Why are Nobel prizes so highly revered when they originate from an explosives manufacturer?

“Chav” doesn’t mean working class though. It’s a type of working class person, sure, but not all working class people by any stretch.

Edit. In fact I’m sure it could be applied to middle and upper class (particularly new money) people too. ie driving a white range rover in ones designer tracksuit is pretty chavvy.

Around 2.7 kilometres.

*Order of magnitude out.

My guess is that he fumbled saying “you’re the best thing since sliced bread”. He’s probably now cringing and mentally kicking himself for it.

It’s got the Cadmium bodies crave.

Some birds like use smoke as a way to fumigate their feathers, so will pick up embers and take them somewhere, as this is safer than standing next to a fire.

Common enough that they should really make them with flared bases.

Mr lover man obviously.

Defying the laws of gravity?

Welcome to being older. The magic goes and the cynisism sets in. There is still hope though. If you can clear your eyes of the razzle dazzle of unfettered consumerism, you can realise it’s a nice time to spend with those you care about. Makes it an even better time of the year. Edit. I realise that sounds too flippantly jolly. My point was that for all of human history this has been a festival to stave off the deprivations of starving and freezing. I just feel this< angle is a good way to look at it.

Christmas has always been a celebration of mid winter ( more specifically the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere,) as far back as records go there has always been some variety of taking a evergreen tree as a symbol of the return of the sun. Red might be part of the evergreens berries (holly), but mostly it’s because coca cola advertised with a picture of St Nicklaus dressed in their corporate colours, instead of the traditional green.

Red for coca cola. To clarify.

Linoleum is also antibacterial, which is a good property for a kitchen floor.

That every time people had sex, the woman became pregnant. I thought that every sex scene in a film meant the film had to be stopped for 9 months until the actress could give birth.

Da na da na da na da na Bat Eyes!

These are both subjectively true.

Clarke’s third law. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Quicksand thing is fucking stupid though.

In ancient Rome, the sitting emperor often would choose a successor from, well anybody really, often not even a relation. They then adopted that person. If one has to have hereditary rulers, this seems a fairly sensible way to go about it.