a well regulated militia

[jaguar]

I thought the one with the columbine pic was the best.

a-human.-right.com is funny. I started doing their 'survey' thing at the start and gave up, it’s got no logical options. The site is counter productive, its arguments have obvious flaws and are so..feverant that its scary rather than convincing. On the other hand those pics are fantastic! I needed some high quality fodder for the spoof posters I'm building for graphics, how much better can I get than a grandma with a pump action and a kid with an M16?! I showed them to various people here the consensus was simple 'disturbing'. It's saved me hours of photography and photoshopping, least for folio filler stuff.

It certainly seems that your perception of the US is about as accurate as that of AU conveyed by "Crocodile Dundee". We're 280 million people living in 9 million square km.; movies, network TV and Time Magazine can't tell you our real story any more than they can accurately convey what China is about. You're ready to vacation in Cambodia...swing by the Great Satan sometime.

hehehe I thought that flamebiat would work. My point was simple, UTs silly claim about France (which ill listen to when I see on page 1 of Le Monde) is no more real than mine about US, I purposely made a series of generalizations to make that point. In reality I've probably learnt more about the diversity of the US from national geographic zipcode sections (always interesting) than CNN could teach me. I should point out that The Guardian includes pages from the Washington Post, which is useful for perspective stuff too.

I'd love to some time but it’s an expensive flight from Asia to the US. If I end up staying in Japan for a while it's something I’d love to do at some point.

You know, computers wouldn't be so popular if by law they all had to be colored flourescent-puke green and covered with rubber cement, either.

You're avoiding the point.