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''Mikes comments on Landrovers is interesting... my Defender doesn't have any leaf springs so they must have been quite old ones. Another interesting thing...the series II used by the SAS in the desert in the 60's were painted entirely pink (even the steering wheel) to blend in with the desert...

I don't know if it has changed now, but if you served in the French Foreign legion, once you have completed your contract you would be given french citizenship, if you wanted it!! It should be the same with the Gurkhas, once they have done their time,they should be given British citizenship if...

I've heard people talking on the radio, that the ones you can buy from b&q and such places are not worth it..you will never get your money back!! The great Johny Ball was talking one night, and even he said that they were a waste of time,,a gimmick.

I've been watching and listening to the proms very loosely, but did watch Nicholas Daniel, a brilliant oboeist, a couple of times. On the first night playing the Mozart oboe concerto,( i play the flute,and love the Mozart flute concertos, no2 k314, was written for the oboe, then Mozart adapted...

I got the uni-loc 1700 major tripod, a bit of a beast and heavy to carry but very sturdy, especially when using fast long lenses. At the time i went out to get a Benbo one, but the shop had both makes,and the uni-loc won.. I had a ball and socket head but could never get on with it, so bought a...

I think someone has hit one of the nails on the head in a previous post, the generation gap!! I have heard it quite a bit,,maybe not on here, where the older generation always seem to think that the younger generation are never as good as them. I expect this has happened all down through time...

Roger..go back and read the first half a dozen or so posts on the topic..

If i am taking this in the correct context, exactly, how many people will be put off of posting because they feel, the more learned will be more interested in how well they spell,punctuate and the choice of words they use, than the actual post itself.

With Lord lucan and Elvis Prestly...

Most new lorries are made to use a chemical called adblue now, and from all accounts,talking to mechanics, you can sit quite happily near the exhaust pipe and you will be completely ok,,would not like to try it though!!! Why this system cannot be fitted to cars,i don't know,may be the cost, but...

Is that, to boldly go where no man has gone before. :D

Anyone care for a little wager on how many pages this topic will go on for..

Oh, come on fella's, read back through the posts. There's one just been written just above this, all about the word drawer.

oopps, should have been lightning.. [-(

It should be on the way to you soon, it's raining here, thunder and lighting too....still humid though..

Yes, your right, punctuation is no arcane science, and yes if i write a letter or post here i will try to use the correct punctuation and spelling, it may not be right sometimes, but i try, but the last thing i would do is knock someone for how they spell or use punctuation, nor would i come...

""Intelligent and thinking people are always pleased to learn something new. Those who consider that they don't have anything to learn are generally conceited, pompous, or as thick as pigshit. Cheers Dan"" My views on this are,,why do people come onto a forum and boast how well they can...

Well..this takes the biscuit now...so if someone is not as intelligent as you, it means they are either conceited, pompous or as thick as pigshit,,well that's a new one!!!! I would call someone who has got to go out of their way to impress on other people how well they can speak or spell...

Just on the above,,if its comes out angry,,its not meant to...

I don't know where you are in Wales Digit,,but i have friends over the bridge,,and have been told that if they go up to north Wales the same thing happens to them,,as happened to Smudger in France..And correct me if i am wrong, but was the language a dead one in the past?? Even though it has...