Thank you! That’s exactly who I was thinking of, but couldn’t place it.

I think it’s more the case that this is an unnecessary barrier to the process.

I don’t think the issue is that someone else has touched the pack of undies, it’s that you need to go through the palaver of having someone retrieve your undies for you.

Additionally, and I know it might be a radical departure from what the internet suggests, but not everyone wants to share their underwear choices with other folks.

And I know you might think “well the cashier would see it anyway”, but surely you see the difference between someone mechanically ringing up undies in a pile of shopping, and needing to have an actual conversation about what type of underwear you intend to buy with someone?

That’s the issue.

Burning effigies of migrants might be, though.

Thanks for that - even though it was utterly depressing!

I live in the North of England, near Manchester, so I know our house prices are more reasonable than some other places, but I wasn’t expecting that I’d need to earn the value of our house annually to get a mortgage in San Jose. That’s crazy!

It says “Access to this page has been denied” for me, so I’m just going to assume it’s a list of every US city.

I love these kinds of stories, but I think that specific example is just a misunderstanding of idioms, rather than an example of pretending something isn’t happening, though.

Hard reset.

Unfortunately there’s no guarantee that you’ll be able to get on another server once you’ve disconnected from this one.

Somebody set up us the bomb.

I’m hoping that the Defence absolutely rakes United and other Healthcare providers across the coals, showing all the nasty things they get up to. The high profile of the case will allow this stuff to be laid bare to the masses.

Because history has taught us that fascists listen to people who are against fascism?

I don’t blame them for going. If I was in America right now, I’d be eyeing the door.

I might be reading this wrong, but does it not say “yearly”? It may be repeating, but if that frequency is once a year, I’m willing to live with that.

How do you know it’s spam, though?

[email protected] might have nothing but the best intentions.

For the outside looking in, it seems you guys all get really really sick whenever Donald Trump is in charge. I’m not suggesting a connection, but it is weird.

facepalm

Yep, you’re completely right. I’ll wind my neck back in now…

First up, I want to say that your point is clear, even without this correction, but…

That’s not how percentages work. To make things neat, let’s assume they’re now selling things at cost (they’re not, they’ll still be making a profit).

A 75% reduction in price like this means that they were previously making 300% profit.

“The beatings will continue until morale improves”

Ah, ok - that’s fair.

I thought you were implying that we had some kind of firewall like China or something!

I agree, US sites geolocking their content is sometimes a pain, but I get your meaning. We do tend to be more comfortable with our governments trying to protect us than the Americans seem to.

I’m really curious about what you think you’re not being allowed to visit on the internet.

I can’t think of a single thing that’s ‘blocked’.

Unless you’re under 13, of course, in which case I concede there are a lot of restrictions - but that’s a good thing.

I read that book about 30 years ago! I didn’t remember the eye-scanning gargoyle, but for some reason I still remember the phrase “Ultima Ratio Regum” from the nuclear powered gun.

We’ve seen empires burn to the ground so many times before.