Recent content by Guildenstern

I read this as "your average American President" at first. How true! :lol:

I type in a way similar to Vanadorn. My right hand crosses the center of the keyboard fairly often. For example, in "often", I hit the F with my right index finger, and the T with my right middle finger. Hell, in "index", I hit the X with my right index finger! :p I use my right pinky for...

I play cello and piano.

The Icelandic Althingi is one of the oldest governing bodies, dating from 930 AD. I don't know how this compares with the Manx parliament.

I'm sure something like this has been mentioned many times before; there's been plenty of time to play Civ, and plenty of players out there more skilled than I. ;) Anyway, the following is the war strategy I use, which makes use of a combined force of defensive, artillery, infantry and...

Australia's close to Ireland, isn't it? :p I apparently didn't read closely enough.

Saying men ought to be circumcised because many women prefer them that way is precisely equivalent to saying women ought to be anorexic-bulimic because men prefer supermodels. Of all the reasons given to remove your son's body parts without his consent, this one is by far the most disturbing...

Actually, what I've read is that it can be advantageous that our spelling is not phonetic. Because we cannot rely on the letters of any particular word corresponding directly with that word's pronunciation, we tend to look at an entire word at a time, almost as though it were a single glyph...

Russian is nothing compared to Finnish. Well, OK, Finnish doesn't use 33 letters. But Finnish has 15 grammatical cases: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/finnish5.html

If you actually speak Irish Gaelic then I'd wager your pronunciation is correct; I've only read about it.

I often press F8 and look at the Power histograph to see how I compare to a potential victim. Other players may or may not consider the use of this information "cheating".

English spelling and French spelling both pale in comparison to Gaelic spelling. In any given Gaelic word, about half the letters are silent. The pagan holiday Samhain, for example, is a Gaelic word; it's pronunciation is one syllable, and rhymes with "clown".

Clinton can't be VP, actually. He's already served two terms, and because as VP he has a chance of becoming acting President should something happen to Kerry, I'm fairly sure he's not allowed to be Kerry's running mate. The technical rule is that a President may not hold the office for a...

I'm with Adebisi: both are some of the most egregious human rights violations available. No one should have their body modified or parts removed without their consent, except in extreme circumstances where they are incapacitated and they will surely die if something isn't done quickly.