Yes, I lived in a one-bed flat in a pleasant estate in Nottingham and paid £500/month. When I moved south for my job I got an almost identical flat where I live now. It's £1000/month. I shopped … (View Post)

That's true - though it's still generally a bad idea, and virtually everyone I know is now planning to avoid it, including people who had planned family get-togethers: they are all being ca… (View Post)

Well, as someone who's lived in 4 European countries and is very familiar with half a dozen more, I do think we're broadly the same culture, and distinctively different from e.g. US culture… (View Post)

I used to work for a sweet-natured Italian statistician in the days when people had personal secretaries. He did an analysis to show that his secretary was ill on Mondays only with a statistical sign… (View Post)

Generally speaking, people assume that everyone else is familiar with the language of their circle. I've certainly never heard anyone use the term and I've mainly seen it on PB, but I gathe… (View Post)