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Cricket World Cup. Amazing.

I come back to my earlier post where Germany (which does produce a host of magnificent beers) enjoys a reputation for quality based on a public misunderstanding of their so called Purity Laws.These "laws" actually restrict brewers from being as innovative and creative as those in other nations...

Germany is always highly regarded but much of what is written is so much hoo-ha.Back in 1516 there was a problem with grain supplies so a decree called the Rheinheitsgebot was ******, effectively telling bakers to use wheat and brewers to use barley.This is now ****** over as a Purity Law though...

Trouble with this is that it sounds great but doesn't mean anything."The people" are simply a mass of individuals who by definition won't all be able to agree on anything.What's best for one is unhelpful to another.There are always winners and losers, change the rules and some winners become...

I was thinking that I'd be glad if people stopped beginning sentences with "So" "So I went to the pub last night" when you mean simply "I went to the pub last night"

SOE weren't really Special ****** , they were very brave men and women sent to organise resistance to Germany but not expected to get involved directly in combat. The idea of Special ****** is as old as military history , the Spartans used them for example.The first as we understand them...

My point was made relative to the Irish situation-the Special ****** were under actual combat risk for weeks at a time.Some of these were from non British ****** because of regular exchange training between units (British personnel were in Vietnam on the same basis) but the bulk of the work fell...

You get some idea through the selection process.Spetsnaz units were fairly large , there were far too many personnel taken in for it to be anything much more than an elite ***** like the old Waffen SS. During the Irish troubles the SAS was widely acknowledged to be the best there was , a...

Yes, capitalism is a wonderful thing as is the free market.This is why American jobs are being exported to China , it makes perfect sense. Has it not occurred to the writer that the world changes and it makes no sense to set things in stone. And to our American friends, you didn't invent...

December without Christmas would be rather cheerless though.

Has nobody clicked yet that the word "holiday" is also a religious one and means "holy day" so what's the point?

Double post

The word "scientist" gets rather over worked these days. Now come on everybody, since when has a star been so local that you can walk along till you're under it? Not to mention that things move all the time. Christmas Day was never intended to be considered the actual birthday of Christ - we...

I'm given to understand that all Guinness in the US is Dublin brewed.I'll check that one out but that's my understanding. The thread is actually impossible to answer sensibly because the five major players (Belgium, Czech Republic,Germany , UK and the US) all produce some superb beers and who...

Both countries produce masses of excellent porters.Some English porters are perhaps better than sone American ones, some American ones will be better than some brewed in the UK."Better" in this case is subjective , it's a matter of individual preference. What is generally acknowledged is that...

Here's where you get subjectivity. Some micros in the US produce excellent beers (it must be recognised that the micro revolution was imported from the UK which has many more of them per capita) and on the whole produce a greater number of styles than anywhere else.This gives cause for many...

I just can't understand why the UK isn't one of the poll options. It's been a global leader in brewing for centuries and has given the world many styles like pale ales, IPA, stout and so on.It has the most craft breweries per head of any country , a trend which the US gratefully emulated...

A politician lied? That's what they DO.

It's a matter of horses for courses.No country can match the UK for its pub culture and the fresh **** sold in so many of them.Well informed Americans say "yes , the UK leads in that direction but the range of styles is much greater in the US thanks to the micro brewery revolution".The Germans...

The Queen has the ultimate vanity plate-none at all.

Tattooing is a fashion. As my *** said, fashion is doing stupid things just because other people do them. Don't people with tattoos realise how foolish they look?

Faintly silly.Who cares a **** who you are so why do you have to tell us? Point is though that if you've got a memorable registration you've got to be twice as careful when you drive.Do something stupid and they'll remember the plate whereas if it's just an ordinary one they won't.

True enough up to a point.St Paul's cathedral was once praised as "awful" which was of course originally awe full. But people do take words and either deliberately misuse them or simply don't understand their meaning.Like celibate (unmarried) ir decimate (clearly to do with 10 , and it means to...

Interesting that they mentioned Grimsby which once had 750 trawlers! Grimsby folk didn't consider cod fit to eat and sent it all to London.Harry Ramsden refused to sell cod to "good Yorkshire folk" yet it's now more expensive than salmon. Fish and chips used to be really cheap at one time ...

There are literally hundreds of castles still existing in the UK.Apologies if this link has already been posted ;http://www.castleuk.net/list.htm One not on the list is Maiden Castle, a few thousand years older than the rest and a staggering feat of engineering for the time...

Re: Right To Privacy Not Guaranteed By Constitution, Says Supreme Court Justice Peeki This is one problem with a Constitution , it lists your rights and everything not on the list becomes a grey area. My understanding is that anything that can be detected or sensed from a public place is in...

No , misled you, I'm in the UK.We don't get winters here by your standards!We had a Canadian over a few years ago and he couldn't get over seeing people walking round in January in T shirts! Mind you, some parts of the country have snow at the moment.It only falls when it's just around freezing...

except a Challenger 2 of course The Challenger 2 is better tank for these reasons: 1) It is the fastest off-road tank in the world. 2) It can use more types of fuel than the Abrams and has a longer range. 3) It has a more advanced fire control and targeting system than the Abrams. 4) It uses a...

I live at 53 degrees of latitude which is North of Winnipeg.We had our first frost this week and it's really cold today-about 35 at the moment.Some places have actually had snow;I saw a snowflake yesterday.

My *** said that a gentleman can be recognised by He never drinks from a bottle He remembers to remove his hat when going indoors He never leaves the toilet seat up. Manners was always about knowing the right way to do things, about treating people with respect.Also of course it was a...

It's well known that sexual performance is psychologically based.Putting a guy under pressure to perform more or less guarantees he won't be able to.

We never had checks , we had cheques. It's simply a written instruction to the bank regarding using your money to pay a bill. I use them rarely but on occasion they are the only way.

Just a Ford. Both my sons have BMWs (for the image you understand) but privately they reckon my Ford is effectively a better car. But it's got the blue oval on the front and that doesn't cut it.

Have you forgotten dominoes , the good old fives and threes?

There were twice as many Indian troops than there were US servicemen fighting the Japanese .Every single one was a volunteer.But history gives a different impression.

Actually D-Day was one of the few major operations in late WW2 where the US was a ***** player.They did however sustain the most casualties. Canadian achievements in both World Wars were outstanding and Canada's influence was out of proportion to the numbers involved.

You have to have one man in overall control.In Europe in WW2 it was Eisenhower (an inspired and perfect choice) in WW1 it was Foch.

I fired one of these.It was supposedly possible to unship the weapon from a truck, assemble it and score a hit within 2 minutes.It made an enormous noise and was lethal for up to 75 yards behind it! http://www.flickr.com/photos/kenjonbro/2614014563/

Dire Straits-Sultans of Swing

Actually it was Montgomery who was given overall command of both British and US ****** in this theatre.

They had had different experiences , Montgomery had been through WW1 as I mentioned earlier-in fact he was severely wounded.He was cautious and liked to wait until he had a strong local superiority over the enemy before moving. He was aware that his reserves were slender too , both these factors...

London was for many years rated the food capital of the world and is still up there with the best.We can buy exquisite food in many pubs throughout the towns and countryside.The quality of much of our produce is renowned, Scotch beef is generally recognised as the finest in the world, closely...

Doing my normal shopping becomes a bit of a pain around now. You would think we're preparing for a seige when you see what people are buying-the shops are only going to shut for one or two days! When my ****** grew up it all became rather pointless-buying presents for people earning good money...

Don't assume that Mac is virus proof-it most certainly is not. http://antivirus.about.com/od/macintoshresource/Macintosh_Viruses_and_Mac_Virus_Resources.htm

The problem is that some of the nasties are attached to quite innocent sites.Often placed there without the site owner's knowledge.It's not just restricted to shabby porn sites. Many sites also place tracking cookies into your computer.They do no real damage but they report back the sites you...

That sounds just like someone who doesn't think wearing a seat belt is necessary. It isn't until things go wrong and when they do go wrong it's bad news.

Many programs shred files ; CCleaner for example.But they don't remove the directory entries.Someone using Encase or some other unerase tool can find the names of all these erased files even if the files have been shredded.And they know what part of the HD it was on so they can look for...

Baseball is quite clearly a development of rounders , an American visitor seeing English ******** playing rounders would think they were playing baseball.Rounders and baseball were played in England in the 1750s.Clearly , like many other sports it was taken over by the early settlers.It's...

Malwarebytes as mentioned above is just a scanning program BUT it's pretty well recognised as being the best there is.It's a good idea to update it and run a full scan once a week to back up whatever free AV real time program you use. Spybot isn't widely regarded as effective these days...

A mixture of the best of each.Darwinism at its finest.