I think you did them proud.

I’d swear that was at Blackpool Reg. office if you weren’t from Bratfid.

Couldnt agree with ya more, funny part is, its the same story in the US.

What….you paying $9.66 a gallon? (Imperial) Or $8.05 (Artificial US measure 🙂 )

USA would stop in its tracks if people were forced to pay that much.

Last week, my neighbours somewhat neglected pond was full of frogs and toads, the noise coming from it put McCartneys frog chorus to shame.
My stepson has been carefully retrieving any frog or toad that he’s found in the road on his ‘adventures’ and we ended up with a small toad in our pond.
The racket that this thing made was incredible, so the mob next door seem to have come under the fence to join him, well our pond is deeper, cleaner and full of plants.
It is now a seething mass of frogs and toads, the amount of frogspawn has started to displace the water, as I write they are all croaking away, and it tends to go on all night. Our dogs think it’s wierd and sit there staring at them.
I don’t know what Mr Pike thinks of all this, I presume he knows he’s in for a good feast, I’m surprised he hasn’t had a go at the frogs yet, maybe he has, theres so many that one missing wouldn’t be noticed.
I don’t know what the growth rate in frogs is over a year, but I doubt that any of these are the original offspring from our last years tadpoles, I also gather that the survival rate amongst tadpoles is incredibly low, ie if you have a typical pond full of frogspawn, only about 10 frogs will hop off into the wild, and what will their survival rate be.

But, any that do survive, plus the ones now domestically set up in your pond…..will be back next year to lay more.

Beautiful creatures, but can be a pest when too many.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-OdE2LN0tzU

Or, goto YouTube and look for Young Engineers. It’s the 2nd and 3rd video.

Superbly done advert.

Oh goody.
A possible future oil glut.

World prices will come down, economies will be able to transport good cheaply again.

Except in UK. Our shower will find an excuse to increase the price and the duty on it.

People forget, WE were an oil producing nation. Where has all that wealth gone? Pi55ed away on “Social payments” that’s where.

We are an island built of coal, surrounded by fish that swim above oil. But we have shortages of all these. Pitiful, if it was a business you’d close it.

Did you ever see that super turbo charged one? It was covered in one of the boy racer mags.
The nearside (Left) headlight was removed and the hole was used as an extra air-intake.
Mad!

Swerve his using the 2009 USAF budget that was released in February this year. The unit “Fly Away Cost” for the entire 1763 F-35A was a bit more than 83 million US$.

It doesn’t really matter what Ex rate you use, any published costs for any defence product of such magnitude have a massive amount of caveats behind them. I sell the darn things.
There is not really a “Fly-away” cost for any military A/c, it depends on the whole deal. Most deals have some sort of offset, a side deal of weapons (Not included in the same contract but a memo of understanding has been signed), special finance deals, who’s paying the initial spares provision etc. etc. etc.
In the case of Libya, we have shut him out since Lockerbie, he’s had to buy Russian stuff. Since 2005 he is our new best friend he wants all the latest kit and has 25 years of oil savings to buy it with. The Col. will soon retire but Number 1 Son will be looking after most of the big future deals.
In dealing with the Son, it is clear that money is not the object, product is. The Libyans do a massive amount of research on each product, funding all the competitors with “Bid construction and product development” money. However, getting them to lay an egg and sign up is a bit like dealing with India!!!
BAe were into Libya within a couple of years of Lockerbie. It takes 15 to 20 years to develop a new military customer, so they weren’t going to miss that boat.