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We have very sharp gums. We colonised the Moon in Queen Victoria's time.We don't send people there as it's pointless because there aren't any pubs there. We can vote.Unfortunately too many people vote for the wrong person. Since we abolished the rack we haven't got so many tall people any more.

There's another first class aircraft called the de Havilland Mosquito which began life as a fast bomber (at the time it was actually the fastest aircraft in the world) but some of them were used as fighters and were particularly effective at night. It was probably the best overall aircraft of...

A glaring omission is the Hawker Hurricane which although slower than its contemporaries changed the face of history.The Hurricanes brought down two thirds of all enemy aircraft during the Battle of Britain.There were nearly as many built (14 000) as the P51 Mustang . I'm inclined to see the...

But what is "proper cricket"? It originated as a Sunday afternoon game and in many ways limited over cricket is closer to the roots of the game than test cricket. Nevertheless it's a game which can be played in many forms and I love them all.

You ***** water? We use it to wash in here.

Many americans seem to live in a ***** world in which a complex and vast modern society could function with small government.

It isn't really helpful to call CO2 a pollutant. In any case only 3% of the CO2 produced is from human activity.CO2 levels have been vastly higher in the past than they are now.It's the stuff that makes plants grow! Not much is known about the actual greenhouse effect of the gas (which bear in...

I have invisibility clothes.When I'm at a busy bar the staff don't seem to see me.

Your argument is exactly what I'm trying to expose.Perhaps IN THEORY assistance is a brake but not IN PRACTICE. Yes, people have a duty to try and succeed and pull their weight but this is not possible for everyone. Your whole argument is based on hypothesis and doesn't relate to the world as...

That the planet is in a generally warming phase isn't in question;when records first began it was at the end of a little ice age so it's hardly surprising what's happened. There are many natural warming and cooling cycles and there is nothing unusual about our present climate ; it's pretty well...

When a safety net is in place for the population there will be those who ***** the provisions.We have this in the UK and makes good headlines.But the amount is surprisingly low in fact and certainly not enough to justify the accusation that it encourages laziness.It's a sign of a civilised...

Believe it or not there were more British and Empire troops engaged against the Japanese than there were American.There were nearly two and a half million troops engaged in the Far East, particularly in Burma.

Also; Treacle bending Gnome basting Whippet scratching

While you're at it , Google Tommy Flowers who made it all possible.

I think the point has to be made that although it may be theoretically possible to travel in time (eg via wormholes) it certainly wouldn't be possible for a human being to survive it.

Some posters are confusing the internet with the world wide web.I might as well copy and paste from Wikipedia: the World Wide Web was started in 1989 by the English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and later by Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer...

According to Stephen Hawkings, time began with the start of the Big Bang.It's meaningless to ask what was there before the big bang as time didn't exist so there was no "before".

They are a gigantic con trick.

Haddock in the best places.Harry Ramsden refused to serve cod to "good Yorkshire folk" and he was right-it's not in the same league. Just as important though are mushy peas and the fact that the chips are fried in beef dripping (tallow?)

The idea of parallel universes seems in my view to pose as many problems as it solves.I am inclined to believe that time travel is impossible because we haven't met anybody from the future who's done it and come back to see us.

Because we never changed. It's significantly safer for physiological reasons. There are very many other countries in which driving is on the left; Some Commonwealth countries and other former British colonies, such as Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan...

Sir Thomas Beecham once said to a lady cello player "Madam, you have God's gift between your legs and all you do is scratch it"

He could well be regarded as such, he was the head of the National Socialist Party , he hated big business and did much to raise living standards for ordinary people.In the UK he was disliked more by the Conservatives than by Labour.

Cricket as well of course-may even be as big as football bearing in mind the support it has in Asia.The last World Cup was watched by an estimated 2 billion people. Strange how it's lost ground to football-not that long ago football was what kept people going until the new cricket season.

There are two things I notice with many Americans. One is that Socialism is bad. Two is that government is bad. These seem to be the bedrock of any discussion.They are just solid assumptions which are pursued with almost religious fervour.That they are flawed doesn't seem to enter people's...

Inheritance tax is theft.I earned my money and paid tax on every penny.When my time comes and I have no further use for it I want my **** to have it.I feel I should be able to dispose of my legally acquired wealth in any way I choose.

It's a simple agreed fact that global temperatures rise and fall in a series of cycles .Looking at graphs of temperatures over time it looks as if our present conditions fit into the historical pattern. There was a significant warming in the latter part of the 20th century.The difficulty is...

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Ad-aware and spybot aren't very effective. Malwarebytes is a highly respected program, it's free though the free version will only scan the computer.For real time protection there are several options.

This is what happens in the UK- goods and services are taxed at 15% (soon to rise) and this tax is built in to the selling price. So you see a TV priced £299 and not "£260 plus tax" Foodstuffs (not prepared meals) ********'s clothing and printed material are not taxed but practically everything...

If the government needs money it makes sense for them to go where the money is. It's all a sop to the left though, in practical terms you can't get a resourceful person to pay what he considers an unfair amount of tax.He goes along to his accountant and find a way of reducing the tax bill.When...

We.ve been over this before, but the 2nd Amendment was augmented by the Militia Act which made it quite clear that the purpose of possessing arms was to support the President specifically in the event of an invasion. What amazes me though is the delusion that having weapons at home somehow...

This is the paradox isn't it-that the present system is wrong in every respect except that it works better than anything else! The old unelected House of Lords was absolutely brilliant in its revising role, it consisted of a lot of educated people who judged each piece of legislation on its...

I think that the Queen is the last person to think she is chosen by God but she has an understanding of the word "duty" which puts our politicians to shame. As for the heir, I haven't met him.I recall Stephen Fry (who does) saying that "there might be people who know more about history , there...

1606 - England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag. Wrong on all counts.It was called the Union Flag and only when flown from naval jackstaff was it called the Union Jack. But it wasn't an English flag , that's the St.George's Cross.It was the British flag newly adopted to combine...

That was horses for courses.Brown was in charge of an economy in a world situation which favoured him.EVERY country had unemployment fall to low levels (though the growth of public sector jobs was huge in this country and we're footing the bill for that) EVERY country had rapid and sustained...

Please tell me you're joking.please!!! You would rather have someone in charge who has proved his ineptitude,arrogance and cynicism, who has nearly brought the country to its knees through his recklessness and his inability to realise he may have got things wrong ?

There was nothing like a comparison between the corruption levels but remember also the pledge of New Labour to be free from sleaze.Also, the Tories caught out resigned. Who said Gordon was a good economist? He was handed a strong and improving economy on a plate , he was pledged to stick to...

The last Tory government inherited the weakest economy in Europe with spiralling unemployment and ****** on to Tony and Gordon the strongest major economy.Looks like they are going to have to do a repeat job. Like any sick patient the UK required major surgery which was painful at times and...

Melting of the polar cap won't affect sea levels (basis school physics) A few thousand years ago Britain was joined to Europe.In just a few years sea levels rose so fast that villages had to be abandoned and we became cut off from the continent.This warming was much faster than anything...

There's a misunderstanding here.What happens is that some of the fuel is burned in the normal way as a source of heat to heat up (pyrolise) the organic matter. It's a very similar process to the gasification of coal .It is a thermodynamic impossibility to get heat from nowhere.The wood can't...

Neither communism, fascism nor capitalism can ever exist in its pure state simply because of human nature.People will manipulate any system to gain advantage and it soon gets corrupted.Marx actually wasn't far off when he argued you have a thesis, along comes antithesis and you end up with...

Fascism is the doctrine that the wellbeing of the State is more important than the wellbeing of the individual.If you substitute "people" for "state" , which in effect is used to convey the same idea, you have communism.

Charles Hall patented aluminum What he patented was a method of extracting aluminium from its ore.The metal itself had been in use for decades.

Every month she signs off her expense claim with the declaration to the fact that these expenses were due as part of her role as an MP. You cannot submit a false claim by accident, there is a duty of care to ensure it is correct. This is a woman remember who has a house in Reddich where her...

Some confusion here.Pyrolysis is the result of heating up materials.In this process heat is put IN.It's not a way of getting energy out.

Where I come from, respect has to be earned.

The atom was first split by Chadwick in Cambridge in 1936. The question though is loaded.The last millennium? surely a person early on has had more influence than a latecomer? William the Conqueror shaped England in a way that's still recognisable to this day.

Napoleon's legacy was greater than Hitler's , for example the spread of metrication (even though he detested it and at one time ****** it) He also ended France's Great Power status, although France still sat at the top table she was no longer a World Power.In a sense he gave a free hand to...

Perhaps Isaac Newton who put the world on a scientific footing.Perhaps Edward Jenner for the eradication of smallpox and other diseases.Perhaps George III for losing the American colonies through his madness.