Good morning, everyone. Just about a week (and maybe a day or two) until testing's done and I'll post a review of it. In the meantime there's an interesting split. Alpine are playing things safe, Ast… (View Post)

Congrats. I always said 'grandad' for the maternal side and 'grandpa' for the paternal side. I'd advise against smoking a pipe. You'll be shot by Commissar Miliband's Carbon Stasi before too long. (View Post)

Julian the Apostate was selected to be Caesar with responsibility for defending Gaul largely because pretty much every other male relative of the emperor had been killed. At the time, Julian was an a… (View Post)

It's always bizarre latching onto one feature of a person or party and then excusing all else they do because that singular 'virtue' outshines everything. A certain man with a toothbrush moustache wa… (View Post)

There's no drive by NATO to go east. There's a drive by eastern European countries to go NATO. Why would that be? Hmm. "The countries we keep invading or dreaming of invading want to join a defe… (View Post)