Nick_i_am

How is 'going to heaven' a benefit for europe? Contients don't go to heaven.

It's sort of up in the air for most of us from what I gather, though the inclusion of guesting on the 360 version would make that the deciding factor for at least some of us.

My real problem with american humour is your crappy sitcoms, which arn't so much humour made for people who enjoy humour, but humor for people who enjoy watching soaps. The writing (and concept) in Friends, for example, is technically brilliant *for what it is*, but you look at the fan base and you find a bunch of giggling schoolgirls and other assorted losers who would turn their noses up at anything resembling actual humour. It's really your animated comedy and latenight talkshows that show the real funny side of america. Incidently, it seems that adaptations of more recent experimental british comedy, such as The Office and Peep Show have suddenly become very popular over there, but I find it amusing that they need to be remade for the American audiance.

'Drop bears are commonly said to be unusually large, vicious, carnivorous koalas that inhabit treetops and attack their prey by dropping onto their heads from above. They are an example of local lore intended to frighten and confuse outsiders, and amuse locals, similar to the jackalope, hoop snake, wild haggis or snipe.' hahahahahahahah, I just found new respect for Australia.

<3<3 Better have guesting.

Oh, yeah, another thumbs up for Puzzle Quest, i've got the XBLA version and got completely addicted.

That doesn't make them experts though, parents, espessally new parents can often be as insecure as the child they're raising, and with everyone saying different things are 'best' it can be very confusing as you probably know. Not that this doesn't mean they're the best ones for the job, but even for ostrisised kids there are risks that lack of social development will negatively effect them later in life. From what i've heard though, american public middle and highschools can be a real trial by fire, which could be why homeschooling seems to be a more popular choise for the middle classes over there than it is in the UK. This is only an impression though, and not based on any actual figures.

Not commenting on things we have no interest, opinion or relation to would be entirely against the spirit of this forum.

That's got nothing to do with me, stupid vibrate.

the Advance Wars games are godly if you have any interest in TBS games, but if you want an SRPG look into the GBA Fire Emblem games, pretty much the best SRPGs ever made (but 'hardcore', very unforgiving).

Where flirting = verbal abuse and teamkilling

The real argument against homeschooling, on the basis that the kids learn the same stuff anyway, is the throretical lack of peer exposure needed to develop real-world social skills.

You know who else didn't think that joke was funny? Hitler. EDIT: and yes, i'm familiar with Barry Humpheries, though I hadn't actually realised he was australian. Live and learn.

If you want some strategy, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin.

Sure is, good memory. The second series iirc.

hahahahaha, I remember that crap. Yeah. Pretty much the only thing that carried me through the game was the relatively interesting (for the time, cirtainly) battle system which FFX later borrowed elements from. Likewise, the thing that ultimately got me bored of WA was the completely mundane battle system.

Hey, that was pretty good, I didn't bother with any of the NWN modules, but this looks like it might be worth a look.

Parents can end up teaching exactly the same things through abuse or neglect, just go to any foster home and tell the kids that they're part of a 'rare minority'. On the above basis, should all kids be taught at home? If sex education, somthing that actually has application in the real world, shouldn't be taught, then where do we draw the line, should kids even be taught history? After all, this could be seen as 'unsafe or inappropriate'.

Yeah, I remember that being an issue too. BoF4 is the superior game to the original WA though, as much as I love WA3.

Then that's a fundimental problem with the free-market economics on which the entire nation is built on. An embargo on china would be pretty funny though, you'd be looking at a complete collapse of your entire economy. Your industry simply isn't tooled to cope.

Given that a significant part of your consumer goods manufacture is done there to cut costs that's pretty funny. In 1965 manufacturing accounted for 53% of the american economy, now it's a mere 9%, employing just 10% of the workforce. Even high tech manufacturing is being outsouced, much of it to china. 70% of the new boeing aircraft, including the engines, is being made overseas. Last year, China produced 600,000 engineering graduates, all english speaking, while america produced only 70,000. My point is that you can rant and rave all you want, but a large number of the products you use on a daily basis will have been made in china or closeby, probably without you even realising it.

BoF4 was fun, but dragged on a bit. Fairly average by todays standards (save graphically) but still good fun. <3 Fou-Lus animations.

I'm still playing on a 17" CRT, shut your craphole.

The further joke is that many of your special forces and SWAT units use german equipment.