You are young, when we still had shillings that was good for 8 pints and a hand shandy, and your tram fare home (View Post)

Got to find her first surely Rather good twitter joke: what young wife doesn't want to celebrate her wedding anniversary with a trip to the goldsmith? (View Post)

The Nile is all over the shop. I think the original point was, all fucking humongous rivers (Congo Orinoco Amazon Zambezi) run roughly EW or WE, except Nile which is roughly SN. (View Post)

I don't think they are after consensus, you don't expect elections to go by consensus and when they do it's usually because things are so fucked nobody really wants the job anyway (How… (View Post)

I hate all flavours of "with all that's going on..." argument. I am capable of having well thought out opinions on dozens of things at once. I don't, mind, I stick to a bare half … (View Post)