I’ve got one. It’s somewhere where the clocks change twice a year. It took me about a second to decide to align it for summer time; made the most sense.

Without a compass you can set it perfectly around midday on the 23rd / 24th of June.

A lot of classic albums, for me, tend to have a connection running through all the songs. The album is a work in itself rather than just being a collection of random songs by the same artist.

A sneeze was a demon leaving your body - apparently. Way back in the day.

Any… Train station? Airport? Police station? The White House? Emergency call handling centres? Hotel reception? etc etc

And that’s just for the young country of the US.

If you want to watch a film about “gays and coal miners” I’d recommend Pride

Pretty sure Jesus’s birthday isn’t the first and only mid-winter celebration in the entire history of humankind. Most people are just happy to get the solstice out of the way.

What are your views on atheists eating Easter eggs?

Carl Panzram was a (mostly) one man wrecking ball of unbridled badness. A lot of people would say he lived an evil life.

Just remember that colours don’t exist - it’s just bits of light that a object doesn’t absorb bouncing back towards our eyes. Our brain then tries to process it.

Pastnews might be a more marketable name.

At one stage the “French Scrabble” world champion came from New Zealand, spoke no French, but had memorised the dictionary.

This dude: Non-French Nigel

I love me some Richard Cheese cover versions. He knows exactly where to take other people’s songs.

Yeah, I only discovered the word when I read “doctoress” in a translation I was proofing and knew there was something going on there.

I think it would be “Doctrix” in older versions of English.

I was working with an old timer South African. He showed us the new strap for his guitar. It was a rainbow. We looked surprised. He told us it was for his homeland - a brave new rainbow nation. We told him how it would probably be interpreted where he was. He looked sad and went back to the old strap.

BLM? I’m non-USian, what do the initials mean in this context?

There was a website where you could enter the “pattern” you had and it would give you step-by-step instructions… My mate’s kids used to go to bed with scrambled cubes and every morning wake up to it solved. They thought their father was a cube savant.

That’s a great example.

Glad you made it.

Regardless of the whole big c / little c argument I’d still be hard pressed to find one person that was alarmed with falling crime figures…

I assume (perhaps incorrectly) that the poster meant a “knee-jerky, xenophobic, Reform / BNP / UKIP / English Alliance etc. voting Londoner” because, yeah, that headline would be counter to their narrative.

Be careful using the word “conservative” if you’re discussing UK politics - it’s literally the name of a (mainstream) political party.

Have you read [“The Day of The Triffids”] ?(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_of_the_Triffids)