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<\/p>\nAnother winter has been spent being bewildered in the States! This year I encountered (beside all the usual bigotry, gun worship and emotionally manipulative advertising) the fattest chihuahua I had ever seen, mailboxes that looked like they were alive, and a different take on the self-service vending machine. I ate an obscene amount of tacos too, for all meals of the day. You can’t do that in Britain!<\/p>\n
And then I flew home, and wondered what just happened. Here’s how it looked through my eyes:<\/p>\n
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After the fold are all the old direct links, for posterity’s sake. <\/p>\n
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