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... all BMW, Audi and my current Merc for the same quality reasons as you ... In reliability tables now they tend do do badly. Subaru 90.66% Tesla 90.55% Kia 89.35% Porsche 89.16% Citroen 88.22% Peugeot 88.03% Mazda 88.01% Toyota 87.74% Jaguar 87.72% Land Rover 87.63% Honda 87.56% Lexus 87.17%...

Who or whom? I just wrote this elsewhere - She'd worked there for thirty years so I expect they knew who she was. It probably should be whom, but whom just looks wrong.

Usually English rather than behaviour. As a quote it's dubious, but it does serve a purpose.

My Meddings carries a plate stating "Property of Bush Radio Ltd". Bush ceased as a single entity in 1962.

Mosquitos were glued together with Aerolite (hence the name).

I had a relative by marriage who was an ambulance man. My mother asked him one day if he ever got any trouble and he replied no, I just lay them out and throw them in the back. I suspect that approach would be frowned upon today.

Having had diesels for decades I don't recall going out of my way for fuel or getting diesel on my hands.

All sorts of things in all manner of places - doesn't mean you need them or have to use them. I still see hand sanitiser everywhere.

We've already had the outcry when they claimed the evil Tories were going to scrap it. Gordon Brown introduced it knowing the incoming Tory government wouldn't dare scrap it.

Yes, I thought the same. :)

I have an Ashley Isles spindle gouge which is excellent but my Crown Cryo is better.

The oldest licenced distillery in the UK is Bushmills, N. Ireland - 1608.

I had a few things from them, never any problem.

Rum? Many moons ago I got extremely drunk at a party. In the morning, as was the custom, anyone who crashed out overnight cleaned the house up in the morning. We sent someone to the village shop for bread and bacon for butties for breakfast, and duly cleaned up. Behind a curtain we found a...

Tax avoidance is perfectly legal. It's what people pay accountants a lot of money for.

In the mid '70s I had a caravan on my mother's land, about 50yds off the road up a private drive. It was getting broken into regularly until I cured it. I was speaking to a local copper and he asked if I'd had it broken into lately. No, I said, I managed to stop it. How? He asked. I put...

There used to be one of them in nearly every set sold. No one ever found out what they're really for.

I worked with someone who could never resist stealing other people's food. One day he ate a whole bar of laxative chocolate that had been left in the staff room without its outer wrapper. He walked with his knees together for a week.

Nine or ten tears ago I did some research before buying a cooker with an induction hob. Numerous reports of the hobs cracking - in every single case I read it was in a rental property.