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Funny how trying to keep your money in your own pocket is illegal but HMRC demanding money with menaces is apparently okay. It's not as though it's actually going to be put to good use either - if my accountant were to take as little care of my money as HMG does, I'd fire him and then sue for...

I use the same ones I use for shooting - Amazon had some kind of system glitch a few years back and they were selling them at around 90% off; they fixed it a few hours later but honoured my order for half a dozen at the bargain price.... :cool:

As an erstwhile self-employed person, I easily recognise the point of that "joke"... :cool:

Straying a bit off topic but air rifles have certainly come a long way since the old days - I have a collection of old and new ones. Over here there's no limit on how powerful an air weapon you can buy; you just waltz into the shop and stroll out with whatever takes your fancy, provided you can...

For those interested, a mate of mine, Jorg Sprave, has a Facebook presence, "The Slingshot Channel" - I think you'll find a lot to intrigue/fascinate/outrage you on it..... :cool:

I ended up using Osmo Top Oil and, touch wood ;) , its holding up well so far..

The original photo was doubtless innocuous but I take leave to doubt that it appeared here as a joke about anything other than gender stereotyping - all the best jokes have a sting in the tail regarding something. I certainly wasn't "triggered" - in fact I chuckle every time this resurfaces, and...

My wife didn't find that one very funny - I can't imagine why not, unless it's because she's a Professor of Telecommunications and Electronic Engineering at the Technical University here. Outside the English-speaking countries, which seemingly still live in the Dark Ages of gender stereotyping...

I started smoking when I was a student: I bought a packet of twenty St. Moritz Menthol (the ones where you could never be sure if you'd lit it or not). After a year there were still nineteen left in the pack - but it looked kinda cool tucked into my 26" belt. That was the start and end of my...

Of course, the last man in the side that's in is never out - stop trying to confuse people! :cool:

Only if he follows the Scottish "kilt tradition", otherwise all he'd see is the guy's underpants.. .

That was MANY decades ago, in the days when "baiser" still meant "kiss" and not "f*ck" - and it was "English bonnet", not "chapeau". Nowadays, the closet equivalent is "redingote d'Angleterre" - English frock coat.....:cool:

Before and After - but which is which? :unsure:

No shout for whoever it was who changed the original labelling from "Buttermilk" to "Nutt"? :rolleyes:

All it means is that it's suitable for vegans and contains no dairy products, the "milk" etc coming from nuts. So the label simply describes exactly what's inside.....pretty hilarious, eh? :rolleyes:

"Kwasi Kwarteng" is actually a form of Zen; in the West we're more familiar with it under a different name: "the blind leading the blind". How is it possible for the current crop of clowns to almost make me feel nostalgic for that buffoon BoZo? :rolleyes:

No. The reference was more to the slurring and misspelling which are so prevalent these days. It'd perhaps be amusing if it were done deliberately, and sparingly, but that certainly doesn't seem to be the case.....:oops:

It's just the Adam's Family.... :cool:

Really? Who'd have guessed it.... :rolleyes: It appears that my irony was a little too veiled - I was suggesting that "a while" was hardly necessary for such an obvious "pun".

"A while"? :rolleyes: