Texture exposition.

Battlestar Galactica Visual Effects - A bit about the making of the New Caprica space battle. Worth it just to see Galactica atmo-jump again.

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Several kinds of food are eaten with the fingers (tacos, tortas) and it's considered snobbish to eat them with fork and knife. In case of doubt wait to see how the rest of the table eats their own.

Their own? Is that a wigber dinner..? : )

A global list of faux-pas. Find any inaccuracies?

Zombies never eat their own. Odd as it may seem, we are tasteless. (In any way you care to read that.)

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A global list of faux-pas. Find any inaccuracies?

That Oz one's pretty accurate, although I think they exaggerate the importance of shaking hands (or maybe I'm just a rude bastard). Strange it doesn't mention anything about Aboriginal culture; in particular that some Aboriginal nations consider it most offensive to name or refer to people who have died, especially if recently. Also, the didjeridoo is a phallic symbol, i.e. for blokes only, so Madonna looked very silly carrying one around.

You needn't worry about the "fanny-pack" one too much either. Walk into a store and ask for that and the staff will just snigger behind their hand and get the appropriate item. An Australian would have to live in a cave not to be aware of American terminology. And the slang term is more British than Australian anyway.

I seem to remember some joke about Durex being a brand of sellotape in Australia?

Boys Beware.

Danger lurks everywhere, or so it seems.

It's funny - these days governments want us to be afraid of terrorists. In 50's America it was gays and reds. I wonder who the bogeymen will be in 2050?

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Originally posted by Gromit:
I wonder who the bogeymen will be in 2050?

Boogie man.



Space gays and space reds, we really aren't that imaginative.

The Spiderman 3 trailer!

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Originally posted by Kradlum:
I seem to remember some joke about Durex being a brand of sellotape in Australia?

You...you mean it's not? Oh...oh, god, google says it's...

Oh, Maria, madre de dios, oh, god, no wonder Great Aunt Mavis looked shocked when I gave her her Christmas present last year...oh christ no, no wonder she struggled unwrapping it.

Text of speech given by Barack Obama at the Martin Luther King national memorial groundbreaking ceremony

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Originally posted by Gromit:
It's funny - these days governments want us to be afraid of terrorists. In 50's America it was gays and reds. I wonder who the bogeymen will be in 2050?

Me. I'll be old by then, so it won't be so bad.

The new Simpson movie teaser. Mh, that crane *is* in 3D...

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Originally posted by prolific hack colin:

I guess it would be churlish of me to point out that I posted this image several months ago.

Okay, so I'm a churl...

Kiwi!!!

Cross-posted to the Lawn Maintenance thread, but what the hell...

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Originally posted by fuldog:
The new Simpson movie teaser. Mh, that crane *is* in 3D...

Oi, this does not bode well.

Bibendum sighting!