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• Commented on Pushing it back
  Its such an impressive structure that it draws people from across the globe - even officers of the KGB couldn't resist....
• Commented on Pushing it back
  As the coastline recedes, buying property on a large sandbar is gonna seem kinda dumb... Similar issues here. Theres no point rebuilding the Westminster Parliament buildings (where we keep our loons and sociopaths), as its probably more cost effective to...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Worth knowing. I just have underfloor venting to the outside that can allow a through draft. We're on chalk here but I keep the cover tight on the 60 foot well under the utility room floor (yep, sounds daft but...
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Radon vented above roof level? Presumably thats actively pumped then because radon is much denser than air. Is that right?...
• Commented on A fistful of tropes
  Re: 778 What? Thatcher didn't start Right to Buy? or did you mean the whole Ponzi scheme? When you look at Parliament now, its worth remembering that the Conservatives in power were brought up under Thatcher's regime. Which kind of...
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Yeah, the orbit will mess you up. Lunar libration for a start- the nodding backwards and forward motion which means that, even from the Earth, more than 50% of the Moon can be mapped. Nice idea though....
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Dubrovnik. Quite pretty I hear....
• Commented on Announcement: 2nd edition Laundry Files RPG is coming
  Its strange reading these comments. I recognise most the words but have no idea what they are talking about. My 1970s summer holidays game binges revolved round chess, draughts, monopoly, reversi/Othello, rummy, cheat, cluedo and, toward the end, Diplomacy. RPG...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  Surely anything Ukraine or NATO demands now should just be viewed as their initial negotiating position - the cherries at the top of their wish lists. The old, demand the Moon and accept a more realistic compromise, approach. Theres no...
• Commented on Finding true love in the cosmos
  Why is it Morris Dancing is the go-to choice for this sort of thing? Ignoring the Cotswold hanky wavers, its just a form of dance. Personally, I see going to watch sport as far more worthy of ridicule. :) On...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  That was the film. Truly awful sexist crap but, as a John Wayne film, staple BBC fodder when I was a kid and knew no better. A fairly minor role but in sharp contrast to the psychos of the IRA...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Yep. The Catholics had a strong grievance, Stormont was populated by bigoted idiots and Westminster by Etonians with double digit IQs. Not a good combination. I'm not sure Callaghan had m/any good options. It would have helped if US citizens...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Sort of surprised that Sinn Fein are not also viewed as Mafia. The separation between the armed faction and the, allegedly, political wings of the movement were wafer thin. Look at McGuinness. A stone cold killer. During the 90s a...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  By chance, for work, I did London-Shanghai-Auckland-LA-London once business class on an unexpected upgrade*. I got to Auckland a bit jetlagged but, apart from that fine. I watched films, read, wrote a letter or two, slept and did some programming....
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  I think the 10 mile rule is only true if they were off the beaten track. I looked up my family history 30 years ago and found that over 300 years they wandered up from Portsmouth to west London. Initially,...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Thanks to everyone who confirmed that 2 out of 3 of the laws I remembered as carrying the death penalty were urban myth. Sometimes myth can be so much more satisfying than reality. Amused to see OGH mentioning that his...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  As I recall, up until the 90s there was a loophole in the Treason laws that meant there were still, theoretically, three crimes carrying the death penalty. 1, Killing the King/Queen 2, Arson of Her/His Majesty's dockyards 3, Rape of...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Are you talking about the British public which - with some help from the First Past The Post voting system - voted Cameron, Brexit, May and Johnson plus Redwood, Truss, Kwarteng, Rees-Mogg, Shapps, Bridgen, Badenoch, Patel, Gove, Fox, Patel, Dorries,...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Question for the Brits: There's something in the news about members of the public being "invited" to swear allegiance to C3 on Saturday. As I have never met with, worked with, nor socialised with C III I have no idea...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  No, for the UK, I look at the politicians operating in the UK to work out how it would work with a UK president. We are inundated with politicians who have no vision, no innovative thought, few skills but enough...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  I know he has expensive tastes. Afterall, he has been funded by others for decades and his £700 jackets don't just appear by magic. I was more implying he is easily bought. Judge a man by who he associates with....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Would disagree. Tell Johnson he can be President, go to lots of banquets with good booze, go on official visits all over the world, give crap speeches, be the centre of attention and deference, be talked about and get a...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  The only really good argument against a UK republic must surely be the recognition that we would have had President Thatcher as she grew ever more demented and, later, President Johnson using the Presidential budget to tour the world giving...
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  The three-in-oneness Trinity type stuff I believe is one problem. I think Jehovah's Witnesses have a similar problem....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Escape from Yokai Land
  I thought observing the Nicene Creed came into it somewhere. Certainly causes the Mormons problems - the mental gymnastics they go through to "prove" they adhere are entertaining....
• Commented on Crib Sheet: Quantum of Nightmares
  Genuine question: which part of the Laundry series is it that you feel aims it at the boomers. I sort of assumed it would appeal to any slightly nerdy early 30s - whoever they were - as they had the...
• Commented on Place your bets
  Could you cite an illustrated example of such a map please? Am curious as to what sort of accuracy could be achieved. Or was it all landscape feature based? I'm also uncertain, was the dream time before you were born...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I have friends that swear the only clear nights are near full moon - they consider Jupiter light pollution....
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  By chance, I know a few astronomers who have suitable kit. Most work full time so don't spend their day times just aimlessly gawping at the sky, they have data to process and equipment to maintain/enhance or projects to work...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  As Sir Bedevere so eloquently said: "Tell me again how bananas may be use to prevent earthquakes. This new learning astounds me." :)...