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My brother is in Thailand right now but thank goodness he isn't near the disaster area...

I don't think you can ever be completely honest with anyone. With some you're more honest than with others but you sometimes have to bend the truth a little bit so you won't hurt people over nothing... Lying is one of those basic things we need to survive. Actually, I think there was a case...

Umm.. I haven't been to Japan but here I usually have 20-40 euros. It depends on what you do and when you go, really. How long is a night out? Here, you usually first meet up with a friend or two on a saturday or Friday at 5pm or 6pm and go hang out at someone's place for a while (because...

I wouldn't want to live next to alcoholics (though i count them as drug addicts) because I know just how much trouble you can get from them. Also noisy people are bad. If someone wants to blast their stereos at 3am on weekdays, you could say that I have a problem with that... :P I'm not sure...

I had a really hard time understanding why the japanese who were abducted in Iraq had to apologise but after getting to know the whole ie concept it's not so weird after all. After all, they had brought "shame" to their ie (the Japanese nation) by being abducted (they weren't supposed ot be in...

this is a bit off subject but: The thing with stem cells is, as I remember it, that they can become any type of human cell. In that case, it's not defined that a baby will develop out of the cells, it could just as well become muscle or bone. I remember seeing one documentary where they...

I didn't read the entire discussion, so I don't know if this has been brought up already: Have you considered the onomatopoeic influence in the sound association? From that point of view, it's hardly very surprising if several people associate the same sound with a similar concept ^^; If you...