There's "balls up" (ships hoist 3 balls to show they are aground) and freezing the balls off a brass monkey (transparently ludicrous story about naval shot) so a whole subgenre of iffy etym… (View Post)
Everybody has an exactly equal entitlement to fair pay. I doubt the actual merits of any of the claims enter into this result at all, it is a mawkishness index. I do feel sorry for the surely blamele… (View Post)
Seems not to be true though "... it appears that the French use much more electricity, whereas the UK uses a little more gas. The average yearly usage amounts currently stand as so: United Kingd… (View Post)