Interesting Links for 18-05-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Voters back taxing rich more to help pay for NHS

(tags:tax UK polls )

2. Fifth hydro project proposed at Loch Ness

(tags:hydroelectric storage Scotland LochNess )

3. Would Britons rather be stuck in a forest with a man or a bear? (what do the polls say)

(tags:bears men polls )

4. What it's like to discover that you're allistic

(tags:autism funny video satire viaSwampers )

Comments

[simont]

#3: I hadn't heard about this meme before, and my first thoughts were along the lines of

(a) if you're in the woods with a bear, its reaction probably depends whether you have toilet paper it can borrow

(b) ah, in that case maybe the man is expected to be the Pope

[andrewducker]

Is the pope a bear?

[simont]

Does a Catholic sh— no, that's not right.

[wildeabandon]

He's skinny and clean-shaven, so I'm going with no.

[andrewducker]

Oh well, maybe next pope!

[danieldwilliam]

In Soviet Russia bear blesses you.