PB: where to go to find people REALLY ANGRY ABOUT IMPERIAL MEASUREMENTS. (View Post)

Yes, I enjoy your contributions and think PB would be less without you. Sometimes I agree with you, more often not, but nothing wrong with that. The travelogues are just interesting. Don't stop. (View Post)

The 1997 pledge card was deliberately understated, so people could see that some good things were coming, and it was absolutely certain that they could be delivered with scope for more. Setting more … (View Post)

I think we do need different words for "trying to wipe out a culture" and "trying to kill everyone who is part of a culture". Both are horrible, but the former tends to involve ce… (View Post)

I'm a metric man myself - no idea what my weight in stones is. But I expect that *allowing* traders to do what they like will be mildly popular. The main danger is that it so obviously is just a… (View Post)