Quite right. You've got to have standards.

General Melchett: Is this true, Blackadder? Did Captain Darling pooh-pooh you?

Captain Blackadder: Well, perhaps a little.

General Melchett: Well, then, damn it all! What more evidence do you need? The pooh-poohing alone is a court martial offense!

Captain Blackadder: I can assure you, sir, that the pooh-poohing was purely circumstantial.

General Melchett: Well, I hope so, Blackadder. You know, if there's one thing I've learnt from being in the Army, it's never ignore a pooh-pooh. I knew a Major, who got pooh-poohed, made the mistake of ignoring the pooh-pooh. He pooh-poohed it! Fatal error! 'Cos it turned out all along that the soldier who pooh-poohed him had been pooh-poohing a lot of other officers who pooh-poohed their pooh-poohs. In the end, we had to disband the regiment. Morale totally destroyed... by pooh-pooh!

I can't believe you missed Kramer vs Godzilla.

A moving story of divorce starring Dustin Hoffman and the titular lizard with particular dramatic focus on the impact their relationship difficulties have on their hybrid son.

It's an absurd distraction. From the NY Times report to this, it's a desperate attempt to get people discussing something, anything, other than the shitshow at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Is that true when there are non-negligible parts of the United States that don't have access to basic sanitation?

They're guessing their tactic of "it's easier to get forgiveness than permission" extends to dumping self-driving cars on the road and hoping no-one has the gumption to tell them to do one. I'd say it's a Hail Mary but it's all they've got at this stage.

... is that it brings people together. Coincidentally, that's also the worst thing.

Where do you stand on the inchoate offences such as conspiracy to commit a crime..?

It's a pretty sad state of affairs when a style guide aimed at adults has to include direction on correct punctuation. Is the standard of written English that low at Google? I suppose it could be aimed at non-English users but even so...

The weirdest thing about all this are the critics who label Damore's firing as Orwellian while overlooking the greatest data aggregation exercise in human history.

The politics may well prove impossible.

It was going to end on Friday. Then it wasn't. Now it is again. Anyone who responds to anything coming out of Downing Street at the moment with anything other than resigned bemusement is far too trusting. The government is as split as the country was and I'll be astonished if both major parties manage to survive Brexit. Worth bearing in mind that the man who holds the purse strings, Phillip Hammond, is not a fan.

I think it's a bit of stretch to call Newton's proclivities a 'quirky habit'.

Crush the hippie, tree huggers like Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson! If there's one industry dragging the country down with their green crap, it's Big Oil.