I send beer back if I don't have a full pint. No apologies.

You're a funny fellow.

The plumage don't enter into it. They're feathered pricks.

No, I'm disagreeing with the idea that killing dumb animals to eat is equivalent to ethnically cleansing the North American continent of its original inhabitants for profit.

Sometimes it is a scam and sometimes it isn't. Bear in mind that in a lot of European countries there is very much a tradition of eating food with your beer. It varies from place to place - the best advice is to be a little bit clued up with the guidebook.

A hooker.

I was browsing the Guardian earlier and saw the obligatory yearly "Thanksgiving celebrates genocide and you are a bad person for enjoying it" article. Seeking a laugh, I read the comments and found one saying Thanksgiving requires the ongoing massacre of sentient beings. Er, what?

You must be great fun at parties.

In communist Russia, state would respond that hypocrite Americans are lynching blacks, but in Soviet Russia there are no blacks and thus no lynching, and that excuses the Communist regime from any criticism ever.

You know what sounds awful but is actually the dog's bollocks? Pork scratchings dipped in strawberry jam.

It ain't what it was: look at this epic military exercise the USSR once held: Zapad-81 ("West-81"), possibly the largest ground exercise ever conducted by the mighty Soviet Army. An amphibious landing on the Polish coast, followed by days of tank exercises - and all of it to remind the Poles - and the Solidarity…

I recall someone edited the Qaher-313 (remember that GI Joe embarrassment?) Wikipedia page after that little toy was roundly mocked by the aviation press to say: "This article reflects Jewish inferiority complex towards Iranian culture and civilization. If you are illegitimate Jewish offpsring of pig and German…

Good for India. I've a sneaking suspicion that the 21st century belongs to them, not China or the USA.

Isn't that how the Red October's silent drive worked in The Hunt for Red October?

The Soviet Josef Stalin-3 heavy tank. You can keep your fascist box tanks. When these turned up at the 1945 victory parade in Berlin, the US and British cacked themselves, and scrambled to develop the M103 and Conqueror heavy tanks in response:

Mock the truck if you like, but I imagine that camo net is reasonably effective and doesn't cost much.

That's pretty much the Scandinavian system: flexicurity. It's easy to hire and fire people, but the unions are good and the social security system means you won't starve between jobs.

Yo dawg, I hear you like aircraft...

Teehee. That was amusing.

Pakistan is not landlocked, you muppet. In fact, Pakistan was one side of one of the only recent naval conflicts that had anything close to force parity.