The job of the Fed is to look after the economy of the US, not the rest of the world. If you want to complain, then complain about our own BoE being so useless rather than about other people's c… (View Post)

As part of our fire training for working offshore we are usually shown the effects of a BLEVE explosion using one of those small camping gas cylinders that everyone seems to keep under their stairs. … (View Post)

Yep. The only thing you have to watch out for is freezing of the valves. People (the general public I mean) don't seem to have a handle on how rapid changes in pressure can cause really really c… (View Post)

De-penising was a standard part of being Hung, Drawn and Quartered. For Kinabalu'a sake I won't go into more detail but it was a pretty formulaic, if grizzly, way of executing someone (View Post)

Sorry (genuinely). I find this stuff fascinating - not so much the detail but all the legal stuff around it. Most people just don't realise how tenuous and unstable most English governance was p… (View Post)