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British people generally like the old British "Imperial" system. It's ours! Millimetres and grammes are associated with Napoleon and the E.U. (which are also unpopular in the U.K.)…

tl;dr - What d'you mean stealing address books is wrong?! Everyone else is doing it!

Unfortunately, no company really gives a shit about this law (unless it suits them , e.g. when you complain about something, often they hide behind it as an excuse for not telling …

They do fall in the same category, because of the Data Protection Directive. This is not a law , but all EU states interpreted the directive, and enacted it into law, and the law i…

Someone posted a link to the 'European Hacker News' recently (Hackful). My feeling was that it's a nice idea, but it made me think of a quote from Kenneth Clarke: > where some way …

I have exactly this mapping defined in my .vimrc ... " 'Inside-line' operator-pending-mode mapping onoremap il : normal! ^v$h onoremap iL : normal! 0v$h

This article has been linked to 1,210 times on hacker news alone since it was first published 4½ years ago (according to Google: https://encrypted.google.com/#sclient=psy-ab&hl=en&…

> Traveling to a country which you are not a citizen of is not a right, it's a privilege. Sort of. But we are all citizens of the world. States are just arbitrary things made by ..…

I'm British, and I've lived between Holland, Italy and France for a few years. I don't think it's really true that the British are more racist or narcissistic. I think they are mor…

The UK and Ireland are both outside the Schengen treaty. When you take the ferry from Britain to Ireland, if I remember rightly, the customs ask you if you are British or Irish. Br…

I was surprised when I saw: 12 minipacks in a lovely big pouch Multi-Colour 12x5g * £11.50 * 12 minipacks in a lovely big pouch Black and White 12x5g * £12.50 * er,... that's stran…