Hollande is wrong. All of those tourists will get to London and then when they find out the pubs close at like 8:00 PM they'll say "wait, why did we leave Paris?" Or maybe I'm just thinking of Aussies and Kiwis.

I actually found it to be not too bad, especially for food. Mrs. and I had incredible meals with wine for around €100. And they're not stingy with the black truffles.

Fair enough. The Chinese are paying €2,000 for a bottle of Lafite Rothschild now. Even the French are going "um, I mean, it's really good wine, but..."

yeah, I could understand if this were coming from Sarkozy, but Hollande?

exactly. What's next, we Italians will stop eating pasta on Sunday?

People are really paying €100 to go to London just because the shops aren't open on Sunday? I would just wait until the shops re-open the next day.

sadly, that's probably not going to change any time soon. The habits of American consumers are very difficult to change, especially when it comes to food, but yeah, this probably has a lot to do with why we're such a fat nation. The definition of value to American consumers seems to have become 'get a large quantity…

if Gavin gets to her before Frank does, it could be trouble for him. I actually think Gavin, Rachel, Janine, Lucas and Tom are going to be Frank's undoing in Season 3.

Australia is a fantastic place to live, and I'm not a legal expert on its immigration laws, but I can tell you that yes, it's very difficult to get in unless you're a refugee or sponsored by an employer. Ironically, two years ago I had a job offer in New Zealand and a company willing to sponsor me, but turned it down…

I've been to Katoomba! It's a cool little town.

I think so too. I just bought my first BMW last year and I've heard iDrive used to be a bit of a disaster, but I think it's actually quite good.

oh, I think Aussies work plenty hard. Compared to, say, Americans, it may not look that way, but Americans do a lot of things for show. I've worked in several jobs here where people work late but aren't really doing anything just to impress the boss. Aussies and Europeans have the right idea: go on holiday as much as…

whoa! I never saw any of those. Corn chips? For real?

she's got those crazy eyes. Is she Congressman Steve King's daughter?

I think that's a well reasoned, non-kooky sounding argument. I think GMOs have their place, though, because without some way to increase crop yields we could be in real trouble in the next few decades. The legal side of what they're doing, however, is pure evil, and it's up to USDA to straighten these fuckers out.

I don't think they are working on an actual car, maybe just the next generation of CarPlay. Incidentally, what are your thoughts on BMW iDrive?

also, I'm curious, why would you get a better discount for being Azeri? Turkey sounds amazing, somewhere I definitely want to visit. I'm a bit unsure about doing so at the moment though, with the war in Syria going on.

ah, interesting. Nope, just sorting packages. It was actually a pretty decent job. I definitely learned the metric system because I had to be able to estimate the weight of packages in kilos and measure them in centimeters. And it was just down the road from the Kraft factory where they make Vegemite. When the wind…

that is a great story, actually cooler than mine, I'd say. I pride myself on being able to do accents pretty well. I can do a decent New Zealander as well, and I also worked in northern England for a while, so I can do a fair Yorkshire. They also have awesome slang. Really interesting place for accents, the UK,…

Thanks! The best part was the job only had a few requirements: a bit of heavy lifting and 'a fair working knowledge of the geography of Australia' because we were sorting freight into shipping containers. So I had to know, for example, if a package was going to Katoomba, which is a town in New South Wales in the far…