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• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Kei class vehicles are also available in the UK, but only as personal imports or through specialist Japanese vehicle importers....
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  201 - I'd really like to know how to design block structured Ada 83 and somehow finish up with spaghetti code at the same time. "How not to do do something" can be really instructive. BTW 3 separate programmers have...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  192 - I feel your pain, My mother is the same, like "off" means "standby" on the landline, but "standby" means "off" on the washing machine. Or some vegetables have "tails"... 196(b) - And if the one subprogram does "far...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  There is a curve just SE of Lajord. Not a very big one and I needed an RBL to confirm its existence......
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  270 - Thank you for the female insight into the (im)practicality of Victorian era ladies' dresses. This was not something I'd ever acquire understanding of otherwise. 278 - The A811 between Arnprior and Stirling (known hereabouts as the "Stirling straights")...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Random examples from a Scot - Ermine Street, Foss Way, Watling Sterrt, the "Great North Road"... I trust this makes the point that at least some of those routes are not only used but weel kent with it?...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  243 re 136 - So air resistance is higher at 75mph than at 75mph!? (hint; I live on a suburban network)...
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  221 - That was the implied point; the first blow is lethal to the opponent if you hit them. Miss the opponent and it's likely to be at least injurous if not lethal to yourself or one of your team....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I didn't know about the availability or otherwise of gee-gees. However, that was exactly the answer I'd hoped you'd give a variation of regarding morningstars. They're not exactly banned over here, but are a really bad idea since you're likely...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  197 - Footman's mace, horseman's mace or morningstar? 207 - It's several years since I last wore a long-sleeved shirt for any particular reason other than arm insulation: certainly not for "office dress code"....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Satire on "Top Gun". Control asks "What's your location Maverick?" Maverick replies "Too close for guns; switching to Krav Maga!"...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Maybe see one to three of you there on Saturday or Sunday....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  The last time I "might have" needed a tie it was effectively declared "optional" by a Commander (RN) who was wearing his uniform shirt open necked with uniform trousers....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I haven't bought a suit in about 30 years, or owned one in 25. The last time I bought tee shirts I got 2 for GB£6-00 in Asda. The most I've spend on any garment for me this decade is...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  94, 105 - Which makes the head thing "sort of true" as well as "partly a myth". What it actually indicates is that you are best to insulate the uninsulated area rather than to increase insulation anywhere else first....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  First commercial steam paddle steamer was in service in 1812CE. See PS Comet and you can view a replica in Port Glasgow town centre (train from Glasgow Central on the Gourock line). The original engine from the PS Leven (1823)...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Para 3 - That's an interesting argument about Hans Island . Now, explain to us, based on the cited Wikipedia entry, Norway's claim to the island....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  It occurs to me that there is actually a subtle irony in a Ferrari badge being a prancing horse... ;-)...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  You do remember that Clarkson is a full 5'17" tall, which is marginal on "too tall" even in first class. My 5'9.5" is okish even in veal crate ;-) for a 1 hour flight. An inch or 2 more seat...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Additional notes:- 1) A Macadamised road is not the same thing as "modern tarmac". 2) On "walking", circa 1900CE my Great Grandfather worked a 5 day week as a tailor, walked from Kilwinning to Rugby Park in Kilmarnock (~11 miles)...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  People generally might like to note that some of that list is definitely correct. Others I have never heard. (too many in both categories to list) Moz might note that "Perth" does not appear on the list, either as a...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  You can't see how someone telling an anecdote one on one is a different situation to randomly blurting it all over the internet?...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  906 - Greg, DEAD WRONG. I have Irish forebears and do not find that "joke" remotely funny. Saying "joke, joke" does not make it so. It just makes you guilty of "being English at people". 911 - anonemouse's link is...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  I'm not saying "you're not allowed to tell this joke because it's racist"; I'm saying "don't tell it on the interweb because it's not funny outside Sarf-East Ingurlundshire"! Point taken?...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  It does get worse. I have German friends who speak "good English" but were utterly mystified on a visit to Aberdeenshire until they mentioned it to me years later and my response was "You speak good English and were listening...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  868 - No-one seems to be able to suggest a better idea than your's. Maybe nobody except you actually cares at all? Maybe we mostly think it's a non-issue? 871 bullet 1 - I agree about Alexander Bozo de Falafel...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Why would the term for someone from Perth be Perthruvian? The word "Perth" derives from a Pictish word for "wood" or "copse", and the city was also formerly known as "St John's Toun", a fact still commemorated by the city's...
• Commented on Read an Excerpt from Season of Skulls
  Gullane? 56.035480, -2.829739!?...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  "Where do I drive the stake in the ground?" At the top. ;-)...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  :-) through TBH I just couldn't resist the word association......