. Ouch, with the common use of bathroon as a  […]

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Thursday, December 13 2007

Shifting Standards and the Center of The World

I have been working on an international survey in the past few days, which is being answered by 11 teams of 11 different countries. And one thing really struck me in the way answers were given to certain questions. It was not so much the actual content of the answer which I found striking, but  […]

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