My wife left an envelope with $500 in bills taped to the back door to pay someone doing work on the house. I came home and found bills strewed all over the driveway, some in multiple pieces, and a ve… (View Post)

"It is true that within the secret French (negotiating) position is the annexation (sorry, repatriation) of the Channel Islands." (View Post)

Sandpit, I thought you lived in Dubai or somewhere in the ME. Surely you've seen how Muslim families celebrate Christmas too (as do many Jewish families I know in NYC). * Xmas has become the uni… (View Post)

Indeed, odd that Occam's razor comes from a religious person, Brother William, when Occam's razor would question why we need to invent a God to explain the unexplained, rather than accept t… (View Post)

To be fair, "monetizing every opportunity" is where the air travel industry has led for many decades - I learned the concept of maximizing consumer surplus extraction at business school fro… (View Post)