I was a teenager in the 1970s, and therefore came from possibly the only generation not to think it had invented sex. That is because the sixties crowd never, ever shut up about it. Therefore, my generation seems to have concluded that we invented non-boring sex.

I thought of this because, while walking across the university, I heard one student say to another that he had experienced "the worst hangover in the history of the universe". While it is a more clever description of a hangover than usual, he was surely wrong. Kids today are soft,; they don't know what a real hangover is. In my day, we really knew what it was like to have a hangover.