In a modern world where a substantial number of particularly young women behave as boorishly, vulgarly, and sluttily as uncouth men do, falling on one's sword is not a logical reaction from men.

It has been remarked that nudging is also a euphemism for psychological manipulation as practiced in social engineering.

One big rule that we never ever break is to open a can of ale before beer o'clock. Luckily this can be anytime between 1000 and 1300 hours and woe-betide anyone on watch who forgets to waken the other at this crucial time of day.

“Why does it happen?”,[…]and “What the Hell should I eat now?!” were some of the questions we pondered on while driving ourselves to the nearest restaurant to (physically) tapao our food… in the rain… while it was all jammed up.