> Gary Jones takes issue with the article by Bryan Appleyard I posted about on Sunday.
[Y]our traditions grow and your culture is what you do. Twice in the last year great masses of Iraqis have voted, and in the same act have voted for the right to vote. For months, stretching into years now, the Shia majority have not turned to pogroms against the minority Sunni despite anti-Shia terrorism. And for their part the Sunni, this time, have also gone home in their thousands with defiantly purple fingers.
> Hak Mao on Australian English:
'Bastard' is generally a term of affection. If you start getting aggro when somebody calls you a 'bastard', they may call you 'pal' - and then you really are in trouble.
> Why does that PooterGeek bloke always write 'blog and 'blogging like that, with the thingie on the front? OK, I know why he does. But nobody else finds it necessary, so why does he? It might be considered quaint; and I'm sure The Geek would hate anything about him to be considered quaint. Only asking.
> Wilson's life with Lev Yashin.