Recent content by Curious Orange

That is staggering - the population of the planet has doubled in my lifetime 🤯

What are you all moaning about. We are very much under strength, and Man City are just about the best team in the division... and man for man quicker than us in every position. It is a minor miracle every time we score against them, let alone get a point!

It's difficult and expensive because it is the profitable bit, apparently.

Probably a good idea, particularly if they take ownership of the rolling stock whilst they are at it.

I think Chris Hughton's experimental lineup versus Norwich played a big part in spooking the team.

Out of interest, could you explain the specific reason why Michael Cohen was convicted of perjury, and why he says he did it?

That is actually quite thought provoking. I've recently been hearing a lot about equity of outcomes as opposed to equity of opportunity, and it seems like that is a debate that isn't actually recent - merely continuing. Personally I have found the trend for diversity quotas (which seems, to me...

Possibly off topic, though Trump is briefly mentioned, but here is Ben Elton discussing modern politics with Andrew Marr.

I do wonder why Mr Trump has such bad luck with his hires though. He tells us he only hires the best people, but so many of them seem to end up with legal difficulties.

Don't trust the guy who I asked to lie (and commit fraud) for me, he's a liar!

I do hope you haven't ever mistaken me for being a Trump supporter? 🤔

There does appear to be a cultural norm these days that it is unacceptable to admit when you are wrong or that your position has changed (or is different from your peers) - as people that do are attacked and ridiculed for doing so. This seems to lead to a social pressure from their peers to...

This demonstrates well that you can't tell what a person thinks about any issue from their known opinion about one specific one.

He didn't sell all of it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932002_sale_of_United_Kingdom_gold_reserves

That is a tough list to choose from! I'd have chosen Brown, but for the fact the damage he caused was actually when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer - PPP, pensions raid, selling the gold reserves etc.