Mr_Gaslight

A few questions:

• I'm travelling to the UK for a week of holidays soon and have always keep my now-deceased dad's Swiss Army knife on my keys. I understand that knife laws are very strict in the UK. Is it best to leave it at home?

• Worst excuse for trying to talk one's way out of a driving infraction?

• What's the oddest or perhaps most trivial thing someone tried to steal?

• How much of your work is actually social services?

• What will happen to your job in the coming era of robot cars?

• Is there a generational shift in police ethos being caused by video cameras everywhere?

• What's the eye-roller you have to go through educating the public about because they've been soooooo misinformed by television?

• Finally, those pith helmets are very distinctive, and you should be proud of your heritage. Don't lose them.

My building’s washing machine eats coins. The landlord won’t fix it because it’s free money for him.

It’s a Whirlpool commercial washer. The coin box is separate from the round key that I think is the activation mechanism.

Is it worth it getting a round key to see if I can trigger the machine so I can wash my clothes?

Hello:

Two items:

Distance athletes have been wearing smart watches for years. Now the general population is wearing such contraptions.

Of course, the accuracy and continued calibration of consumer-level devices is not guaranteed, but I was wondering what the data from these two population groups has had or might have on research?

Secondly, the fitness magazines are only half about their sport. Fully half of the content of any running magazine is about food. Why? No-one ever yet out-ran a bad diet. Exercise is only half the equation. What does the research say about teaching people about good nutrition?

Thank you.

How do classic -- Lon Chaney, Boris Karloff -- era cosmetic effects hold up in your opinion?

Captain Picard nearly turned into a lemur in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. What advice would have been helpful to him?