In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. – Stephen Phillips
Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. Its either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think its Colin. – Tim Vine
Whether he is aware of it or not, every human being dwells in tradition and history. Human memory is this constant dwelling in tradition. It constitutes that fundamental human characteristic of historicity. – Medard Boss
