Quote from xaotik :

From what I've heard it can also work the other way around:

Difference between a "southern gentleman" and Bubba, his second cousin, twice inbred.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I like Loudon Wainwright, but I hate the way Americans suffix country names onto city names.

I mean, "Paris, France" - surely you're shitting us? If there are other towns called Paris, they rank second to Paris, that's just basic ****ing logic. Say "Paris, Texas", by all means, but "Paris" is Paris, for ****'s sake. You don't need to specify "France", we all know Paris is in France, it's a pretty world-famous place.

It's the little things like this that piss off foreigners.

Agreed. But it's chiefly southern (suthun) to say something like that. Just like you guys have your own dialects, the slow (drawl) speaking southern ones tend to use a lot of redundant and unnecessary words.

e.g...

Quote from Southern Man :

Lester Aloysius Cornelius Ichabod Billy Joe Ray the third, you get together and round up all of your friend acquaintences, and after all of yall put the oil, I say after you put the oil in the pick-'em-up truck, all yall had best be taking yourselves out together for a most pleasurable joy ride through the city of our [city], [state] in our most beloved United States of the American Continent on our good planet Earth, some miles from God's great sun--and I do in very deed declare that it is quickly becoming a powerfully hot afternoon, and if I am in the slightest way correct in stating that notion--I say, I have perceived a powerful temperature.

Anyway, if you just said "I was in Paris the other day" people would think you meant Paris Hilton.

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Quote from DeadWolfBones :

That guy looks like Canada to me.

America welcomes Canada into North Americaness.

This thread needs more Americana.

Quote from Nobo :

hehe, and the most prestigous german news show just granted you a new flag (in a report about the embassy in berlin)
...but that didnt had anything to do with anti-americanism...2 weeks ago they showed a wrong german flag
so they are just plain stupid...

have a nice 4th of july over there!

That's OK. Our guys gave your guys a new flag a long time ago. (im Scherz!)

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Anyway, all baby formulas are bad. It'd be healthier for the child to go hungry--in the long run. Better to be hungry than poisoned.

And Nestlé basically just peddles c-rations and astronaut food, so boycotting them isn't exactly giving anything up for lent...

Stickers! ...hey, does anyone have any idea why they left the stickers on F1 slicks back in the day?

as seen here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=zr5hfY_E7c8

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Speaking of which...

Quote from danowat :

I know, its shameless self promotion, however, I thought it worthy of a mention......

Runnersworld UK (a national running magazine) were doing a feature on how running has changed peoples lives, I was one of the 3 people they featured.

So in the hope that it may push some people to take stock, and maybe even decide to change something in their lives, I decided to post a scan, and yeah, I know, I am not photo-genic, so don't say it

You look great!! I had seen a photo of you with one of your old bikes a while back. Way to go!

This is coming from an 18 BMI distance cyclist... running kicks my ass and this is an encouragement. In fact, I think I'll go for a little jog right now (01:00)!

Quote from JJ72 :

made

...in China—just like they always were.

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

I'm surprised everyone hasn't added flymike to their block list yet.

I will if he likes NASCAR!

I'd like to take this moment to say that Nestlé chocolate doesn't even taste like chocolate... the Schweizers should be ashamed.

Anyone know where one should look to find an update on this story?

Curious to know how it all turns/turned out...

Quote from Furiously-Fast :

Hmm, may turn out to be a nice car. But if this thing comes into production, they must NOT use the NSX name. They should use something else, because the NSX is remember for its MR layout and supercar shape, not a 350z look-a-like.

That's what I said about Nelson Piquet!

Quote from Rdcranno :

if you can find a better guitar performance than this i owe you a fiver.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5vUDmFjWgVo&feature=related

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aiXR9ggRdFI

Wasn't hard.

Same thing can happen at the front of proper cars, except it doesn't look like a peeing dog.

Quote from beefyman666 :

I wouldn't call it a feature.

I'd rather not have say red bits of interior. I'd say it's kind of acceptable if it matches the paintjob, but otherwise it looks horrible.

Please fix this Scawen. A seperate file for that interior part would make things hunky dorey.

I would think it would all be one color on a racecar (rollcage, interior, exterior), but either way, that part shouldn't be white (unless the rest is)...

I would suggest just matching it with the exterior color like we see in so many cars. ...but then why would the rollcage be yet another color?

Has anyone else noticed how much worse you get when you use your peripheral vision (looking at a flashing advert for example)? or is it just me? :o

omg. it has a roof! and... its butt doesn't stick up in the air! and... it doesn't look like a bottom-feeding fish! :lovies3d:

Quote from beefyman666 :

Small bug (I think) which I didn't spot in Y30.

When changing the colour of the rollcage, it changes the colour of the top part of the XFR interior.

Attached a screenshot.

That's not a bug--it's a feature!

My best was 0.156, but I got four 0.172s in a row if that means anything...

How many of the exact same time can you get in a row?

(oh, and my mouse is wireless)

Quote from BAMBO :

For Pete's sake have you ever heard the sound of a V8 that has over 4,5L?!? it's just pure symphony.

Capacity shouldn't matter...

Besides, any 4500cc v8 is going to sound better than an American 4500cc v8.

Hah. That's weird. I know at least one person who claims to have "smuggled" bibles into that country...

Quote from tristancliffe :

What do you expect of a numpty who uses one hand on the steering wheel - the classic (and easiest) way of spotting a complete tool with no driving ability whatsoever. No exceptions. Anyone with a tiny amount of driving talent (and I do mean tiny) would never hold it like that.

So you would be screaming for your life, too?

But I agree, the video is an absolute waste with the sound off—except for showing one what a steering wheel might look like if you're not holding onto it.