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I agree.

I take your point, but once again, what does it have to do with "merit"? Your best friend could be considered lucky to have quant skills and motorbike skills. Does that make him more deserving? Life can be a bit of a lottery, the potential you're born with, the family or country you're born into...

That's good! Monbigot!! Did you make that up yourself, or hear one of the bigger boys say it? Honestly, it's like being back in the playground again.

I understand how it works. Over 40 years ago I was given a crash course in traded options, with a view to producing a game/simulation program for employees. It didn't come to anything, but it was a revelation. It seemed that, for the most part, no underlying stock ever changed hands - after all...

Firstly, I didn't say that, and secondly, I think most of what you say is absolute nonsense.

Agreed. Monbiot expresses it much better than I could.

Forgive my ignorance, as I don't know who Belize is, but I wasn't meaning to use them as an example of rich, just trying to demonstrate that the graph of hard work versus reward is nothing like a straight line. Added to which, why should it be that someone who works with their hands should be...

For all that you throw out tired old clichés, such as "the politics of envy" or "socialism is fine until you run out of other people's money", can you point me to a post where Jacob is whinging about his own situation, or asking for handouts? Like many socialists, I think he simply believes that...

Actually.... Spectric said that in post #3

Moral or social values, such as those espoused by capitalists.

I appreciate that, I was being pedantic...

Microwave them. Much more fun!

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67014420

"Once proud nation". Sigh....

Firstly, I can't see the transfer the heat more quickly argument - if both devices are drawing the same power, then where is the untransferred heat/energy going? Secondly, induction hobs also are an example of resistive heating, aren't they? Just that it takes place in the pan base, as opposed...

Prison, like taxation, is for little people. Although, to be fair, Leona Helmsley did serve 19 months in prison.

Probably depends on how tightly the lid fits, as water under pressure will take longer to boil, albeit at a higher temperature, but I'm being pedantic.

Assuming they're both consuming the same amount of electricity, I wonder if this is true? If it is, I'd be intrigued to know why. We do have an induction hob, an electric kettle and a smart meter, so theoretically I could experiment, but it would involve turning off all the fridges etc., so I...

I believe the vaccine has changed also, but even if it hasn't, isn't there something analogous to a half-life for the antibodies?

Peal, rather than peak. Irrelevant, really, but I get the impression that PP thought you were saying the time periods you specified were classed as peak, when I understood it to mean that those periods would "normally" be in the non-discounted band, but we're being offered at a cheaper rate. I...