My Googlegänger is about the same age and grew up about 20km from me, even though my last name is rather uncommon. Combined with the fact that I don't use any social networks, it made for some awkward moments during job interviews over the years...

Also, Zugzwang sounds funky when pronounced by someone who doesn't speak German.

Welsh.

Cheers, mate.

It looks as if someone dowsed my shiny little ruby in bleach...

Cheers anyway.

Hetero men love breasts, because prehistoric men... loved breasts. It must be true, Jimmy Carr said so.

Much obliged, mate!

*discard

Cheers, mate.

Woah, steampunk!

I prefer to fight Zoidberg-style: instinctual ejection of bodily fluids combined with a lot of whoop, whoop, whoop.

Works every time.

Leaving different dialects aside for a moment, English sounds a lot like Dutch, Danish and, surprise, German. To me, it's all Frisian anyway.

Banausen. *discard

*discard for one more try

Quite a clusterfuck, but at least there are considerably less tank tracks on the fields between Brest and Moscow, so it's worth it.

Wife (die/eine Ehefrau) is feminine.

German as a language just went through too damn many evolutionary steps over the centuries. It's convoluted and bloated to a point where many people just ignore some of the rules, particularly regarding the "cases" you mentioned.