In the UK we are also subject to adverts featuring "Knock Off Nigel" who lives in some sort of alternative world where his co-workers dress in ridiculous clothes, appear to spend their time gadding about the office like big gay workshy drama queens singing, and "ridicule" Nigel for offering them copies of movies.

Obviously back in the real world anyone behaving like Nigels would be detractors would be laughed out of the office down to the bike sheds where they'd be given a damn good thrashing.

And thats the really weird bit, drugs appear to be sold in the US in the metric system and, from my obviously extremely limited and second hand knowledge of the subject are often sold in the UK in the imperial system, even though we are supposed to be metric here.

I think the selling of drugs is one area which is more suited to the imperial system purely because splitting them up is a lot easier in imperial.

There are usually a lot of a Americans waddling about Scotland but didn't realise they were all there just to fund this research.

It's actually a really irritating system we have here in the UK, in school during the 80's we were taught soley in the metric system so I still have no instinctive understanding of what a farenheight, a gallon, a league or a fathom actually are and yet some of these measurements are still pretty much in general use as are pounds, ounces & stones.

In my car I can view my petrol consumption in miles to the gallon or litres to the kilometer but the fuel which goes into the fuel tank is measured in litres and the odometer shows only miles so there is no way to make a simple comparison without having to work out between the two sets of measurements.

I wish the UK would make up it's mind one way or another properly and then stick to it !

I think perhaps you need to study a bit more history, especially if you think the middle ages is in any way marked by any sort of prudishness about nakedness or sex.

Not only slavery and capital punishment for most crimes but also paedophilia was rampant as was casual murder, rapings, slaughterings, sackings, bestiality, whippings, beatings, maulings and worse.

Those ancient people have a long way to go before they are as advanced a society as us today ( around 2000 years to go )

In COD4 you actually get points for knifing enemies who are crawling along the floor wounded.

Where are my mod points when I need them ?

Well, where did you have them last ?

The only people who commonly say that "Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit" are typically those who are too stupid to appreciate the irony of any given situation or those who have such a narrow and specific world view they are unable to appreciate anything which falls outside of it.

Most normal people realise there isn't actually a universal scale of wit and particular types of wit aren't restricted to a particular band on this nonexistant scale because the nonexistant scale doesn't exist.

A lot of normal people have problems understanding others' intentions; I know I sometimes do.

Me too, or at least I used to before I realised I could understand exactly what their intentions were, the confusing part was why they are always lying about them.

I'd say it most definitely was dangerous driving, people on mobiles don't just randomly speed up and slow down they also tend to drift between lanes and generally behave unpredictably which is problem when most drivers base a lot of their decisions on what they think other cars might be doing rather than what they are actually doing.

War has always been nasty horrible and messy for those involved in the fighting but what's really missing is a facility for making it nasty, painful and horrible for those who decide having a war is a good idea but don't do any of the fighting.

the French DO 'ave a sense of 'umour, you know

Well thats a relief, it would be simply too awful to be French and not have a sense of humour.