Ted, I never said I wasn't complaining, in fact I admitted I was.
Like I said, by that logic I guess none of us have the right to complain about anything - there will always be people worse off than we are. Can you honestly say you've never complained about the price of petrol? Because there are people out there who could never hope to be able to afford a car.
Can't I make a statement without being accused in so many words of being a shallow, selfish twat?

Kef, I was talking about people with reasonably high incomes. Can you imagine how much more difficult the situation would be for people on low-moderate incomes?
Or what about how people are having to move further and further from the city (where most people work) so that they have to commute for up to 4 hours a day. Imagine how that affects families.

"What’s so bad about that?"

In Sydney, the housing prices are so bad that for the same price of a small 2-bedroom apartment, you could buy a large 5-bedroom house in most capital cities in the US.

It's bad because even on a dual income where both people are working their asses off and earning a decent amount of money, they would be lucky to own a 2-bedroom apartment by the time they retire. Many young people in Sydney can't even afford to have kids because of the housing prices.

My partner works 60 hours a week and is on a $70 salary and has a mortgage on a two bedroom apartment an hour from the city. He hasn't bought new clothes in 2 years and I frequently have to buy his groceries for him because he can't afford them himself.

If people are working their asses off and are earning good money, they should be able to afford a home with enough space to raise kids if they want to - something larger than the 2-bedroom apartment.

Until women receive equal pay, I think they have every right to point out sexist comments like those. We cop a LOT more shit than men do. Just have a look at religion! Women still can't be priests in the Catholic church, women must cover themselves up from head to toe in some Islamic denominations (even though the law in the Qur'an that says people must dress modestly is directed at both men and women and makes no mention of being covered completely).

Speaking of the Earnie Awards, I was surprised to learn that it's still acceptable in Australia for companies to stipulate in their dress code for women in office jobs that they must wear high heels.
Before anyone says "but men have to wear suits", heels are bad for your feet/back and SO uncomfortable to wear all day long.
I've never worked at a place like that but because I have flat feet I find heels to cause excruciating pain after only a little while. So ridiculous! There are plenty of nice flats out there.
I can see why models might be required to wear heels, but is it really that important that a woman’s legs look as long, slim, and sexy as possible in the office?

Hey Jennifer, I think your right. While we have fewer cones than rods, the cones are much more highly concentrated towards the middle of our retinae, which is where we tend to recieve the input that makes up our central vision. Rods are more highly concentrated towards the outer edges of the retina. Because rods are much more sensitive to light, when our eyes are adjusting an a dark room, we are better able to perceive light and shapes in our peripheral vision.

Oh, and Chris, the effect you're talking about happens is a result of the cells in your "visual area" in the occipital lobe of the brain being excited, but then inhibited so that you get an after-effect where you see the opposite of the image (e.g. light parts will look dark, and the colours will look like their opposite too).

Well I tried it and it works, Xinavera.
The mechanism behind this effect is likely to be more than just pupil dilation.
It's probably more about the rod and cone receptors in operation at the back of your retina. Once the effect is happening, the eye that had been covered will have adjusted to receiving input predominantly from your rods (which are more sensitive to light and shape but not to colour), this helps us see better in the dark. And the eye that was exposed to the light would be receiving input mostly from your cones (which are less sensitive to light and more sensitive to colour). Because cones are less sensitive to light, they don't allow us to see in the dark as easily.
Usually, we use both types of receptors, but as the light in our eyes increases, we begin to rely more on our cones, and as it decreases, we rely more on our rods.

Neat trick by the way. Rods and cones guys, rods and cones.

Plenty of houses have multiple bathrooms, definitelyme.

What was with that space ship one?