“Will it blend? That is the question!”

Yikes.

Okay. I see what is meant by "least sympathetic human in the entire story". If you want to find someone to use as the poster child for fucked up immigration, maybe don't choose him.

Legally, there's no such thing as a spent conviction as far as this chap's concerned. He committed murder.

However - big "however" - most killers aren't as dangerous to society at large as you'd believe.

More often than not, it's a spur-of-the-moment, "oh my god what have I done?" thing which they never repeat when they get out.

The unrepentant serial killers of this world are relatively rare.

He also served nineteen years in prison for a crime he did commit.

The really aggravating thing is, we've lived in a house where a room doubled up as a corridor before. We knew damn well it didn't work.

But there aren't a great many houses in this town and they're almost all built to one of a couple of designs, all of which have this problem.

Probably not, because builders in the UK have a long and proud history of phoenixing to avoid any legal repercussions.

My wife fell for that one in our house right now. The open plan layout downstairs means we have plenty of square footage, but the living room is also a corridor to the kitchen and we have little wall space to put furniture against or hang pictures.

It would seem odd that the hire company doesn't have some sort of basic cover for their whole fleet to cover, say, total loss.

I can't imagine this sort of thing happens terribly often (which will keep the cost fairly low, particularly if it has a high excess), and it'll be a lot easier to claim on the insurance and sting the customer for a high excess than ask them to hand over $50k.

Everywhere I've rented vehicles, the situation has been that basic insurance is included but has such a huge excess that you'd have to be clean off your head not to take the extra insurance unless you're absolutely, categorically certain you have all-risks cover for hire cars.

I don't even think it was "hacked by their coffee maker" concerns.

I suspect it's far more likely that a substantial number of people are buying smart appliances yet they neither know nor care that their appliance has this feature and it sits unconnected and unloved. They just thought it looked nice.

It's the modern equivalent of the VCR clock flashing 00:00 99% of the time. Yes, you can do additional things by setting it up, but most of those additional things are entirely useless most of the time, so why go to the hassle of doing so?

But considering the other two are playing around making George's Marvellous Medicine, Bob is doing all the work.

And he's exhausted.

Sounds like it was something they did with their kids.

Bloody good idea - use something fun to teach analytical skills and recognise that sometimes ideas in books should stay firmly in books.

By all accounts he’s always been a bit like this - Twitter just happens to be a more public platform.

How far up your arse are you sticking it?

Fortunately, it still works as “Putin has only got one ball” - as long as you use the “Albert Hall” lyrics.

The headline tells you most of what you need to know.

The only thing left over is it needs to ferment in an environment without oxygen. Outside of prison, this would be a demijohn with a bubbler (a tube with some water in so gas under pressure can escape). Inside of prison, you either improvise with what you can get or simply seal in a ziploc bag and remember to let the carbon dioxide escape occasionally.

Turn to stone… which one’s that from?

Oh yes. Though you have to watch any infants like a hawk - if they fall in, the effects can be permanent.

And you do NOT want to deal with the Terrible Twos with a toddler that can punch you through a door.

And the mistletoe is a vital ingredient in a magic potion that gives the drinker superhuman strength.

The only explanation I can think of is that Amazon haven't set up the direct debit yet (quite often, businesses won't for a couple of weeks).

And while you can cancel an exisiting direct debit, you can't cancel one that hasn't been set up yet.

The UK isn't in the EU - and even when it was, the law is quite different. There is much stronger protection for credit card purchases.

It's completely insane to engineer.

It's a suggestion that is so absurd it is difficult to know where to begin picking it apart. Anyone making it is either trolling or so incredibly ignorant you'd be wasting your time trying to discuss it with them.

You missed out probably one of the finest performances in the world’s biggest dog show.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, may I present:

The one.

The only.

Kratu.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4MB3WQKzsZk

The Lettuce has sprouted a blond wig, a bottle of Irn Bru and a packet of caffeine tablets. It is clearly in it for the long haul.

Considering she crashed the economy almost immediately after the ten day period, she’d only actually been doing anything for about seven days at the time.

As one journalist pointed out, that’s about the shelf life of a lettuce. Hence the live stream.