OK, about time someone piped up from Blighty and put things right around here... A rant from Alan Evil and PJ Kane included: << If we wanted hippy chicks we'd listen to Phish and not bathe. >> <wait, does that mean i have to bathe to listen to The Orb? DOH!> Damn, and I thought hippy chicks went for The Orb, at least my hippy ex is really into them although the ex part doesn't help me much at the moment. Alan, I sympathise. Should I be moving my Ozrics to the front of my CD stack/.m3u now? Is that where I'm going wrong. << Let's have insulting transcontinental arguments about what constitutes a really good beer. ... As we all know, American micro-breweries create far better beer than those Limeys. >> <well, i dunno if that's true. the Limey's don't even make beer anymore -- they sold all that stuff to the Belgians> Surely anything in the US with the word 'micro' in is half owned by Mr Gates these days or he is at least leading a lawsuit against the righteous use of the word micro. As for those Belgians, we sold them nothing and their beer's totally different from ours you wazzock. Go look up Weiss-bier & Framboise vs Mild & Bitter and probably look up wazzock while you're about it. Then tell me when you have actually got back from Brugge if you have any 'pubs' in the US that do over 300 different beers including ales, pilsner, stouts (what do you mean, 'what the F is stout'), cider, larger, bitter, perry, mild, heavy, oompha-lumpha stick it up your jacksy. Not to mention those other wonderful European concoctions of Jagermeister, Absinthe, Angosturas Bitters, Palinca, UniCum... I could go on but I have a 3k limit to think about. O yeh, and we can still smoke in our pubs as well, for the moment at least. Something else to blame on you lot. It may be that you find those gentile Belgians a little scary with their strange alien tongue and will only expand your international roaming within English speaking countries, I hear only 3% of Yanks actually have a passport and half of them thought they needed it to go to Disneyland. If you dare make it to London (No 1 short break destination for the world's terrorists at the moment, aren't we sooo lucky, thanks America) you will inevitably, as all Yanks do, end up in Covent Garden so you should really go check out this place and the marvellous little Tapas place right next door. You guys wouldn't know culture if it jumped out a petri dish at you. Go look up Tapas as well. http://www.fluidfoundation.com/venueDetails.asp?venue_id=415 And if I really wanted to twist the knife for the US; Kyoto agreement? <snip for 3k limit>