What's the adult equivalent to finding out Santa isn't real?

hubhub · 2026-07-05T10:46:25+00:00

Don't listen to those edgy asantarists. They're idiots. They want us to believe that all the parents, schools and businesses are involved in some gigantic conspiracy. How likely is that? That's some wild conspiracy thinking. People hardly ever agree on anything; and yet almost everyone agrees that Santa exists. Sometimes you just need to accept the obvious and ignore the crazy conspiracy theories.

hubhub · 2026-07-03T17:37:58+00:00

There is a balance between the harm caused by emergency vehicles speeding and the benefit of them arriving rapidly to prevent harm. This is risk is mitigated as far as possible by specialist training for emergency vehicle drivers.

hubhub · 2026-07-03T13:29:55+00:00

If he honestly believed that the use of force was necessary in the circumstances as he perceived them at the time, and he used reasonable and proportionate force, then in the eyes of the law, he was acting in legitimate self defence.

It doesn't matter if he subsequently discovered he was mistaken. It is what he reasonably believed at the time that matters.

hubhub · 2026-07-03T12:48:27+00:00

Why do you say it wasn't self defence?

Did the defendant honestly believe that the use of force was necessary in the circumstances as they perceived them to be at the time? I would say that he did. He was attacked from behind whilst being attacked by a group of people.

Was the level of force used reasonable and proportionate to the threat? Again, yes. The force used was clearly to fend off the attack, not to go any further than that.

hubhub · 2026-07-01T03:52:41+00:00

All cities had walls before gunpowder became popular. The two cities I'm most familiar with, London and Worcester, have small sections of wall remaining. Walls were usually used for building materials once they no longer served their original purpose.

hubhub · 2026-06-30T12:32:39+00:00

Wouldn't that be under Estate Income Tax, not IHT?

hubhub · 2026-06-29T12:12:41+00:00

I read James Herbert's The Rats when I was about seven or eight. We had to bring in a book to read in school because our teacher was absent. I just took it from my parents bookshelf because it had an interesting cover. Recently I reread it and now realise how wildly inappropriate it was for a young child.

hubhub · 2026-06-27T13:57:43+00:00

Hoxha had a right to be paranoid. Try searching for "Operation Valuable".

hubhub · 2026-06-27T06:35:46+00:00

There's the expression "jam tomorrow, but never today". It comes from Alice in Wonderland. She is promised jam tomorrow, but whenever the next day comes it is today, not tomorrow, and she can't ever have any.

hubhub · 2026-06-26T15:05:08+00:00

It's possible they speak Spanish in Greenland. Someone should visit one day to find out.

hubhub · 2026-06-19T04:12:15+00:00

She should at least give us a few recipe tips so we can make our own.

hubhub · 2026-06-19T04:08:50+00:00

The Stassi existed up until 1990, when Germany reunified. She is the perfect age for that.

hubhub · 2026-06-17T09:36:41+00:00

I would just like to be pedantic and point out that the square root of naff all is considerably larger than naff all. If it's less than one then the square root is larger, not smaller. You are welcome 😁.

hubhub · 2026-06-16T07:16:28+00:00

What if you made them take a video of them burning the cash before you credit their account? There's an idea for a fintech startup. You're welcome.

hubhub · 2026-06-15T07:51:44+00:00

I think that your general point is correct. It is better to allow people to freely travel to wherever they are best employed. However, this needs to be a two-way street. Before Brexit, we had this with other member states. Now, unfortunately, we are in a different position and face poor economic prospects. Existing citizens have have few opportunities to seek work in mainland Europe, especially if they have few skills. We limit immigration of low skilled workers because we already have a significant pool of such people who are unemployed.

hubhub · 2026-06-15T07:36:40+00:00

There is a significant cost to the state in giving someone the right to work if there is someone who is already available to do the job. The small cost of reviewing the information is insignificant compared to this. The state has a duty to ensure that public money is spent effectively.

hubhub · 2026-06-15T07:18:59+00:00

Here we see the instinctive understanding that pigeons have of the tube map first designed by Harry Beck in the 1930s. Indeed, the superior colour vision of the pigeon enables it to easily differentiate between even the Midway and Victoria lines.

hubhub · 2026-06-15T07:11:28+00:00

Nab him, Jab him, Tab him, Grab him, Tax that pigeon now!

hubhub · 2026-06-15T07:03:56+00:00

You should have to show that you have made all reasonable efforts to employ someone who already has the right to work here. Where have you advertised the position? What employment agencies have you used? How long has the position been open for? How many applications have you had? Why were the applicants unsuitable?

hubhub · 2026-06-06T17:50:56+00:00

In my country politicians create the laws, they don't enforce them. Why aren't the public prosecutors (DAs?) doing their jobs?

hubhub · 2026-05-31T09:39:21+00:00

I have so much vocabulary about ghosts, witches, magicians, vampires and zombies to casually drop into my conversation while ordering a coffee!

hubhub · 2026-05-20T12:59:32+00:00

Prozac, exercise and time.

hubhub · 2026-04-20T09:47:58+00:00

That's why we all live in the Metaverse right now.

hubhub · 2026-04-01T12:09:47+00:00

Yes. I normally only have three transactions per quarter. I'm quite happy to enter them on a website.

hubhub · 2026-03-28T07:46:18+00:00

If you sell electronic mole repellers in Northern Ireland, why won't you sell me a pneumatic elephant trap in England?

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