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Commented on Placebo effect is getting stronger
"beleaguered pharmaceutical industry" huh?????...
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Commented on Bollywood stars celebrating Ganesha festival
With ypui there TAKUAN...
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Commented on Bollywood stars celebrating Ganesha festival
Oh I dunno, the biggest democracy in the world and the stars of the lagest movie industry in the world celebrate a religious festival. All of which is more or less alien to the west, I think it is well...
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Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
ALEX M , DECKARD 68 said there were socialist programs in Switzerland, not that Switzerland was socialist. small point....
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Commented on Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at "town hall" meeting, effectively invoking Godwin's law.
A nice explanatory piece from todays Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/aug/19/nhs-healthcare-america It's far from perfect but this explains the NHS exactly....
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Commented on Accordioning table hidden in a rolling cupboard
just had a look on the link, and this is a genius idea. It could easily be adapted to a longer leg and raised action to accommodate European diners. I would seriously buy a euro version of this...
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Commented on Accordioning table hidden in a rolling cupboard
it reminds me of the angry cooker on the moon in Nick Park's "A Grand Day Out"...
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Commented on Anti-health-care loon says Stephen Hawking wouldn't stand a chance under British health care system
I wrote in haste and a degree of upset earlier. I have nothing but affection for the US, you just confuse the hell out of me. You are on the whole pretty damn smart, but persist in getting scammed by...
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Commented on Anti-health-care loon says Stephen Hawking wouldn't stand a chance under British health care system
@ #30 Akula971, Here is the difference. I pay my National Insurance, and I am happy to, as it helps YOUR father. In the US the situation seems to be FUCK EVERYONE ELSE. Odd, that on this little island we...
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Commented on Retractable fifth wheel for tight parking spots
Being a UK driver, I've always thought of myself as no mean thing when it comes to parallel parking, soory US and Australian frineds your cities are to big n wide as are your cars. Then i went out in...
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Commented on Dara O’Briain on homeopathy
from Derren Brown Blog
@ Dr JAYUS That link won't work for peeps outside the UK, which is a rotten shame as Ben Goldacre's bit on The Now Show was hilarious and righteous. Dara O'Briain, bless the big, lad he's a fecking riot....
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Commented on Personal Rockin' Computer
yes I think you're the only one seeing a 12 year old girl there. But then people are now so terrified of the accusation of paedophilia that they think the age of consent is about 45...
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Commented on Adventures in ill-advised graphic design: Singapore anti- sex trafficking poster
Is the use of hand lotion for wanking a peculiarly US thing? I think most UK types' first thought upon seeing this advert would not be ""roughing up the prime suspect". But then nearly all US american men are circumcised,...
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Commented on Retro-futuristic motorcycle
It's biggest problem is it is basically a Harley design at heart. All the agility of a Buick cut length wise...
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Commented on Birthers glom on to fake Kenyan birth certificate.
STEFAN JONES. Spot on. It's the "Protocols of the Elders of Fox News" more like. abject tosh....
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Commented on Cheezy-poofs marketed as "organic carrot stix"
chips are crips in the UK, but chips in Australia. French fries are chips in the UK but Hot Chips in Australia. Australia, it's all chips chips and hot chips. And the occasional dim sim. God I love OZ. Move...
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Commented on Strange Architectural Typeface Choice
I didn't even realise there was a Battlestar Los Angeles....
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Commented on Six String Nation, the chronicle of Voyageur, a remarkable, unifying, synthesizing Canadian guitar
Cory, I'm not a Canadian, but the heart of this piece struck me. It's the best you want for your own country, the reason why I swell with pride when as a Scotsman I find that there are Singh and...
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Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
TIMOTHYHUTTON Ah right, thanks for the clarification. I have to say that it seems ridiculous that both parents have to be US citizens. I'm a Brit (Scotsman actually) but my mother is Irish, so from the moment of birth in...
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Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
Ok, let's say that Obama was born outside of the US. So what? Think of the many many thousands of US Military personnel stationed throughout the world, now a good chunk of these people are having kids, sometimes with each...
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Commented on New Adrian Mole diary is dark, hopeless and hilarious
I dunno about there being a health education subtext in the first books, I read a boy who was painfully insecure but bubbling with curiosity at his own bodies new found abilities.... that and an old copy of Big n...
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Commented on Comic-Con: splendid excuse for cosplay-themed pinups
Good one, on the Tank Girl. Looks nothing like her of course, but gets the spirit and feel of it right. The only spot on TG I ever saw was Fiona on the Renfrew Ferry Party after the Glasgow Comics...
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Commented on Giant "bad ass" watches from Diesel
I have a perfectly good watch already.I have a perfectly good watch already.I have a perfectly good watch already.I have a perfectly good watch already.I have a perfectly good watch already.I have a perfectly good watch already.I have a perfectly...
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Commented on US military blows up piles of poppy seeds to win the “hearts of minds” of Afghan citizens
there is normally a good economic solution. Here it is the world stops trying to get opium to grow in Finland and Tasmania, and buys the opium from the Afghans at a fat mark up for them. They get a...
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Commented on Chair hand-woven from aluminium
yes they did. It's aluminium in the title but aluminum in the body of the text....
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Commented on Video: Girl happily hula-hoops to a happy Geggy Tah track.
am so very mellow and warmed by that. And i totally agree with ANONYMOUS, she is at that beautiful/awkward stage. Sadly the last time most of us could hula hoop in the garden with not a care....
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Commented on Prominent Black professor arrested for entering own home while Black
@ # 7 BOTTLEKID the one small item that you slid by without looking at closely enough. "according to a police report"...
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Commented on Glasgow steampunk fair at the world's oldest music hall, the Panopticon
Difficult to think of a city better suited to the faux history of Steampunk....
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Commented on Couple from iconic Woodstock photo still a couple
Ah bless em. That cuts right through my cynical veneer....
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Commented on Jaime Hernandez silkscreen poster
Have adored that drawing since the moment I saw it on the cover of L&R. Totally sublime. $200 for a poster? are you mad? Scan at 300dpi into photoshop, despeckle, Ctrl L, sample out the red. Save. Download Rasterbator, load...
