How's it hangin'?

I'm so sure that this thing will happen, that I'm willing to make a bet whereby I'll pay you dollars if it doesn't happen, and you pay me donuts if it does. I feel like I'm getting free donuts and my dollars are not at risk.

My parent's generation in the UK experienced things like the three day week ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Day_Week ), major disruptions to normal life due to strikes. In the end, the Conservatives in some ways 'won' and so this has gone down in the cultural memory as unions having 'too much power'. Add to this that, largely due to unrelated geopolitical and macroeconomic reasons, the 70s (when unions had more power) were hard times, and in the 80s (when Thatcher and Reagan were doing their thing) things felt like they were getting better for lots of people (even though with hindsight inequality was starting to grow and the seeds of many of today's problems were being planted).

Hmm, this aged poorly.

Lol at UK being more liberal than Ireland! Yes in terms of their abortion laws they were very behind until recently, but in every other way I can think of Ireland has been way more progressive. UK politics meanwhile (driven by middle England Sun readers) busy trying to brexit ourselves back to the spirit of the blitz or something. Can't wait to get my blue passport, God save the king!

What is funny? Jokes are weird to think about, but it generally relies on setting up an expectation and then surprising us in some way. Here it's that when he uses the phrase 'a perfect ten', we assume he's referring to a highly attractive (adult) woman, then in the next panel we see he means ten as an age, which gives our brains a little stumble, a mismatch between the pattern we were expecting/predicting and what happend. For some reason, this little thing of setting up am expectation then subverting it tickles our brain in a way that makes it a joke. Having the reveal also be a topic like child rape that is so taboo and so unacceptable just increases this effect of how unexpected it is, this is generally what 'dark humour' is going for (works for some people, for others it just takes it too far, to where their emotions/associations about the bad thing far outweigh any humour, and put them into a state where they're not really able to find anything funny). Anyway, you don't have to like it, but it seems pointless to try to argue that certain subjects are not suitable for jokes. Some people like these jokes, you don't, and that by itself doesn't make either of you bad people.

Your second sentence does not follow logically from your first though. A randomly selected male might be half as likely as a randomly selected woman to be a victim of domestic violence, but what a man in the far smaller set of people who have googled that particular phrase? I would venture to say the ratio might be a lot closer

Not cool, mate. Too far. disappointed face.

We're not all near enough to pick from the same hat, don't want one person to be outside of the secrecy bubble, and if I could 'create a webapp' or 'do the backend', I probably wouldn't ask strangers on there internet for advice, but yeah I'm sure that's true too.

I still hear 'graft ' as a noun to mean corruption/bribery her in the UK (tho it's a bit old fashioned). But if you call someone a 'grafter' it usually means they're good at physical labour.

Does this also work the other way round, i.e. do all multiples of three have digits that sum to a multiple of 3? All the ones I've checked so far do, but is it proven?

AFAIK, those 'fleece' type materials are directly made from recycled PET (like water bottles).