Utterly dishonest, though, which is what I said. And nothing you have claimed contradicts that. People have explained the business model here to you. Perhaps you should get that travel journalist who… (View Post)

So good you said it twice. And the answer is that there's a narrow sense that it's technically true (some of the buildings used are otherwise used as 4* hotels I'm sure) but utterly di… (View Post)

Or Spain- the villages of the interior have hollowed out to almost nothing, but the people who would have lived there are fine, because they have gone to the cities where the prosperity is. That'… (View Post)

He woke up with a horrible hangover, probably. (What LZ said isn't wrong, and is beautifully written. As an American, she might not realise that it was even more true 2019-24.) (View Post)

And the second is way harder than we like to imagine. Take the 1979 confidence debate in the header. Great oratory, top-notch argument, but purely ornamental. Every single vote was pre-determined, an… (View Post)