What are we doing?

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Just be sure to set aside enough time. About 53 seconds will do

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If only the 250,000 academics and 150,000 total staff with their (hard to estimate, median-ish) £150b contribution to the economy were as valuable as the 6,500 fishermen and 30,000 total fishing chain employees and their £1b. (Theatre's crappy old 250,000 workers are obviously a lost cause)

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TIL that the French word for dustbin, "poubelle", began as a sarcastic tribute to Eugène-René Poubelle, Préfet of the Seine, who in 1884 made domestic dustbins mandatory in Paris. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%... (He also made sewer connections mandatory; he got off lightly as eponyms go.)

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