I've watched facebook degenerate into an oozing fest of self indulgence and crappy quizzes about peoples aura/star sign/some other mystic crap or how good they are in bed, and too many of my friends now use it to grandly announce every mundane detail of their life to the world as if they're some sort of celebrity and we're all supposed to be deeply concerned about them cutting their pinky finger or enraptured by their new haircut, etc etc.

Firstly, nationality is not the same as skin colour.

...there is a condition where when a person is stressed the heart's electrical system goes out of whack, throws a charge when it shouldn't and basically the heart just quivers instead of beating. Now since this doesn't show up unless under stress (like say...when in PE) it can be hard to catch

, especially if you don't have someone previously diagnosed with it, as from what I have been told it tends to run in families.

it took them 40 years to find a place nice enough to be worth invading instead.