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2 minutes?? On the Viagra then.? Including showering time!

What, and delay the nightly walk by another 2 minutes!

Yep...it would be akin to us still following the Magna Carta in its original form. Crazy but what you gonna do?

Of course, but a large percentage of Americans see their constitution as sacrosanct.

On the subject of showers - My wife has all the time in the world to have a shower before I finish work at 7:30pm yet she decides to start having a shower pretty much as I finish work. This means we are later in going for our walk, later in preparing dinner etc etc.

Yep...so we can only assume that the population has decided it is willing to accept the consequences of defending their rights under the 2nd Amendment. Maybe they see it as the thin end of the wedge if changes are made. It doesn't make sense to any of us here but clearly does to them.

Definitely not a British thing. Way worse where I am - no word of a lie but people actually use their job type as part of their name. Obviously, only if their job is what they consider 'respectable'. Example - Engineer Lenny; Teacher Joan etc. It's only a small percentage but... Worst example was one of my son's classmate's mother. She prefixed her name with Engineer. I asked her about her job and she said "Oh no, I don't work as an Engineer, I'm a housewife and always have been but I majored in Engineering at University". It infuriated me more than it should have but what an absolute boot of a woman to do that. I wish I was brave enough to call her Housewife Mary or whatever her name is. I'm actually getting angry typing this!

I was simply showing how fundemental an issue it is for them, just as the NHS is to us. I never said any of them suggested getting rid of the NHS - the average American will have no idea what the NHS is. Anyway, what point are you trying to make, if any?

Ok, but that doesn't change the fact that people may vote for a party that is pro-gun simply because there is no viable alternative party whose policies better align to the voter's values. In simple terms, the voter may disagree with a party on one specific issue but generally support the party. It's entirely normal. I've a lot of contact with Americans where I am, and it's simply a topic we don't discuss as they are so entrenched in their views on it, and see it as being so fundemental to their existence that it's akin to suggesting to us we should demolish our NHS. Given what we know of America, and Americans, it should be no surprise that a significant minority hold dear such rights as being able to shoot your neighbours dog because it was loose - hell, they'd get away with shooting their neighbour if they stepped onto their property!

In a sense, it's an incentive for those who wish to play the system. Get married, screw around, get divorced, get loadsa dosh, rinse and repeat. Madness.

It's not so much that, which is bad enough, but that the innocent party ends up being penalised. I suppose if kids are involved the priority is to ensure they are taken care of but it's still a mental set-up.

We needed 2 frames to put my son's school certificates in. Due to lockdown rules, only 1 of us can go out so I had to rely on my wife to get them. I wrote down the exact size we needed and off she went to the shopping centre. She's just back - the size is wrong. I asked how this could be and she said the shop assistant said they'd fit. Now, she didn't have the certificates with her (again, I repeat, she had the sizes written down) so how the f**k could the assistant know they'd fit and why didn't they use the sizes I gave as a wee clue? I'm displeased.

When in was living and working in the UK I would not have left a job for less than I was currently getting paid. Too much risk of out of the frying pan, into the fire to risk losing money. Where I am now, I could live off £8,000 but I have my house paid for - 2 adults, 1 child. I don't see how I could live off less here.

Not the best Buzz Lightyear costume I've seen

Situational, but it may be the case that the less work A does, the more B and C have to. And too many As could put a company/department at risk. You won't hear many folk complaining that so and so is too hard working. Basically, hard workers are the good guys and the bone idle are the bad guys to most.

Sure. But, do people really vote based on specific policies or more based on agreement with a general ethos? And, perhaps in the USA voters do not have a viable alternative party they can vote for which can offer them specific policies they believe in. Democracy may be the best political option we have but it's not perfect - far from it.

Welcome to my world, Slippery!

Does the same logic apply to the current UK Gov?

Shouldn't that be 36mph in a 30 zone?

I think you know which it is.

How many of them were products of the youth set-up seeing as that appears to be the road Utd are going down? Maybe they all were, I don't know.

Ah the good old days when the males in the family played a game and the females did the chores, and were delighted to do so going by the looks on their faces.

Based on today's BBC website article, I'm not convinced that's true. Assuming both Tams are Tam Courts that is.