JosiasJessop

This is somewhere we need to be careful. The 'women are too weak to do x,y or z' has been used throughout history to stop women from doing many occupations. Yet when studies are done, it is often sho… (View Post)

Anyway, derailing the thread: on my morning walk, I came across something on the pavement that I cannot, in all my 52 years, recall seeing before. It was a snail with two shells, the other on top, an… (View Post)

My surgeon - a prof who travelled the world for his job - told me he drunk Glenmorangie. I asked him why, as there are better whiskies out there. He replied something like: "If I go into a bar v… (View Post)

When the USA gets attacked again - and they will (*) - there will not be a coalition of the willing to help them. And this time, more people will just shrug their shoulders and say; "You see, th… (View Post)

We did a 1:72 Firefly for his first starter kit a few weeks ago. This is not a starter kit, and is quite a bit harder. I've gone the whole hog and bought a load of (cheap) modelmaking tools and a mag… (View Post)