Also people don't have "long battles" with diseases, they have the disease for a long time and die of it. Long battles are with Ukrainians. (View Post)

20/20 hindsight. If he had gone in hard and fast he could have VONCed Boris out and we'd have gone in to the war under PM pro tem Raab. Once you are at that stage no amount of oooh this is no ti… (View Post)

No it isn't. Gaslighting has a specific meaning which is not the meaning you think it has. (View Post)

Have you read Lord Jim by Conrad? The plot is he is an officer who does this to a ship full of Indian pilgrims,which unexpectedly then fails to sink. (View Post)

@Heathener picked up a very indirect allusion of mine to a recent monstrously decadent Western book about mushrooms with heavy emphasis on the hallucinogens. On that basis I would bet my house agains… (View Post)