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Note S.H.I.E.L.D in the world of comics, where they were compelled to create a new backronym every few years because they realised how dumb the last one was, as long as the acronym itself was cool.

YOU WILL GET WET

* Las Naranjas assumes that he is the only one here to have seen the Martin Sheen film S.T.O.R.M

Dudes!

If you like it, buy it.

if you don't, don't buy it.

That's your right as a customer! The consoles are merely products, the companies merely businesses, why the emotional attachment?

That treehouse of horror was the absolute worst episode I ever saw of the Simpsons. Since then it's become merely boring, as opposed to downright horrible. But no show lasts forever, sometimes it's best to let things die.

Sparta = Crappa.

Amusingly though, they supported Blink 182 on tour here.

On a side note, there are two minor football (soccer teams) in the NSW league who aren't allowed to play in front of crowds.

You see, back in the day before multiculturalism really took off as an idea, a migrant group tended to be somewhat insular, and they'd form football clubs to help form a community. So there were Greek clubs, and Serb clubs and Macedonian clubs etc.

Most of the communities would move on from that and move out into the wider community. Unfortunately, that meant the remaining supporters were die hards.

And when Sydney United (Formerly Sydney Croatia) plays Bonyrigg (Formerly Sydney Serbia)....things happen.
Which at least has war behind it, unlike the clubs in Melbourne fighting over what place, where is allowed to be called Macedonia at what time.

That's the funniest thing about Cricket. Everyone says they think it's boring, and then watch it anyway.

I should clarify that the role the weather played didn't change the result of course, just prevented us getting as much results as we would like to enjoy.

On the other hand, this way we can say the entire series was decided by two runs. Awesome.

Congrats and all, although it's a pity the English weather played as large a role as it did.

It's alright in Finland, it would never get warm enough to sweat.

Fun Fact - English has it's words for the meat of an animal derived from the latin roots, e.g porcus or the french mouton for pork and mutton respectively, since the french speaking Normans were eating the animal whilst the Anglo Saxons were raising it.
Amaze your friends with etymological wonders.

American football is partially derived from Rugby, but it's a completely seperate sport. It is so called because it was played first at the Rugby school in England.

There are two seperate forms of Rugby to boot, which, like Association Football (soccer), is named for it's first governing body.

Oh, and Canadian football is seperate to American Football.

By and large, oval ball with players wearing padding with 70 billion players where only 5 get to touch the ball. American football.

15 players without padding where everyone touches the ball whilst dropping it and flailing their arms around unprofessionally. Rugby union.

13 players acting somewhat like the last lot, except competently and entertainingly. Rugby League.

Note there is also Australian football and Gaelic Football, which are related. The former uses an oval ball on an oval field, the latter uses a round ball on a rectangular field with what looks like Rugby goalposts.

See, there are a billion-zillion sports called football, and no one of them owns the title, except in the smallest of minds.

Avoid the Cricket today then SSH.

At least, it does in the eastern states Aussie.

I believe soccer is derived from assoc., which was the abbreviation used to indicate that games were being played by the football association under the codified rules called "Association Football", which is the official name.

The most absolutely stupid thing anyone can do is claim that one sport has a right to the name "Football". It was, and always has been, a wide plethora of sports which later became codified in different forms. No sport has any more right to it than another.

P.S American Football [usually called Gridiron here] sucks

Liverpool is still in the top flight? OMG!

The Australian government has been criticised here because consular officials in the US hadn't done much to find missing Australians in the city.

The government said it was because the consular officials had been denied access to the New Orleans area, on the basis that it wold make things more chaotic.

In the mean time, Australian television crews found an picked up Australian survivors.

Now, are TV crews less chaotic then diplomats? Would letting in diplomats be a blow to national machismo? Is the Australian government bullshitting.

Basically, what the hell is going on here?

Darth, if you read what I'm saying, I'm largely supporting you arguments, but I do think this is one of the greatest historical ambiguities and "what ifs" we can think of. Great for debate, but a STRONG opinion [as opposed to a measured one], like any strong opinion where hypothesis is involved, is foolish.

I was reading only last night about the Anasazi in the South West, as well as other civilisations that have destroyed themselves through ecological damage, and what struck me is how completely and utterly alike to Europeans they must have been. Humans are all the same!

But I also think about the fact that a variety of European cultures keep in their mythology the fact that they are from somewhere else. The old testament talks about Abraham coming from the east into the holy land. The old celtic myths in Britain mentioned first the little people and then humans coming to Britain from Europe, and an island of origin is an occuring motif in Polynesian folklore.

Then shintoism sought to find that the Japanese had always been in Japan, and always with the emperor, even with the Ainu complicating matters.

I'm not going anywhere with this, but the important thing is that I agree that implying that native peoples weren't murderers and ecological disasters like the rest of it is a continuation of the noble savage condescension.

The Soviet Union declared war on Japan AT THE REQUEST of the western powers Andail, which would make an action designed to ensure a surrender to the US alone absurd.


And of course it's logical that Japan would have no reason to continue fighting.

It was also logical that an attack on Pearl Harbour would lead to a war that Japan would never win, and that they knew this when they attacked.

Bushido isn't logical. AS a matter of fact, it's completely moronic.

Whilst segments of the power structure in Japan were preparing for peace, it is a full and possible chance that they would no have suceeded against the die hards. And American troops were already facing Kamikaze pilots, as well as finding the bodies of the thousands of civilian suicides in Okinawa and other places. based on that, would you think they were surrender reasonably?

Was the right decision made? We don't know now after 60 years of hindsight (I'm not foolish enought to have a strong opinion as to which option would have had greater deaths), I fail to see that the Americans were in a great position to make a decision, but they made one, which shouldn't be judged with exceptionally simple moral abolutism. There is no morality in war.


on a side note Yak, what do you think of the Canadianism "First Nations"?

Climate Change can't exactly determine which country did and did not sign a extremely weak pact which isn't even kept by the people who signed it anyway.

Kyoto's only purpose is to give people the impression their governments are doing something. It hasn't reduced emissions a bit.

I remember once that I was riding my bike at night and I rode through a web and I felt the spider riding up my arm, so I shook it off.

500 metres or so later I felt it again. It had snagged me with webbing and used spider strength to pull itself up after flying behind me for a while.

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