Viewing profile — clamour

You're right, the North Korean prison camps by all accounts seem worse, but the Wikipedia article actually contained a lot of information that was new to me. For example... In 2004…

Sorry to be a jerk but does it annoy anyone how often conversations about the military/soldiers go through the perfunctory "I respect your service blah blah blah..."? The term "mil…

The less scrupulous English language schools do exactly this where I live. They'll post a job offering online and have you teach a "demo class" as part of your interview. In realit…

I have a dual install of Mint on my machine precisely because of its seamless HDMI support. It was the one thing I could never get working properly on my primary OS, but Mint did t…

Green dragon is a drink. "Water pipes" or "bongs" still involve smoking, but the smoke is passed through water. I don't know to what extent this reduces the ill-effects of inhaled …

You commit the same fallacy... his current state of intellect has no bearing on whether smoking marijuana causes a decrease in mental functioning. Aside from smoking, vaporizing an…

It's the recommended method for obtaining Bitcoin (semi) anonymously, ever since exchangers started complying with AML regulations. That, or cash-in-mail sent with a fake return ad…

That physical clues were distributed worldwide indicates there might be a little more to the story. Wikipedia lists the locations as Annapolis, Maryland / Chino, California / Colum…

That's weird, because searching "guerrillas" (an unambiguously nominal form of the word) in the Corpus of Contemporary English (COCA) gives me over two thousand hits! http://corpus…