How could you possibly lose such a wonderful name?

Shouldn't you insert "navigable" somewhere? Or are you happy with rivers that only show up in the wet season? (Cue XXXXian boat race).

My father spent WW2 doing QA in an explosives factory, including much TNT. He had merry tales of people abusing it without consequences.

I saw a "pro" baby chair, and wondered how someone became a professional baby.

They do have a tiny one. The airbag controller records the acceleration in the few seconds before it activates

You wouldn't need a lot of storage - the last 60 seconds would probably do. And it would probably not need to be so rugged. So not too hard or expensive.

My uncle, who was in the House of Lords, was on a committee responsible for identifying obsolete legislation for repeal. One he recalled from about the 60s was the scale of fines for not attending church. A shilling for a gentleman, three pence for a labourer, one penny for a sailor, as I recall.

An absolute minimum is one fiction and one non fiction plus the current edition of at least one magazine. But probably two or three of each just to provide variety.

The tan is not the damage, though the damage exists. The tan is the body trying to prevent future damage.

I don't think so. He was absent all day. He was a vice chairman, so often chairing the bench for the day. He was very committed to the "job".

My father, who was a magistrate, did a lot more than 13 days a year - I would guess 26. And I was rejected as one, in part I think because I said that while I could do 26 days a year, that was a hard upper limit.

I don't think that we really think. I think that we have an unconscious hindbrain that works broadly like an AI and actually generates answers, and a "conscious" forebrain that makes up plausible stories with the appearance of thought. If we cannot make up a story, we call it intuition or gut feel

I was confirmed Anglican, and the process that led to atheism started almost at the same time.

Home counties. Hoppus too.

Hash browns are the only bit of distinctly American cooking that I approve of. I have seen objections to it replacing the fried slice on a Full English Breakfast. The fried slice is good, but hash browns are better.

Because Unix was written by true geeks, to whom upper case and lower case are completely different glyphs.

While I agree that Polanski is a bit to the left of my position, I think that the sheer inertia of the British political system plus the right wing bias of the Establishment mean that he will never steer as far left as his stated position, and probably not even as far as mine.

Every lapsed vegetarian I have met blamed bacon.

Not if your elderly hair is thin and flyaway. Then it just makes you look like a second rate mad scientist.

Agree entirely. The magic ingredient is not private ownership, it is genuine completion for the end users custom. A private monopoly can be as incompetent as a public one, and more greedy.

It has to be the end user who chooses. Companies bidding before civil servants is not a market.