I'd say it shows some simularity to BASIC.

Does it show much basicality to Simula?

Well, there's "on glasses."

# me old bamboo, me old bamboo
you better never bovver wiv me old bamboo
you can take me 'at or me bumbershoot
but you better never bovver wiv me old bamboo /#

They had cameras that could be hidden in a walking stick in the 30s and 40s?

It's a long time ago that I was into antique cameras, but I think I've heard of such a thing.

only members of parliament can be ministers of Her Majesty's government.

Nonsense. The prime minister (who doesn't necessarily have to be an MP either) chooses his cabinet.

I've had the misfortune to have to deal with this Ian guy and he's an UTTER UTTER c--t.

his appointment to the House of Lords is a strong argument in favour of getting rid of the undemocratic House of Lords, or at least making it an elected body.

Indeed. It's a scientific fact that nobody in the elected House of Commons is an utter cunt at all. Not even one of them, a little bit round the edges.

To increase profits with a telecoms monopoly. Like that is a difficult thing to do. All he needed to do was raise prices.

A-ha, an alumnus of DeVry's economics program.

You might want to do some supplementary reading on elasticity.

Is it webscale, or does it use joins?

Yes, if he's a Python programmer.

I once went traveling alone round the Germanies, and when I got back to England it was two days before I could speak English without thinking really hard about it.

I also used to do Italian classes at weekends while working in Paris part of the week. One morning I was in a meeting and realized everyone was looking at me funny. What I said was perfectly correct, but not in French.

It seems I have one slot for a Germanic language and one for a Latinate one, and it takes some time to swap the drives over. Should I ever get round to learning Arabic, Hindi or Chinese I'll know if I have a third bay.

a rough floor plane would be really nice

Only if you like splinters. You need to sand it down.

Four quarks? That's a Galuon, isn't it?

Firefox tries to automatically recover/restore if it wasn't closed down properly.

Maybe it just means stems. Like asparagus or artichoke.

A number of senior members of the Polish government got wiped out in a plane crash a few years back. Alcoa shares shot up.