I'm entirely with you. For the avoidance of doubt "I do like" was entirely sarcastic. (View Post)

I do like this notion of "factual history" being bandied about. One of the things I find most interesting about aechaeology is how often it demonstrates that the "facts" of "… (View Post)

Ah, they say. But ours don't actually work, so they are quite safe from terrorists. (View Post)

Does my writing a comment cause a new thread to spawn automatically now? (View Post)

Who can forget Jack Hawkins in The Cruel Sea, holding back tears of exhaustion and defeat, and spitting out in his gravelly voice "It's the whole bloody Special Military Operation." (View Post)