And the award for non-sequitur of the year goes to ... (View Post)

Skill is the other one - it's Viking. Very often the Frenchified/Latinate words sound poncey and pretentious, the Germanic/Viking are usually more honest and down to earth. Compare a hearty welcome (… (View Post)

Yeah, God forbid those who work for their money should be allowed to keep a fraction more of it. Blatant class war. (View Post)

Forty years ago, that would have been a much better idea. But given we can't seem to get a decent government of our own these days, I'm not sure we'd be any better at running India than Modi is. (View Post)

On topic, everybody dies from something. If we increase survival rates for diabetes and lung cancer, the survivors may well die of something even more expensive a few years later, and will probably n… (View Post)