Chief Inspector: "we have 32,000 in our gang. It's called the Metropolitan Police."

brunt2 · 2012-02-08T17:45:35.601904+00:00

The really obvious question is 'have your dealings with the police involved the MET?' I know lots of people who've lived in London and elsewhere and they invariably describe the MET as being racist, violent, corrupt etc. but have fair to high regard for UK police forces in other areas.

AceCake · 2012-02-08T15:14:51.063355+00:00

Argentina's objection to British navy ships being in the area reminds me of the famous quote supposedly uttered by the Queen when Spain objected to Charles and Diana going making a honeymoon cruise stop at Gibraltar.

'It's my son, my ship and my Island'

Replace 'son' with 'grandson' and I think the same applies here re William's helicopter rescue pilot posting.

Ze_Carioca · 2012-02-08T15:08:27.157156+00:00

Just because the Saudi gov. is theocratic doesn't mean it's got a death wish to bring about the apocalypse. They're a very prosperous and powerful nation, their interests lie with regional peace and stability.

geekchic · 1 day

There's nothing in the article that implies this uses much time or money at all.

Smurfykatt · 1 day

It used to be a telegram, maybe by the time any of us twentysomethings get to that age it'll be a hologram from the robot overlord, that'd be nice.

neoronin · 1 day

I have been told as much by Indian expats.

delrond · 1 day

When it goes 'to the crown' it's not going to the Queen personally it's going to the nation. The act is so that objects of great historic importance vis-a-vis our national heritage don't just wind up being sold abroad or hidden in private collections. The act is so that that stuff ends up in museums where it can be publicly displayed and researched properly.

Scriptus · 1 day

Interesting that it's 'butt' naked rather than 'buck' naked.

LoveLifeTrees · 2 days

Or it could be that she's the person closest to him and she can perceive effects it's having on his personality and mood that he can't.

A small minority of people react very badly to trees - it can trigger psychosis - seen it happen -not pleasant. So because there are real risks, you should never treat it like it's just candy, it's a drug (a usually awesome fun one) but a drug with side effects nonetheless. Rather than being so unconcerned about her concerns and defensive the OP should at least have a sensible conversation with her. If she's tolerated him smoking for two years it's probably not the weed she has a problem with, it's more likely some effect it's having on him. It may just be something as seemingly minor as him wanting a much quieter social life than she does. Weed is has a huge impact on lifestyle - so yeah, actually it is a matter for debate in a relationship, same as getting a pet or going to church together etc. would be.

saynotohipster · 2 days

What's weird about a pub cat? Why shouldn't a landlord own a cat? Am I missing something?

Intaru · 3 days

No idea, but try r/tipofmytongue they work memory wonders

Lorgramoth · 3 days

I think a bigger issue would be false reporting, in that lots of people will tell you they only say 'isn't it' but you will catch them saying 'innit' in real life conversations.

the_slum_inside_you · 3 days

Just (30 mins to midnight my time) finished C.S Lewis' 'Perelandra' (had to read a draft novel as well which doesn't really count but it was quite long and took loads of time as I was very-close reading for critiquing purposes arg.)

Perelandra I liked up to a point, C.S Lewis spins a good yarn and pre-space-race sci-fi is always fun, but the thinly veiled Christian evangelising wore very thin.

Next some non fiction. Musicophilia by Oliver sachs : )

essjay2009 · 4 days

Not sure if you're making fun of the headline, but if you bother to follow the link it's to the 'more or less' discussion this week on population statistics and the difficulties of measuring them over very long expanses of time (when do you say the first 'humans' arrived, how do you guesstimate populations for past societies that left no written records etc.)

essjay2009 · 4 days

Political campaigns in the UK are regulated by the electoral commission, they have stricter rules and more powers than the ASA.

the_unmarked_one · 4 days

Sweden gets plenty warm, I've been to Stockholm in the summer, it was hot!

eclectickellie · 4 days

Ridley Walker - Russell Hoban. It's a 'cult' classic YA book about a post-nuclear war England, wonderfully written and deserves to be much better known.

Shruggerman · 5 days

Isaac Newton himself said that he 'stood on the shoulders of giants' http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton if someone of Newton's brilliance had been around during Augustus' reign he still wouldn't have come up with the same ideas because the ground work hadn't been done.

defconzero · 5 days

The current majority Arab population of Egypt are recent arrivals, they came in the 7th c. A.D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_conquest_of_Egypt the Coptic community is descended from the ancient Egyptians, in fact the nearly extinct coptic language is directly descended from ancient Egyptian, but it stands to reason that there will have been a lot of mixing in the intervening centuries.

zach84 · 5 days

Feel as a Britisher I should point out that we also have the phrase 'America is the armed wing of the British Empire' which refers to the fact that often American and British military objectives have been aligned.

Note_it · 5 days

That is incorrect. The cytoplasm is within the yolk.

Pilipili · 6 days

No there isn't. Scientology claims a lot more followers than they actually have because popularity=legitimacy to a lot of people

Note_it · 6 days

It's the yolk that's the single cell, at least prior to fertilisation, the yolk is what's made in the bird's ovary (or whatever the avian term is) and the white and the shell is added later as it travels through the reproductive tract

jennifer911 · 6 days

The Thai king is very sensitive to criticism, possibly something to do with the suspicious death of his older brother and his subsequent gaining of the throne.

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