I was on another website in the early 2010s. Somebody mentioned PB. I went to this ooo-dangerous website and asked why the odds didn't add up to 100%. @NickPalmer politely pointed out the existe… (View Post)

...come to think of it, two of those failed and died in the attempt, one was a curmudgeonly misanthropist, one wrote books about devils, and two wrote books about dwarves and elves. If we include Pla… (View Post)

I don't think he's a bad man, it's just that he's in the wrong job. He has no God but the Law and he thinks the country isn't broken, just badly administered and if everybody… (View Post)

Rosalind Franklin CS Lewis JRR Tolkien Philip Larkin Terry Pratchett Robert Falcon Scott (Unfortunately can't include Sylvia Plath nor Ernest Shackleton) (View Post)

Or more prosaically, because fewer are going to the USA? (View Post)