OT I've been watching Hunan TV while trying to urgently learn Chinese so I can try to work out WTF is going on in the world - it's one of the only channels I can find get online that has (C… (View Post)

I'm sure that's right, and it's a genuinely hard problem; The classic fail case being when the Japanese government announced they'd be reopening schools, and everyone else took th… (View Post)

Could be the old "ask them when their birthday is" trick (View Post)

So Cui Bono? And how does Sir Keir use this to his advantage? Factional twats gonna factional twat. Ignore it and say a bit more about the fact that thousands of people are dead and the entire nation… (View Post)

Sorry, I meant primaries for the opposition running against an incumbent, which tend to lean dull (Biden, Romney, Kerry, Dole, Dukakis) (View Post)