I once suggested to a politician friend that his party stood on a manifesto of "We're not going to do anything for five years - just leave it all alone and keep things ticking over". H… (View Post)

You got a discount on the tiny shoes though I imagine? (View Post)

There is an old Star Trek episode where two warring planets decided that all the actual war & killing was a bit uncivilised, so they have a computer work out how many people would have died on ea… (View Post)

On the Afghan women side. I remember hearing a journalist on the radio who had gone back to see how some women she had known were getting on. One was walking dutifully 5 paces behind her husband with… (View Post)

The Germans have a term for the idea of nostalgia for the older east ('Ostalgia') : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostalgie (View Post)