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Interesting, I didn't realize I had that wrong! I thought they were all kind of mini countries, not quite meeting the "standard" bar - thanks for the clarifications!

I can't answer most of your questions, but one is easy:

The UK is a country. None of Northern Ireland, England, or Scotland are countries - they're all a part of the UK.

You may or may not notice an outlier here: Ireland, which is not part of the UK and is its own country. Note that Northern Ireland is part of the UK, and is not a part of Ireland (despite being on the island of Ireland). The UK and the Irish have a... strained relationship.

Britain is the big island, not a country itself.

So to recap:

• The UK and Ireland are both countries.

• The UK is (primarily) made up of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

• Britain and Ireland are both islands. The Island of Ireland consists of Ireland (the country) and Northern Ireland (part of the UK).

I've just been using the same brand of socks for ~15 years 🤷‍♂️ I just get like one pack every year and have never had to match anything since. I also have never understood the fancy-/patterned-sock craze, so that's a non-issue.

a binge is considered as drinking six or more units of alcohol in one sitting for women...That is two large glasses of wine

Depending on what exactly you mean by "going out," I completely agree. I'm not going to a club or a bar for the company, we can go somewhere where I can actually interact with you if that's the goal.

A GP has told me the vast majority of alcoholic liver disease he sees are middle class couples sharing a bottle of wine between themselves most evenings.

I'm not really surprised -- a bottle of wine is ~9 units of alcohol, that's technically a binge for both, even if they go light. Doing that every day would smash your liver. People massively underestimate wine in every situation.

Once called for

It was just this year, not like 3 decades ago

They have their flaws, but the cars themselves are still totally fine.

Reliability statistics and some of the widest engineering tolerances in the industry disagree with you - they are really, objectively not good cars... but they're comfy, so people don't care.

He still makes money off of charging, but you're right in that it's miniscule in comparison

The rescue divers were the first real public turning point. He has always been crazy, but he tried really, really, really hard to project a cool-uncle, anti-establishment persona online before that.

I think he eventually just realized he was rich enough to stop caring and so he stopped pretending.

They have previously denied violating any laws and said labor laws did not apply to their underage performers because they are students who tour with Shen Yun as a learning opportunity, not employees. Every student participates in Shen Yun voluntarily, they have said.

Literally no doubt in my mind that they're guilty.