If you are downing pints, or have a table on which to set your glass then what you say may (only may because other assumptions also seem flawed) have merit. Typically however with a glass in hand for 20 minutes to finish a session pint and the common nonic glass having walls 1-1.5mm thick your body is the major source…

Beer should not be served ice cold in the first place, unless you are trying to hide it’s shitty taste. About 10C is right for most British styles, a few degrees less for lagers, a few degrees more for spiced ales.

Flan is quiche for the francophobic.

The dimpled imperial pint mug is the answer you were looking for. Anything under a pint is only usable for taster sessions or those occasional >15% winter warmers.

Counterpoint: the king of desserts is the custard tart, topped with grated nutmeg.

If he’s self-employed or otherwise has it as a company car there are some decent tax advantages.

Jalop misreported that. He’s been disqualified from driving for 18 months, he’ll then have to retake his test in order to obtain a new licence.

This just sounds like a bastardised bread and butter pudding.

At least in the UK I’d have to rank Burger King as the best of the national fast food chains for burgers.

It’s your tax code, you live in a partially representative, partially democratic republic. It is within your collective ability to rationalize it.

Why would you as a private citizen (as opposed to your company if you are self employed or otherwise operating as a corporation) have to itemise anything? The IRS already collect payroll taxes, they know what they need already.

“it’s a deductable” he says, as if that is not exactly the same as saying “it’s a needless complexity”.

Why do you keep dragging in red herrings like accountants? They are just the same shit wrapped in meat.

I fail to see why donating clothes should impact your taxes in any way. Maybe if this sort of needless complexity were not introduced you would not “need” these services.

As long as you are content for your “representatives” to act against you in favour of people who bribe/lobby them then you will be spending money you could have kept.

As long as you, the american taxpayer, hand over money to these companies they will hand money to politicians. The politicians will keep your taxes complex and require you to file them yourselves. So you will pay money for tax aids.

Not the main point of the article but you state that rugby is a middle class game - this is (or used to be) true of Rugby Union, but Rugby League is a working class game.

But nobody wanted to watch indycars, so what is the logic of trying to make F1 more indyish?

They are buying your armaments with your money.

I presume the Europeans you are talking about are the Romans.