Some of us were making good money before you had graduated from your play tea set and your play cash register, not to mention your play mobile phone. (View Post)

"small compact country" Aberdeen and Penzance are part of the UK too, you know: and even Edinburgh to Bristol is a loooong trip by modern European rail standards. (View Post)

Sudden thoughts of 1960s medical appliance and rubber equipment shops in the sooty brick back streets of still-industrial cities. Presumably because we'd end up back in that era, only without ca… (View Post)

Should have been Osiris-Basileus anyway. Osiris was very definitely Hellenized rather than Romanized (View Post)

"Your prices are still going up, and your mortgage will be going up when you renew it layter this year. Only your prices aren't going up qutie as fast as we made them do last year." (View Post)