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There is no might be right about it, I am right and you are very wrong in your assumptions. I live in Greece and see and read what is happening here every day right across the country, you do not.
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Actually Greeks do a lot it is just done on a personal and community level or through the church so most of it goes undocumented. Currently, the church in Greece is feeding aprox. 300,000 people per...

The operative word is in your title, perception. It is a study based merely on people's perceptions or what they think may be true. It is not necessarily based on fact.

Good post Edao. But it is not so much that the UK should be out of the EU, more that they should just make up their minds what it is they want.

From out here it seems that they want all the...

Good old Fox and CNN at it again! Since when have those two ever let facts get in the way of sensationalism and propoganda?

The worst of it, aside from the ignorance and sloppy journalism, is that...

No it is not surprising at all, nor is Britain's reaction.

On the BBC this morning Cameron was being treated as the all conquering hero for standing up for Britain. Although, I can't figure out...

Thankyou for explaining Maciamo.

Well we live and learn, this thread has urged me to look up exactly what a proxy IP is, but I'm darned if I know what dynamic and static IPs are, Sparkey! The internet hadn't been invented when I...

There is a vague awareness that Santa Claus is St Nicholas, or at least there was when I grew up. But I had a Catholic education and maybe that is where my knowledge of St Nicholas came from, I...

Not just Moscow, St Petersburg as well apparently.

It will be interesting to see if there is any backlash by the government against protesters though.

Ah, thanks for the explanations Maciamo, Zanipolo, Edao and Yetos.

Fascinating subject.

I don't suppose the art, ard, aert endings are too disimilar from the old Anglo/Saxon prefix or suffix...

Does anyone know if there is a specific meaning to the surname endings art, ard, aert etc?

Like the son, sen, sson endings in British and Scandanavian names all mean son of. Or the...

It is not specific to Germans though. Many French, British, Greek, Americans, Spanish, Mexican, Italian, Swedish, Russian, Australian, Turkish, etc etc etc are also arrogant. Unfortunately, it is a...

That is only assuming that the English speaking world even know that Santa means Saint. But they honestly have no idea what the word means, and wouldn't care even if they were told. To them Santa is...

So Cameron has finally realised that cut-backs alone will not work, that there has also to be some sort of incentive to produce growth if an economy is to recover.

I wish our idiots in the...

IF (being the operative word) Iran is a threat to Israel. I think that is more hype to demonise Iran, via governments and through the media in order to scare populations into backing military action....

I can't take credit (pun intended!) for the story, it was sent to me by a friend and I have no idea who originally wrote it.

But I thought it was a fun illustration, and as Edao has pointed out...

It is a slow day in a little Greek village.
The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted.
Times are tough, everybody is in debt and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a...

And not without reason, this is yet another typical western witch-hunt.

Possibly when the west abolish their own nuclear programmes and disarm warheads they will be in a position to dictate to...

I think the equality issue has become misinterpreted somewhere along the way. Imo, equality does not mean that everyone has to be equal according to individual or personal ability or talent, that is...

Just because Canada and Australia or the various EU countries are allies of Britain does not mean that they automatically must do as they are told or that they cannot make their own decisions on how...

Good post Christiaan. And you are quite correct, there are already millions of mixed background within the EU and it is only likely to increase. This really really annoys those who like to categorise...

Which is exactly why it has happened now, because Iran know that Europe is in no position to do anything except whinge.

Although, does anyone know what the provocation was?

To hear the media,...

I have a mixed heritage also and have a mixed marriage. We are a dual citizenship family and it is hard when questioned where you are from, especially when you can identify with more than one place....

I can't believe both Sydney and Melbourne made the top 20. Ok they are clean and wages, health care etc are good, but they also have high crime, public transport is woeful, no culture or history to...