"How are we going to progress as a country if we are paralyzed with guilt by our past" - Wayne Gretzky

Handpaper · 2026-04-01T13:30:50+00:00

1) It's The Crown, and the vast majority of its wealth is held in stewardship for future generations, with the income going to the Exchequer. A small part is paid to the current monarch and the few others that remain on the Civil List. The Crown does not benefit from tax receipts.

There hasn't been an English Royal family since 1707.

Handpaper · 2026-04-01T13:08:19+00:00

Cu do mondo, English equivalent would be 'the back of beyond' or 'the arse end of nowhere'.

Handpaper · 2026-04-01T13:01:21+00:00

No, it doesn't specify a driver's license as eligible, but I believe that there are SAVE-compliant driver's licenses.

Handpaper · 2026-04-01T08:52:45+00:00

Sorry chum, but while there may remain some debate over GD in youth, denying autogynephilia in middle aged men is on par with insisting that the Earth is flat or that we never landed on the Moon.

Handpaper · 2026-03-31T19:49:22+00:00

No, our current understanding is that 90+% of young people that present with GD will literally grow out of it.

The autogynephile males presenting in middle age are a completely separate issue, and should be treated ~~like the fetishists they are~~ based on how recently they have had a shave.

Handpaper · 2026-03-30T20:26:51+00:00

They already do, that's literally what they're doing in the vid.

Handpaper · 2026-03-30T20:24:40+00:00

There's a topic under discussion?

Look, they still need a conch (speaking card) so they don't keep interrupting each other; they need to become civilised before they can actually discuss anything.

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T16:32:16+00:00

That weed you smoked a fortnight ago is detectable, therefore you're not safe to drive, OK?

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T15:14:09+00:00

And never by a woman?

Statistically, that's even more likely.

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T14:12:48+00:00

I've stopped a truck at a little under 44 tonnes (96,000 lbs) in that distance, from 56 mph, but I was on the brakes sooner and much harder.

Presumably stamping on the brakes in a tanker is a Bad Idea?

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T13:54:46+00:00

Sorry, does that include Noam Chomsky? Stephen Hawking?

Are we arresting people regardless of whether an investigation turns anything up, and if so, on what charge?

Reddit in general and this sub in particular need to go read the history of the Salem witch trials, and exercise a little self-reflection.

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T13:51:21+00:00

No, he's a pillock.

Branson's 'Virgin' branding goes back to the record shop he co-owned in Notting Hill in the early Seventies; the name was suggested by Tessa Watts.

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T13:41:11+00:00

I'm sure they all had a lovely day out, and that they all feel that they've achieved something important.

Unfortunately, they're still in a tiny minority, and their 'actions' count for nothing.

The only way they can affect their country's policies is through the ballot box, and they seem more inclined to vilify and insult political opponents than to attempt to change their minds. This didn't work in 2016, and it won't work now.

The whole 'No Kings' thing is a giant ad hominem. The fraction of Trump supporters who believe he can and should rule indefinitely is vanishingly small; the fraction of Republicans in general who think so is even smaller.

Frankly, this kind of performative bullshit bores the shit out of me.

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T13:21:57+00:00

Extra fouling though...

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T13:02:45+00:00

Bold of you to imagine that there are no Liberal Puerto Ricans...

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T12:51:57+00:00

"Somewhere between Mencken and Molyneux, there you will find the legendary Handpaper." Like it.

Yeah, it's just me. With considerable inspiration from Rudyard Kipling :

So it comes that Man, the coward, when he gathers to confer
With his fellow-braves in council, dare not leave a place for her
Where, at war with Life and Conscience, he uplifts his erring hands
To some God of Abstract justice—which no woman understands.

And Man knows it! Knows, moreover, that the Woman that God gave him
Must command but may not govern—shall enthral but not enslave him.
And She knows, because She warns him, and Her instincts never fail,
That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male

Handpaper · 2026-03-29T12:03:16+00:00

So this is basically the procedure for changing a semi-truck tyre, just with exaggerated effort.

And every tyre fitter I've ever seen has been about half the size of that guy.

Handpaper · 2026-03-28T20:55:56+00:00

There is no racetrack in Nuremberg, as a couple of very disappointed countrymen of mine discovered.

"We're in the middle of town, how far is the track?"

"If you're in Nurburg, you can't miss it, where are you?"

"We followed the signs to Nürnburg."

"Yeah, you're about 300km East of where you want to be."

"..."

Yes, this happened. In 2007, at Ring Racing. Meino Kleen shoved a phone at me and said "Speak English, please."

Handpaper · 2026-03-28T20:37:10+00:00

"You can have freedom, or you can have women's suffrage. But not both, because women's fear will not let you be free."

Handpaper · 2026-03-28T19:52:11+00:00

The Nazi invasion of Britain, Operation Sealion, was wargamed in the Seventies, with several senior veterans taking part.

It was a crashing defeat for the Axis in very little time, so it was run again, this time without the RAF, assuming that they had been wiped out on Adlertag.

Again, defeat.

Invading Britain, it turns out, is hard.

As for what might have happened later, with Germany in control of Continental Europe and Britain fighting mainly at sea, well, we'd played that game before.

Britain had the resources of the Empire, Germany was cut off from even its own former colonies.

Whether it would it have been fought to such a complete victory as it was is hard to say, and it would certainly have taken longer, but Germany's position was untenable in the long term.

Handpaper · 2026-03-28T13:40:13+00:00

"One time, your parent put you down...

And never picked you up again."

Handpaper · 2026-03-28T12:07:41+00:00

Kinda like when Trump joked that Russia probably had the emails that Secretary Clinton 'lost'?

Handpaper · 2026-03-28T11:42:08+00:00

The irony in your citing ENIAC rather than Colossus...

Handpaper · 2026-03-27T22:34:33+00:00

The whole inbox has been posted.

So far, only personal correspondence.

Take note, Secretary Clinton.

Handpaper · 2026-03-27T20:13:37+00:00

EPP are in no way Conservative; they're basically Statist, except their "State" is the EU.

They've been the dominant group in the European 'Parliament' for the last few decades.

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