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Oh, I wouldn't worry about not knowing anything over at the 'ol Stew.

"The Handmaid's Tale," Margaret Atwood.

"Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't do that again.”

Hmm, I think I need to plan a trip.

Wow, are those Slovenian girls, barbi?

There are still a couple of men-only social clubs in NYC.

on b) in the US a private business can do what it wants so long as it isn't discriminating against a specifically protected class. This...

What about raccoon dogs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9RbJEI_rYI)?

Well, OK, but WWII era bomb targeting was terrible.

"I've never seen Japanese people travelling independently. No doubt some do, but it's not common. " It wasn't common 25 years ago, but it...

I love Japanese travellers. They will always take a picture for you if you ask and you don't have to worry about them stealing your camera...

Yeah, I thought that too until I looked it up. But trans-national GDP comparisons are approximate, at best. I'd read the numbers as...

Incidentally, how on earth did Koln cathedral survive? The rest of the city was flattened in WWII.

That is likely true.

I once saw a group of Italians taking laughing, smiling, waving group travel snapshots under the "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate at Auschwitz.