Problem is though - MSTY seems to be exclusively MATY secrets, and 99% of those relating to Retardoland, and not really secrets at all.

I initially got TS2 in order to build stuff -- I made countless lots and several full neighbourhoods in it, but after finishing Elsewhere this March, I was kind of done with it.

Shut the hell up, pumpkin. We're having a mature conversation here. Now, what I don't like is the fact that all Sims eat the same way. I know plenty of people who were born in the same location, but some use the American style of keeping the fork in one hand, and others, the European style of setting the knife down and putting the fork in the dominant hand. It's ridiculous, and their eating styles are being given no personalization whatsoever. I also dislike the fact that all of my Sims use the exact same aging-up animations. Dammit, a daredevil Sim should leap while age-transitioning, not just do that spinning around crap. And why don't my Pyros knock down their birthday candles and set the tables on fire? Lastly, I think we should be able to actually follow our Astronaut Sims to work. They could have set us up a moon base, created a couple of planets, randomly generated atmospheres, different flora and fauna... Damn those lazy developers.

This thread is 6 months old! SERIOUS necromancy!

But I can't download these servo skins? (The box files have been deleted). Is there anywhere else I can find them or can someone please send me them? I love the brassy look.

The Swedish rules are here http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantiv, but the Danish page on nouns on Wikipedia is retarded and doesn't say anything about it. :/

If Danish is anything like Swedish, there are rules for which words are en or et/ett, but they haven't been taught in ages. My grandmother was taught it when she had grammar in school (she's born in 1919), but I don't think my mother was. In my grammar classes the teachers said it "didn't matter", "because everyone knows it by sound", which makes me curious of how they teach it to immigrants (my guess is they don't, BTW).

Also, well done to your mother for managing to learn Danish, it's so ridiculously complicated and inconsistent that we can't even speak it properly, I think half the Danish population still calls it "et hamster", when it is actually "en hamster". (Similar to the difference between a and an except we have NO RULE to identify when to use which. You just have to remember for each and every possible combination...)

Regardless of what language I use to address someone here, many people will insist on responding in English. This is usually done in an attempt to be helpful, and while I appreciate the sentiment, it's hard to practice the local language when half the locals I meet are "too helpful" to speak to me in Cantonese.

I even have to correct my teacher sometimes, despite the fact that he lived in London for 6 years.

Well, as you can see from the etymology in Jordi's cite, "prepare" is not actually an English compound, but was borrowed wholesale from Latin, and English is not Latin, etc., etc.  While "prepare" does (to me) mean that the glass was filled before I drank it, it can't be used to mean that it was filled much more than a minute beforehand, and in this case I wanted to say that it had been prepared a long time in advance.  (Incidentally, if the "pre" in "prepare" were a standard English prefix, "prepared a long time in advance" would be redundant.)

Does that make more sense to you?

No one will ever fuck you, ugly shit, remember that.

No one will ever fuck your ugly shit, remember that.

Eh? That seems really wierd to me. If late 12s are suddenly Young Adults then what the hell are teenagers? As an 18 I guess I saw myself as a YA more than a teen, but by then I could drink, drive and was on my way to uni. 12s are definately not young adults, despite what marketing departments might try and tell you. Just because they label teen lit as Young Adult in order to make 12s feel all grown up doens't mean the 12s actually are.

I intended to say thank you very much for correcting this common misunderstanding.  But rather than trust you outright, I looked it up.

peruse
1 a: to examine or consider with attention and in detail : study
b: to look over or through in a casual or cursory manner
2: read ; especially : to read over in an attentive or leisurely manner

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EDIT:  I can't get my head out of dictionaries.
dictionary.com suckz.  1.to read through with thoroughness or care.  2.to read.  3.to survey or examine in detail.
dictionary.cambridge.org    -- to read through something, especially in order to find the part you are interested in:

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It seems to be about 50/50 on thoroughness.    What a stupid word.
I now figure I have to poke you for erroneously correcting someone.
So, get poked, tard.

Etymology: Middle English, to use up, deal with in sequence, from Latin per- thoroughly + Middle English usen to use

Yeah, it's the same way at my Wal-mart. Target isn't quite as paranoid, but their version is shrink wrapped so as to prevent someone from actually (God forbid) perusing the book before reading it.