Bassingbourne55

As a driver one is trained to monitor one’s speed all the time. People should be doing that all the time and should be keeping to the speed limit anyway. This urban myth about having to spend more time looking at the speedo means less time to watch the road is nonsense, it was probably started by a motoring journalist or some petrolhead…[Read more]

Another side to this is that cutting down tropical rain forests reduces the global ecosystem’s ability to absorb the CO2 that we add to the atmoshere. Tropical forests have been cleared at an alarming rate for 20 or 30 years.

And yet we in Britain have cleared most of our forests over the last 1500 years, although woodland cover is on the up…[Read more]

Great idea Bas …….. if you could find a property developer stupid enough to want to build new houses right now.

Britain’s biggest housebuilder, Taylor-Wimpey, has just started building 70 new homes in my town. But it’s probably a ‘what the heck’ situation as they are on the verge of going bust!

I read somewhere that the KGB helped the paramiltaries of BOTH sides in the Northern Ireland conflict, as part of the Soviet policy to soften up western Europe in the hope that they could invade more easily, with fewer casualties.

Until the present bumbler took over, we had a prime minister who gave all the appearance of being a Tory secret…[Read more]

Now it seems that Fiat are to take Vauxhall/Opel off GM’s hands. That would seem to make more sense. Vauxhalls and Opels are identical apart from badges. As new models are designed, that would mean that common designs could be used for Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Vauxhall and Opel cars – but with different superficial body panels – a bit like how VW,…[Read more]

Not many British people buy Chryslers anyway, apart from a few Jeeps and even fewer PT Cruisers.

Don’t you mean LDV Vans?

Fiat have expressed an interest in buying or merging with Chrysler, but I can’t see it happening. Daimler-Benz couldn’t make a go of Chrysler so I can’t see how Fiat could do so, especially as they are not in the best of…[Read more]

It could be a natural occurrence, it’s nothing out of the ordinary on the historical scale.
However, there is a scientific model for how burning fossil fuels adds CO2 to the atmosphere, which prevents heat loss at night, leading to global warming. The thing is, in collecting evidence in support of this theory, there’s no ‘control’ to the…[Read more]

And none of us have any medical expertise, or at least not enough to know the real prognosis.

It’s not a pandemic yet, but it could become one. Previous pandemics have started in a small way.

The global effects of so-called ‘swine flu’ pale into insignificance when you think of the annual death rate from Malaria in Africa alone …… 3 MILLION !!!!! Now THAT is an issue – but hey who cares???? The Media don’t, obviously.

I think a lot…[Read more]

We haven’t heard anything of the continuing situation of the virus within pig populartions. This is important because viruses multiply and mutate easily in pigs. Of course, pigs don’t matter as much as humans, but what’s happening with pigs has implications for humans.

Presumably it would be possible pigs to catch swine flu from a human. This…[Read more]

So the evil they committed is outweighed by the (possible) good they’ve done recently?

Why do I find it hard to care

Not exactly, but what I mean is it’s better that they are part of the peace process than still involved in, or making excuses for, terrorism. If McGuinness or Adams or any of their loyalist equivalents get shot by new ultra…[Read more]

more CCTV’s what is this big brother? where is joe publics privacy, we are da most film countrey in da world. disgustin.

Haha! I knew someone would just reply to the title of the topic without viewing the link. :lol:

Arguably, whatever their past histories, these two men have probably prevented a lot of killings in the last ten years plus by becoming part of the peace process. Same goes for any of the loyalist former extremists who gave peace a chance.

Health and safety and risk-averseness are good up to a point. But you often hear of ridiculous health and safety rules in some instances, but glaring gaps in others.

Like it’s illegal to leave a child under 14 alone at home, whereas it’s perfectly legal to allow a child of 6 or even younger to cycle into town on their own along a main road.

Although it’s really wierd, if they’re both happy I don’t think it’s really anyone else’s business. The daughter is very attractive and the mother doesn’t look bad, even if they are a bit barbie-ish.

I remember where I used to live there was a gay man in the mid 1970’s who had cosmetic surgery to look like David Bowie – with strikingly…[Read more]

The recession is going to get a lot worse and the property market will cave in after its current fight-back and it will be like the worst of the Callaghan years and the worst of the Thatcher years rolled together. If you think it’s bad now, wait 12 months.

I like ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, although I think it should be the new British national anthem, while Jerusalem would be more suitable as an English one.

It’s about time we ditched the dreary and vacuous anthem which requests a fictitious deity to save a hereditary monarch! It also has a verse that is thoroughly insulting to the Scots. It’s…[Read more]

Further evidence of my theory posted above, fresh from the BBC News website – Tory MP Damien Green says he was told by police he could face life imprisonment if convicted of leaking government secret.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8003534.stm

Sadly missed, like others of his era like Humphrey Lyttleton.

With all this fuss being made by the English, Scots and Welsh, what about people like me, the silent majority, the BRITISH? Let’s hear it for BRITAIN!!!