7000skeletons

Buckfast isn't really something that gets marketed in Scotland, as far as I've ever seen. It's more just garnered that reputation as a drink that will get you buzzed on a night out really fast. I drank it when I was younger, but these days the hangovers just aren't worth it.

Yeah but people get upset when you point the fact out to them, sometimes.

Bubbles are what OTHER people inhabit, see. We're all special and unique free-thinkers immune to unconscious biases. Or something.

Thanks, I was needing to feel a little better about the state of my country's government right now and this did the trick.

I can only speak for UK contractors/companies, but most of these guys will immediately close ranks on you if you try and pull this. The guys at the lower end of the chain won't want to say anything because it could affect their ability to get work at a later date. A lot of them are on temporary contracts, and these companies talk to each other. If they start making noise about these sorts of mistakes, they could well wind up on a blacklist.

I'd imagine that's true on both counts, but with these things it's notoriously difficult to prove. You'd have to prove that the contractor knew about the damage, didn't do anything to mitigate it and then knowingly attempted to hide it. All of that is pretty tricky to pull off, given that a home damaged in this way might not show signs of the damage for a good while.

It's why bad actors (such as the ones described above) keep getting away with what they do.

See, I used to make jokes about the Fun Police in this country. But it seems a lot less funny, these days.

"TECH GIANTS HATE HIM."

I didn't even need to click the link to know that Ireland was gonna be one of the three.

It's like they have a vested interest, or something.

Mossad aren't exactly known for being subtle. Just look at the way they took out the guy they mistook Ahmed Bouchikhi for. Sure, they got their man... along with his four bodyguards and four bystanders. Not to mention the sixteen people injured when their bomb attack on Ali Hassan Salameh went off.

I was born after the Berlin wall came down, so I got to miss all the fun of living under constant threat of looming nuclear annihilation, but Threads still had a profound effect on me when I watched it. It may be dated now, sure, but it still hits with a hell of a force.

If you only ever read one book on slavery and the abolitionist movement, it really ought to be 'Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass'. I can remember reading it for the first time at uni as part of a module on American History, and just how potently it brought home the realities of what it was to be in the situation Douglass was in.

By "people of Saudi Arabia", he's meaning the rich elites and the princes. I lived in that country for a couple of years. The wealth gap there is truly staggering.

Glasgow's got a pretty long and storied history when it comes to trade union and leftist movements. Not to mention the fact that Glasweigans are generally pretty straight-talking, no-nonsense folk. Doesn't surprise me to learn that these old boys wouldn't be willing to support a regime known for murdering left-wing dissidents.

Which is a real shame, all things considered. I feel like the author is latching onto some of the most extreme examples of the worst Reddit's ever had to offer and then holding them up as if that's all the site ever was and ever will be. I'm about as far from a Reddit fanboy as you'll get, these days, but this still strikes me as profoundly unfair to the site as a whole and the many great communities you can find there.