>>>I feel jipped :o) My immersion consisted of 3 months living with a wonderful family in a town of maybe 100 folks with no running water or electricity.
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>>Um... beg to differ. In Europe, anything of that size would be called a village. Even places with up to 10,000 people can still be villages.
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>>USA seems to be the only country without any villages, unless we count Greenwich Village ;).
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>Yes, I've noticed that. Places we'd call a village in England are towns in the USA. I guess it's all part of the supersize me culture. In UK we used to buy things (like drinks in a cinema) that were small, medium or large. Now, since US influence, they're regular, large and extra large.
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Don't get me going on this topic! The size of soft drinks and popcorn at the movies is not a sign that we want to be supersized, although there's no denying that we do in some ways. They are a sign that the theater owners are more than eager to rip us off. It's a sad state of affairs when the smallest Coke or popcorn is big enough for a small family and costs $4-5.

The irony is that matinee tickets at the theater I go to most often cost $5.50. They're selling the refreshments for almost as much as the movie -- and they don't have to split the money with the studio. Wankers!