Also that's basically all you need to know to enjoy a game. i know almost nothing about American Football as I'm English and we don't get many televised games here and I am nowhere near interested enough to seek out live streams or even live commentaries (as I have done with hockey which I do like), but we do get the…

I have an incredibly well behaved dog and I'm still always paranoid he's going to damage something when we're visiting someone. I'd be too damn scared to take him somewhere with so much high quality and expensive stuff as Highclere. And it's not like the actors can keep an eye on their pets 100% of the time because…

The scenario people are suggesting has happened before but I can't imagine jumping to the conclusion that this is what happened here without any evidence. I've read too much true crime to be shocked if it did turn out to be the case but it never even occurred to me that people would be making it their default…

I would assume he was trying to flee.

Well, yes. I don't think anyone is really claiming otherwise. But it looks like the police took a man who was mentally unstable and under the influence of drugs and either bought into his delusions or used him to make their clear up rates look higher than they were. Either way it points towards some major…

I'm pretty sure at that age I'd have been embarrassed as hell by the whole thing but would have compensated for it by making sure the flight attendant who was annoying me ended up at least as irritated, because I'm not a nice person, lol.

I think even if it was an incredibly common sight the teenager would have been embarrassed. Pretty much as a teenager you're embarrassed by the very existance of the adults in your family even when they're not doing something terrible like appearing in public wearing *that* or saying things where people can hear them…

Our last dog came from a couple going through a divorce and the first christmas we had him he was snoozing my my grandmother and when she uncrossed her legs he actually *pulled a muscle* scrambling to get away from her because he thought he was going to get kicked. Pretty sure the couple were taking their anger at…

Seminal Colon meant the latter.

I think that would probably depend on whether you'd addressed the issue with your employer first. If you had then that's sort of what I was including in 'employment laws', if you just go straight to your blog and start complaining about how evil your boss is ... I think best case scenario you're *both* getting fired,…

People need to understand that free expression/freedom of speech does not mean free of consequences. She is free to say what she wants without being persecuted by the government for it (provided she's not breaking any laws, like harrassing/threatening people or admitting to a crime, which she maybe just did anyway so…

I read the headline and thought well it's a plausible theory if she's particularly devout as most religions emphasise the importance of marriage and would probably prefer she at least make some kind of serious attempt to work on her marriage through counselling and so on before filing for divorce ... Then I read the…

It's almost like you think the many many muslim countries and the millions (if not billions) of Muslims who live in them and elsewhere aren't one homogenised mass where all women wear burkhas and the men walk around in robes and with big beards laying down the law. How could that possibly be? I mean I know everr…

I'm kind of confused as to their motives. If they wanted to actually try and get rid of all the gays it seems there are smarter ways of going about it (if you can be bigoted intelligently, it may be an oxymoron) that setting your target up so that they have *committed no discernible crime whatsoever*. If you're going…

It's harder to catch gang members and drug dealers. Plus I imagine you're more likely to get shot at chasing drug dealers than propositioning gay men.

To be honest she was probably expecting it to happen at some point. It's pretty common for it to happen to sportsmen in some parts of Europe and unfortunately Italy and Spain are pretty high on the list of countries you would guess if someone described this incident to you.

Because it's pretty obvious if you actually pay attention instead of jumping to conclusions? The wording is pretty obviously sarcasm, especially the use of the word merely.

I just dislike the way a plea deal often seems to be a kind of blackmail by the criminal, not that I can see any way around it - it's almost like the criminal is saying offer me a deal or I'll force my victims to go through even more crap by making them testify.

I don't believe execution has any place in a civilized society anyway but given that there is no real way to have a perfect justice system and both the US and UK (the only two I know anything about) systems are very far from perfect there is far far too much chance of executing people who are innocent. While you can…

Because he's smarter than the politicians who get caught in these things. Which is pretty much like saying he's smarter than my pet rock admittedly.