NYC still has a lot of small hardware stores.

What riots were these? Are you actually talking about Scotland?

You have my sympathy.

P.J. O' Rourke calls himself an Irish man? Pah! Bullshit. He is American and not qualified to speak as a 'prejudiced Irishman'.

Are you suggesting that Ireland is part of the UK? That the Welsh and Irish are Britons? If so, please don't see things from your perspective as it is warped.

That is the Irish spelling of whiskey. Scots spell it whisky.

This is just Bono/U2 desperately trying to be relevant and in the news in a currently hugely diffracted information era. There is nothing like Live Aid where pretty much the whole world was watching and the douchebag got to pontificate to a huge audience and have his ego pumped up. This is 80s 90s posturing and attention seeking and really we should ignore him and hope he goes away. I have been hoping for that for a good 30 years. Really, isn't it time they retired?

'These days'? More like always.

No, he shouldn't write songs as he is not qualified to do that either. He should buy an island and disappear.

Sorry, no. Too easily abused. It is the sort of thing they did in the Soviet Union to quell dissent.

I know the word 'cellophane' but I haven't heard anyone use it for years.

U2 are. Just saying.

Misunderestimate? George W. Bush wants his word back.

Wonder if anyone will get this. Or how about Lord Lucan?

I call band-aids 'plasters' actually. Clearly I am not 'everyone'. Who ever says Cellophane? Are you thinking of 'Saran Wrap' which I call 'cling film'? Hoover works for me though.