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Perhaps someone could make a bob or two reinventing the clothes rack...... We still have them in China, Stanley, though they are modern versions of the old rack. They are made from aluminium with steel support wires and a winding handle. They are almost always installed on outside balconies because...

Was the challenge for someone to walk uphill without touching the ground, or something uniquely quirky and English?

Thomo wrote: ↑25 Jan 2019, 13:09 A long time ago I posted a picture of the Old Drill Hall on here, and cannot find it. Can anyone help please. Happy New Year to you all. Thomo.

Happy New Year Peter and best wishes, good to hear from you.

Looks like the start of a race between the male runner and the car. I don't know the occasion.

Wendyf wrote: ↑24 Jan 2019, 11:27 Not allowed to say the name "A***e" in this house.

Arise? Arose? Above? Alive? Agate? Afore? The penny drops: It's Amore?

Wendyf wrote: ↑24 Jan 2019, 07:54 I thought it was common knowledge.

Me too.

Stanley wrote: ↑24 Jan 2019, 06:19 Sorry, I don't share your optimism.

Typical English pessimism. Take stock of yourselves and make Britain great again!

The Sony move involves no job losses in the UK. Nor does the Dyson move. Nor does the P&O move. If this was not being used by remainers to push project fear it would not be reported. When Fiat moved it's HQ to London, it was not reported, and that was because it didn't matter because the move wa...

Celebration of the end of WW1 in France. They had to wave US and GB flags because they'd bleached all theirs.

Stanley wrote: ↑22 Jan 2019, 08:25 He's right....... Let's see if anyone gets it without artificial aids!

I used to pass by it regularly, the link is for the full information and history of it!

PanBiker wrote: ↑19 Jan 2019, 10:05 Where's the other 6% ?

It just states 'Two large components however have been omitted.'

The difference in the positions of the letters in the alphabet multiplied by 2 gives the percentage of each element.

12% Ag 40% Au

Stanley wrote: ↑17 Jan 2019, 06:22 Look at your own system for the answer to that!

The Chinese National People's Congress has 2987 representatives to legislate for a population twenty times that of the UK. On that basis the UK should have 150 MPs (and none in opposition)!

I think the whole political system needs a spring clean, and bringing into the 21st Century. Start with electronic voting for MP's. I agree. Start with getting rid of 90% of the MPs and follow that by 90% of the peers and 100% MEPs and ... How many people and hangers-on does it take to run a p... u...

I have a recollection it was the remains of a distillery or brewery. Did your Dad make moonshine?

Despite the high cost of living it remains popular.

May's Brexit plan 2:

Ban shredded cheese, make Britain grate again.

Tizer wrote: ↑14 Jan 2019, 10:05 I'll be kind on China and say he was wanting to provide us with a perfect illustration of how to use preferential quoting to change the meaning of what someone wrote or said.

Who? Me? Would I do such a thing? I should have been a politician!

Outshut kitchen. Stanley used this phrase in another posting and I had to look it up. I've never heard that kind of building being called anything other than an outhouse. Also known as a catslide, another new name to me.

Ask a load of people to vote on something on which they have "very limited information" and you're likely to get a close result. However, more voters at that time felt that it was worse to remain in the EU. MPs should have done their job and made the decision instead of leaving it to a bad...

Tizer wrote: ↑13 Jan 2019, 09:57 ...and that the British people have a right to express a view on whether they want to remain in or they want to leave.

Didn't they already do that 2 years ago?

What I don't understand about Trump and his Mexico wall is why he doesn't drop the wall idea and use drones and satellites ... It is rumoured that Xi Jinping told Trump to look at the Great Wall of China and informed him that in over 2000 years that it had been in existence no Mexicans had crossed ...

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