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GarethM

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  1. Everyone knows Guinness is liquidised penguins and the white stuff floats to the top
  2. Actually it does have a fjord with your northern neighbours and yes I've know people that have been, they also have a lot of lakes and it can't be racist as your British. And may I suggest you speak to anyone in Sweden, they make my insistence of the greatness of British engineering look tame and I've worked with a lot of them over the years. Well it's merica 1st, plain and simples.
  3. So if it's soooooo made up why do you care from your Swedish wood spoiling fjord ?. Is it going to effect/affect you one bit ?. All I hear, is another excuse to have your doom mongering tds fix. Whilst having a who's TDs is worse leaderboard.
  4. They only send letters via royal mail round here, I was wondering if that's a nation wide thing or if I was just on some rural naughty list.
  5. Isn't this a repost of a repost?.
  6. All tariffs are quid pro quo. They reduce their tariff and so will trump, it's a game of chicken and generally speaking why we got off quite lightly at 10%. Simplistically, make them either zero or like for like with most countries that play fair, maybe not china as they government subsidised metal for example. Everyone else it becomes free market and the consumer decides how much they actually buy. Use the chicken or cars for example, if we have access and it's a fair market. But we don't buying it, nobody can say waaah that's not fair.
  7. And how do you change that decline, by building it in country instead of being a call centre and making energy cheap and plentiful. My tractor was built in Doncaster, now they're made in Italy. You trying to tell me the Italians work for less than us ?.
  8. Whitworth definitely defined and effectively built the industry. Beforehand every bolt and nut was different. Ford if memory serves also used Phillips due to accidents and speed of flat blades screws. They were going to use the Canadian Robertson but shenanigans and probably brown envelopes. Black and decker, Milwaukee and a few others if my memory of watching history stuff is to be believed.
  9. As per mark, it's all hours but realistically anything more than say 1.5 hours and it's digs territory especially if it's 3 hours of sitting in a van.
  10. And interchangeably of screws/bolts is generally attributed to Whitworth. They built a college/BBC studios on the old works for the Olympics in Manchester in the late 90/00s.
  11. Johansson Gauge Block Set, 1923 - The Henry Ford WWW.THEHENRYFORD.ORG Ford Motor Company's mass production methods depended on precision parts and tooling, and precision depended on exact... Memory serves he bought the company
  12. No I'm suggesting if the Americans wanted they could churn out whatever they want. I also remember as a country they made the atomic bomb, went to the moon okay with the help of a German. Stop being so dismissive of a country being able to make what it requires, he'll you're probably extolling the virtues of 3d printing as a circular economy. Just because you're copy of the big issue your chugging is probably printed in Vietnam, doesn't mean the Americans can't survive and thrive.
  13. Remind me again who practically invented the moving assembly line, I can't for the life of me remember the name of the man who also introduced gauge blocks as well.
  14. One assumes you do that Monday morning and home Friday?
  15. Plus nearly all coal sold is now entirely smokeless, so is a manufactured product and supplied sealed. Falls into the whole contamination bs cluster fk area of planning. And our government friends stopped house coal in 2023 same time as the firewood registration shenanigans and pretty much killed the coal industry.
  16. Or they'll just buy American, simple solution. But as usual let's defend the EU because they're our masters. Nothing wrong with family and then country coming 1st. The USA has a population of circa 300 million so why shouldn't they make it domestically?.
  17. Which part of buy merican are you having trouble with, or are you seriously arguing a country of what 300million can't be relatively self sufficient?. You're EU already tariffs the hell out of a lot of countries and then crys fair trade when it suits them.
  18. Most coal merchants use sealed bags, partly for convenience but also due to keeping things dry.
  19. Speak to teleradio over in Runcorn They're the importer & distributor for Teleradio & Akerstroms. Think the last 4 button I got was 312 Inc vat for the complete system and remote
  20. Yup, eBay and Amazon a plenty. Including usb power adaptors, screw under shelf storage brackets as well.
  21. We both know it's not rocket science, he even stood there with a placard for the hard of thinking. Mostly reciprocal tariffs, then the MSM are decrying fair trade. Erm, you might find these are now equal terms and now the consumer decides and buys local 1st. You're average person has no clue about the complexity of the Taric lists for imports.
  22. Sussh, they have a coal man and no fire and the milkman is always round when he's out.
  23. So at £35, that's £26 profit after buying the bag and delivery as collection means business rates.
  24. Plus these Argos/Screwfix/Toolstation etc saws are also used mostly without any PPE. So when you think about it the low numbers of accidents are amazing, granted they probably get just a few hours a year usage at most.

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