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)

Second. Not worth commenting on (View Post)