Not to be rude, and I know it's common american practice. But the guy isn't Italian, He's American.

His family may be Italian and his background certainly but he's american.

The only reason I bring this up is that I was born in Scotland an it bugs the hell out of me when someone who has feck all to do with the country and know nothing more than a mel gibson movie about it tells me how awesome it is to meet me because, you know, "I'm scottish too"

As for the point of the article, if you need to advertise and pay for new residents you probably don't deserve them.

however aliens and zombies were vastly over represneted

I love pocari sweat, the best hangover cure ever.

you can get it in london in a few japanese shops but it's super expensive

I once saw a documnetary about a sailor who had to abandon his yaught and lived on the water from an inflatable version of these for 3 months.

it would seem that 'target price of under $20' is way to high. surely if you got the kind of manufacturing that they use for coke bottles then you could get it to be much more like 20cents. make them stackable and ship them out to diaster areas (sunny ones) by the thousands

the show is this excellent part of the fantastic charlie brookers show screenwipe
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiwmYjk9ARA

I'm addicted to that show. it reminds me of kids tv shows from the 80s

prices have dropped by around 20% here in the as well to just under £1 per litre.. which I make to be about $6.20 per US gallon.

$2 per gallon is cheaper than water. (bottled at least)

One good thing about a global recession is it might finally put an end to this over designed (or rather over styled) toss .

I'm so bored of whacky office fit-outs

Of course these things never went away in the more compact streets of europe.

current favourite of mine is the smart car.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(automobile)
http://www.dicomwg12.org/mpg/SMART/fortwo-coup-/50-bhp-175-rear-tyres/

capable of 60-70mpg

the show's writer is a member of the b3ta.com board and claims to have been heavily influenced by it.

http://www.b3ta.com/interview/benwheatley/

Apparently the leaflets were printed to thank people for recycling.... so the stupid started early on this project

i'm rather hoping the reference to 13 children doesn't involve one of the items on their menu

if we are on to what glaswegians eat:
http://blog.23x.net/5/what-is-a-munchy-box.html

(a 'Glasgow salad' is a portion of chips (fries not crisps)

eggs (not hard boiled but just cracked on the dough and cooked in the oven) and asparagus are excellent pizza toppings.

frankly i'm amazed they aren't international norms... in fact is there anything you CAN'T have on a pizza?

The only real regional weirdness i know of is the trend of glasgow take aways to deep fry frozen pizzas... in batter.

I want one that says "mine" so that i can claim all the good stuff on shared platters