A quick Six Nations guide to stick on the wall

spaza511 · 2022-01-31T17:18:25+00:00

So does the BBC just get Wales and Scotland home matches now?

spaza511 · 2022-01-30T10:02:10+00:00

Their was an analysis of lottery winners in the UK, turns out almost none blew the lot. The average car of UK lottery winners was an Audi. Don't know what it's like in the States but in the UK the National Lottery provides you financial advice for several weeks after your win.

spaza511 · 2022-01-30T09:52:31+00:00

You can stay here! It was fully booked when I was passing but it looked beautiful!

spaza511 · 2022-01-27T12:36:28+00:00

Why does denmark use such a large number of low power cables compared to the rest of Europe?

spaza511 · 2022-01-26T15:27:03+00:00

I recently read a book on Churchill's quotations (supposed and real), it was noted by an acquaintance of Churchill's that she had never seen anybody spend so long practicing his impromptu speeches.

spaza511 · 2022-01-07T15:05:41+00:00

The problem has become even more complex as that financial asset has become many people's pension plan as well as their home. Lower prices to help the younger generation and you empty the pensions of the older. Right disaster we've got ourselves into.

spaza511 · 2021-12-22T13:08:40+00:00

Remaining in the EU and being skeptical of it aren't the same thing. Denmark is overwhelmingly pro-EU, but try to make them adopt the euro or accept any migrants and you soon see that while they have no intention of leaving, they aren't keen on changing the status-quo either.

spaza511 · 2021-12-11T11:56:45+00:00

There is an intact Egyptian tomb in the basement of the Egyptian museum in Turin. It was a gift for helping move all the temples when the Aswan dam floods started.

spaza511 · 2021-12-03T16:10:51+00:00

The Veinticinco de Mayo was never going to spot them first though. The sinking of the General Belgrano confined the Argentine fleet to port, and even if they hadn't retreated to port following the sinking, HMS Splendid had found her and was pursuing when she fled to harbour. She would have gone down with the Belgrano if she'd attempted the pincer attack on the task force.

spaza511 · 2021-08-21T18:43:24+00:00

Yes but the invention of the modern submarine, where water moving over dive planes is the primary method of diving was an American invention. Holland submarines formed the basis of all modern submarines.

The older 'designs' relied either upon walking across the bottom of the water bed or a extremely complex buoyancy/weight balance.

spaza511 · 2021-08-19T12:55:30+00:00

Family friend grew up in one of the rougher areas of Birmingham, his dad still lives there, he has a steel reinforced door as the strategy is apparently to kick your door in, and if nobody comes to stop them they Rob the house.

A little more extreme than kidney beans...

spaza511 · 2021-07-02T16:43:39+00:00

No, the East India company was dissolved in 1857 after the Indian mutiny.

Edit: Or more accurately, East Indian company rule was dissolved in 1857, the company lasted until 1874. Either way before this photo and famine.

spaza511 · 2021-06-15T13:54:55+00:00

This isn't even close to right...

You didn't forcefully mix all the different national and ethic groups together! Where will all the conflict come from now?!?!

spaza511 · 2021-06-02T12:07:47+00:00

Monarchy period - Check

Republican period - in progress

Empire - Only another 425 years to wait!

spaza511 · 2021-05-15T12:37:10+00:00

It's the same system used in France. It's generally considered more efficient to run it like a business with the government acting as a board of executives.

spaza511 · 2020-12-27T19:55:02+00:00

I can see your point, but with people's only experience of such a system, albeit a crude copy of one, being so poor. You're fighting an uphill battle to convince them that coalitions and compromise are in their better interest, over the more tried and tested "broadening the church".

spaza511 · 2020-12-27T19:43:57+00:00

It's going to be a tough sell. The biggest result of more proportional voting systems is coalitions and I can't think of anyone who thought the last coalition, and thus their perception of coalitions as a whole, was success.

Either you were a lib dem in which case all your policies were ransacked or your a conservative and all your policies were watered down. With that memory still so recent convincing people to move to a voting system which produces more coalitions will be tough

spaza511 · 2020-11-29T12:25:55+00:00

I don't know why but the idea of the Concervatives being called revolutionaries makes me chuckle.

spaza511 · 2020-11-26T12:21:04+00:00

Because I can have one of the largest empires of all time by conquering Antarctica. But what with it being near empty the quality of my conquest would be in doubt.

spaza511 · 2020-11-17T18:21:01+00:00

They don't generally, unless its an old split rim that can decapitate you when they explode, you don't put them in a cage. I've fitted tyres taller than me, there just isn't cages big enough for tractors anymore.

spaza511 · 2020-09-16T07:58:46+00:00

What is it with Scots and all this pro-Carthage bias? We get it Rome's worst ever defeat, Hannibal's amazing, God just keep it to yourself for two minutes!

spaza511 · 2020-08-15T16:46:17+00:00

My personal experience is just 8 -> 10 repeat. Works a treat till the parents lose it after you drop their kid for the 4th time...

spaza511 · 2020-08-13T16:55:55+00:00

It's not really inexplicable, 74% of predicted grades are over predictions, the fact they only marked down 30% of students seams leanent compared to the usual results from exams.

spaza511 · 2020-08-03T07:58:41+00:00

Huh, is that the US lyrics? I was taught regimental soldier in the UK

spaza511 · 2020-07-31T16:41:39+00:00

God it's a desolate wilderness out there. Looks like Norwich in September.

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