It's not not knowing about economics, it's not knowing about being poor. I think he claimed that the Toolmaker's telephone was cut off for non payment in his childhood but if that is true he has forg… (View Post)

When I go to London I swap my usual watch for a £15 Casio. Why the hell would I do that when I: a) own the watch b) have the right not to be robbed Asinine. Also I lock my house and my car when not o… (View Post)

I feel like you do that those 4 things happened in the last couple of decades, but it ain't so. (View Post)

Not many from Waterloo. Say you are 20 in 1815, have children when you are 30 in 1825, they have children 1855, those children are 60 in 1915. But there's a lot of wars which loom more closely - Crim… (View Post)

Quite right. I remember my old dad telling me that. He told me that he heard it from his own father, who got the word from my great grandfather, who in turn... (View Post)