Battra92

AWESOME! I wish I could upvote your purchase more than once. Great show and I hope you enjoy it. **has flashbacks to when the phrase "digital bikini" was common in anime circles**

My little sister bought me this for my birthday. I can't wait to play it. I'm sure she'll borrow it after that, of course.

Heh, I know it! The state is simultaneously very liberal and at the same time slightly socially conservative at times. People pick on me but instead of pronouncing café "calf-fay" I say "cuh-fay." I have no idea why I pronounce it like that ...

I looked it up and Kansas and VT are about the same. Believe me, I know Vermonters like that (and they aren't crazy - guns are just their thing.) Hell the best man at my wedding has an a regular armory in his bedroom closet. It's so different than Massachusetts where people wet themselves at the idea of someone having a shotgun to hunt with.

A woman I used to work with had good friends from Scotland. They sent her an email before they were heading across the pond to visit her. They asked if they could take a day trip to go see the Grand Canyon as they always wanted to see that. My coworker lived in New England. According to Google it would require 1 day and 17 hours driving straight with no stopping to get to the Grand Canyon. Yeah, no daytrip there. You would get quite the drive through Albany, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Springfield, Amarillo and well ... Also, Kansas reminds me of Vermont but probably with less tress and less guns.

Same here in New England. Hell, I drive about 30 miles each way to get to work and think little of it. I also don't have to put up with the problems of living in the city.

Nice one. Maybe a wig would've worked better. Being bald it would be my only option.

I bought the new Humble Bundle for less than $1 (I don't care if you think I'm a dirt-bag, I probably will never play it) No purchases for me for a while. I need to save my dough to buy a new computer.

I let OTHER people celebrate, I just refuse to participate.

I don't celebrate Halloween. It's not due to my Christian nature (though I know people who don't celebrate due to their faith) but more due to my general hatred of what Halloween is. Apparently Halloween is the second most expensive holiday after Christmas. I don't dress up in costumes and haven't since the third grade (my mother ORDERED me to go Trick or Treating that year) and we don't hand out candy at home. The only reasons to have Halloween, in my opinion, are: 1) Every October 30th I play the Mercury Theater on the Air version of "The War of the Worlds" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3uv-92qxkE 2) It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (due to this scene I always play a lot of WWI songs) 3) An excuse to watch classic horror films and other specials So far this year I have watched "Mad Monster Party" (a Rankin Bass film) and tonight I will watch a Godzilla film. I am not sure which yet. Other than that ... BAH HUMBUG! By the way, it's also Reformation Day if you're a Lutheran.

Yes and Yes! It cost like £1 more because (I guess) it's an LE color style. I almost bought the white one and I still might but with a different nib but I own WAY too many pens right now. I got it at the very posh Pen Shop on Oxford street. The guy didn't seem all that interested in helping me and was more interested in serving some guy in a fancy business suit. The irony is he spent about £5 on a cartridge refill (all the while talking to his wife on his cell phone and being quite rude) while I spent £15 on the pen plus a couple more for the ink converter. Oh well, it still ended up cheaper than buying it from JetPens (whom I normally recommend whole heartedly!) We also have Thomas the Tank Engine over here in the States. I was really into it as a kid and even got the first couple seasons on DVD (thank goodness for a region free DVD player!) but the new episodes have neither nostalgia nor railway accuracy. My nephew (who is really just a close friend of my wife's son) is turning two and his mother is all about reading to him so I thought it would be cool for him to be read the real stories and not the "let's make a new toy to sell" that the franchise is about now.

Yeah, there is a shift back towards sugar vs HFCS due to consumer complaints. I think Pepsi were caught off guard at how successful their Pepsi Throwback (the sugar version of Pepsi) would be as it was supposed to be for a limited time and now it appears to be a regular product offering. The last thing I expected to see on my honeymoon was a high school girl flashing her panties on the subway. I wanted to yell "Put some damn pants on girl!" I never bake with salted butter. In fact, I no longer buy salted butter at all. Salted butter can throw off recipes in baking.

Bought a lot on my vacation: Got this for my "nephew" and for myself I got: A book on railway engines (I forget the title) and one of these: I also got a fountain pen converter to use bottled ink in the above Lamy Safari.

I dunno, maybe my parents and friends always got the extra safe ones.

Okay my trip to the UK has given me some very interesting observations that I will share: 1) You guys really need to get some standards when it comes to how to order food at a restaurant. Many times we went into a restaurant (that had no register in plain sight or "Order Here" signs) and sat down while the people sneered at us before coming over to rudely tell us we are supposed to go up to the bar to order. Other restauants that appeared to be of identical (or even lower) class were sit down with waitstaff. 2) I give credit where credit is due: The US should abolish the Dollar bill completely and switch to a dollar coin. However the cotton industry and Crane paper will never allow it. Although I will confess when I had about 10 Pounds in my pocket it was getting sort of cumbersome. 3) For a country called ENGLAND there were relatively few people speaking English. I'm not talking accents, I mean people would speak broken English. This of course could just be because London is a city with a lot of immigrants. 4) Your TV sucks! I think the 10 decent shows you have get exported. England also lost the moral high ground I thought they had because when channel surfing I stumbled across one of the Kardashian shows. 5) European style butter is fantastic! This is due to having about 4% more butterfat than so-called American butter. This really only makes a difference when eating it on bread or something. Cooking makes the flavor differences go away. 6) The English have bacon all wrong. Only once in my stay did I have REAL belly bacon and that was at Haché in Camden town. Your bacon tastes like a smoked pork chop - which, don't get me wrong, is delicious but American smoked bacon is much better. 7) I was pleased to find a copy of Thomas Paine's "The Rights of Man" in a small bookstore. Good read! 8) Diet Pepsi tastes odd over there. This is due to it using different sweeteners. Pepsi Max was even more different! I did like Tangy Cheese Doritios but missed my regular Nacho Cheese chips. Also your bottles of soda are 500ml which is only 16.9oz. Our standard bottle is 20oz. 9) Not once did I EVER see or hear anyone refer to corn as "Maize. So that myth of the rest of the world not calling it corn is busted. People also regularly spoke of miles, feet, inches, pints, quarts, gallons etc. There really didn't seem to be Metric anywhere but the grocery store. 10) Girls seem to enjoy wearing short short skirts or shorts with leggings or stockings under them whether they can pull off the look or not. They look like they are wearing a codpiece or something.

Dude, what? In order to turn on most garbage disposals that I've seen you have to put a stopper in the drain, turn on the water and flip a switch. My the time a kid is old enough to be able to reach the thing they should be smart enough not to put their hands down it ...

Quite frankly, the occupy kids are at best ignorant pawns of larger groups such as unions, communists and other slime of the earth. They are spoiled brats who used Daddy's money to buy their iPads and their fair trade coffee.