This is better than the topic of the thread header. I'll run with it. It so happens that I was born on the same day as Sir Mick J and it's our 80th birthday in just over a fortnight's … (View Post)

As 13 year-olds in 1956 on our first school exchange with a French school we found "petards" for sale which you just struck against a match box and threw for the laughs. One boy had a numbe… (View Post)

So this whole thread was on topic - about irresistible forces and immovable objects (View Post)

Nominative determinism (View Post)

This. And when talking of growth in per capita income there is only one source, namely technological progress. But whether we need to push the technological frontier out ourselves is moot. Plenty of … (View Post)