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I don't bother with bronze coins any more-at the shop I drop them into a charity box. To a person on minimum wage a penny represents 10 seconds worth of work.It's simply not worth the time of anyone to wait for the change or the assistant to give it.

Mayo is so much better than ketchup with chips. Bought ketchup is pretty sorry stuff, better to make your own and get something that actually tastes of tomatoes.

Cars are designed for quick, easy and cheap assembly.Maintenance other than routine work is a secondary consideration.Many cars need a specialist workshop to even change a bulb.

The problem isn't so much with issues it's with the sheer ineptitude of the present government.Apart from being sleazy we had a Home Secretary (Jacqui Smith) who falsely claimed housing expenses and signed important documents without checking them.There's simply nobody of any calibre in the...

I was going to say this was decades ago but somebody beat me to it.Uri Geller just couldn't have done things like spoon bending without some form of trickery.

Clegg can say what he likes because he'll never have to do it. Cameron is hamstrung because he knows he will have to make cuts but risks losing voters if he says where the cuts will come from. 1979 over again, a gigantic mess left by Labour which the Tories had to deal with , involving many...

The thing is that Gordon Brown has an advantage in such a debate. He's experienced and has more resources available.

The point is that engine development has moved on,modern units are producing lots more horsepower for the capacity than even a few years ago.What they don't give is the lazy ease of a big motor but they don't swallow the gas at the same rate either. As for Carrol Shelby, he went to a small...

I remember Army tea! Made strong with condensed milk. It was , well, different but pretty welcome at the time.

I had hoped that the days when guys "let" their other halves do things were well and truly over. If my wife wishes to bathe topless on the beach I have no right , legal or moral to prevent her.I can let her know of my views on the matter, that's all.I'm not a control freak. It's no big deal...

But it makes her lips taste like an ashtray. Smoking doesn't make you look cool, it makes you look stupid.

In reality the SAS was operating for a lot of the time in deep cover and even infiltrating the terrorist organisations.There were terrorists on both the Protestant and republican sides to be dealt with.There were estimated to be no more than 200 active members in the IRA at any time. The...

Lest we forget, the war against the Japanese was also waged on land, in fact many times more Allied and Japanese personnel were involved there than in the Pacific theatre.The Fourteenth Army was called the "Forgotten Army" despite being, at half a million men, the largest single army anywhere...

You reinforced my point. Good **** isn't served cold for a variety of reasons.That's for mass produced swill. So what you've had will taste bad or not taste much at all.

Most of the popular brews are little more tham canned water. The awful truth is that most people actually prefer blandness to character. Look at the bakery section in a supermarket and see how much wrapped, pre-sliced wappy white bread is bought when there are wonderful tasty crusty loaves...

Add, Corona, Heineken, Stella Artois, Red Stripe,******'s, Carling,Budweiser, Millers, Coors and the rest of the pretend lagers made by **** factories from cheap ingredients. Either they have no taste to speak of at all or they do have a detectable taste which is horrible. Bad **** can...

No it isn't against the founding principles at all. One key item is the social compact which means the people are governed by consent, and if the people wish for a welfare state that is their right. Limited government means just that-limited to what is necessary.If the people feel that a health...

In the UK and in many countries the government makes a LOT more than the oil companies in the sales on motor fuel;about two thirds of the cost goes in duty and taxes , the remaining one third goes between the oil companies and the whole supply chain.

Absolutely. And she's still modelling for her website looking as good as ever. In fact she looks better in her later work than in her PM portfolio.

If you collect rainwater in the UK you still have to pay your water bills , if you have a meter fitted you'll pay less but still have to pay the disposal and drainage charges.

The age of consent was 12 in the UK until just before WW1 .This was also the marriagable age.

I remember it well. As a householder myself I welcomed its introduction as did everybody I knew.The problem it tried to address was this.Local services were paid for by charging householders a levy (called the rates) based on the value of the property.In other words the onus fell on about 30% of...

I quoted this Militia Act as it clarified the Second Amendment (written by the same people) which is what gave the Constitutional right mentioned by the first poster.

That whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by this act, the same being notified to the...

Most British gentlemen don't even own a coat these days.

But the Constitutional right, as amended, places the militia under the overall command of the President.

I am a hedonist

It usually snows some time during April , we always get it after a spell of warmer weather that fools us into thinking that winter is over. I live in Central England and in fact settled snow is very uncommon , it all seems to blow out before it reaches here.

I've just been reading about so-called "low energy" light bulbs.For much of the time they don't save any energy at all.With the old incandescent bulbs 96% or so of the energy ended up as heat.Low energy bulbs produce less heat so guess what-your room thermostat clicks a little earlier and you...

There's nothing wrong with buying things on credit as long as it's under control.The only way people can own their house is by paying it off in stages;if you need a car to get to work it's reasonable to borrow the money to buy one.It's only when you borrow more than you can afford to repay that...

As an outsider (but one who gratefully lives in a country with socialised health care) I'm struck in forums at the number of posters who trot out slogans and phrases as if they were incontrovertible truth.Like "socialism is equal distribution of misery" in this context , it doesn't bear...

None of us likes paying money to leechers in society but this isn't in any way a reason for not having a socialised health system.Anything you do will be good for some and less good for others; change the system and you benefit and upset a different set of groups. I'm not sure what you mean by...

I love their country and their **** is unparalleled. I quite like French people though I couldn't eat a whole one.

Your grasp of history is a little selective.In general relationships between England and Scotland remained reasonable though with occasional flare ups but there was always a degree of interdependence. As for Culloden, contemporary documents show conclusively that the Bonny Prince was generally...

There is apparently an enclave somewhere in New England which preserves the old form of the language.I've heard the opinion that present American is closer to 1700s English than that now spoken in the UK.Some words like "gotten" are considered archaic in the UK but still used in the US. There...

I've fired many, many military weapons from an old 0.303 Lee Enfield rifle to a 120mm recoilless antitank weapon. Not to mention an old Vickers medium machine *** fed via a canvas belt. The 120mm Wombat was awesome. You sighted it by means of a matched 0.50 rifle loaded with tracer ammunition...

The slave trade was certainly a shameful episode though-as with the Empire itself it doesn't pay to look at centuries old actions with 21st century eyes.It must be remembered that slavery was carried out with the complicity of the Africans themselves (they were the ones who actually captured...

Actually "toilet" is a Victorian euphanism because it really means washing, ******** hair etc (hence "toilet water".people used to say "I must do my toilet" as a polite way of excusing themselves. Chamber's dictionary ; toilet noun 1 a lavatory. 2 (also toilette) the act of washing, dressing and...

Well, if given the option between having your guts ripped out or sitting down to a good meal with a glass of something nice it's a fairly easy decision.

The Union of the two nations is greater than the sum of its parts, it wasn't sold down the river by a few nobles but because it had become a non viable state. I don't know how it would survive on its own now, the claim to North Sea oil is very doubtful. It's in international waters and merely...

The running point was to ensure physical fitness, improve stamina and mental toughness.It was only a part of the training regimen.I remember the Royal Marines back in the Falklands campaign who had to yomp many miles with all their equipment and then be focused enough to fight when they reached...

Foreign policy decided in England? Yes, by Scotsmen like Brown, Blair and all the rest. As for not being bothered about the Empire the Scots played a prominent part.Scotland got a terrific bargain with the Union, it gave scope for its innovative genius which would have been stifled in an...

I have no problems using FF on youtube.The only problems I've had with FF were a couple of versions ago when occasionally it would lock up;the latest version seems fine.Love the many addons! If you visit sites such as this , don't even consider using IE.It's a malware magnet.

We said grace at school. "From what we are about to receive, Good Lord deliver us" On the whole we wouldn't tell somebody to enjoy a meal. like "have a nice day" it's a meaningless phrase which insults the intelligence.

Bigger than British men have

So is David Milliband.

Yes, you get all the benefits of a transport system for nothing.Roads that your food and ***** travels along to get to you. I notice that Diesel has gone up by 2 pence a litre to £1.20 which is roughly $1.80.About $6.50 per US gallon.Glad I swithced to Diesel, my present car is the same size as...

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Damn! They missed me off the list yet again.

Pedantry perhaps but once someone becomes a Playmate they remain a Playmate.Jeans is not a Former Playmate.