can anyone exlplain why it's called foosball in the USA?

Over in the UK it's table football, which is an exact description, and in Scotland it's sometimes called
"babee foot" which is baby football.

Anyway, as said upthread, there is no glass top to put your beer on and as there seems to be no rod dampening it doesn't seem to comply with the bar room standards.

This where design so often falls down, it looks pretty but fails to perform.

see Phillipe Starks Lemon sqeezer etc etc

may I please direct you to the delightfull cartton on the subject.

http://overcompensating.com/posts/20070615.html

Nothing like a kilt and sporran.

I don't care for any of the other more firmal gear, perhaps worn with the plaid over the shioulder is about my limit.

Was the best man at a mates wedding last year.
It's a mixed marriage,my mate is Scottish and his husband English.

The English husband and best man,(I can't say 2nd best man), were jealous of our spledid garb.

Oh yes.

Though Kilts should be worn with at least 10 up black Doc Marten's Boots.

Could I ask the question, who has ever said Japanese people aren’t creative?

No really, where the f*ck did that statement come from?

How could anyone ever think that the Japanese are not creative?

I mean they're human beings so are innately creative, and they are from a culture that is even by humanities high standards , very creative.

Genuinely strange thing to say, even couched in the "Who says..." format.

Has anyone said they weren't?

Is there some strain of racism that I was unaware of?

...ASQUITH, not aquith.

bugger.

where so ever you see the name Robin Aquith, a frigging dreadful brit flick from the 70s is not far behind.

man the sheer bad hearted ill will, bordering on outright racism, displayed by some of the arse clowns on here is truely shocking.

What a bunch of sour bastards.

Rick facts EXTRA

Rick is from the Lancashire town of St.Helens, notable for being the largest town in the UK.

Largest town, but not quite a city.

Does anyone remember the scene from the Looney Tunes cartoons, where Granny walks in on Sylvester about to eat tweety?

He carefully removes the bird from his mouth, pats down the birds feathers, smooths him down and pops him back on his perch, all the while grinning endearingly at granny.

When i heard that WalMart had backed down I got that image so vividly.

you know that as soon as the internet focus drifts away from this poor woman, Sylvester will be up on a precariously stacked tower of chairs desperately trying to scoff that pain in the arse little bird once more.

kids are safer nowadays than they were back in the seventies and earlier.

For they are far better informed about paedophiles and other crazies than we were as kids.

This also applies to the population in general, we are all far more savvy about kiddie fiddlers and far more likely to intervene in a situation that we feel is suspect or even just a little odd.

There will always be paedos, there'll always be abductions,molestations and killings.

They will also always be incredibly rare.

So should we raise generations of kids to fear everything and everyone?

Riding the NYC subway in daytime is pretty much as safe as you can get, coz even the gang bangers and carreer criminals will look out for a little kid.

It's little kids kicking the tar out of other little kids that is far more likely.

Switch grass in the the american prairies, grows naturally wild could get a couple of harvests every year and makes tip top bio fuel.

It's not one thing or another, it's lots of things.

there is no magic bullet.

Rosi

the BBC America thing is really the BBC's American section.

There's BBC World too.

It all sort of stems from the BBC World Service, which dates back to when we had an Empire (adjusts monocle and pith helmet.

You can still listen to the world service.

BBC dot co dot uk and follow the links at the top for tv ot radio.

In the UK we call the BBC Auntie Beeb,The Beeb or just Auntie.

We're rather attached to the old girl.

The whole brouhaha surrounding biofuels confuses me.

Both the proa and anti parties are saying that you shouldn't make a choice between food and fuel.

Seems to be missing the point.

It's not making fuel out of corn or sugar cane, but making fuel out of the by product, the stalks and husks etc.

So it's fuel without the loss of food.

And Diesel DESIGNED his engine to run on veg oil, ground nut oil initially.

Firstly, Robin Williams is tedious beyond endurance.

From Mork to Mawkish.

As for the stuff about the BBC being a leftist government mouth piece.

Well, frankly that is just gibberish.

You'd have to have media like Fox to ever think of the beeb as being some leftist hot bed of sedition.

It's pretty much centrist, so gathers the ire of both left and right in the UK.

There is also the idea that the BBC only shows the US in a negative light.

Is it any news medias function to show the USA in a positive light?

I mean other than Fox obviously.

See that wouldn't be the news, that would be cheerleading.

So basically to see the centrist BBC as being extreme left, you have to be viewing it from the EXTREME right.

All the best.

good christ, the half Scottish half Irish guy gets 100%

I hate to live up to my cultural stereotype, or rather types, but there you go.

You're all my best mates, I love you all, everybuddy elss is jus' a fuggin' khunt