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A wind-up one. We don't need no stinking batteries!

Define 'better'.

I'm so sorry. Your case sounds like a textbook example on why marrying your best friend is a bad idea.

It's certainly not a surprising thing.

Except the 'you' in my question was not generic; it was quite particular to the person I was quoting.

You're the Nobel Foundation?

There's some overlap, but not much. Kind people can be nice, some of the time. Nice people can be thoroughly vicious.

Don't be nice. Nice is the beige of attitudes - bland and boring. Be kind instead. Now, that takes a backbone.

Trying to make sense of prophecy literally is guaranteed to confuse you.

So, assume for a moment that all women really go with it and don't have sex before marriage. Who do men have sex before marriage with? If you went 'ew', you have your answer.

Vegetarians belonging to traditions that make food offerings offer vegetarian food. Eat whatever you want with whomever you want, as long as nobody is scandalised by that.

Praying before slaughtering doesn't make the meat a sacrifice. The sacrifice offered is the work. Eating halal or kosher food won't make you a Muslim or Jew any more than non-Christians become Christian because someone else says grace at the table.

As long as they say what he wants to hear (which is how awesome he is). If they don't, he'll whinge about them on Twitter.

Probably not. From rags to riches: 14 foods that used to be cheap

Believing the hype can do that.