Back in 1930 the BBC took the view that if nothing important had happened then they should say so: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39633603 I must admit I though it was an apocryphal st… (View Post)

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Even so it doesn’t always work: the last time I was in hospital as more than an outpatient I was inA&E with a line in waiting to be sent up to a bed when I realised that the name printed on the b… (View Post)

The UFO flap has reached xkcd: https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/fuzzy_blob_2x.png (View Post)

Isn’t that a nice legal point: if someone says something which is true if according to their meaning of the word but not if you take the common meaning, is it then a lie? (E.g someone might use infla… (View Post)