Because The United Kingdom?

[TrustMe]

For those outside the UK. The Aintree Grand National is the biggest horse racing event in the UK. And it's in the same city Liverpool, as i'm from 🐎

Edited April 12 by TrustMe

[Stuart Galbraith]

I blame Peaky Blinders.

[rmgill]

No, these are Horsey Blinders. 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Ah, Pikey Blinders, gotcha.

[Ivanhoe]

18 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Ah, Pikey Blinders, gotcha.

Starring Brad Pitt.

[Ssnake]

Dawgs?

[sunday]

5 hours ago, Ssnake said:

Dawgs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Travellers

[Stuart Galbraith]

Personally, I like Pikeys. But Id like them even more if they were not ripping off 200 year old road signs and selling them to scrap merchants. Pikey gotta Pikey.

Edited April 13 by Stuart Galbraith

[rmgill]

 

[JWB]

In Britain?

 

[JWB]

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

What do you think we have the Battle of Britain memorial flight for?

 

[Ivanhoe]

1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

What do you think we have the Battle of Britain memorial flight for?

 

Dude, have the RAF mount tons of cameras on the Hurricanes and Spits, and run pay-per-view livestreams on Netflix or whatever. The revenue from history buffs would restore the UK to Empire levels of wealth.

Even you simple, mud-encrusted country folk would be living like Kuwaitis.

[Stuart Galbraith]

We won't, that will all be pissed away on tax breaks for the super rich, just like the oil was.

Good idea about livestreaming though.👍

[Ivanhoe]

1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

We won't, that will all be pissed away on tax breaks for the super rich, just like the oil was.

Good idea about livestreaming though.👍

Privatize the RAF. This Is The Way.

Of course, the way the British economy has been the last 30+ years, it would be Royal Air Force GmbH. 😆

The smart move, however, would be for Tata or other Indian conglomerate to buy the RAF lock, stock, and barrel. They've done wonders with Triumph and Royal Enfield. What's the Hindi word for "mosquito?"

[rmgill]

Licensing system for Crossbows...
 

 

[rmgill]

44 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

Privatize the RAF. This Is The Way.

Of course, the way the British economy has been the last 30+ years, it would be Royal Air Force GmbH. 😆

The smart move, however, would be for Tata or other Indian conglomerate to buy the RAF lock, stock, and barrel. They've done wonders with Triumph and Royal Enfield. What's the Hindi word for "mosquito?"

Now you're just pulling his tail. 

[Ivanhoe]

1 hour ago, rmgill said:

Now you're just pulling his tail. 

A Creaking Tail

by Ambrose Bierce

An American Statesman who had twisted the tail of the British Lion until his arms ached was at last rewarded by a sharp, rasping sound.

“I knew your fortitude would give out after a while,” said the American Statesman, delighted; “your agony attests my political power.”

“Agony I know not!” said the British Lion, yawning; “the swivel in my tail needs a few drops of oil, that is all.”

 

 

[Ssnake]

7 hours ago, JWB said:

In Britain?

Never thought there were tornadoes in Germany when I was young, but there are as I learned in the last 25 years. Short-lived, maybe, but they simply weren't widely reported in the past. But that doesn't mean they don't exist. Just not as prominent as in, say, Kansas.

If they're here, I guess they're everywhere.

[Ivanhoe]

3 hours ago, Ssnake said:

Never thought there were tornadoes in Germany when I was young, but there are as I learned in the last 25 years. Short-lived, maybe, but they simply weren't widely reported in the past. But that doesn't mean they don't exist. Just not as prominent as in, say, Kansas.

If they're here, I guess they're everywhere.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

11 hours ago, rmgill said:

Now you're just pulling his tail. 

Im not offended. Like a Korean conglomorate would handle the RAF any worse than the MOD has. You only have to look at what they have done to RAF Scampton and Bentley Priory over the past 14 years, to see these scum sucking maggots have zero interest in the history or functionality of the RAF.

 

Tornado's. Well, doing a quick search, for square mile we have twice as many tornado's as the US. Though they are usually dinky ones. Perhaps we are just noticing them more as the get stronger with climate change.

https://theconversation.com/tornadoes-in-the-uk-are-surprisingly-common-and-no-one-knows-why-209921

[Stuart Galbraith]

11 hours ago, rmgill said:

Licensing system for Crossbows...
 

 

Chavs use crossbows, Gentlemen use Longbows.

[Ssnake]

1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Perhaps we are just noticing them more as the get stronger with climate change.

I think we're noticing them more because everybody has a TV quality videocamera in his pocket these days. They've always been there. Now they get reported because there's dramatic footage available, even if a single barn is all that got damaged, as long as it looks telegenic.

Heck, TV news even accept vertical video these days. I, for one, say no to a wrinkled Mila Kunis!

 

[bojan]

There is a local archaic name for a tornado in northern Serbia, indicating that it was common enough occurrence in the 18/19th century to get named.

[Ivanhoe]

2 hours ago, bojan said:

There is a local archaic name for a tornado in northern Serbia, indicating that it was common enough occurrence in the 18/19th century to get named.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_tornadoes_and_tornado_outbreaks

Quote

The London Tornado of 1091 is the earliest reported tornado in England, occurring in London on Friday, 17 October 1091.[6][7] It has been reckoned by modern assessment as possibly a T8 on the TORRO scale (roughly equivalent to low-end F4 on the Fujita scale) making it potentially the strongest recorded tornado in the British Isles,[8] although this estimate is based on reports written 30 years after the tornado.[4]

Tornado counts, and damage assessments, pretty much track linearly with population. Same with hurricane records in CONUS. 100 years ago in CONUS, probably 2/3 of the tornadoes that occurred hit wilderness or rural areas with no phones, no newsies, no cellphones.

Of course, the "ice cream causes crime" crowd isn't interested in hypothesis testing, objectivity, falsifiability, or anything else. In control system lingo, they are open-loop.