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I only ever tried to clean the interior rear window in my XKR once 😱. Got in and cleaned the glass OK but then couldn't back myself out 😂. Took ages, never again.

The etymology of the place comes from Dorjeling meaning 'land of thunder'. It is said that it was formerly a place of worship of the Rongs. Couldn't find where the Rights worshipped, 🤔😊

Scaredy cat 🙊🙈🙉

Around the neck you mean? 😁

Two words for people who want to ban you or anyone else Linas - Horse Feathers 😎, Here's there founding father

Couldn't agree more Maurice 👍

Perfectly well argued Linas, thanks, it saved me all the keystrokes 😎. Adding another dimension to the idea of consideration in mind is the one of tractors. I live in a rural community where they are out and about most days. They are obliged to know the highway code in particular, Rule 169 of the Highway Code states: “Do not hold up a long queue of traffic, especially if you are driving a large or slow-moving vehicle. Check your mirrors frequently, and if necessary, pull in where it is safe and let traffic pass.” Failure to follow this rule can result in a charge of inconsiderate driving which could lead to a penalty of three to nine points and fines of up to £5,000. Why does this apply to this impediment to progress and not to other slow-moving forms of transport?

Hold on a minute Ed, what's wrong with Telford? Named after one of the greatest industrial figures in English history. I see you come from Berk - shire 😅

Invisible glass, windscreen long reach stick and the Chris fix YouTube video how to super clean the interior of your Windshield 👍

Wasn't aware of any fences that needed Secretarial support? 😎

Absolutely 👍

I wonder how many pedestrians and cyclists and horse riders own a copy of the highway code and read of their responsibilities? Only motorists are mandated to do so therefore they are the only group likely to know/adhere to the advice. But the other groups are unlikely to adhere because they are ignorant of the advice. This being so how can only one group, the motorist, be solely responsible for any altercation breach of the advice etc.?

Yes Vlad, for example, complaining we ONLY lost 400,000 people in WW2 conveniently forgets that's about what we had left after, 20 years earlier, losing 1.2 MILLION in WW1

Hope you aren't applying for the post open in the Diplomatic Corps. 😂

"Personal Responsibility" ah yes Maurice I remember those heady days before the inexorable slide towards the nanny state and ultimately where people have no need for individual liability thoughts because the state will take care of you from cradle to grave.

Very incisive Maurice, a very welcome contribution 👍

Love it John just love it 😁 yet another victory 🥳

I specifically excluded Soviets, same applies.

Roger bannister (englishman) was victorious in being the first person to run a sub four minute mile, are you stating his record has been falsified and doctored? Although I do believe he was Dr.Roger Bannister 😎

But Linas, dear boy, you claim to wish to avoid propaganda yet you are the very fountainhead of it - it's true what they say, that the left accuse you of the very things they are doing 😁 I previously pointed out weaknesses of your prior post and as to this one? Why you would wish to contain the word British in the same sentence as Japanese and Nazis is beyond my comprehension. Just who are the "many" ex-spanish colonies and who do they hate? That old canard, the slave trade. Been going on and still is with no murmurs from the left other than our involvement nearly 300 years ago and championed abolition against the wishes of the rest of the world Natural resources/minerals - it existed but until science and the inventiveness of the West found uses for it it had limited value. But of cause once you turn say copper into armiture then you are clearly robbing the natives who didn't want motors or electricity in the first place Love to know the attribution for "saviour of the world"? The USA, if ever you are asked who has been and is the most generous nation in world history look no further, tall poppies again? Your chronology of Ww11 needs polishing up Linas. Yes countries like Greece, France Poland Czech offered resistance that's because they were occupied other than Vichy I suppose. And you will note that I said the British Empire stood alone not Britain If you call paying back twice what you borrowed from the USA and Canada "free" I want to loan you some "free money" and I might add it ceded primacy of the seven seas to the USA. "Native Americans" I suggest you ask their forerunners, the Arawaks etc. How do you think they got on? And if Britain did benefit so what? As in the thousands of years in history before even Britain existed might was always right and may well be the case in the future because as Woody Allen said " and the lamb shall lay down with the lion but won't get much sleep" 😅

Conventionally it's the Victor's not Vanquished who write history. But we now have arrived at a point in time of revisionism where the opposite is true unfortunately. You wish to avoid propaganda but how do you judge the veracity of the material you study, how do know the authors don't have sub-agendas? For example, at it's height the British Empire controlled 24% of the world not 50%. Before the USA got involved and Barberossa started the British Empire stood alone against the might of Germany. Regarding the Empires legacy, well, where do I start? From a land mass the size of say Uganda its influence has extended to every country in the world through the use of the English language starting in the 1600's when in natural resources all we had was oak trees and a few fish. The current fashion is to denigrate the English for events in the past but when do you read /hear of the many positive effects of championing democratic concepts, the primacy of law and order etc that enabled disparate groups to come together and form the USA or modern India. I could go on but won't except to say funny how people wish to cut down the tallest poppies 😕

Crikey Vlad🤯 let me know your address and I'll send you some valium 😅. It's only a forum lad! On your earlier point I was intrigued to hear a Canadian trucker today who is on this huge protest convoy and when approaching a check point which requires him to show CV19 vax QR he offered up his QR code on his phone to be told "don't bother we already have it" 😱😱😱. How does that happen?

No Malc, just the usual 4 bed 3 bathroom garden to four sides detached house and garage for which the local council kindly charge me £50 a week for bin collection and for street lights that turn off overnight 🤯

Great choice Vlad, now and again we get Abbot Reserve on draught FANTASTIC 🥳 OH and Buffalo Trace Kentucky Bourbon 🍻

Not quite sure whose teaching you history and economics over there but I would ask for a refund 😎