New Yorkers adopt the same mild assholish pack mentality to this that they do when someone falls over on the sidewalk: nobody does a damn thing to offer a seat/move until ONE person does then every other fecker is making geting-up motions/rushing to offer aid like it was their wish all along.

I applaud your Donald Trump-like headline tone, given that fella’s apocalyptic temperament.

who are currently working on the eighth Saw film, Saw: Legacy.

I have seen a tartan hijab. It may have been a double hate crime, someone raging at Scotland’s rude treatment of Mr Trump on his recent gold course visit.

Yes, the were going to name her “HMS Crushed By The Ice” but thought that might be unlucky.

Let it become a glorious ruin. With the politicians inside.

I met a baggage handler once, who claimed he and his mates took some delight in beating the shit out of hard-shell cases that were ostentatiously rugged and (in his view) were a challenge. This is a sample of one, I should stress, and he may have been lying...

Not so long ago I bought two mac laptops (for work) and an iPad. I took out applecare on the laptops but not the iPad, which someone instantly handed to a tiny nephew, who dropped it, smashing the screen. This all took about three seconds. I took the iPad to an apple store and explained, more from a sense of needing…

Not enough antiseptic wipes in the future universe to make me get in a holodek after Riker.

All I can think of when I see a deft crab is Prador. Thanks, Neal Asher ....

I am intrigued by modern fabrics and their ability to be washed frequently and still be a second skin. I was out and about in my favorite training bottoms, which to my eye were still holding out rather well after years of sweat and detergent, when I lady commented to her friend as I passed: “What infeasibly short legs…

Truly, a Bring on the Bear moment

Right? Way to render your interesting post totally redundant in the last second.

I was an early adopter of the Raven (C’Dale), for no good reason, and thrashed it. Which is what it was made for. Or not.

bike was a Canondale ..... I was a flash git then

I had an early carbon fiber mountain bike, which a couple of years after purchase, was recalled for testing. I was allowed to watch when the mechanics pumped the frame full of foam and it streamed out of a gazillion tiny fractures.

So THAT’S how the rich and famous spend their days ...hmm... I expected more excess and gilt.

You’re so right. The rise of the longbow and the men who used it was a colossal social catalyst, not least in upending the notion that a commoner should not really be killing a knight long distance, or indeed at all. I did read the (possibly untrue) story that the British V sign (knuckles outward as opposed to the…

It’s Trumponius I. He has only been in power for a few years but there’s a civil war, and the French are invading. Hold on: I think I mis-set my time machine....

You would have been the stuff of legend in the alternate history version of Agincourt, where the French cavalry were circus clowns.