Is it just because doctors are well-paid but not generally people motivated by money? An investment banker will put up with the pressure and the hours, and go buy a Ferrari. Your average GP might hav… (View Post)

And the final -ið is the definite article. Scandinavian languages like to tag them onto the end. There is a Danish newspaper called Morgenblad I think. For other uses of the word blade = leaf, in Old… (View Post)

Selling them Agincourt would be amusing. Maybe the new ones could be named after those captured French ships they brought into British service during the Napoleonic wars, such as Tonneur and Temeraire (View Post)

You need to know how many pints are in a firkin if you are serving beer! (72, but 65 is a better estimate of saleable pints). I tend to switch between metric and imperial, and if I had kids they woul… (View Post)

He's a c*** towards the French too. Awesome. Appears to have forgotten the French support for the nascent USA too. (And Scott Morrison's name, but to be fair, he's not called Bruce so that makes it c… (View Post)