So, let me get this straight: Foreigners aren't scum, but scum are foreigners that should live in their own .... country? What if "their own sh***y god forsaken hole" happens to be the UK?

People give bad advice, so buy my book and listen to my advice. It's different!

The U.S. government hired a Candanian company to put together a large part of Healthcare.gov. Even they don't reliably hire citizens anymore.

H.Brydon wrote:

JSOP's secret identity

JSOP doesn't need a secret identity. If JSOP wants to be someone else, he roundhouse kicks Chuck Norris and takes his identity. Oh, who am I kidding. JSOP would never kick someone when a gun would do. ;P

I do not confuse the frequency of the offense with the depth of the cover-up, or the prevalence of the media attention. I happen to live in an area with a few high-profile cases, but I understand that it's not the norm, and that the rate of offense is probably only marginally higher than other jobs with children (which I have no data on, just figure this job has the most trust and secrecy, which I can imagine would be sought after). I was merely trying to make light of the idea that only one Jesus would prevent you from being able to sit down. Still, trying to keep things light, your comment about taking children from all the threatening places reminds me of a Southpark episode where the town sent the children away because they heard on the news that most molesters are someone known to the child. Somehow, they became Mongolians and came back to conquer the town to much hijinks and Southpark-style hilarity (such as it is). I tend to agree that the church does a lot of good, but that it's burdened by a lot of waste too. I apologize if I've offended, as it was not my intention (any more than saying/typing the word 'church' tends to offend people in general).

You must not go to Catholic Church.

But Apple fanboys look at you with a disapproving glare. That's almost the same as a tax, right? It certainly taxes my patience... :~

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but who's the third

Mary Shelley? Not that I want the Frankenstein monster helping me out with that... :~

Wouldn't thank make you part of the problem, as every report you've seen you've refused to read?

Maybe it's just your interpretation of his word choice. I often set the burner on my stove to high (though on occasion I also set it too high). We live in a digital world now, so he may very well have set the bar to high by setting the bar to high. ;P

PB 369,783 wrote:

I'm none the wiser that 15 people didn't like it

As this is the internet, and CP is coming up on 10,000,000 users, I would imagine that 15 people not liking something is a given. You shouldn't really change your habits until an appreciable minority is offendend. Let's be generous and put that at 0.1%, meaning you can do as you please until you get 10,000 downvotes. :-D

My favorite delay was one I encountered regularly. I used to fly from Milwaukee to San Diego and back for work fairly regularly. On the way back, I always had the 'pleasure' of changing planes at O'Hare. Not once was the plane ready and available to take me from Chicago to Milwaukee for the last leg of my trip. Usuaully, the offer was to 'try' to get me on a flight the next afternoon. If you aren't familiar with those cities, Google directions say you can walk from O'Hare to Milwaukee airport in less than 24 hours. It always frustrated me that it took longer to fly than to walk.

It would behoove you all you stop this nonsense.

Richard MacCutchan wrote:

If you need to explain it then you've fallen at the first fence.

I don't know that I agree with that. There are enough different dialects represented here that a soap brand that is common in the UK (and elsewhere apparently) may not be available in other parts of the world. Being from the US, Ariel is the little mermaid, so I'm very confused by the joke without the explanation (though I try not to be one of the people who attack the jokes I don't understand or just aren't funny).

Hey! We invited Canada to the party, and we stole most of Cuba's good players. That's basically the whole world, right? ;P

Just because USians don't watch it or call it football doesn't mean that we can't let rest of the world riot over it.

You say that most bikers obey the law, but that's not the case where I live. The biking community adamantly supports Idaho stops, which apparently mean they can treat red lights as stop signs and stop signs as yield signs. This is NOT the law where I live, but the biking community swears by it, loudly and often. They openly profess to breaking the laws as written, because they don't like them. Granted, that is not unlike cars and speed limits, but it does lead to disagreements like this one about bikers in general.

Yeah, but if you read it too quickly, you might mistake it for IE6, and no one wants that.

It might be rants like this that make some people think atheists have it coming. There's no need to bully the people who believe in bronze age sky pixies, Dionysus the god of wine, or Xenu. Also, there are lots of children with imaginary friends and/or intellectual disabilities who never go around killing people. Though you might not know that from drinking Mountain Dew in your parents' basement.

My guess is that most men would object to one of the (two/three - whichever way you count them) being called a bit. I doubt there are too many that are sensitive about the size of the other one(s). Unless they're gone because they got Bob Barker'ed. Then it might be a sore spot.