Had solar power been more advanced in the age of the British Empire we could have run an awesome set of interconnectors and made full use of the whole 'the sun never sets' thing :wink: (View Post)

BES: The key is incomplete (source graph to play around with) but the most homogenous (as in largest groups for any particular party, but still minorities) are Jewish and Sikh people, it seems. The d… (View Post)

It's desperately inappropriate, but I can't get the rubber dinghy rapids line from Four Lions out of my head, reading this. ETA: Four Lions got to the stupidity of this. I feel mainly for the victims… (View Post)

His picture is on the front page of the BBC website though, so I don't think we can claim a national cover-up! (View Post)

I'm all for pedantry, but brought up or raised is apparently a meaning, since 1548, according to OED. I'd take it to mean born (for the 'born' part!) and lived for a long time (particularly during fo… (View Post)