Maco1969

TV’s and plumbing are still measured in inches in the UK, the measuring system was already in place when we went metric and it was what people were used to. Plumbing fittings are as you said now rounded off to millimetres etc. but the actual physical size is still the same as the original imperial. For example what is referred to as a 25mm fitting is actually one inch (25.4 mm).

Trendies, hipster chicken?

The O’s are I’s! Fiid? Feyeeyed?

I wonder if there isn’t a stable chamber shape that promotes turbulence in a controlled manner in order to prevent it getting out of hand? A little bit like the dimples on a golf ball create micro pockets of turbulence promoting laminar flow.

The son is going to inherit the company, he’s clearly terrified and going to piss the whole thing up the wall within five years of being given the reins.

I probably got a pretty decent dose of lead due to licking my brushes in the eighties, little sets of paints in lead tubes.

Mass produced spirits became a problem throughout the western world around the same time, cheap whisky in Scotland and Ireland, gin in England and vodka in Russia etc. The industrialisation of production led to slum housing and cheap, strong alcohol, not a good combination.

Don’t worry about the quality of the paint, I grew up using cheap Chinese water paints and it was OK.

We are kind of unique in our ability to sit on chairs, the majority of animals throughout evolutionary history have some form of tail. Imagine we meet aliens and every species is incapable of sitting on a chair, it’d make start trek look a little foolish.

Not if they were both tidally locked to one another.

That’s alright, fusion is only ten years away!

Geese, ducks and chickens had all already evolved when the dinosaurs went extinct. They are all tough hombre.

Scavenging for food, digging up any available crops and planting for next year.

Alles klar.

ZX81, couldn’t afford games so learned to program, wrote little graphical adventures using a text map.

Britain bombed Dresden for three days, Germany used incendiary bombs in London, Coventry and Birmingham for three years.

That is a brilliant summation, well done!

Maggie 2.0, they would love it, the situation is eerily similar, disgraced failing Tory government waving the flag of empire.

So if Argentina gains votes at the current rate, 0.1 percent per thirty years they will hold a majority in 6000 years.

If there’s a hill the UK is prepared to die on this is it, 99.9 percent of Falkland Islanders voted to remain part of the UK in a UN observed open election subsequent to the UK retaining control of the islands. Argentina has never maintained any form of civilian population there in nearly 150 years, they want the oil and fishing rights.

Edit in 2013 another vote was held, 99.8 percent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_referendum?wprov=sfla1