It's Summer in the Northern Hemisphere! Time for shorts, sandals, inappropriate toplessness and silly drinks. What are your favorites and how do you take them? *Edit* The management encourage patrons… (View Post)

I just have a horrible feeling that some oil-rich countries with no other real strategy for income are going to go the way of Ozymandias in the Shelley poem. Except instead of a broken statue it'll b… (View Post)

Haha @Meagloth, I knew that one of the Italian police forces had bought a Lamborghini or two (allegedly because drivers were speeding too fast for them to catch otherwise) but that's ridiculous. How … (View Post)

Given that soon I will have moved 10 times in 11 years, it's not fair for me to have a pet. Nominally my parents' cat is "mine". There has never been a less capable cat though, and I have o… (View Post)

This is not a competition. Orwell and Steinbeck distilled the zeitgeist until I ran out of cliches. They belong to all of us. It is possible that the UK (and Scotland at present) produces a relativel… (View Post)