Because The United Kingdom?

[Rick]

4 hours ago, rmgill said:

*sigh*

St George's Cross. St George, Patron Saint of England, among other locales. 



It's a film but it points to the history and the Patron Saint of England. 
 

While we're on it, here's the St Andrews Cross (aka the Saltire), National Flag of Scotland.  Also representative of St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. 



Alabama's flag, a red and white version of above is meant as a nod to the Scottish St Andrew's Cross. 

And St Patrick's cross as a flag as well. St Patrick is of course the patron saint of Ireland. 




The Union Jack is a combination of the aspects of three older national flags of Scotland, England and Ireland. The red cross of St George for the Kingdom of England, the white saltire of St Andrew for the Kingdom of Scotland and the red saltire of St Patrick to represent Ireland.




Here endith the lesson in Vexillology. 
If you'd like to learn more, might I suggest this. 

 

4 hours ago, rmgill said:

*sigh*

St George's Cross. St George, Patron Saint of England, among other locales. 



It's a film but it points to the history and the Patron Saint of England. 
 

While we're on it, here's the St Andrews Cross (aka the Saltire), National Flag of Scotland.  Also representative of St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. 



Alabama's flag, a red and white version of above is meant as a nod to the Scottish St Andrew's Cross. 

And St Patrick's cross as a flag as well. St Patrick is of course the patron saint of Ireland. 




The Union Jack is a combination of the aspects of three older national flags of Scotland, England and Ireland. The red cross of St George for the Kingdom of England, the white saltire of St Andrew for the Kingdom of Scotland and the red saltire of St Patrick to represent Ireland.




Here endith the lesson in Vexillology. 
If you'd like to learn more, might I suggest this. 

No desire to learn more, but thanks for your post, that is good enough.

[JWB]

 

[Rick]

17 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Rick, please tell me you are joking.

 

13 hours ago, rmgill said:

*sigh*

St George's Cross. St George, Patron Saint of England, among other locales. 



It's a film but it points to the history and the Patron Saint of England. 
 

While we're on it, here's the St Andrews Cross (aka the Saltire), National Flag of Scotland.  Also representative of St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland. 



Alabama's flag, a red and white version of above is meant as a nod to the Scottish St Andrew's Cross. 

And St Patrick's cross as a flag as well. St Patrick is of course the patron saint of Ireland. 




The Union Jack is a combination of the aspects of three older national flags of Scotland, England and Ireland. The red cross of St George for the Kingdom of England, the white saltire of St Andrew for the Kingdom of Scotland and the red saltire of St Patrick to represent Ireland.




Here endith the lesson in Vexillology. 
If you'd like to learn more, might I suggest this. 

[rmgill]

I should hope you remember all that with writing it on the chalkboard 3 times. There will be a pop quiz sometime later this week. 
 

🙃

[JWB]

 

[Murph]

Why would they do that?  Sorry I forgot Brits are subjects not Citizens.      

[Stuart Galbraith]

Because the legislation  was bad and wouldn't protect Jewish speakers. That, and they have quite a lot of legislation  to get through the house already.

Before anyone kicks off about labour supporting  Hamas, the Prime Ministers wife is Jewish.

[Ivanhoe]

41 minutes ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

Because the legislation  was bad and wouldn't protect Jewish speakers. That, and they have quite a lot of legislation  to get through the house already.

Before anyone kicks off about labour supporting  Hamas, the Prime Ministers wife is Jewish.

Our VPOTUS is married to a Jewish guy, that does not prevent her from going on about Hamas children casualties while ignoring Israeli child casualties.

https://forward.com/news/563870/meet-the-jews-defending-hamas/
 

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Rivkah Brown, a Jewish editor at the progressive British media outlet Novara, initially said that Saturday “should be a day of celebration for supporters of democracy and human rights worldwide, as Gazans break out of their open-air prison.”

The following day she clarified that she did not condone “rape and other atrocities.”

“I’m celebrating Palestinian armed resistance,” she wrote on X. “I don’t condone every act taken by that resistance.”

 

TMK, prisoners in open-air prisons do not normally have AKs, mortars, or artillery rockets. But to the left, lies are OK as long as the narrative the lies support originate with the left wing.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Once again, I think we are back to the Red tinted spectacles, when everything is seen through the prisim of the Socialist menace, when in reality it was just crap legislation, like the majority of legislation that was put through parliament int he last 14 years. And nowhere is it said that Labour wont ever introduce legislation to protect free speech, just that this isnt going to be it.

I think the idea that a man who has a Jewish wife is suddenly going to go all in attacking Israel is ridiculous. Particularly after the colossial amount of shit he has taken purging the party of the pro Hamas faction, which is seems has been mentally airbrushed. Even the jewish community in Britain has noticed the hard work he has put in, trying to purge the party of the pro Corbyn mafia.

https://forward.com/news/630471/labour-antisemitism-united-kingdom-jews-vote-keir-starmer/

[rmgill]

6 hours ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

I think the idea that a man who has a Jewish wife is suddenly going to go all in attacking Israel is ridiculous.

Did you miss the attempts to paint Trump as an antisemite? 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yes, and I thought them ridiculous.

[lucklucky]

 

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 RADICAL religious group has raised more than £3 million to buy an entire Scottish island, with the aim to create a closed community which practices sharia law.

On Sunday, the Daily Mail reported that the London-based preacher Sheikh Yasser al-Habib and his followers were in “advanced talks” to purchase the island of Torsa, in Argyll.

The 271-acre Torsa island, which is roughly 20 miles south of Oban, is currently being marketed by Savills, which is inviting offers of over £1,500,000.

 

Al-Habib is the founder of the Mahdi Servants Union (MSU), which runs military-style training camps and the Fadak Shia Islam TV channel from a private compound in the village of Fulmer, South Buckinghamshire.

 

https://www.thenational.scot/news/24481092.radical-islamists-raise-3m-buy-scottish-island-new-homeland/

[Stuart Galbraith]

Which would actually have been a really good idea. Its absolutely tiny, with no way to fit in all the things he wanted, with lousy transport links, and subject to storms from the Atlantic and some of the worst snow imaginable. Basically, they should have let him get on with it, because it would have been pure comedy to watch.

 

Im surprised nobody has posted about this truly dreadful incident yet.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/30/police-searching-for-motive-for-southport-stabbings-focus-on-suspects-mental-health

[Mike1158]

Slippery slope and should never be allowed.  I know, TIC, the jews in London tried to declare a 'border within a border' for jews to go to when they wanted to break religious doctrine.  It was blocked then so it should be blocked now.

 

If someone want to live in a certain way, perhaps they should bugger off to a country where that life style is the norm?  No, they would not be pandered to in the same way they are used to here.  Even taking this as a joke is overblowing the thing.

 

Not going to take it too seriously, it does not deserve to be tbh.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Yeah, that's the right way I think.

This is hilarious.

 

[Mike1158]

Priceless, almost pee'd myself though.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Sometimes a brick to the balls, isn't enough of a hint apparently.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Dickheads.

[JWB]

 

[DB]

On 7/24/2024 at 12:19 PM, Rick said:

Out of curiosity, does Great Britain fund its roads on a local, regional (similar to a U.S. state), and national level?

It's both.

The county or borough council is responsible for most roads, and the Highways Agency is responsible for motorways and primary routes. The latter tend to be low-digit roads with an "A" prefix. They're also marked as primary routes on maps.

Historically, winter weather conditions both cause cheaply maintained road surfaces to lift, and the temperature and wetness are not conducive to decent repairs until the spring. Unfortunately, the idiocy of central funding constraints being operated on a "use it or lose it" basis tends to mean that deferred repairs have to be rushed prior to the end of the business year, which is at the start of April.

In recent years, due in part to local government fiscal incompetence, but also at least equally due to the last 16 years of awful finances since the financial crisis back then and the government's "austerity" policy coinciding with COVID measures and all that jazz, central government limited local tax raises (aka council tax, which is roughly speaking equivalent to US property taxes) and also the central funding component. Now a lot of councils are hanging by a thread from bankruptcy (or whatever the local government equivalent is), and so road mending gets punted down the line, along with a bunch of other services.

One of the problems is that the repair method is inevitably inadequate - cheap labour shovelling tarmacadam into holes without proper preparation and inadequate sealing inevitably fails due to water ingress and subsequent hydraulic pumping, usually at exactly the same point every year.

This is exacerbated by resurfacing works that are basically limited to shaving the old surface and then laying fresh tarmac and grit, then relying on the local traffic to bed it in - I've not seen a road roller in action on local roads in years.

[rmgill]

10 minutes ago, DB said:

This is exacerbated by resurfacing works that are basically limited to shaving the old surface and then laying fresh tarmac and grit, then relying on the local traffic to bed it in - I've not seen a road roller in action on local roads in years.

Weird.

That means your lorries probably play hell with the roads. 

US road construction has multiple types of rollers to get everything set unless they're pouring cast concrete surfaces. You'll see both pneumatic and steel drum types on ANY sort of asphalt paving job short of parking lots and small roads like neighborhood projects where speeds are 25mph. 

Edited August 1 by rmgill

[DB]

I think that resurfacing is intended to be an intermediate fix, with a full layer replacement every 20-30 years. Note that this is intended to be used for "minor" roads that don't see the traffic volume you'd get on major highways. think metalled surface country or county roads in the US, perhaps?

Of course, because it's cheap and relatively quickly implemented, it gets used where there isn't budget to cover what should have been done.

We also see over-use of a "Slippery Road" triangle warning sign, and "temporary" speed restrictions in some places, simply because it's a lot cheaper to stick a sign in the ground than it is to fix a road properly.

But yes, these surfaces have very limited lives in high traffic areas. They tend to fail on bends and in braking areas at speed limit changes, which should tell you all you need to know.

And then, of course, whenever the roads are repaired properly, a utility company comes along the following month and digs them all up again.

[DB]

For reference, the following are the red warning triangles used on UK roads.

https://roadsignsdirect.co.uk/road-signs/triangle

4th item top row

The last one on the eighth row is the slippery surface sign.

Yes, there is a sign warning of toads in the road.

[rmgill]

What, no warning sign for fast moving Vincent Black Shadows or slow moving steam traction engines?

[Stuart Galbraith]

12 hours ago, rmgill said:

Weird.

That means your lorries probably play hell with the roads. 

US road construction has multiple types of rollers to get everything set unless they're pouring cast concrete surfaces. You'll see both pneumatic and steel drum types on ANY sort of asphalt paving job short of parking lots and small roads like neighborhood projects where speeds are 25mph. 

They are pounding them to buggery.

Whats worse, I live on an A road, one that emergency services and Ambulances use (on average we see 2 or 3 of the latter a day, on peak days as many as 6). You would think that would get us preference for spending on the road surface, but no. We just get quick patches on, which usually disintegrate fairly rapidly under rain and 40 ton lorries.

Just to give you an appreciation, this was about 4 miles down the road from me in  Nailsworth. Its patched now, though the roads the other way into Stroud arent.