Thanks for the evocative description, Cookie. I've got to know Cornwall a bit as my very elderly uncle is in a care home in Hayle, near St Ives, and as it's a trek to visit him I've ta… (View Post)

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)