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I'm with Petra on this one; I'm only a year and some months out of the US myself, and I'm working two 0-hour-contract part time jobs. And I still get holiday pay, which I've never - not once - got in any job I've had back in the States. I sometimes only work ten hours a week, and I'll still get...

I've read that the sex drive is the body's second strongest drive, just behind survival. With that in mind, it's really no wonder that with society-at-large's suppression of sexuality in general, society has produced some inhuman individuals. I've said it several times on this board, and I'll...

Shame about the contest. You got my daily votes, for what they were worth!

To stay on topic... I haven't posted much at all as of late, mostly because there isn't much interesting to post for. News stories are neat, but they don't require any reply. So you'll generally find me where there's some debate to be had, but then by and large whenever I throw up evidence...

How about for a £ instead? http://www.flickr.com/photos/thedeplorableword/2697847849/

Edit timer expired! Bah... After reviewing that volunteering document and this one concerning workforce population (cited in my original post cited above), there's an interesting trend: it seems in terms of volunteering and the workforce, there's a fair dip in the 80's - the end of Generation...

Ha ha...remember this debate we had, georges? I offered statistics and sources, and you countered with "nu-uh!" Here, for the thread and debate at large, let me dig up some of the post... ** I realize this link's dead now. I'll see if I can't replace it...

I've only been here for a year and some months, so this is my second winter - but from what I hear, people in the UK aren't used to these sorts of winters because they didn't really happen before. It's much like back home, really; I've watched the seasons get more intense as the years go by. Not...

This is a good question. Well, my beliefs, like most peoples', stems from the beliefs of my household. Which only consisted of me and my ****** (and some cats). She's a ******** heart liberal, which of course has rubbed off on me. So I grew up a dyed-in-the-wool liberal Democrat, to use the...

Hi Jane, As someone who's been around for a while, I suppose you'll be happy to know you've been getting my votes daily. Which to my surprise apparently count as 5x votes (didn't realize I'd been here that long). Because a pretty girl who can get into heated debates about politics and cultural...

Ha ha ha...well, you've been getting my daily votes because you've been around here for a while. No need for a sign, though. Unless you really want to. :)

I use a Firefox add-on called DownloadHelper which not only downloads streaming video (be it flv, avi, whatever), but will convert flvs to a format of your choice. That said, it's a bit awkward - once the file finishes downloading, it starts converting automatically at the cost of most of your...

I'd never thought I'd find a thread devoted to an ex of mine; I dated this gal for about a year and a half. I'd forgotten all about these pictures, too. Kind of a shock!

In my experience: always. No less than a year. Not long enough. Though for me, it's hard enough just living with people, period, unless they happen to be on the same level regarding their living space (and I've had the pleasure of living with only one such individual).

As an American-Brit having lived in both countries, I can find plenty to complain about for...both countries. I can also find plenty to praise about. But to answer the actual question: the people of each country quite like each other on the whole, I'd say. If nothing else, take one's accent to...

As a citizen of both countries, who am I supposed to root for? :confused:

The question 'How long have you gone between having sex?' works better, so as to avoid the inevitable '14/15/16 years' answers. :) As for me, three months. And it was painful.

Just a word of caution, folks - I've seen some similar things like this before and found them not mentioned in the actual State laws whatsoever (which are mostly if not all available to browse online these days). Not to say these aren't, but I'd double-check them before I started passing them on...

You didn't look all that hard, it seems. http://board.freeones.com/showthread.php?t=112626

This thread already exists, with almost the same title: Has anyone fucked a stripper???

...and still no proportional representation. My vote was and will remain, ******. Great (again, I'm taxed far too much in this country to not have my vote count. It's ridiculous. At least in the States when my vote didn't count, the government wasn't taking half as much). The Tories have...

Every wireless router I've seen in the UK comes automatically loaded with a password that's printed somewhere on the physical box, so this couldn't be an issue here (unless users intentionally disabled their password, which isn't going to happen often) - this would be a rather easy solution...

Exactly. Out of the 23% that voted LibDems, only 8.8% were honored - not great democracy in action.

I'm rather disappointed. What's worse, almost everyone I talked to running up to the election was voting LibDem - but, our seat went to the Conservatives. So our vote meant nothing. You know why I like proportional representation? Even the nutjobs on the far sides, if there are enough of them...

They'll be getting my vote as well. I just got here, and I already want electoral reform! This is exactly the problem with the current politics, marquis - you're stuck defining one party simply as the opposite of the other. And with the mentality of your first statement, nothing will ever...

I remember watching Iron Man and thinking to myself, 'Man, they corrected all the mistakes they made with Hulk!' They started off the movie with rock. Stuff blew up. Then they rewound a bit to tell some story - it was great. Hell, my biggest complaint of the movie was that Iron Man was gimped...

From the article: That alone is almost enough to secure my vote. One thing I'd like to ask, and perhaps this is a discussion that warrants a different thread (I'm sure one exists somewhere already), but is a nuclear ****** by another nation really something we need to worry about in this day...

I wish you would! In fact, I, a faceless, random name on a porn forum, implore you to. Don't vote for one of the major parties, that's fine - vote someone else. Vote Green! Vote ******* Raving Loony. Change won't happen any other way.

Food for thought: http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/ I've been hearing on the news how people living around Heathrow are actually enjoying going outside, talking with their neighbors, etc now that they aren't living under a cloud of planes. I'd be quite happy with all...

This is what I'm thinking. Coming from the States, I'm rather excited at the possibility of being able to choose more than the lesser of two evils.

First PM debate is over and done! I can't say I've enjoyed watching a debate as much before. I dunno if it's just excitement for voting in a new country, or if it's excitement at the possibility of breaking a two-party system - because the minority third came out on top. ITV's poll after the...

Clear skies in Southampton, still. I can see stars even.

My plans for the day are up in smoke. Almost literally. ...and yet, it's bright and sunny here. Then again, I'm in the south of England where the cloud isn't expected to reach at all.

Heh. I honestly thing this should be an incentive offered - keyword being offered - to anyone. Get fixed, have some money...or tax break or whatever. Only eligible if no offspring have yet been produced. Infinite growth is inherently unsustainable.

Figure it may be worth a look-see at the website for the book, too: http://www.flatearthnews.net/

I've recently decided that I'd become a more active reader. Not that I'd read more, but that I'd do more follow-up on the books that I read - specifically, the non-fiction stuff. I frequently enjoy books about how the world is, usually about how the status quo came to be or how the status quo...

Re: Fury as U.S. woman adopts Russian boy, 7, then sends him back alone with note say For what it's worth, the Daily Mail, despite being the most powerful paper in Britain, spits out an awful lot of crap - not excluding making stories up entirely (I'm not saying that this is the case here, just...

That's not exactly true; isn't he supposed to be really posh? By definition, not average? This one - I've decided I'm not voting for major parties anymore. And if I can vote in the States and Kingdom, that'll be at least two votes for the little guys! Now, this I absolutely disagree on. Coming...

As far as I could tell, it was all just to line some pockets with war profiteering. Halliburton, etc. Seems the most reasonable explanation at this point. :dunno:

I got a flu back in September; first thing I did when I moved over to the UK. Couldn't tell you what sort though. I've actually been told by a doctor that ******* is as good as cold medicines.

I actually can't use the forum like this...I'll see you guys tomorrow!

Indeed; read Ropert Pape's Dying to Win, among other texts. We've been mucking around the region for decades.

Naturally. Hopefully it'll stay nice down here in Southampton...though if not, we just got brand new windows installed the other day.

Roundabouts are awful. There were two in Portland. Now I find myself regularly in Basingstoke, also called Doughnut City for its copious quantity of roundabouts (as alluded to in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy).

I hadn't realized they'd made a movie of this! I'll have to look into it... I enjoyed the book, with my only complaint being the copious use of the pronoun "he"...it was good for style, except when you couldn't tell who "he" was referring to. A film won't have that problem, though!

Hey, thanks for your posts. I enjoy your informative opinions (and I'll bet you'd have liked to say something a bit stronger than "hatemonger", eh? I certainly do after reading some of those posts).

As both an American and a European (insofar as the Brits pretend like they're not part of Europe), I understand part of the outrage. I lived in the States for the past twenty one years, supported for most of those by my single ******. In the early 2000's, she got laid off (as did virtually...

International borders mostly, I think. Visas and all that...but still, I quite agree here: Hell, I moved continents after working less than twenty hours a week, for most of a school year. But, I also have the benefit of dual-nationality.

This is it in a nutshell, in my opinion. I'm glad I'm not the first to mention Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time - I highly recommend giving it a read for questions like this. No, it certainly doesn't answer this - in fact, I'd say it opens up the possibilities for an answer. But the...

I bought local when I was in the States. Not that the food didn't use the roads anyway, but...what are road taxes paying for these days? Maintenance, mostly. Which would be a small fraction as necessary if private vehicle trips weren't made (or virtually weren't made). In any case, I didn't ask...