I completely agree. I didn't mean to say that we should be preparing for it, just making the somewhat obvious point that I would be frightened if it...
I’ve heard that before. Personally, I don’t find either of them particularly frightening. Now, if I found out there was a big invasion coming our way...
Sorry, maybe I wasn't clear enough. You said, "English is the most consistently inconsistent language." I'm not questioning it (I also suspect it may...
I guess it’s poor research. There was a US soldier who escaped the Japanese troops when they invaded Kiska in 1942, so it might be referring to that,...
I think that's definitely part of it. I think there's also what Gillianren said about schools setting a threshold. In bureaucratic societies I think...
I think it's partly liability management, but also maybe an attempt to prevent a situation where one teacher has to take a kid to the doctor during a...