This was almost the complete comment, answered all the questions it raised as I read along except one thing.

How wide can you spread your toes? I just checked and my fingers (without thumb) is ~18cm.

Helmet ball

Don’t be a cunt

But it would translate into higher premiums going forwards. Doesn’t seem like sustainable business practice.

For being a nonce no less!

It’s a serious commitment but, if it is going to be your home as opposed to an investment, then it makes sense to do it typically. Obviously I don’t know your situation but it’s my view that paying towards your own home makes better financial sense than renting in the long term.

Still makes me cringe thinking about what we gave up.

Tbf, I was confused by the wording and your joke clarified it for me.

I’m trying to square away what the difference is between this and George RR Martin reading Homer and Tolkien and others and then producing A Song of Ice and Fire…

Your analogy works. Very niche, but it works.

I like to think that he forgets, keeps trying and then makes a new post about it

My wife kept saying we should get a Dyson, but I wouldn’t contribute to the cost so we bought a Henry.

He’s not getting a penny my money.

It’s easy. W is a vowel in Welsh. It sounds similar to ö in German and it can be modified as ŵ to elongate the sound such as in the word dŵr which means water.

Wrwgwai or Wcrain (for example) are the natural way to spell those countries using the Welsh alphabet. Its a highly phonetic language believe it or not.

What happened to Giant Bomb? I used to listen to it many years ago…

There are parts of London which are hell to visit because they are overly popular with tourists. An example being borough market at lunch time, it’s all tourists and you can’t move. I don’t begrudge anyone and I can happily just avoid it but it really makes me realise how hard it must be in the much smaller cities with higher ratios.

My wife went to Venice recently with her mum and said that the service staff were predominantly South Asian, so I wonder how much of that 250k is immigrant population there to service the huge tourism industry.

Jess christ… this makes me want to poke out my eyes!

It’s too hard! Can you tell us?

Yes! I had totally forgotten about the instant pang of shock and anger I would feel when that happened.

If only there was a way to privatise them and get all that sweet investment debt in there. Think of all the dividends!

Not sure I agree with you that it was that bad, but I love the strength of your reaction.