??? The 'rioters' are the right-wing @sshats who are gathering to attack immigrants on the basis of a non-immigrant killing some schoolchildren. If those @sshats went away, there wouldn… (View Post)

Not even an 'engineering genius' IMO. A genius self-publicist only. (View Post)

I met my Aussie ex in Edinburgh in 2000. The backpackers' hostel we met in had lots of Aussies in, most from Sydney, on holiday to escape the Olympics. The canny ones had rented out their houses… (View Post)

IMV Google back in ye olden days was *not* massively better than its competitors such as Lycos o Yahoo - at least in terms of its answers. Google's USP was simple: in the days of dialup, one of … (View Post)

I went to school with Lord Scarman's grand-daughter. She is/was a very intelligent and thoughtful lass, and utterly down-to-earth. I bet she doesn't even remember me. :) (View Post)