I can relate to that feeling. I experience it about once per hour.

You do realize he just flame-baited you and disregarded a direct instruction from a member of staff, and you're a moderator, right? Rough him up a little, it's fun!

I would but then we'd loose a third of our posts per annum!

Yeah, well, I've actually got a plan to help with that, see, what we need to do is detonate a nuke under an equatorial volcano at the earth Aphelion (about Christmas), causing a mass ejection that'll heighten the Earth's Perihelion, lengthening the year, and therefore increasing the amount of posts made per year! I've done the maths, and surprisingly this is actually the cheapest option. It also cuts down on our spending per hour, as almost all our costs are worked out yearly! Simply put, it's not just a win-win situation, it's a win-win-win situation, since we get to nuke something for Christmas!

EDIT: Wait, no, I got confused, the Perihelion is around Christmas, the Aphelion is about the same time as my Birthday. You can see why I'd get them mixed up!

EDIT2:My lawyer has advised me to point out that just because I was born close enough to the oppose end of the Earth's orbit to Jesus doesn't automatically make me the Antichrist.

I understood what I just read but I don't understand what I've just read.

I'd belittle you and say something like "it's not exactly rocket science"... but... well... it kinda is rocket science... plus, since we're getting nukes involved it's also quantum dynamics! And a little bit of relativity since we're probably going to accelerate the molten rock close to the speed of light...

So, what I'm saying here is we need to find a way to get brain surgery involved... perhaps if the person setting up the bomb is, at the same time, undergoing advanced brain surgery? I don't want to overcomplicate things, but I feel we should have our bases covered, you know, in case our competitors are planning something similar.

Good grief! I'm starled to see two Brits assuming that Germans would've lost their respect for authority.

Well, you lot did sack Rome

Italian authority isn't to be respected - it's an oxymoron.

The mafia is better led by far more capable people than the Italian state itself. Italy is pretty close to a failed state, just no one has had the guts to admit it yet

Told you, get KSP. Even makes Dave's blabbering fairly clear now.

I always thought Italy's government was closely intertwined with the mafia...!Heretic!
Oh, what's 'KSP' by the way? Me hates acronyms, I just can't retain them in memory!

They are. Still the Italian politicians are nothing more than a poor knock-off of the more succesful bosses both past and present. And the structure and efficiency of the mafia is something the Italian state and political system can only dream of. They are just another example of my belief that a state controlled by one strong man is superiour to all other forms of governance, provided that man is not insane or opposed to new ideas. All animals that are no solitary follow a strong smart virile leader. Humans are the only species to elect gerriatric imbeciles with no skills other than to appear to be the least boring to lead them.

Ayn Rand is that you?

A rather simple solution presents itself then, have the mafia run the country and the politico types run the mafia.
You fix the nation and get rid of organized crime that isn't the government.

You mean the Scottish Model? Where the SNP rabble is given a democratic majority by the commoners rabble?

As a fellow separatist I will not suffer seeing the SNP's name defiled by a... Dutchman!

On a somewhat tangential note "The Defiling Dutchmen" would be an excellent band name.

A band of which genre, though?

Pirate Metal, of course!

That is, "yar-har" pillaging pirates, not the Stalinist scumbags who've co-opted the term as of late.