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(...) And I have toxic waste! (New Jersey.) Ignore those trees, clear blue lakes, and deer! It's a toxic dump, I tell ya! (...) Agreed. But after a summer in Birmingham (UK), I'm sick of Cadbury's too. German chocolate is hard to beat, IMHO--Dutch (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What they said. I wasn't saying that Bruce wasn't saying what I said. (Did that make sense? Probably not, but it's bedtime for me.) This is one of the debates around imperialism of any kind--the host culture is affected, and in ways specific (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The dominant economic power of the time will be subject to 'osmosis',the flow is always both ways. People of surrounding/less economically strong countries will always attempt to migrate to the stronger culture, while the goods flow out. The (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Disneyfication (...) idea (...) entirely (...) Indeed each 'culture' has an obsession with 'home-grown=100% pure' (...) own (...) Some call it Coca cola colonisation. (...) been (...) Australian (...) there (...) One of the guys at work (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ugh, does that sound familiar... I get asked if everyone in Israel speaks Yiddish (heck no!), if I ride a camel to school (!), and "are you SURE it's not all a big desert?!" Not to mention that I have to defend the IDF* :-) ...First of all I (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I've never tasted Hershey's, but I do know Cadbury's is miles ahead of Whitmans for taste. [The only good thing I can say for Whitmans is that the boxes would probably be good for storing small lego parts in.] Benjamin Whytcross (...) (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I have coyotes and roadrunners in mine. :-) What myth? Hershey's chocolate sucks. Cadbury's not the best, but it's a darn sight better than most of the junk they sell in America. Bruce (24 years ago, 4-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Kinda like the Lone Star franchise out here by the looks of it. Icky at the best of times. Do they have a stiffed Kangaroo head on the wall? A life sized Aborigine manikin in the corner with a Crocodile Dundee hat on? Framed, autographed (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Australian (...) references (...) be (...) I (...) Disneyfication (...) idea (...) entirely (...) Ummmmm, I was indicating that while the rest of the world screams about Americanization and Cultural Imperialism (Don't Buy Our Stuff if that's a (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Sounds like the 'Lonestar steakhouses' [or something similar] over here, although they are designed to represent america's outback area [I think] [Due to possible censoring, I won't give my opinion of this :) ] Unfortunately, at least in my (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) did. (...) I too must offer a belated apology. (Busy, school, finales, etc.) I tend to be stubborn myself. I still am trying to figure out why people think I was trying to deny the hardships of various 'racial' groups. That was definatly not (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) That's the root of my rant about Americanism--it's actually a hybrid culture that's gravitated towards the US because of economic power and demographic strength. The insidious part of Americanism is actually its functioning--its corporatist (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) D'oh! Thanks for clearing that up for me - I'm a bit inept at this whole finance stuff - it consists of the tautology: "I like coding, people foolishly pay me to code, then I buy LEGO" :) You're probably right about the UK being worse overall (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Richard, you need to be sure you're comparing apples with apples. If you scroll down in that Fraser Institute tax calc page you'll find this: (...) So you are not just looking at income tax here, and to truly compare with the UK you'll need to add (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Well, I *would* have been affected, if I had cable, but I don't have cable or a dish. I use a 6' antenna in my attic, on the rare occasion when I actually turn on the TV. OTOH, I'm on a first-name basis with the librarians at the local public (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) The Fraser Institute is your classic right wing think-tank, so bear that in mind when using their site <g>. Are they including GST, prov sales tax, etc in that calc or just income tax? Sales tax here, depending where you are, is always less (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) True, as a recent mobile graduate entering the computer software industry with long hair, and from looking at some of the 500 daily jobs in news://tor.jobs $50k CAD seems like a modest figure.. and it isn't too far off comparative wages in the (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) What's the inherent skin tone of dogs? Yellow? I do know for a fact that we've got lots of different hair colors, so Lego would never argue that all animals have the same fur color, including human animals. Oh, yes, and brown-furred wookies. (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I didn't do much more than poke at the Fraser calculator, but it's cool. Thanks for the link. 50% seems awfully high. I supose it depends partly on what you consider "modest", and whether or not you've mouths to feed. Modest varies a lot (...) (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Ahhhhh! Cultural imperialism. It's good to be king! Now forgive me while I drive home in my Mazda and play Nintendo games on my Panasonic TV and play Pokemon cards with my son. :-O Bruce (24 years ago, 3-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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