Johnny, there's a British flag animated gif on the front page, under which it says "Great Britain: The Home of Cheese Racing since 1997."

Seattle, however, lacks pollution, crime, and fat people. And we have electric buses.

Lordy, I can tell you about the roads in Seattle. Part of our problem is it's difficult to pave on a twenty per cent grade, asphalt roads change back to concrete, brick, or even cobblestone when it comes time to mount a steep hill. A lot of downtown was built on landfill--we had to raise the streets a good ten to thirty feet in the 1890s to help with drainage--the roads in Pioneer Square sit on century-old sawdust and brick vaults. They undulate wildly, in some places the street dips a foot and a half below the level of the sidewalk. In other parts of the city, when pot holes develop in asphalt roads you can see that they just paved over the original bricks, which themselves were laid over the cobblestones with which the street was paved eighty years prior.

Strangely our brick streets are in much better condition than our concrete or asphalt streets.

Awesome. I knew the future was good for something.

Pft. Minimalism. Sure it's an accomplishment but where's the architecture?

The kids are being taught how to play the violin and the piano. That's good.

Fact of the matter is we just don't want there to be seven billion people on this planet.

Doesn't actually look that bad. I'll bet the stuff is real heavy though, and not particularly water-resistant. That's the problem with pressboard, it's nearly three times as heavy as wood, and it swells up and loses its strength if you get it wet.

Depends on the the time of day, season, and phase of the moon, I think.

This is as bad as people whom judge your character based on whether or not you salt your food before first tasting it. I can't stand people whom think they can boil down the richness of human experience to how well you can squeeze, or how you wear your tie, or how you take your tea. And what's the deal with the first impression nonsense? I've got such a terrible memory I forget how I met the people I've met within the week.

Type "never trust a man who" in quotes into google and read all the ridiculous results.

There have been bigger wastes. It kind of bothers me though, that there are so many things I want to do that I can't because no one can take my word as a sane human being that I'm not going to sue anyone.

I hope he learned his lesson.

Frankly, the fact that it infringes on numerous laws makes me want to convert my diesel to frialator all the more. I'll go electric first, though.

@Pol x: Every country's got something about its national palette that foreigners find distasteful. Lay off us, will you?

I like to wear slacks.

I owed more in taxes then my the amount of my stimulus check. And I need to save my money at the moment, so I ain't helping the economy that much.