And yes: Swiss girls do shave their armpits

cheers!

Definitely not true, sorry.
They tell us that we’ll get BLADDER INFECTIONS though.
The RUSSIAN women lose the abilty to become pregnant if they sit on cold concrete tough…seriousely, I’m in Russia right now, and people told me that

Kreislaufkollaps is actually a symptom, not an illness. It’s a circulatory collapse, caused by anything from low/high blood pressure, over anaphylactic shocks, over high/low blood sugar levels, up to such stuff as brain tumors or epilepsy. Or in other words, a feinting fit. I used to have them (due sudden high blood pressure flashes) in my teens.

I won’t go near AC. It’s wasteful. The draft/draught problem however is certainly not exclusive to Germany or Germans. The Brits invented wing chairs to combat the drafts in their castles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wing_chair

A “Zug” is precisely what the Prinz explained, onesidedly stiff musles where draft cooled muscle and nerves too much for comfort, resulting in a strain (of that muscle). The worst case scenario, which isn’t totally impossible in a country as perennially cold as Germany, may indeed be a (head) cold. Either is called “einen Zug haben”. In the US it’s simply called either a strain or a cold.

In the US, you leave the house, taking your jacket with you to put it on at work, because all your American colleagues are still feeling hot when the AC is set to 68 degrees..

Not to speak of the waste of energy caused by air conditioning and bad insulation.

A lot of people get sick in summer just because it’s warm enough for summer clothing outside but all the restaurants, offices and malls are air conditioned about 30 degrees below outside temperature.