(don't pants made of Smarties melt in an unpleasant way?)
Unlike in Great Britain, which is a kind of Bizzaro-world Negativeland where up is down and black is white, in America, Smarties are a sour, sugar-based candy. Much akin to Sweettarts, if you have those.
(Just kidding about Great Britain.
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it's a discussion forum and the media is ill-suited to such long posts - as intelligent, well-argued and researched as they may be.
I think they have their place. But it is kind of disruptive when every response turns into a several-page missive because folks use a lot of line breaks and quote half-sentences at a time. (You know who you are.)