As a gambler you've nailed it. They are not even insurance.

The key thing is an insurance product is cooperative. Neither the insurer or insuree wants the house to burn down (unless fraud is involved).

A bet has an event that one participant wants to happen and the other doesn't.

That's a lie, it will totally answer the question but you won't like the answer.

Correct response. Watching the game won't help you answer the question.

I spent a fun weekend in Vegas. The idea of spending my life there fills me with an existential dread.

Have those 15% of Americans been to Vegas?

This is clearly an optical illusion, I have yet to work out what the effect is but years of social media have tought me a black and white image filled with squares is definitely an optical illusion

Scotland 3-33 Argentina; Scotland 3-7 New Zealand; Fiji 14-0 Scotland; France 12-0 Scotland; Scotland 0-21 Wales.

The last 25 minutes of Scotland's last few games against top opposition (and Wales)

It's almost like Townsend is bad at using his bench.

Fracking in the UK is about as popular as fucking a chicken.

Being pro fracking is taking a massively unpopular position. Being against fracking is taking a massively popular position.

The ball is quite literally 8 feet above his head.

Just like it was yesterday.

At this point I'm starting to get to the level of Conspiracy Theory to try to explain why "Proper Sensible Grown Up Political Advisors" keep advising the same mistake again and again and again.

"Fuck You, That's Why" - signed The Honourable John Roberts.

"Oh well. It was constitutional in the past but now, due to the passage of time or something it is not constitutional. But if you pass it as a law again it will be constitutional. Except, over time, we are going to strike down every part of the law as unconstitutional" - the decision text in full

It's Exodia's little sisters

Imagine a future with ubiquitous e-ink displays. Well you can't have that.

These are beautiful