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Ok, it's hot. Very hot. I'm tired and disillusioned with uni and life. So It'll take some days before I can think of anything interesting to write on here. In the mean time, here's some pictures from California (and one from New York, just for fun):

Apparently there were so many suicides on the Golden Gate bridge that they stopped announcing the actual number when it reached 990 because it was thought that there would be a race to see who could be the 1000th. And they installed free crisis counselling phones every 20m on the bridge.

Couch not pictured.

Here's me at said bridge. It was very green in California.

I was happy because I'd just had my first Apple Snapple.

They have countdowns next to the red man('s hand) at San Francisco crossings! What's more, the time it gives you to cross seems to be completely arbitrary. Sometimes it's 17 seconds. Sometimes it's 3.

Still time enough to take a rest on the road.

I saw this sign in the Chinese district of SF. Although at first glance it's a seemingly innocent smiley face, there's just something about the angle of one of those eyes that makes it racially questionable.

Salad isn't fun. Maybe it comes with toys hidden in it.

This one speaks for itself.

Obviously.

Look! Strange petrol signs from foreign areas!

That's per top hat... or whatever the imperial liquid for petrol is.

In the middle of Times Square in NY, there is actually one of these, right next to all the shiny ads for sex and the city.

Look! Uncle Sam used without sarcasm OR irony! The fools!

And finally, here's what the US thinks of Tasmania: