beer... smoking... *skip* ... beer... smoking... *skip* ... more beer... more smoking...

Definitly German.

Hear, hear Derek. No taxes, no waste.
(54% of what I cost my French company goes to health/retirement insurance...)

Gotta go : I need to go back in line to fill up my car. The French fishing fleet is on strike, blocking gas distribution networks. They're complaining about the $9.4 p/gallon price (gas+$3.8tax+19.6%VAT).

I miss my US daily driver : an 81' Vette with a 350 block... Could not afford it here ;)

Amazing : it's like the opposite of the Gruyere's traditional Swiss and medieval look.

a narwhal toothpick

Cute in a sad sort of way.
They'll be all dead in a few years anyway :(

France a tiger in European wars? When was this made? ;)

Oh no! I'm blind now!!!

So many possibilities for a caption monkey!

Don't look at my face, I'm a brainwashed robot.

Don't look at my face, I'm a man.

Don't look at my face, I'm your father Luke

All I could find is :
"Suddently, a 9-meter fountain (geyser) apparead, in the Al-Ahsae City, Eastern Saudi Arabia.
Immediately, Armaco geological teams and scientists hurry to deal with this strange phenomenon, but they did not succeed in explaining what happened !
But they agreed on a theory (...) that these are -what so called- burdens of the Earth.
Allah said in the Quran : "And the earth throws up her burdens (from within)" 99.2
Some scientists said this phenomenon will lead to apparency of new materials, which will change the humanity way of life ..."

...........hum.............

Good scientific approach. Yep.
I vote for "big machine".

Anyhooooo, looking at the guy's Youtube channel I found this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEwHa04S6Y
Crazy country.

No respect whatsoever for building codes. Tsss.

My papa was a rolling stone...
And now I broke my heart and bones...

I was googling for the Toyota commercials (never seen it) and all I could find is hate blogs/posts. Wow. They really pissed some people off.

Awesome indeed.
Let's enjoy this. We'll not be able to when oil reaches $300 a barrel...

I wonder what brand of power tools they're using up there (or maybe they're unique)

Pretty cool.
I love Beijing 2008.
http://www.brandtags.net/browse.php?id=56
It's about time people realize what's been happening there...

Or, she could switch to sell gas by liters or deci-gallons...