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Battle Royal..not that I'm saying anything.. |
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Yeah. Needs more to be original... and interesting. |
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//Burlesquoni// Cute enough pun to be a NYT crossword. |
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Battleship Royal: In the future, Aliens capture Navy ships and force them to shoot torpedoes at eachother in blind coordinates until one ship is left... |
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So...you know who Berlusconi is, you know what Bunga-bunga is and you didn't let out a single guffaw? Something needs to be done about the maturity level here, it's alarmingly high :) |
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Silvio Berlusconi isn't funny. He's a filthy old pervert
who's into underage girls. What's the joke? |
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Space Battleship Yamato, tell me when you get bored of this.. |
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Actually Saikano is a lot better, who wouldn't want to date someone with the nanoware to shoot down a helicopter gunship, even if she can be a bit angst prone. |
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//He's a filthy old pervert who's into underage girls// |
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That's not the half of it; as prime minister, IIRC, he changed the law so as retrospectively to decriminalize a form of fraud for which he was under investigation at the time. No-one noticed, because he owned the media. |
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Wait, wait, wait… Are you implying that the Italian
government might in some way be… /corrupt/?! That's
a pretty
serious claim. You'd best have some proof to back it
up, signore. |
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(Mi scusi, I believe that's my twelve o'clock bribe, er,
“lunch” delivery.) |
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//Are you implying that the Italian government might in some way be… /corrupt/? |
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Oh come on, enough of this crazy talk.. |
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My impression (formed from traveling there and dealing
with various governmental agencies) has always been that
the Italian, Spanish, and North African governments
operate on a system of bribery and graft, much like many
Central American countries. It's not so much criminal as it
is just the way things are done. |
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I mean, when we entered
Italy from Switzerland, a bottle of Glenfiddich and two
cases of Marlboros bought us a friendly, smiling border
guard
who glanced at our passports and walked us right past the
Customs line with about 150 people waiting in it. He even
hailed a cab for us. The same thing in Morrocco, only they
wanted Camels (the cigarettes). |
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[marked-for-tagline] maturity level as high as a kite. |
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When you enter Switzerland the border guards are
only concerned with getting their fee for you to use
their roads, in Swiss Francs (About 40 of them, when
I was last there). Going the other way it's even less
formal. |
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On the other hand, the US wants your fingerprints
and makes you feel as though they're doing you a
huge favour if they say yes to you entering. |
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Yes, yes, Americans are arrogant self-absorbed jerks, we
know that. Wouldn't it be easier if from now on we just
treat that as a given? |
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Getting into Russia was interesting. China was much
more relaxed. Singapore's only interested whether
you might be carrying drugs; Australia if you're
carrying potential plant or animal pathogens... there's
no standard anywhere. |
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//Singapore's only interested whether you might be carrying drugs; |
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That's true. It's a FINE place to live. |
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