... capitalist pigs!

...because you desire to rule your country as an absolute dictator. This is phase two of your program. Phase one was to pass a common sense law that all people of significantly substandard intelligence should not be able to vote. Like most idiots, your people believe they are all of superior intelligence, so it passes easily. (This is part of the reason that you want to quell their democratic voice. No one likes idiots that think they know better than you.) Phase two is a campaign to reduce the intelligence of your population. You do this with public grants for boy bands, reality TV, and Aardwolf, replacing sodium fluoride with mercury fluoride in tap water, sabotaging drinking water facilities with E. coli to shake public trust in them, and officially endorsing Creationism as the state science. During phase three, your "private defense contractors" take the few people in the country who pass their IQ test to vote out on "all-expenses paid vacations" to your "resorts" in Saudi Arabia to "discuss the merits" of your social engineering program, where they are promised lots of "personal attention." You plan on being monarch/dictator in 10-15 years.

Xavius!

I agree, Xavius.

Xavius.

Xenthos Xavius.

Oooh. That's fun to log in to see.

I vote Mirk.

I vote for Xavius.

Xavius has enough votes, so I'll vote for Mirk too, who should get second place I hate tourists too :hum:

Thanks guys!

I think that's 24 hours. So:

The local car manufacturer released a new model in which the transmission is operated with pedals at the driver's feet, and the brakes and accelerator are operated with a stick either in front of the center console or on the side of the steering wheel. This is better than the traditional setup because...

...people who play video games a lot have faster reaction time operating something with their hands as opposed to their feet, and it helps them to have greater control over their vehicle and avoid accidents.

... ladies sitting next to you love to 'touch your stick' to make you 'go faster'.

That remind me of the German glasses commercial
EDIT: Ah here.

Tzekelkan this time.

I vote for zee kettle.

Only two this time? For shame. What about the midgets who have to strain to reach the floor? Need to stretch your legs while driving? Ability to control the car from the passenger's seat to frame a wax sculpture for a drive-by shooting?

So unimaginative.

Tzek gets my vote.

Psst, Tzek, this is when you post.

Two days already. Since Tzek overshot his deadline, Mirk has 12 hours to post a question, after that anyone can post.

'Thread of absence' - don't you guys see?
I was away... poor advocacy!

Yet now I'm back, at least a bit -
Don't count on me, I will soon split.
But just to show you true love's sign
I'll post a topic about this thing of mine:

To talk in rhymes is so much better
Than anything from pen to paper;
Come on, guys, don't take a pause -
That's the truth, you know it 'cause...

... if you can't rhyme,
it's not worth the time,
nor even a single dime,
to play a Lusternian bard.

If you can't swing,
there ain't a thing,
not even a soulless fling,
to keep you from looking like a retard.