The USSR. (in this case, it stands for The Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic) They were a part of a larger whole at the time, and the name uses common nouns, making the nomenclature similar to 'The West Coast' or 'The East Coast' in 'The U.S.A'.

Perhaps. But perhaps not. It's interesting to look at the vote breakdowns. Austria got voted #3 by the public, but got ranked 7,9,9,10, and... 21st by the official jury - making the official jury average 11, meaning they get bumped just off the top 10 and get no points. That seems rather coincidental, no? And of…

Because one does not simply hyperdrive in to Middle Earth.

As someone from the Netherlands, I realize that my language is relatively similar to English in it's grammar, vocabulary and alphabet, and I'm aware that my culture has given me lots of subbed (not dubbed) movies/series, and a lot of English music.

At my place all the laundry gets thrown in one bin and then sorted by color, so it's not very practical to have people do 'their own' laundry. Mom does do the majority of laundries (is that the proper plural?) and I suppose I should do more. I'm going to take over the householding for the next ~2 months because of a…

Sounds like we've got ourselves a new euphemism.

Clearly these two shouldn't be together because his face is melting.

Well that's a relief.

The first hit I got from google is that it can apparently work as a date rape drug if you drink it. I'm hoping that's not the case here, but it indicates that it has alternate uses besides helping your eyes.

How's that absurd? At my place, I'm the only one that's never smoked (parents and sister do) outside of one evening in Turkey where they had a water pipe thingy.

Don't call them alternate personalities. He doesn't like being reminded of his mental issues. There's a reason he calls them hats. Just... go along with it. It's quite remarkable after all, writing an entire games blog by yourself.

It's not just the annexation. It's also the rampant homophobia and more general xenophobia. And as you can see from the winner, there were a lot of queer supporters.

Not that you think only men are sexist, but that you think it's okay to ridicule men for wanting to be considered outside of stereotypes. And I disagree, because that's rather sexist given that fighting against stereotypes is one of the big things that feminism/egalitarianism do.

"Would any of them eat my asshole"

Of course they did. They sent an entire fleet up, to fight spacehitler.

Sorry, but your truck seems to be more of a brown...

These things never end up with a discount, only with raised prices for the 'premium' and worse quality for the 'regular'.

Please. Please. Don't start separating blood supply based on someone's income.

Because men. As the world knows, all men turn all things into a competition, always. And the winner cook also gets the ladies.

I'd expect this to be called a Cookie or something, too. Foodies are more about the eating than the making.