Having been away from the UK for a long time I am not sure, since similar birds are called the chickadee family here in NA. Are they blue tits or great tits? From the snow on the twig I can see it’s cold there, which would explain the former, but they are certainly great tits. I know I could check the RSPB site but...

So if I understand this correctly, to put it in terms that we Canadians can relate to, it’s like when the Leafs can technically make the playoffs, but they have to beat lots of teams they are unlikely to beat and the manager says things like ‘building for next season’. That situation begins in mid-September I think.

You might feel differently about her looking back at you every time you pulled a 20 out if you were disabled in some way. From Nellie McClung’s wikipedia ‘McClung was a supporter of the then popular social philosophy of eugenics and campaigned for the sterilization of those considered “simple-minded”. Her promotion of…

No, but lying to Crown prosecutors, or hiding the ‘whole truth’ from them makes you an unreliable witness at your rapist’s trial. OJ murdered his ex-wife, but the state employed a liar to gather evidence against him, so, sadly, he was acquitted.

I think you’ll find the guarantee against self-incrimination precedes the Canadian Charter and the US 5th Amendment by quite a few years, and in all jurisdictions based on English Common Law goes back to at least the Magna Carta from the Middle Ages. Looks like Pisley here wants to go back beyond the Middle Ages to…

Are you sure it doesn’t say ‘Furtive’? Maybe it’s because she’s dating him furtively.

When you point out that ‘Jesus, told his followers not to judge others’ you allude to ‘Judge not that ye be not judged,’ but I think the appropriate scripture is ‘Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s’ (Matt. 22:21 and elsewhere). Since the civil marriage license she is…