Based on my brief experience of Job Centres, they are perfectly polite but require extensive documentation of everything, with no leeway given for any deviation or doubt. People who they judge are pr… (View Post)

There's some postmodern trolling in that exchange... (View Post)

17% of people don't. (In the US, it's 60%!) It's one of those things that people who have them can't imagine not having, like a TV or a bicycle, but which many people don't f… (View Post)

An interesting experiment for a hot evening: design a Cabinet consisting only of PBers which we believe would actually work. (View Post)

The difference is that most countries have convenient ID cards which people are used to carrying all the time. We have resisted that, so in practice only drivers regularly carry identification around… (View Post)