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Same as the UK then.

What garbage (sorry North Americans: What trash) politicians talk about in an effort to not talk about important issues. Sheesh.

And Comrade is communist. What's post-communist? Glasnost? No, I know! Perestroika!

Obviously, it depends on the games. I'm thinking of "Do you like horny bunnies? 2" here. " <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ROFLMAO

Lots of baby sacrificing, then. Cannibalism was mainly to gain the powers of the eaten, and nullify their evilness, as well, I think -- e.g. Papua New Guinea has a few isolated tribes of Head-Hunters. Of course the Aztecs did their share of human sacrifices, too, but they were late teens I think. (And they got to live literally like a king for year beforehand.) Not sure about the Mayans. Yeah, the Romans really wanted to expunge the Carthaginian civilization from history. I expect the Romans are more an historical checkpoint, in that innovations from all the societies conquered by them were assimilated. They basically invented industrial farming, turning Spain into one big olive plantation (and North Africa into a vineyard, I think). Jesus wept.

No need to go that far...In London it's done every day...(wonder if they don't even use them in kebab shops)... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ewww, that's right: there was a police investigation last year that ended up in the Congo, I think. I still don't think they ate him, though (but they aren't a million miles away ). Still that was a young boy. Even if we have to make the definition in months, hedck even days or hours or even pre-natal, I still think we've hit a barrier and therein lies our tenet of moral universality!

I know that some ancient cultures used to sacrifice babies to the gods, but I can't think of any examples that were any more recent than 500 B.C. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> If you are referring to the Carthaginians, that is under dispute. (Roman propaganda after the Punic wars to emphasise the victory. Probably a little social jealousy, too, as the Romans were wearing loincloths when the Cathage people had a civilization like the Greeks; it is more than likely that the Romans took a lot of the scientific discoveries, like plumbing, from them.) Anyway, I didn't say sacrifice, I said eat.

Notice the irony.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Not sure what you're getting at here: methinks is an old English word that means "it seems to me". It seems to be from old Spanish for "roommate", first coined as an honorific in the French Revolution (okay it was to avoid "Mister"), so there is no immediate need to feminise the word. (We don't need to add complexity. :D ) Only in the US. I specifically follow the idiom of using the female pronouns, if only because (for the time being) it forces the reader to consider the feminine along with the masculine, afterwards.

You are arguing semantics. I think we might have a moral universality with people not molesting children under some young age (even if it is only a couple of years). Also, even though there is cannibalism, I doubt whether anyone eats young babies (or even younger). I was trying to make some arbitrary deliniation, not ridicule the earlier peoples. Our household took a good look at the new pontif and immediately starting calling him "Pope Palpatine." *cough* <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That would be appreciated on these boards, but probably nowhere else. Apparently he has been dubbed the Panza Pope by the population at large. "

Well, that has done something serious to the game. All the text has disapeared on the menus, and there is a large solid-coloured block partially obscuring the load screens.

That's good. (Make sure you check grammar and spelling before you ink!)

Is that your blue elvin ranger's name?

Well I wasn't joking () I was familiar with the Royal prediliction for incest (after all, everyone else is too common), but that could be explained as a pre-civilized civilization. (Work with me here; the explanation would continue to posit that no civilization now would deem it acceptable.) Sort of starts a new line of deliniation, moral "civilizations" and pre-moral societies (which might even cover less formal groupings, as between higher primates -- that's the apes, not the Arch Bishops). I didn't think the classic civilizations buggered toddlers and babies (did they?). So there is at least one general rule we can take ...

I thought your name was Dragos?

Yeah, there is the obvious link to the skate-/sno'-boarding communities and their lingo. Maybe they could call it Π (Pi), as in radians?

I like that one... How bout Mr Wannabe-Dead <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Better: Mr Wannabe-Mr-Death

No, just an exec trying to get ahead, with a "Sleep when I'm dead" attitude. Sounds like his sleep debt finally bankrupted him ...

You have obviously not taken part in the rich drama and exquisite storytelling of the fine comic that is lady Death. Otherwise, you would not have made such a prejudiced and unsensitive remark. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It was not a criticism of the comic, it was an observation of the audience appreciation of the visual arts ...

Y'know, Ross, from Friends? The one who's always getting married to any (every) girl he dates? (Ok, technically Baley hasn't dated any of the prospective fianc

What's the weirdest sleep you've had? I have fallen asleep sitting up and even standing, once. At the wheel of a car (many years ago -- would never get to that stage again -- saw the car in front drive off the road in front of me a couple of months ago). I read about a guy in Manhattan falling asleep as he was walking to work, as in mid-stride. Hard to believe, but I could just about believe it with the NY attitude to sleep and career progression.

MFT? M-F-ing Tightwad? (j/k)

You have an interesting definition of "meet". Maybe we should give you a new nickname, like "Ross" (from Friends fame). On Topic: I am sure she could play the part. She looks like she could act her way out of a family tragedy, and she looks far too short, but I am equally sure that no-one would neither notice nor care. "

I'd recommend getting to know them first, before launching into your *ahem* special interests.

You bet. I hate that "cool" ( ) estuarian patois adopted by just about everyone to sound "now", innit. Actually, I don't mind Liverpudlians or Mancunians: I liked Cold Feet a lot. (I'll let you fight that Liverpudlian battle on your own.) There are worse accents ... but I'm not going to go into that here. :D Baley, there are more Man U supporters because it is a global brand. Or did you mean in Manchester? PS Glazer: 74.8% stock holding at 6:25pm GDT.