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According to a recent CDC study, the average gamer is all three of those things. Apparently, no one who posts on abodes is an average gamer. None of us is 35 years old, nor do I believe any of us is depressed. The study was done in in Seattle, a city I that’s kinda known for having high rates of depression. As for the weight issue, what American (celebrities don’t count) couldn’t stand to lose a few pounds? Really, this just seems like a poorly constructed study. But it’s more fun to just argue with the results & say the CDC is wrong.

Also, who comes up with the ideas for these studies anyway? And if I can’t be a Cocktail Historian, how do I get a job conducting them?

I took this partial screen cap just a few minutes ago. Let’s say 8:50 AM, December 30th, 2008.

Amazon must really think their shipping service is hardcore if they are able to get this product to you six days ago. Either that or they are so pessimistic about their odds of getting it to you in a timely manner that they mean next Christmas.

If it’s the first option I want a time machine too.

The link in the last post was supposed to read:
Mice suspected in killing nearly 100 cats.

Mice suspected in killing nearly 100 mice.

As someone whose job it is to talk on the phone all day, I have a few things to say about answering the damn things. The most important of these things is that Sloth is mistaken. Here’s why, illustrated with pretty pictures!!!!!:

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Tyler Cohen (who is one of the few people who write posts I actually look forward to reading in my many RSS feeds) writes about Saudi Arabia’s new ban on selling cats and dogs as pets.

It seems that the Saudi religious police are taking the fact that men are walking cats and dogs (seriously, walking cats?) to make passes on women. From Tyler’s post:

The final question, of course, is how do you use a pet cat to make a pass at a woman? I’ve heard of people walking their cats, but I expect it is not an easy experience. To limit sex, cats should be subsidized, not taxed. No?

So I wonder. Is the Saudi society somehow undermined if people meet each other on a sidewalk? Is this a threat to arranged marriage or something?

I see promising gains being made all over the world in freedom and acceptance of differences. And then I look at one small area of the world full of ignorance and fossil fuels and I scratch my head.

Oh, and the cats make their own arrangements when that time comes around, but I have to lock the dog up in the basement or the bathroom or something or he just starts barking. So in my experience at least cats aren’t as bad as Tyler makes out.

So the elf and I went to Canada last weekend. This review is about the Cannota we saw during the weekend. There might be other more different Canadas but I can’t say for sure.

Kanida is hot, muggy, smelly, and expensive. It was really humid the entire weekend and the only thing that made it acceptable was a strong breeze off of Lake Huron. Lake Huron gets a 9/10 btw since it was smooth the whole time and cool and not smelly and practically free.

We saw a really run down indian reservation. That got a 2/10. The restaurant in the shopping center near there though had “traditional native fried bread” which gets 8/10.

So Canatuna must have like 99% sales tax. A hamburger and fries was $13. Fish and chips was like $15. For perch. Not even for pufferfish or anything. Around where I live it’s usually like $7. Drinks at a bar were $5-8 a piece which is a bit steep but when you factor in that they didn’t appear to even have any alcohol (and tasted just like mixer) a shot of liquor must be like $20 there.

We stopped at a liquor store and a beer store. The Beer Store actually. You see, Soberada is a socialist nation. The best way to control a populace in a tyrannical nation is to control the alcohol supply. Hence The Beer Store. It’s the only place (seemingly) you can buy beer. A 6 pack of beer is roughly twice the cost of what people in the States pay. This probably explains the people with hand carts and 20 18-packs of bud light coming back over to Canadia on the ferry. Oh, and about the liquor stores. In Corndidia the only liquor stores are LCBO stores. They are pretty nice as far as stores go, more like a Macy’s than a Walmart. A 750mL bottle of Jose Cuervo runs about $35 Eh’dian. Right now greenbacks and loonies are about even so we can say that’s roughly $35 USD. Three blocks away from my house I can buy the same bottle of Cuervo (or at least a close cousin) for around $16.

If it wasn’t for a minimum wage of $8 and up and healthcare/retirement/etc that the people with jobs have to pay for in their probably 200% income tax I don’t know how anyone can get drunk in Nadcania. There must be a bum booze subsidy program or something for the stinky part of the population.

Overall, Candidia gets a 6/10. It’s fun to visit but expensive, hot and smelly. You don’t think Candacia is hot? I can say honestly that 100% of the times I have been to Candardia in the last year it has been hot and muggy. Proof enough.

Sadly, Bonsai Kitten is no longer in business. But we can get their old site on archive.org – yay for the way back machine.

Bonsai Kitten

Turns out the woman is good for something, pointing me here.

Casu Marzu cheese is one extreme culinary treat.

It’s Pecorino Sardo cheese that someone thought to add cheese fly larvae too. The larvae chew it up and crap it out and then you get to eat it. Some people don’t even pick the larvae out before they eat it. It’s so hardcore that Wikipedia even has a section about the dangers of eating this cheese.

Thanks (or not) to The Consumerist for this.

and cancel your trips to the Congo. Apparently “penis theft” is a big deal there.