I wonder what percentage of Americans are actually descended from the original population of the US at the time of the revolution. I’d bet a fair number are actually descended from people who fought against American Independence and then went back to Britain, only for their descendents to come creeping back over and…

Right. Here in the UK, even the terrorists have to resort to knives because they can’t get their hands on any guns.

“Ah may be a simple country hyperchicken, but ah know when we’re finger-licked.”

What old days?

It’s not a valid point. It’s an incredibly silly point. This attack had nothing to do with conservative poll numbers. The election is not even going to be close. Do you seriously think a guy blew himself up because he thought that maybe the Tory landslide wasn’t going to be quite spectacular enough? He was…

You do live somewhere where many random attacks take place. The US has had far and away more attacks than the UK in recent years. The UK has had hardly any.

The force isn’t a religion, but the jedi order is. They even live in a temple.

I have to disagree on the spacing issue. Conserving vertical space is not in the least important, and the code style with opening brackets at the end of lines is ugly as hell. It’s utterly, utterly hideous. No code can be beautiful that uses it.

There’s nothing like Spanish football commentary to make you realise that maybe 0-0 draws aren’t so bad after all.

She’s basically dressed as Napoleon.