After reading this, I must go and have a bacon and egg sandwich with ketchup...and extra salt

Its a bit hard to tell as few of them have actually had a trial on the issues for which they are confined.

Yes, it saves sitting on the photocopier to take bottom scans.

Thomas Ruecker said he was flushed with the success of his project.

Speaking from a UK perspective, I am not "making shit up".

I have at various times had UK SC and DV checks carried out for my employment.
DV requires personal interviews and referee interviews.
There are aspects of my past life which are not pristine, but open disclosure ensured that these were not an issue.

At the time she filled in the form, she was obviously aware the third group existed as she had written to and visited one of its members in prison.

It is fairly obvious that her relationship with the "terrorist" organisation was very tenuous, but one point of a background check is a test of your willingness to be full and open about your past. In fact if she had given a full open answer, I suspect there would not have been a problem.

Despite conspiracy theories to the contrary, government agencies do not know everything about you. A background check will not necessarily find out everything about your past, but if it detects evasive answers then it is grounds for not employing someone in case there is more the potential employee is not telling or deliberately hiding.

The UK would be much better if was sleeping with the fishes.

Strong the whoosh with this one is, FTFY

It would be even higher, except Cristina Fernández de Kirchner set Human Development in Argentina back 30,000 years.

Most people are obsessed with sex whether they are as smart as Sheldon or not. However, Sheldon is represented on the show as an outlier in many respects, so what is the difficulty in believing that he would be different in this respect too?

I would have thought that claiming a trademark rights on "moot" would fail. A moot is a generic word for a meeting/council of Anglo-Saxon origin.

I am delighted to confirm that we have made plans to resite our Nuclear Deterrent. After much consultation and with the agreement of the Legislative Assembly, I am pleased to announce that in the event of a Referendum "yes" vote, the UK will be breaking ground on a new facility in the Falkland Islands.

This is an immensely popular decision that has the full support of all our inhabitants, stated the Chief Executive of the Legislative Assembly.

On hearing this announcement Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, President of Argentina, wept before exploding into flames.

Physics: Boldly going where no muon has gone before.

Physics: a momentous time for muons.

Physics: do muons follow Standards?

etc

Not much land is needed - everyone has a rooftop and most of the countries you've mentioned are bright and sunny

Not at all - the solution is to kill and cook them in one simple process instead of the dual process that we have currently.