No, that's just nostalgia talking. The 80s and 90s were great because I was young and my knees worked. But take the median human alive today in the world. Or in Britain, if you prefer. That medi… (View Post)

Robert, this one's rubbish. Send him away. Oh, you have. Thanks. (View Post)

I'd absolutely live on a sink estate in London. Have you seen sink estates? The houses there aren't palaces, but they're closer to palaces than medieval hovels. Every winter, I marvel … (View Post)

A pedant notes - that was only the traditional order for a relatively short period of time. For our parents' generation, and those before it, marriage was one place to the left. For our children… (View Post)

They are, I believe, bloody stupid birds. I don't mean this pejoratively. All animals have different skills, and criticsing an owl - whose skill is to be able to detect tiny rodents moving - for… (View Post)