As an ESL teacher, my Arabic-speaking students have always had a heck of a time with vowels so this makes a lot of sense to me. I can just remember those poor guys trying to stumble around words like "bear" "beer" "beard" and "bread."

@ Kaviani: I'm a native-English speaker and found Japanese to be relatively easy. I've also heard that it is one of the easiest languages to learn for foreign speakers.

Ditto to what Kristin C said on the "Weirdo Hippie Guy." In my experience, hippies are actually pretty few and far between at conventions.

Only one in ten thousand are black? I guess no one told the squirrels in Vancouver, because I'm pretty sure most of them are black. We have a ton of them here on the island too.

So cool to see some local talent featured here! Jeff is a buddy of mine. Also, thanks for reminding me I should make something for this...

My boyfriend and I sometimes do this by accident. However, I've heard it's common, even encouraged in some countries, like Korea.

I can't help but think it looks sort of like a home pregnancy test...

Three words for you:

Flesh Eating Mothers.

I first thought that said "Quest for the perfect bakery." Oh well, haha.

I saw this movie and it's pretty sweet. I recommend it.

I thought they were all pretty forced or exaggerated. She must be a stage actress.

I'm Canadian and the only time I've heard a Canadian accent like that is when there's a Canadian character on the Simpsons.

I think that would make me really queasy....

I saw this a few years ago. It is wonderfully effed up and I recommend it to everyone.

I'm surprised everyone likes the astronaut so much; honestly I don't want one of my favourite websites represented the way nearly everything else is: by a white male. So I vote bear because bears are awesome.

I've been following Lackadaisy since there were only a few concept sketches on her website. It's effing brilliant.

Oh my god, how do people like that function?