Except your wrong, so don’t be too quick to call people an idiot, twice over.

As long as it’s refreshing.

American comedian Greg Proops used to live in England, and has observed the English have embraced two things Americans have tried to shun, conquest shagging and oblivion drinking.

The rest of who? I’m in the US, and they had already beaten out the Brits a century earlier.

The one thing about the alcohol is that a lot of water wasn’t safe to drink back then, so beer consumption was common on both sides of the Atlantic from an early age — the brewing process killed bacteria and germs. Beer for breakfast goes at least all the way back to Anglo-Saxon England.

Check out the Zulu Wars in South Africa. The Zulu Warriors would burn cannabis leaves in bonfires while they drummed, wore animal masks and did a ritual war dance prior to engaging the Brits in battle. The Brits who saw this reported a kind of magical change occurring — because they probably didn’t know they were…

I had an English prof who postulated that Brits in the 18th and 19th century were so frail because most everyone started using laudanum from before they were infants until death. His reasoning was that since laudanum was derived from opium, they were basically a nation of addicts, and regular drug use tends to have…

Huh. Some of the questions are a little absolutist — would I always choose a party over a monastery? Maybe not always; is it a Trappist monastery with a brewery? That makes a difference. Do I balance my checkbook at the end of each week? If you just take two minutes to manage that after each transaction, there’s not…

Just curious what paperwork is required and what office you go to when you officially declare you want a Bob Kramer knife.

Only anecdotal evidence, but when I worked in restaurants, a few of the chefs I worked with had some amazing hand-crafted knives that they kept in silk wraps, and they used them every day.

YOU WISH, TUNA FISH.

It’s for kaiju dental procedures, obviously.

Unfortunately, spinach still tastes like spinach, sardines still taste like sardines, and Brussels sprouts still taste like Brussels sprouts...

What if Zach is the reason Eph drinks and can’t stay on track? What if the mom was right when she said Eph never wanted Zach in the first place? If so, that’s a trade-off I’m willing to risk. In fact, with this show, I’m willing to risk it all.

Someone really needs to just feed Zach to his mom and be done with him. It’s a marker of the bad writing on this show that Zach hasn’t gotten more than a few people killed on this show, let alone himself.

West Coast — at first I was thinking you must be in Australia or New Zealand, maybe Hawaii.

What was the sport?

I’ve been watching the rugby world cup warm-up games; those guys just came off 3 months off and are back into Test matches, and the fitness just isn’t there yet. By about the 65th minute they’re falling off arm tackles and are just trying to show their coaches they can keep running. The ones who did maintain some…

The lack of responses to this being on I09 is sad, but not entirely unexpected from my fellow geeks. Sigh.