I like fast food, too much alcohol, cigarettes and cocaine*. I work harder in my job than just about everyone at my workplace. I've had 3 days off sick in 5 years, and 2 of them were when I was determined to come in with flu and got sent home.
The government trying to tell me what to eat, what to drink, what to smoke, and what to sniff is fucking absurd when I'm paying for them.
*I don't do cocaine any more, since I got caught. I switched to mephedrone, which was good, then illegal. I've switched to MDAI since, which is not that good, but not illegal.
Plenty of mainstream music and film is good. It's all too easy to claim everything is shit, but you're wrong if you do.
I started driving for a living about 4 years ago (I'm 33). Prior to that, I was basically into indie and happy hardcore, with little in between. I've been forced to listen to the radio in the UK. Radio 1 is ok, and sometimes great - they push some good new bands. XFM is decent too. Kiss is mass marketed lowest common denominator, but sometimes kick in something new and inspirational. London pirate radio is great occasionally, as is community radio.
Reading Shakespeare, Neitzshe and Proust, watching Battleship Potempkin and Citizen Kane, listening to Beethoven and the Beatles, and playing Elite, then complaining about the state of modern media makes you look stupid. It makes you look like you've not formed any opinions on your own.
ps. Shakespeare is about as mainstream as it is possible to be.
Damn government, wasting our money, is an old refrain. Many people would say that the government is wasting money on drug users who have committed no other offence, now in prison. Slightly slow people may disagree. However, your taxes are going straight to funding prisons housing some people whose offence is enjoying a narcotic.
My duty is to say something about this, and stand up and argue against this kind of government funding, which I pay for.
Germany aren't massively socialist at the moment. What they are is solvent, and a relatively big economy.
The entire notion of people getting upset because of cutbacks, when previous governments have _overspent_ massively, and people blaming the current government eludes me. Personally I'm not massively politically one way or the other.... but I'm against throwing my country into stupid debt.
It's just common sense, and our politicians aren't doing it. Relying upon unrealistic growth is not going to work.
Abdelhakim Belhadj was the subject of "rendition" by the CIA and at least with knowledge (I'm not claiming more, though I suspect more) of MI6, and got taken back to Libya and imprisoned and tortured by the Gaddafi regime for 7 years or so.
Now he's highly placed in the Libyan government. Guess how he's going to look at "western" ideals of humanitarianism.
The _worst_ thing is that there will be many others who suffered his fate, yet didn't get back to political prominence - their voices will not be heard.
People have been giving it 3 or 4 years at most for decades.
The reality is that most people are still happy enough in the west. They have food, employment (most of the time), and a decent standard of living. It's very difficult to get angry when you have your basic needs.
The only thing that will change this status is if people lose food, employment, or a decent standard of living. I can't see this happening any time soon. Basically, governments can do what they want, and as long as people have the basics they're never going to be far from power.
Everyone seems to constantly think that we're on the edge of some kind of paradigm shift. We're not. The governmental and corporations power now is about as high as it has ever been. Any kind of protest is ignored or removed.
Drug dealers prey on serious physiological and mental weaknesses.
No, no they don't. Drug dealers generally like stable, middle class clients. The absolute _worst_ client for a drug dealer is someone who is penniless and desperate, because that will likely bring lots of attention to that dealer.
I've seen dealers turn away people with the money because they don't want them as clients.
Now, desperate users entering into dealership to sate their habit will often take anyone as customers. And it's these people who will hit the headlines, and it's these people who most dealers will avoid like the plague, and it's these people who will get caught.
ps. I'm a previous cocaine & plenty of other drugs user, Not vulnerable, not got any major weaknesses, just enjoyed drugs.
I was assuming that you were claiming the cars they made since the late 80s were lacklustre.... that's why I said you were wrong. Modern Hondas, I don't know much about - I'd never buy a new car. When I was looking for a car recently, my first choice was going to be a BMW M5 E39, which can be picked up _so_ cheap now (£5000 for the cheapest ones). All the one I looked at were dodgy though (I guess you get what you pay for), and I wasn't inspired. That's why I went for the Integra.... it was an ok example, and £3000 from a dealer.
About crappy looking hard plastics etc, I don't care. I want it to drive well. My car sounds crap when you close the door... it doesn't "thunk". That "thunk" is what I do not want, nor do I expect.
It goes round corners absurdly fast, and I'm happy with that.
That being said, I don't know if I like it in the wet yet. The thing about it in the wet is that if you drop the power halfway through a corner, it just slides sideways. So when you're close to the limit, and try to back off... you can't - the best way to get round the corner is to keep at least some power on, and hope you judged the corner right. It's an amazing car.
You're wrong. Your 1974 Dodge Charger does not hug the road brilliantly compared to just about any car with independent suspension. Your Charger may be faster in a straight line, but it doesn't go round corners that well, at any mph.
Everyone likes their own car, but seriously... comparing a Fit to a Ferrari 355?
Have you ever driven either close to the edge of their performance? Because small cars can seem nippy when you drive them nowhere near that edge. Front wheel drive cars have the habit of massively understeering out of corners on power
I personally drive a Honda, which weighs about the same as yours, could have the same engine displacement, is a front wheel drive, has 4 proper seats, has more space in the boot, and has done the nurburgring in 8:43 in stock form. It won't get your mpg though;).
I'm thinking of buying lots of music online, entirely legally, and making a few CDs for my sister's birthday. Now, technically that is against copyright law in the UK. I'll still have the music, and I'll be distributing it to my sister. Absolutely open to litigation, and I could be sued for this.
If I thought I would be sued for this, I wouldn't get close to buying the music. I would not buy the music at all. I'm a truck driver - I listen to this music all day, every day on the radio.
And I'm breaking the copyright laws by buying the music and slapping on a CD.
I'm close to saying fuck them and everything they stand for, since I'm going to be breaking the law anyway.
For men sex is a whole different kind of thing. And flirting and such serves another purpose or goal for each sex.
As a man, for me, sex is always emotional... perhaps I'm odd, but having sex with someone, even one night stands, generally means something. And I have done the seemingly "meaningless" one night stands quite a few times, and I've got a lot out of them - not just the sex. I can't think of one time I've had sex when I didn't like the person I was having sex with. YMMV.
Just because you know you're probably not going to see the other person again, doesn't mean they're a lump of meat.
As I said, perhaps I'm odd... I've never had sex when it's been _just_ sex - I've never disliked anyone who I've had sex with.
Also, bear in mind, that on average heterosexual men and women will have exactly the same numbers of partners - men will over-report, women will under-report. That's a problem with our culture. You can't get around the fact that men and women by definition have on average exactly the same number of partners, but men always claim more, and women always claim less. Everyone is lying about their sex life, men are ashamed by having too few partners, and women are ashamed by having too many, generally. It's fucking stupid, and it's getting worse.
I did a little clicking from TFA, and found this page, which says : "The effect of heat is so pronounced that a temperature of 125C can slow down a processor’s frequency by up to 14%." I'm guessing this is an error... since the effect of a temperature of 125C can slow down most processors frequency by up to 100%.
You can't make money on stocks now... the FTSE is about the same level as it was in the early 90's. No one seems to mention this - if you'd invested across the board, 20 years ago, all you'll have back is the dividends.
Money out of nothing doesn't work.... the reason pension funds etc are doing crap is because the markets aren't growing. Pension funds did invest across the board, and because there's no real inflation in their investment, they're in trouble.
In desperation, banks have been looking to new markets, which might sustain them for a while.
This kind of article truly annoys me, since it seems to project optimism.... the market hadn't moved for about 15 years, all the gains were in the first 5. And now is the time to invest?
My Vista install used to boot up from boot manager to usable desktop in 15 seconds. The only thing non-standard is the fact I'm booting off of a pair of striped drives. Also, I disabled a lot of the services I didn't use or did not want. After a couple of years of use, with quite a few programs set to run on startup, this had risen to about 25 seconds IIRC.
Currently it takes forever, because one of the hard drives in the stripe seems to be dying - it's got awful access speeds, and often won't register at all at boot. This took forever to diagnose, because it was in a software stripe and thus didn't report any errors. I originally thought I had some kind of malware, because every time I tried to download and install service packs, the system slowed to a crawl and sometimes BSODed. It was just that I don't work the disks hard usually, and when the service packs started whacking the disk drives, it all went to hell.
I'd be interested to know whether there's anywhere in England that is even remotely remote. I'd wager you _couldn't_ be a few miles away from a road or house, anywhere in England. I'm guessing some of Northumberland or perhaps Yorkshire would be the most remote places... perhaps the peak district, or somewhere up near Carlisle.
I know there are some areas of Scotland that are pretty remote - there are more people living in London than Scotland, so that's to be expected, right? Wales doesn't really have that remote places, because despite having some inhospitable mountains, they are well interspersed with valleys.
I bought an Amiga... then went onto PCs... and here's why. My PC had 7 different autoexec.bat files, and 3 different command.com files for different games and startups.... it was a nightmare. I think it was mainly lack of funds and the fact I got my dad's old PC with a hard drive, just about when Civilisation and Doom came out that turned me (I know civilization was available on the Amiga too, but I didn't have a hard disk for it). When I got Doom networked on 4 computers in our house (damn ipx hack setup), it was revolutionary for me and my friends - it was just massive intense multiplayer fun, when AI opponents were truly laughable, and games weren't about stories.
I probably think that Doom had a larger effect than just about anything else in converting me to the PC.
It's symptomatic of the way people expect a magic solution. I'm quite depressed I've scrolled this far down through all the comments before someone said "bullshit".
I love new technology, and am not necessarily skeptical. However, when someone claims magic fuel, when easily transportable fuel is _the_ problem with fuel that has not been solved in the history of humanity (we're not orders of magnitude away from carrying food for your horse)... I am a little skeptical.
I'm not saying it can't work, just that... well, fuck it I am skeptical.
I agree - this could be a very serious expoit route. Well meaning sites could easily be spammed with malware site links, and preloading links will completely fubar any sense of trust in that site. Pre-loading is diabolical anyway, for anyone who has a bandwidth cap, and uses it.
That is why people do double blind studies. That is the entire point of double blind studies... the placebo effect is taken into account, and compared with the active drug.
If those on the placebo are experiencing the same thing as those on the active drug, the drug does fuck all.
It's relatively simple to set up double blind experiments - It doesn't matter who your subject group is, whether they want to please the researchers or not (unless they _all_ claim the drug worked perfectly, but this doesn't often happen).
There might be decent things in that tea.... without evidence showing that they are decent, it _is_ just snake oil.
That being said, you've claimed that there may be sources of B1, B2, and B6 vitamins there. Personally I'm slightly sceptical about the amount of the vitamins that are getting though the boiling process and the infusion process, even prior to ingestion. I may be wrong, but I'd guess there wouldn't be that much compared to just dropping a supplement (not that I reccommend this necessarily), or just eating vaguely healthy foods.
The number 1 easily accessible preventative drug for Alzheimers is nicotine. There are quite a few studies showing big correlations between nicotine use and Alzheimer's prevention. It's not patentable, and it's got a bad reputation due to the tobacco industry, so it's unlikely there will be much funding for it.
No, but you can use them to make games. My brother and I used to play Destruction Derby with our Legos - each build a vehicle, then repeatedly run them into each other at high speeds and see who wins, with rules regarding what was required for a vehicle to be considered "intact" (as I recall, it had to contain a complete Lego dude and at least one set of wheels). Great fun, I highly recommend it.
*THIS* is the most fun game I "invented" as a child. There was lots of strategy, lots of tactics, and you destroyed the opposition's finely crafted vehicle at the end (hopefully). It's good to hear someone else independently discovered the joys of ramming your Lego creations against someone else equally as keen to win.
Unfortunately most of the designs ended up looking relatively similar.... but I think that was part of the charm - we learnt by trial and error which would survive. We used rules requiring at least 2 sets of wheels, and a complete dude, IIRC, and any part lost meant a loss of game... this helped rule out behemoths that could keep shedding parts until the opposition died.
Seriously, when I saw your post I grinned like an idiot, and had to post too - it was massive fun. Weirdly, I completely associate the game with Malawi, during a holiday with friends of the family living there... even now every time I hear about Malawi on the news, I think of lego cars falling apart, and the occupants flying away.
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I like fast food, too much alcohol, cigarettes and cocaine*. I work harder in my job than just about everyone at my workplace. I've had 3 days off sick in 5 years, and 2 of them were when I was determined to come in with flu and got sent home.
The government trying to tell me what to eat, what to drink, what to smoke, and what to sniff is fucking absurd when I'm paying for them.
*I don't do cocaine any more, since I got caught. I switched to mephedrone, which was good, then illegal. I've switched to MDAI since, which is not that good, but not illegal.
No, you're just an idiot.
Plenty of mainstream music and film is good. It's all too easy to claim everything is shit, but you're wrong if you do.
I started driving for a living about 4 years ago (I'm 33). Prior to that, I was basically into indie and happy hardcore, with little in between. I've been forced to listen to the radio in the UK. Radio 1 is ok, and sometimes great - they push some good new bands. XFM is decent too. Kiss is mass marketed lowest common denominator, but sometimes kick in something new and inspirational. London pirate radio is great occasionally, as is community radio.
Reading Shakespeare, Neitzshe and Proust, watching Battleship Potempkin and Citizen Kane, listening to Beethoven and the Beatles, and playing Elite, then complaining about the state of modern media makes you look stupid. It makes you look like you've not formed any opinions on your own.
ps. Shakespeare is about as mainstream as it is possible to be.
You don't need any text from someone to plant a few ounces of cocaine or (even worse) an RIAA song.
As someone who has been caught by the police with cocaine on myself...
I'd much prefer to be caught with cocaine than being caught doing interesting things on a sensitive (or even bland) server.
God your an idiot.
You're. God, you're an idiot.
Damn government, wasting our money, is an old refrain. Many people would say that the government is wasting money on drug users who have committed no other offence, now in prison. Slightly slow people may disagree. However, your taxes are going straight to funding prisons housing some people whose offence is enjoying a narcotic.
My duty is to say something about this, and stand up and argue against this kind of government funding, which I pay for.
ps. They didn't actually drink kool-aid.
Germany aren't massively socialist at the moment. What they are is solvent, and a relatively big economy.
The entire notion of people getting upset because of cutbacks, when previous governments have _overspent_ massively, and people blaming the current government eludes me. Personally I'm not massively politically one way or the other.... but I'm against throwing my country into stupid debt.
It's just common sense, and our politicians aren't doing it. Relying upon unrealistic growth is not going to work.
Abdelhakim Belhadj was the subject of "rendition" by the CIA and at least with knowledge (I'm not claiming more, though I suspect more) of MI6, and got taken back to Libya and imprisoned and tortured by the Gaddafi regime for 7 years or so.
Now he's highly placed in the Libyan government. Guess how he's going to look at "western" ideals of humanitarianism.
The _worst_ thing is that there will be many others who suffered his fate, yet didn't get back to political prominence - their voices will not be heard.
I'll give it three or four years at most.
People have been giving it 3 or 4 years at most for decades.
The reality is that most people are still happy enough in the west. They have food, employment (most of the time), and a decent standard of living. It's very difficult to get angry when you have your basic needs.
The only thing that will change this status is if people lose food, employment, or a decent standard of living. I can't see this happening any time soon. Basically, governments can do what they want, and as long as people have the basics they're never going to be far from power.
Everyone seems to constantly think that we're on the edge of some kind of paradigm shift. We're not. The governmental and corporations power now is about as high as it has ever been. Any kind of protest is ignored or removed.
Drug dealers prey on serious physiological and mental weaknesses.
No, no they don't. Drug dealers generally like stable, middle class clients. The absolute _worst_ client for a drug dealer is someone who is penniless and desperate, because that will likely bring lots of attention to that dealer.
I've seen dealers turn away people with the money because they don't want them as clients.
Now, desperate users entering into dealership to sate their habit will often take anyone as customers. And it's these people who will hit the headlines, and it's these people who most dealers will avoid like the plague, and it's these people who will get caught.
ps. I'm a previous cocaine & plenty of other drugs user, Not vulnerable, not got any major weaknesses, just enjoyed drugs.
The Romans also already knew that there really was no point arguing about a couple of other issues too. Don't claim we've not advanced from there.
I was assuming that you were claiming the cars they made since the late 80s were lacklustre.... that's why I said you were wrong. Modern Hondas, I don't know much about - I'd never buy a new car. When I was looking for a car recently, my first choice was going to be a BMW M5 E39, which can be picked up _so_ cheap now (£5000 for the cheapest ones). All the one I looked at were dodgy though (I guess you get what you pay for), and I wasn't inspired. That's why I went for the Integra.... it was an ok example, and £3000 from a dealer.
About crappy looking hard plastics etc, I don't care. I want it to drive well. My car sounds crap when you close the door... it doesn't "thunk". That "thunk" is what I do not want, nor do I expect.
It goes round corners absurdly fast, and I'm happy with that.
That being said, I don't know if I like it in the wet yet. The thing about it in the wet is that if you drop the power halfway through a corner, it just slides sideways. So when you're close to the limit, and try to back off... you can't - the best way to get round the corner is to keep at least some power on, and hope you judged the corner right. It's an amazing car.
You're wrong. Your 1974 Dodge Charger does not hug the road brilliantly compared to just about any car with independent suspension. Your Charger may be faster in a straight line, but it doesn't go round corners that well, at any mph.
Everyone likes their own car, but seriously... comparing a Fit to a Ferrari 355?
Have you ever driven either close to the edge of their performance? Because small cars can seem nippy when you drive them nowhere near that edge. Front wheel drive cars have the habit of massively understeering out of corners on power
I personally drive a Honda, which weighs about the same as yours, could have the same engine displacement, is a front wheel drive, has 4 proper seats, has more space in the boot, and has done the nurburgring in 8:43 in stock form. It won't get your mpg though ;).
I take it you've never driven a Honda Integra Tpye-R DC2? Admittedly it's a turn of the century car... but you're wrong.
Crappy suspensions
Wrong.
underpowered engines
Wrong
and lackluster fuel economy
Depends how you drive it. Deleterious fuel economy if you rev hard
This is slightly off topic, but relevant.
I'm thinking of buying lots of music online, entirely legally, and making a few CDs for my sister's birthday. Now, technically that is against copyright law in the UK. I'll still have the music, and I'll be distributing it to my sister. Absolutely open to litigation, and I could be sued for this.
If I thought I would be sued for this, I wouldn't get close to buying the music. I would not buy the music at all. I'm a truck driver - I listen to this music all day, every day on the radio.
And I'm breaking the copyright laws by buying the music and slapping on a CD.
I'm close to saying fuck them and everything they stand for, since I'm going to be breaking the law anyway.
For men sex is a whole different kind of thing. And flirting and such serves another purpose or goal for each sex.
As a man, for me, sex is always emotional... perhaps I'm odd, but having sex with someone, even one night stands, generally means something. And I have done the seemingly "meaningless" one night stands quite a few times, and I've got a lot out of them - not just the sex. I can't think of one time I've had sex when I didn't like the person I was having sex with. YMMV.
Just because you know you're probably not going to see the other person again, doesn't mean they're a lump of meat.
As I said, perhaps I'm odd... I've never had sex when it's been _just_ sex - I've never disliked anyone who I've had sex with.
Also, bear in mind, that on average heterosexual men and women will have exactly the same numbers of partners - men will over-report, women will under-report. That's a problem with our culture. You can't get around the fact that men and women by definition have on average exactly the same number of partners, but men always claim more, and women always claim less. Everyone is lying about their sex life, men are ashamed by having too few partners, and women are ashamed by having too many, generally. It's fucking stupid, and it's getting worse.
I did a little clicking from TFA, and found this page, which says : "The effect of heat is so pronounced that a temperature of 125C can slow down a processor’s frequency by up to 14%." I'm guessing this is an error... since the effect of a temperature of 125C can slow down most processors frequency by up to 100%.
You can't make money on stocks now... the FTSE is about the same level as it was in the early 90's. No one seems to mention this - if you'd invested across the board, 20 years ago, all you'll have back is the dividends.
Money out of nothing doesn't work.... the reason pension funds etc are doing crap is because the markets aren't growing. Pension funds did invest across the board, and because there's no real inflation in their investment, they're in trouble.
In desperation, banks have been looking to new markets, which might sustain them for a while.
This kind of article truly annoys me, since it seems to project optimism.... the market hadn't moved for about 15 years, all the gains were in the first 5. And now is the time to invest?
My Vista install used to boot up from boot manager to usable desktop in 15 seconds. The only thing non-standard is the fact I'm booting off of a pair of striped drives. Also, I disabled a lot of the services I didn't use or did not want. After a couple of years of use, with quite a few programs set to run on startup, this had risen to about 25 seconds IIRC.
Currently it takes forever, because one of the hard drives in the stripe seems to be dying - it's got awful access speeds, and often won't register at all at boot. This took forever to diagnose, because it was in a software stripe and thus didn't report any errors. I originally thought I had some kind of malware, because every time I tried to download and install service packs, the system slowed to a crawl and sometimes BSODed. It was just that I don't work the disks hard usually, and when the service packs started whacking the disk drives, it all went to hell.
I'd be interested to know whether there's anywhere in England that is even remotely remote. I'd wager you _couldn't_ be a few miles away from a road or house, anywhere in England. I'm guessing some of Northumberland or perhaps Yorkshire would be the most remote places... perhaps the peak district, or somewhere up near Carlisle.
I know there are some areas of Scotland that are pretty remote - there are more people living in London than Scotland, so that's to be expected, right? Wales doesn't really have that remote places, because despite having some inhospitable mountains, they are well interspersed with valleys.
I bought an Amiga... then went onto PCs... and here's why. My PC had 7 different autoexec.bat files, and 3 different command.com files for different games and startups.... it was a nightmare. I think it was mainly lack of funds and the fact I got my dad's old PC with a hard drive, just about when Civilisation and Doom came out that turned me (I know civilization was available on the Amiga too, but I didn't have a hard disk for it). When I got Doom networked on 4 computers in our house (damn ipx hack setup), it was revolutionary for me and my friends - it was just massive intense multiplayer fun, when AI opponents were truly laughable, and games weren't about stories.
I probably think that Doom had a larger effect than just about anything else in converting me to the PC.
It's symptomatic of the way people expect a magic solution. I'm quite depressed I've scrolled this far down through all the comments before someone said "bullshit".
I love new technology, and am not necessarily skeptical. However, when someone claims magic fuel, when easily transportable fuel is _the_ problem with fuel that has not been solved in the history of humanity (we're not orders of magnitude away from carrying food for your horse)... I am a little skeptical.
I'm not saying it can't work, just that... well, fuck it I am skeptical.
I agree - this could be a very serious expoit route. Well meaning sites could easily be spammed with malware site links, and preloading links will completely fubar any sense of trust in that site. Pre-loading is diabolical anyway, for anyone who has a bandwidth cap, and uses it.
That is why people do double blind studies. That is the entire point of double blind studies... the placebo effect is taken into account, and compared with the active drug.
If those on the placebo are experiencing the same thing as those on the active drug, the drug does fuck all.
It's relatively simple to set up double blind experiments - It doesn't matter who your subject group is, whether they want to please the researchers or not (unless they _all_ claim the drug worked perfectly, but this doesn't often happen).
There might be decent things in that tea.... without evidence showing that they are decent, it _is_ just snake oil.
That being said, you've claimed that there may be sources of B1, B2, and B6 vitamins there. Personally I'm slightly sceptical about the amount of the vitamins that are getting though the boiling process and the infusion process, even prior to ingestion. I may be wrong, but I'd guess there wouldn't be that much compared to just dropping a supplement (not that I reccommend this necessarily), or just eating vaguely healthy foods.
The number 1 easily accessible preventative drug for Alzheimers is nicotine. There are quite a few studies showing big correlations between nicotine use and Alzheimer's prevention. It's not patentable, and it's got a bad reputation due to the tobacco industry, so it's unlikely there will be much funding for it.
No, but you can use them to make games. My brother and I used to play Destruction Derby with our Legos - each build a vehicle, then repeatedly run them into each other at high speeds and see who wins, with rules regarding what was required for a vehicle to be considered "intact" (as I recall, it had to contain a complete Lego dude and at least one set of wheels). Great fun, I highly recommend it.
*THIS* is the most fun game I "invented" as a child. There was lots of strategy, lots of tactics, and you destroyed the opposition's finely crafted vehicle at the end (hopefully). It's good to hear someone else independently discovered the joys of ramming your Lego creations against someone else equally as keen to win.
Unfortunately most of the designs ended up looking relatively similar.... but I think that was part of the charm - we learnt by trial and error which would survive. We used rules requiring at least 2 sets of wheels, and a complete dude, IIRC, and any part lost meant a loss of game... this helped rule out behemoths that could keep shedding parts until the opposition died.
Seriously, when I saw your post I grinned like an idiot, and had to post too - it was massive fun. Weirdly, I completely associate the game with Malawi, during a holiday with friends of the family living there... even now every time I hear about Malawi on the news, I think of lego cars falling apart, and the occupants flying away.