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Cross white trash with inner urban council estates [Which you don't have in the land of rent control] and some kind of mangled urban culture, and you're getting closer.

I played raquet ball once, the ball is bigger and bouncier...it's sorta just a lighter version of squash so you needn't be as fit or exert as much to play it.

They all look the same to me.

Is she the eldest in a litter of three cats, and thus a certain failure?

Make sure you name it soon. We dilly dallied too long with a cat once, and it ended up being named Fluffy. Nekojinron.

In terms of warnings, I like the fact that on some DVDs, I need not watch only the Australian warning, but British, Norwegian, Swedish, Italian and French warnings, all unskippable, on a single disc.

And I'm sure they have a team of crack agents that ensure compliance with all these provisions.

In Australia public broadcasting is paid for out of general revenue. Costs the average tax payer 14 cents a day. $51.10 a year I guess, so $102.20 for a normal household.

(Public broadcasting covers two normal terrestial stations, 5 radio networks (which have regional stations) and some other digital stations, websites and whatnot).


You pay for it whether you watch TV or not, but paying for something is less annoying when you don't see it the charge per se. It's why people complain more about income tax than sales tax.

I've played on occasion, with an ancient wooden raquet. I'm hardcore.

my Uni has an exchange program with Northern Iowa. That is all.

Whaddaya know, I always figured that the Fortress of Solitude was WAN enabled.

Is it 'cos he black?

Wasn't he complaining about violence in the former Yugoslavia last month?

I had other synonyms. I chose one that was used in Harry Potter with the most explicit suffix and got lauded for it...

Base 12 (and base 60 systems, they overlap alot) systems are derived from much the same source as base 10 systems. The Sumerians most likely counted using phalanxes, touching each with the thumb on the same hand. 4 fingers * 3 phalanxes.

Apart from arithmancy, there's no intrinsic benefit in one over the other.

Europeans may be more aware of American TV than Americans are of British TV, but as for global awareness, I haven't really seen anything that would put Europe (or Canada and Australia etc.) out ahead of the Americans. They've copped a bum rap there. Most countries are embarressingly ignorant.

....but at least we're better than North Koreans...yeah!

Every single piece of humour on the internet gets attributed to John Cleese eventually.

proof 1 http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/revocation.asp

further examples http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/cleese.asp

What irritates me is people who get too emotional about game companies and games, which hardware, software is better and the inexplicable notion that buying a product engenders any obligation from the seller but to give you that product.

The Ghostbusters was two guys and a gorilla called Tracy.

I wonder whether people here think it's more abhorrent to kill millions out of hate, ala the Nazi government, or to kill millions because they're almost incidental, like Stalin and Mao's.

The former, whilst more...hate filled, at least gives some kind of value, or presence to the lives they're taking, even though that presence is detested.
The latter could be considered to be more akin to manslaughter than murder, but sometimes I feel it's more abhorrent just not to care about whether the lives are important or not, juts dismissing them completely. Collatoral damage style thinking.