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You lazy thing, you use your son as a slave for muscle power?

Why are they called springform when there's no springs involved? If there were, you'd end up with pie on the ceiling.

There's probably an argument for exiling John Larkin to a very small island somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

He wouldn't do well anywhere as big as Tasmania, and the locals there would have enough sense to move him on, anyway.

It doesn't call it an empire, but it does "influence" a lot of other countries.

But it does persuade them to let US manufacturers to export them overseas and use dubious advertising techniques to sell them.

Economic blackmail is a lot cheaper and less destructive than military invasion, but it still lets the US call the shots, and export a lot of rubbish at extortionate prices.

American cheese might get dyed, that makes it fake. In the UK, if I buy orange instead of light yellow cheddar, it's guaranteed to have a stronger taste.

The French don't make proper cheese, their stuff is f****ng weird and tastes like sewage.

Or the big expansion that was Manifest Destiny.

Ok. Where do we draw the line? I'd like to stay in Blue America, but the people living in red areas of Michigan might disagree. I'd be willing to buy a few bus tickets to Montana for some of them.

The Scottish wanker lives the the country that invented haggis, and the deep-fried pizza. His response is Flyguy-stupid.

There are far worse things than to be e.g. an overseas colony of a major power. I would be happy that Hawaii was a US state.

Or that Gibraltar is UK. If I lived there.

Far worse to be a vassal state of the EU, or the Russian federation.

There's an aisle in my supermarket titled "free from". I do hate it when people don't finish their sentences. It's like saying "my bad".

The one thing you should avoid is "fat free" - it's a synonym for "flavour free". You're also paying the same amount for less stuff. Fat is food, calories, what we need to survive. To get thinner, eat less food, but continue eating the food you enjoy.

In the UK: White-yellow cheddar (aka tasteless):

cheddar (aka tasty):

Americans are really soft.

Who cares? They're only Irish, not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

Isn't there another word for female other than cow? A cow is a different species.

The problem with that little homily is that genuine intellectuals didn't like Marxism. They liked his economics, which is indeed truth-directed, but the role of the communist party in a one party state is authoritarian and there 's no good reason to give them that kind of power. Taking it away from even less representative capitalists is easily justified, but letting the communist party hang onto it isn't.

The international socialist movement kicked out Karl Marx and his followers on the basis that his ideas about the "leading role of the Party' would lead to tyranny as indeed they did. Democratic socialism has done rather better.

Same genus, Bos. If you're Tibetan a yak is male and a nak is female.

I'll ask the next time I get up that way. There are usually some Tibetans hanging around although I don't recall seeing any yaks.

The current resident in the reefer is

Off white, and tasty. It's almost as good as Kerrygold Dubliner.

Wyoming and Idaho are very nice places too. That's already happening to some extent. The people leaving CA typically aren't going to the Peoples Republics of OR or WA. With a fairly mobile population people tend to self select. It's nothing new. White flight from decaying cities started in the '50s. Then it was flight to the 'burbs. Now it's flight to another state.

Personally I left NH, about as red as it gets back east, in '88 when I saw the times were changing. I didn't know where I was going and I didn't have work lined up but I figured I would know home when I saw it.

I grew up in upstate NY but bailed from there around '71. Upstate wishes NYC and environs would drift out to sea.

There's an upstate girl made good.

"Many saw Gillibrand as moderate or conservative. Michael Brendan Dougherty in The American Conservative wrote after her victory, "Gillibrand won her upstate New York district by running to the right: she campaigned against amnesty for illegal immigrants, promised to restore fiscal responsibility to Washington, and pledged to protect gun rights."[

"A member of the Democratic Party's relatively conservative Blue Dog faction while in the House, Gillibrand has moved her political positions and ideology toward a liberal, progressive position since her appointment to the Senate"

She was appointed to Clinton's seat when clinton became Secretary of State and immediately became Hillary Jr. Just another windsock politician.