OT: UK to move back to imperial units?

Not until Pearl Harbour at the end of 1941.

So says someone who's obviously got no counter argument.

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Who is this "us" you claim to be speaking on behalf of?

Two critical American contributions were food and aviation gas.

Standard russian troll babble again. Babble does not deserve arguments dear, just a brush off.

__Tell us what you do for a living.__ __Then tell us *when* you do it.__

Later in the war, 150 octane became available for the P-38, P-47, and P-51:

By this time the bombing had pretty much wiped out the Nazi fuel supply, causing critical fuel shortages across Germany. They even gambled on capturing fuel from the allies during the Battle of the Bulge. Didn't work.

He will tell neither. His behaviour is standard for a russian troll, he'll keep on babbling as long as he gets paid for his babble. Pathetic way to earn a living.

CD's behaviour is indistinguishable from a false-flag propaganda merchant. "Russian trolls" would do the same.

You misunderstood his note completely. Read it instead of reading the grauniad's bs.

NT

Oh very well, then. I'm the deputy toilet cleaner (night shift) at Waterloo East rail station in London (not to be confused with Waterloo Mainline or Waterloo International stations). I've been there for 5 years so far and when I get to 10 years' service, they'll give me a pair of rubber gloves and a brush!

While we're on unlikely suggestions, how about Europe modernises enough that they can compete on their merits and are competitive without the need for customs excise, then they wouldn't need a customs border anyhow?

Cursitor Doom is a gullible twit, so the idea that the people could be mislead by a bunch of plausible liars - Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage lead the pack - doesn't register with him.

The fact that you can sell a really silly idea to an appreciable chunk of the electorate doesn't make it a good idea.

Scarcely a comparable situation. Margaret Thatcher hadn't got around to dismantling the UK manufacturing industry in 1940 - it was still the workshop of the world back then. It isn't now.

All part of the widow dressing.

Cursitor Doom prefers the rubbish printed out and broadcast by his right-wing media. If it's far-right enough, Cursitor doom will believe it. It does have to be thoroughly divorced from reality to make him happy.

Europe has modernised well enough that Airbus sell more airliners than Boei ng, and Germany - on it's own - exports almost as much as the USA while hav ing only a quarter of the population.

Europe does universal education rather better than the USA and seems to be rather better at high technology in consequence. ASML in the Netherlands is now the industry leader in optical lithography - a market that used to be split between US and Japanese suppliers.

China graduates even more engineers, but the political system isn't great.

The point about Europe isn't that it hides behind customs barriers but rath er than it has removed internal customs barriers to create the kind of very large internal market that even the US has to envy.

Once you've got manufacturing set up to churn out that kind of volume, sell ing to the rest of the world isn't difficult. Increase your manufacturing v olume by a factor of ten and you can pretty much rely on halving the unit c ost of each item that you sell. It does help market penetration into smalle r markets.

On a sunny day (Sun, 28 Jul 2019 21:24:21 -0000 (UTC)) it happened Chris wrote in :

OK, was there not some weapon research exchange UK -US? Anyways from 1941 onwards is most of the war. UK was lucky they invented microwave radar (magnetron). They were very surprised about V1 and V2 rockets, as UK scientists told their government such long range rockets could not work with gunpowder (true) . but Germany did not use gunpowder...

A next world war what will it bring? Anti matter bombs, black hole bomb, time deletion weapons.. EMP weapons, evaporated earth, mind control weapons?

New encryption systems, low altitude nuclear drones...

The best one WILL win. Zombies left everywhere... It is evolution.

Empires came empires went, this will also happen to US and UK. And the wars will continue. One ant heap against the other.

How do you manage that, given that you don't live in the UK?[1]

Presumably you commute from France on the EuroStar. Must be a bit awkward now that no longer arrives at Waterloo.

Or perhaps that statement of yours is as valid as your other statements?

On 27/07/19 19:55, Cursitor Doom wrote: > On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:23:57 +0300, Tauno Voipio wrote: > >> Including guineas, pounds, shillings and pence? > > Served us perfectly well for centuries. I for one would love to see them > re-introduced. In fact I might even move back if that happened.

Why don't you suggest that to President Rump?

British Scientific Intelligence was aware of the V1 and V2, although they didn't know the details. See RV Jones' account in "Most Secret War" - which is still worth reading 45 years after it was published.

Cyber attacks.

Nobody /knows/ how effective they will be, nor their effects.

Those that survived sure as hell didn't want to go through that again.

I wonder what would happen if the Daily Sexpress and Daily Wail reminded their readers that people were strongly encouraged to slaughter their pets, so their food could be given to humans.

On a sunny day (Mon, 29 Jul 2019 08:00:09 +0100) it happened Tom Gardner wrote in :

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