Sign On
Create Account

Click Here

Search
Where to Search:

By Who:




Searching "comments":

Results (2170),   Pages:prev   next1   ... 3   4   5   6   7   ... 55   ... 109   ... 163   ... 217  
#CommentSurvey
41No. Not in the sense that "sexist" is usually used. However, it's likely that their attiudes appear sexist to outsiders, as they're starting from a different perspective.Do you think most conservative Christians are sexist?
42I'll post the answers when a few more people have had the chance to make their own guesses  * smile * Identify the misquoted quotes...
43We don't have Walmarts here as such, although I do occasionally shop at ASDA which is owned by Walmart.Do you shop at Walmart?
44I believe in sticking to the four basic food groups: chocolate, Doritos, alcohol and steak.Which is/are your favorite food groups?
45I like spiciness in general, but I'm not particularly concerned about the level - I can handle heavy spicing, but too much takes the taste of the food away. I'm not someone who thinks that spicing everything up excessively is a mark of masculinity or something - I'm quite happy with mild spice if that's what's appropriate to the recipe.Do you like spicy foods?
46There are lists of the highest-status and lowest-status names here:

http://names.orangehedgehog.com/lists/

This is a cached copy of the UCL data that I created when the site was originally released, as the UCL site was so overloaded at the time it was incredibly slow as well as being somewhat inaccessible (Javascript navigation that breaks in some browsers). I took the opportunity to add some extra information (such as the lists) that isn't available on the UCL site.
How posh is your surname?
47It depends a lot on your definition of "country". England (along with the other constituent parts of the United Kingdom) isn't an independent nation in the sense that, say, Germany and France are, but it's more than just a state in the sense that Texas and California are. But the whole makeup of the UK is weird, especially to those outside the UK - it isn't internally consistent, by any means.Do you think of England as a country?
48> Ah.. I just checked wikipedia... they call England a "Home Nation",
> which I suppose is a decent compromise. There are four home nations
> in the United Kingdom: England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

That's a little misleading, though, and as the Wikipedia article points out such usage is somewhat controversial. The term "home nation" doesn't really mean anything outside the confines of sport, where the four constituent parts of the UK each have their own teams (except in rugby, where there is no Northern Ireland team - instead, there is one team for the whole of the island of Ireland). The four parts of the UK do not have equal status - England and Scotland are former Kingdoms (and that history is the source of the name, United Kingdom, from when they were united under a single king), Wales is a Principality and Northern Ireland is a Territory.

Historically, England and Scotland are two former independent nation states that united to become a single nation state (not a federal state - unlike the US, there is no sense in which the UK exists superimposed on the individual parts, the union between England and Scotland was more akin to a corporate merger than a federation). Wales was already ruled by England by the time of the union, and Northrn Ireland was added afterwards (or, to be more precise, Ireland was added afterwards, and then Northern Ireland was retained when the rest of Ireland regained independance). So Wales was a conquest addition to England that was taken into the union when Scotland and England Merged, and Northern Ireland was a later British conquest that got added to the already-united Britain.
Do you think of England as a country?
49Well.... like I said, it depends on your definition of "country". From an outside perspective, the UK is the unit that matters, as it's the level of national government. But it really isn't that simple, internally. Do you think of England as a country?
50If I could see into the future I'd be richer than Bill Gates within a year or two. Start off by winning next week's lottery, then invest it all into the stocks which will rise fastest. Then check who will be the key leaders in the world in a few years time and start making friends with them now, while they're still unknown.If you could have any super power in the world, what would it be, and why?
Results (2170),   Pages:prev   next1   ... 3   4   5   6   7   ... 55   ... 109   ... 163   ... 217