Still waiting for an answer to your question, "can a boy join the girl scouts?" -- which you don't address.

A male to female transgender child is a "girl" not a "boy".

As someone who has lived all his life in the UK, it's nice to see I'm not the only one that thinks beans for breakfast is weird. But you do see it a lot. You see the hash browns a lot, too (and I for one welcome our US breakfast invaders).

Black pudding has not, I suspect, made it as far as the southern parts of the UK as yet. Shame.

@Krikkit

You got there before me. Although my favourite line is: "Which is precisely the sort of thing we want to know! Do people WANT fire that can be fitted nasaly?"

@minn:

My hovercraft is full of eels...

So, let me see if I understand. The pinnacle of romanticism is to be woken in the middle of the night by an insane incompetent madman, who has access to almost unlimited power? And who will then most likely spend ages* agonising about whether he should risk your life while trying to save your planet?

Mate, that must be some strange new meaning of the word I've previously not been aware of.

( *possibly literally.)

Erm ... it WAS a parody. A really good one -- it makes the 60's Batman TV show look like the cheesy cop-out it really was.

For those that haven't seen it, it culminates with a mixed martial art duke out between the bad guy and doc ... one at a time, with subtitles, as in: "Ding! And now, Savate!" And then the Doc operates on his brain to cure him...

Not that knowing this spoils seeing the movie in any way.

Bike helmets are a pet peeve of mine.

As far as I know, there has never even be a definitive study of how likely you are, if you have an accident while cycling, to land on your head.

It seems logical to assume that if you did land on your head they might be of some use, admittedly. But I don't think that anyone knows, scientifically speaking, how much.

Forgive me, but I believe we have some sort of cultural namespace collision going on here.

In the UK, and to anyone who remembers Monty Python's Flying Circus, this is a Gumby: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJB2Q9gh2uE

...and I can certainly imagine him trying to rob a convenience store, although admittedly not succeeding.

Of course, the handkerchief is not much of a disguise...

Shatner based his portrayal of Kirk on his role as Alexander the Great in a stage play -- presumably there is a connection...

@duh.

Regardless of whether dyslexia "exists" -- and your "facts" are certainly not generally recognised as such -- it appears that a number of people who have been diagnosed as dyslexic find that this font (and others like it) really do help them.

So: people have a problem and this helps. Why do you care what the problem is called? Why not let those people decide whether their problem is caused by poor teaching or some sort of disorder?

I, too, noticed that the font costs 700eu. Trying to profit from illness (or, indeed, from a social disadvantage like illiteracy, not that I think that this is what that is) is truly disgusting.

With or without the legislation, companies will stop manufacturing old-style bulbs eventually. Most of the world will switch to newer light sources, and the manufacturers will have to follow demand.

No sense in freaking over CFLs anyway. It's true that the light is less yellow and that they take a while to get going (especially the older ones). Also, the "equivalent wattage" claims are full of BS. Multiply by three, not four or five.

But they'll soon be replaced by LEDs.

Beer with no fizz whatsoever. Either that, or I'd want to swap that carpet for something more easily cleanable.

I'm pretty certain that that's the cutest animal picture I've ever seen.

Can anyone else see a resemblance to Hobbes, from Calvin & Hobbes? It's the expression on the face.

Oops, my bad. Ta.

_"Here at Neatorama, every author either uses their real name or a made up name that sounds like a real name so they don’t have to explain it."_

By my count there are 27 out of 40 obvious made up names, so far. (And yes, Hootie, I'm counting you, too.)

So maybe the masks are still in fashion after all.