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  1. Oh yeah! I'll be in the General Forum until the comedian comes on....
  2. I'm not quite sure what you mean, or even if you mean me, but my Chevy pick up returns 20mpg overall, and thats with an automatic trans too!
  3. Maybe its because I havent driven in the UK for some years and my memory is fading but I remember going home to Crookes every day from work and having to slip the clutch all the time in bumper-to-bumper traffic from Redhill up past the Children's Hospital to Crookes. I've been driving automatics for six years now and my mpg is no worse than an equivelent manual, and its far more driver friendly. I drove an artic for a living up to a year ago, and changing up and down through 18 gears all day is hard work. I had a friend who drove an auto artic, got the same mileage (about 3.5 mpg), and didnt have left leg twice the size of his right!
  4. I remember that too from the seventies. I also remember my dad calling the sick benefit the 'Lloyd George', which must go back even farther.
  5. An air leak seems the most obvious cause of the problem to me too. But I disagree on automatics. Who needs to be changing gear endless times, and slipping the clutch in traffic, for God's sake? Give me an auto any day!
  6. I thought everyone had forgotten about that..... Thanks for reminding us.
  7. Sounds like my ex wife.....want her phone number?
  8. But you dont condemn the Irgun action. You can understand the frustration of the Jewish people, and thus the Irgun's actions are, by implication, regretable, but justifiable. Precisely the IRA apologists position. Personally I think blowing up a hotel, along with 91 people, after giving a warning or not, is indefensible, and no cause could possibly justify such an attack. Not the Holocaust, not any amount of frustration. The point I wanted to make is that the state of Israel was founded on, and is maintained by force , and Benhamin Netanyahu and his followers of today are simply the heirs to the bitterness of Menachem Begin and his Irgun faction in the 1940's. Netanyahu shows once again the dual standards that Israel always applies. He also neatly encapsulates the intransigence and irascibility of the Jewish people. Something unfortunately, which has been their hallmark down through history, and has, arguably, led to much of the persecution that they have experienced. The Holocaust was an enormous crime, but so was the genocide of the Native American people. Sadly, the Indians, unlike the Jews, dont have a movie industry dedicated to preserving the memory.
  9. Shall we place on record then that you consider these attacks on British soldiers in this case as acceptable? The British held the Mandate for Palestine and British troops were enforcing that Mandate. Doing their duty as they were required as British troops. The Holocaust could not justify these actions then, no more than it can today. The IRA used the very same arguments during its campaign, (but substituting British Rule for Holocaust). Do you consider that they were justified in attacking British soldiers? Certainly the King David Hotel massacre was an atrocity, as you say. But the present day leader of Israel, Benhamin Netanyahu, at the "Commemoration" of the attack in 2006 justified the attack because "a warning had been given". Precisely the same excuse used by the Provisional IRA after an attack had claimed lives. Bear in mind the official Israeli position on the 60th anniversary of the attack was " to mourn Jewish losses , but not to mourn British military losses , because Britain had never mourned the loss of Jews during the Holocaust" The British ambassador to Israel, to his credit, did at least register a protest at this comtemptous slight to brave British soldiers, many of whom were, in 1946, only one year along from defeating the very ones who had carried out the Holocaust. But should we be surprised when Ben Hecht, another Zionist "patriot", famously said during the Irgun and Stern campaign that " I have a little holiday in my heart everytime a British soldier is killed". The same zeitgeist exists in Israel today. The same bitterness pervades all their official thought, and sadly ensures perpetual warfare.
  10. Well of course they're guilty. The Israelis continue to hold the Occupied Territories in defiance of international law and UN resolution. What is all the more remarkable is that the state of Israel was founded on terrorism. Or has the world forgot the bombing of the King David hotel in Tel Aviv that killed so many British officers, or the five British sergeants killed by the Irgun and their booby trapped bodies hung in an orange grove, presumably to kill still more. Lets not forget that the leader of the Irgun was the bitter Menachin Begin, who later went on to become Prime Minister of Israel. A long time ago...? absolutely, but the Israelis are so fond of reciting episodes from the past but never seem to learn anything from them.
  11. Who went to St.Peters in the early sixties? Who remembers Mr. Farrell and Mr. Farmery? and Miss Johnson?
  12. I left a job in Sheffield when we moved to California. We married in 2002 and lived in Sheffield for one year, but my wife wanted to go back to California where she had lived for 30 years. She was born in New Orleans, but found Sheffield people very friendly and still keeps in touch with some of the friends she made there. The USA is a great place to live and work I've found, but having an American born spouse is a decided advantage.
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