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You've got a point here, Onhell. But I believe another reason why girls outperform boys in school is quite simply that so many teachers in the lower grades where the foundations are set are women - as role models and in other ways - which may suit the girl students better (just like the theory...

Woohooo! Thanks for sharing :yey: Does anybody know a good utility for capturing web casts? :blush:

I'm sorry, Natalie, but to me this is utter bs! Anyone who is a father will probably feel attacked when you claim that we don't really care for our children! I have many male friends who's had to fight the system over 3-4-5 years in order to even get to see their children, even though custody is...

I don't have the picture, but happy birthday Conor! Have a good one :)

With the family structure we see throughout the western world today, I think boys and girls lack good male role models. I think it's the same where you are as it is in Sweden, that children don't meet many men in daycare and school until the early to mid teens. In Sweden, most day-care staff and...

I agree that parents' roles are huge, but the jibe about absentee fathers isn't as simple as you make it sound. I have lots of examples around me with 2-parent families, single-parent families and "extended" families (where grand parents play a large role in the child rearing together with the...

Forostar, of course I meant the current tour, I'm just confused (a regular occurrence with me :D). Thanks for you help, you're a (Foro)star. I have voted :ok:

Well, I can't remember the exact songs but the tours are: June 3d, 1983 - World Piece tour - Scandinavium, Gothenburg Nov 3d, 1984 - World Slavery tour - Scandinavium, Gothenburg Jul 9th, 2005 - Early days tour - Ullevi, Gothenburg Nov 20th - Live after death tour - Scandinavium, Gothenburg...

Re: The Last Word You are all really, really, really weird. Thus spake Anomica.

H P Lovecraft wrote a large number of fantasy and horror stories. Some of his story are really scary :D Read more about him here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=H.P._Lovecraft&oldid=21890043 (Wiki is your friend :ok:)

Ok, sorry. I read it in English, but saw the title in Swedish and thought it was yet another book in the series :uhm:

Thanks Shadow. Maybe I wasn't clear. I read the whole series a couple of times and I agree, the original trilogy is the best of the lot. There is one book you forgot, Hari Seldon and the Foundation, which is Asimov's last book. They pretty much introduced me too to sci-fi, "many moons ago"...

Does that work at work too? I mean, can I get my job done by osmosis too? I have to ask since I'm no chemist :halo:

Well, right now I'm reading the 5th installment in Frank Herbert's Dune saga. It's called Heretics of Dune and is still, just like the other books, an insightful book about the powers of religion and manipulation. Next on my list is the last of the original books, Chapter House Dune. Then I've...

I'm late, but who's surprised :innocent: I hope your birthday was a good one, Albie, you old git :bigsmile: It's nice to know I'm not the oldest in here ;)

Well, we were sitting in the U section and many were standing up the whole time. The gig was amazing - IM must be one of the best live acts in the world! Unfortunately, I thought Bruce's mic was set too low as you couldn't hear the lyrics much of the time. I read a review that probably hit the...

I can't help but laugh at this stupidity. I know it's terrible but that people are THAT stupid is hard to believe. Many of the books on the list Iron Duke provided, both the top 10 and the ones outside, were on the syllabus (is that the word for reading list?) when I studied Sociology and I...

I don't think you can call jews or muslims an ethnic group, since you have jews, christians and muslims in most western countries in the world. And if you'd happen to go to Palestine you'd see lots of semitic people of all three faiths, since that's the way people in that area look (just like...

I think free speech is one of the major foundations of every modern-day democracy. There is a problem, and a need for (self-)restraint sometimes. In Sweden, like in most countries, you're free speech is limited when it comes to discriminating against different groups, like sexual or religious...

SMX, that's a brillilant post. I actually laughed out loud at your closing remarks. I feel, however, that it's important to let "the other side" have a say if we want to live in a vital democracy. If I lived in the US I'd probably be a left-wing democrat - and in Swedish political life, I'm...