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(...) My point isn't that LEGO is saying "Americans make less money, therefore we will charge less" but rather than the uneven income (...) Americans, because they make less, do not buy equally priced (to European sets) LEGO because it is (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Of course relative buying power plays a big point. I earn approximately half of my British counterpart, but my house, food, etc costs half as much as well. My point is that comparing British to American at strict monetary conversation rates (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Waiters earn tips, and generally earn less than 5.15 due to this. Cashiers at Burger King, Book shelvers at a University Library, and such menial jobs earn no tips and recieve 5.15 minus taxes for their labor. (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Also in the US tips are expected, whereas in Europe they are not (although they are generally accepted). I couldn't find any info on the relative amounts made in tips, but they are not included in wage comparisons. ROSCO (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) If you're suggesting that Lego pricing is due to income levels of citizens, I don't think that's the case. Some of the issues (as I've been told from people in Lego and outside of Lego) are: 1) People in Europe are willing to pay more for toys (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not neccessarily true. You cannot make a broad generalization simply based on the average wage in dollars. The average American pays less for everything than the average Brit so may or may not be "poorer" in material goods and access to (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Granted, most of us don't work for minimum wage, but some debate about the Playstation3 price difference on (URL) between the States and Europe has yielded an interesting tidbit of information, perhaps useful in understanding the LEGO price (...) (18 years ago, 27-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Why should we blindly support our troops ? This is not an era of conscription in the US and UK and so they have all signed up of their own free will. They aren't fighting to protect our countries, they are doing a security guard job elsewhere. (...) (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Me, I have more respect for someone who has a naughty shag than someone is the cause of hundreds of thousands of people dying. Tim (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure an American can really use that argument without being hypocritical. (Hey, Britain's record on the subject isn't too great either, before you say anything) Tim (18 years ago, 24-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) lol well, gotta run-- I'm off to my Being-Hit-On-The-Head lessons.... WHAAAAA! (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) SHUT YOUR FESTERING GOB, YOU TIT! YOUR TYPE MAKES ME PUKE! YOU VACUOUS, STUFFY-NOSED, MALODOROUS PERVERT!!! (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I've never understood how people get that wrong- it's a dependent clause, not an unlimited commandment. So obvious as to be boring. Tim (18 years ago, 23-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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just came across this: Pending cases at the The International Court of Justice: (URL) of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Croatia v. Serbia and Montenegro) googleing I came across these: (URL) GWB ever have (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Aint that the truth. ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Hmmm. I wonder if (URL) Dave feels the same way>? ROSCO (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'd love to get on this bandwagon, but I have known more than a few left-wingers who put their head firmly in the sand on many issues. I think the desire to want a happy fantasy rather than the truth is a human quality, not a (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(URL) was a great read-- "Two and Two Make 30,000 Winston Smith, the hero of Orwell's 1984, asserts at one point that freedom is the freedom to say that two and two make four. In other words, the ability to state that there are facts which are true (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Reagan? Ronald Reagan? Surely you can't be talking about The Great Communicator, from whose myriad disastrous policies we had only begun to recover when 2001 occurred (with all the implications thereof). The only thing keeping Reagan from (...) (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) That'll put me at 60, and with 26+ years of tirades against the current US gov't, I may be on a 'no fly list', so I'll drive down ;) (...) Didn't read the book. Dave K (18 years ago, 22-Mar-07, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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