I know. It's almost as if the world doesn't divide neatly into goodies and baddies*, heroes and villains, saints and sinners. Nuances abound. All we can do is recognise this. Lamemtably, mi… (View Post)

Yes, I agree. I found if I didn't HAVE to take notes, my attention drifted and nothing went in. If I did, I somehow managed to gain all the knowledge effortlessly, apart from a slightly tired wr… (View Post)

Interesting he uses the British form 'pissed off' rather than what I understood to be the American form 'pissed'. (View Post)

Whereas communists are all sweetness and light and hardly ever engage in mass murder? (View Post)

We had a physics teacher like that. It was extremely boring but weirdly, it worked for me - through writing it down, the words passed from his mouth to my memory without at any point lodging in my co… (View Post)