What exactly were the complaints about the Firefox interface? It was a tried and tested design and didn't lack any features I needed.
It's only a tool for browsing the Web for God's sake. Who are the people who asked it to do more than that?

Here's how an exception proving (testing) the rule works:

A swimming pool has a notice on the diving board that reads "Not for use by children under 8."
Anyone can therefore use the diving board with the exception of under-8s.

Along comes one such exception in the form of a 7 year-old kid. Lifeguard sees him and says "stay off the board, son!"

Rule proven.

Now just extend that to quasars and you're on a winner.

And why Should Facebook consider it a contract for life and have no facility for deleting an acount?

So people can bring my keys back to me if I lose them.

Just wondering which word it is you don't think means what I think it means.

Practically all the best known Baroque composers wrote formulaic and repetitive music: Bach, Vivaldi, Handel to name but three.
Maybe you hate baroque music too. No problem. You get to choose what you like.

Many if not all of my fellow musician friends actually stop being such fucking snobs as they mature and realize just how well conceived a lot of pop music is.

Then of course they would almost immediately get abbreviated to SRD and NNS because nobody wants to waste time writing or pronouncing long names.
As if we don't already have more initialisms that the human mind can reasonably deal with.

Kansas is like the Himalayas compared with Denmark.

Here's how the caption reads on Wikepedia's photo of Denmark’s highest hill, Møllehøj:

"Møllehøj seen from the tower on Ejer Bavnehøj The highest point is obscured by the farm buildings."

You want flat? That's flat.

Airport Name: Girona-Costa Brava. 100km northeast of Barcelona. Ryanair name: Barcelona North
Airport Name: Reus. 100km west of Barcelona. Ryanair name: Barcelona South
Airport name: Barcelona El Prat. Intercontinental airport 15km south of Barcelona centre. Ryanair name: Barcelona WHAT?

Every Spanish HST has a security check-through. And Spain is the most HST-intensive country in Europe.

Having said that, security checks like the Spanish ones I can handle. You practically have to wake the guy up to check you. And there's no requirement to arrive early, although it's clearly not advisable to wait till the last minute.

I don't know how reliable it was but I once watched a TV "what if" simulation of a war in which the UK lost the B of B.
The ensuing invasion would have cost a freakily huge number of German lives. A great many of them before they even landed. To get anywhere they would have needed to take out the navy too. After that there were several very well equipped lines of defence. The theoretical invasion force never have got past the second line. The Battle of Britain of course averted all that for a much lower death count.

Not sure why they would have inisted on people speaking German mind. At least not as a first language.

All totally off-topic of course.

Defiliation? He really said that?
"The denial or lack of a male child"?
"The abstraction of a child from its parents"?

Nope, lost me there.

Fellow pedantic here. The Godwin definition is of a comparison "involving" Nazis, not "with" or "to" Nazis (the words "compare ... to" are part of a rather poor and unnecessary Wikipedia paraphrase).

...not [to] be riddled with holes. (subjunctive)

... which last I checked stands for Wine Is Not an Emulator?

...and which first I checked stood for Windows Emulator
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windo...