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• Greg. Tingey commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
  zochaka @ 120 In which case something has gorn horribly worng with the dit &/or cut-&-paste process .... Jay @ 121 The usual Brit method was to enrol the help of one of the local rulers (Divde & rule, in fact) if they possibly could. It's why large chunks of India were never directly ruled by Britain, for instance .......
• Trottelreiner commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
  Actually, the high number of inhabitants and the urbanized terrain makes it even easier; there is high consumption of food etc. and less production. For weapons, this is somewhat the other way around, actually the Polish Underground managed to do some in the factories at hand, but still, you need materials....
• Sasquatch commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
  Benefit Fraud. Here in the US, the same 1% figure is the assertion (by officialdom) for welfare and "Food Stamp" "fraud". What is astonishing/disgusting is the whinging on the right about people buying groceries with their Food Stamp benefits. What they don't understand is, you can only buy groceries with SNAP (Food Stamps); Toilet Paper, Toothpaste, ammo, you have to pay cash for those. But you can buy anything defined as food with them, so people do buy potato chips (crisps) and other junk foods part of the standard American Diet, which many seem to resent or want to control....
• paws4thot commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
  "Are Twinkies food?" - From memory, and borrowing heavily from "Buffy: The Vampire Slayer" (Season 2, episode "Inca Mummy Girl") Xander says of Twinkies something like "Since they contain no ingredients that any human can pronounce, they don't fill you up like actual food does*". The details don't matter as long as the point is correct....
• Greg. Tingey commented on Lies, damned lies, and popular beliefs
  Update This article re-visits the Kelly affair from another viewpoint. Interesting. However, please remember Charlie's strictures ( @ 73 )about what biases the writer may have - in this case, Andrew Gilligan..........