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After a nasty bout of "statin poisoning", which has badly affected most of my joints, I now wear this type of gloves for driving as well as in my workshop. They're also warm outside, although it hasn't gone below -12C here yet this year, so the jury's still out on that aspect. Surprisingly they...

That's nothing in comparison to the difficulties many supposedly native speakers have with English..... :rolleyes:

Unfortunately the situation in the UK isn't as simple as people are told/like to think. Governments have spent decades laying the country open to shortages of food, energy, fuel etc with their short-term and short-sighted policies. Almost every aspect of life is subject to lack of security due...

Living in what can loosely be called Southern Europe, just 3 hours drive to Greece, and in the poorest EU country to boot, the difference between winters here and in the UK are marked. Years back we got "real" winters, with a couple of metres of snow and temperatures up on our mountain regularly...

I think you're confusing stupidity and socialism, although they do indeed have a lot in common. :cool:

That's Mr Spock - Dr Spock was a US paediatrician...:rolleyes:

It's dry and around 6C here above Sofia. The last of the c50cm of snow that fell 10 days ago has melted in the garden, but there's more forecast for the New Year.

"Cracker jokes"? So it's okay to make racist comments about White folks? :cool:

Was he any relation to Almond Andrews?

Duly noted

Nice try, but no cigar. For the last 16 years I've lived in a country where all the police are armed; I've previously lived in several other countries where the same is true. Funnily enough they manage to do their jobs without killing even armed criminals; it's only in the UK that the gung-ho...

"serious crime exists in jurisdictions that have capital punishment => it doesn't prevent serious crime" You're putting the cart before the horse: NOTHING prevents serious crime but capital punishment certainly prevents repeat offending; moreover, what persuades you that the rate of serious...

Since this is a (mainly) UK forum I'd say that the answer to that question is plain enough. Whataboutism is no substitute for logical debate, and "sensible manner" is a matter of opinion. Given the rates of petty, and not so petty, crime in the UK, the way it's being "dealt with" is clearly...

Remind me what the rate of recidivism is amongst those who've received capital punishment, would you? It's not a question of simply having a theoretical maximum penalty for something but rather its imposition. Editing for typos is clearly a work in progress.

I'd disagree with the last part: these people are outlaws and as such have placed themselves outside society. Members of society undertake to follow the rules (yes, that does include MPs); breaking those rules must bring serious retribution but unfortunately it no longer does, thanks to the...

So it's news to you that our "justice" system isn't fit for purpose? The whole point is that if punishment for open and shut cases were more draconian then there'd be a real deterrent and less chance of innocents being wrongfully accused. There's also the problem that crooks get away with their...

I guess that you go around with your eyes closed: we already live in an anarchic society and pretending that we don't simply increases the problem. When there are no serious consequences for crimes against other people's property and persons, we're all victims just waiting for our turn to...

I have to say that I for one don't find Spectric's views disappointing. What IS disappointing however is the namby-pamby way we in the West have become injured to the idea that it's okay for scumbags to victimise us, whether it be because they have rights that somehow trump our own or because...

Hardly. I imagine the whole point is that they are "weather words" which mean nothing (in English) with the quoted spelling - "whether" and "wether" are both correct spellings but have nothing to do with "weather"....

Actually, the Latin for "many" is "multi"; "poli" is Greek.... :rolleyes: