Especially not with kids around.

I’m always amused by the number of gun advocates who are clearly overweight and unhealthy (ignoring the obvious low IQ, distinct lack of intellectual curiosity and paucity of emotional intelligence as these are, after all, low hanging fruit when talking about the US gun crowd). I’m not convinced these fine upstanding citizens will be the quickest to draw their weapons in a shootout when they have 70% body fat.

This video shows that most tired of tropes; Americans advocating personal freedom by sticking staunchly to collectivist principles. Freedom apparently means having ‘operation Rambo’ simmering in the back of your mind at all times incase some ‘hood rat’ decides to invade your hardboard bungalow. Yippee ki yay!

For me this raises a question that I don’t see asked very often. Kermit Weeks has an amazing collection, including the Lancaster that got smashed at Woodford (etc etc). Surely he doesn’t have the time left to be restoring all of this stuff? It seems like Fantasy of Flight is now operating more like a storage facility than the full-blown tourist attraction it once was, so surely this won’t remain a sustainable venture for Kermit in the long run? I keep seeing the comment sold to Kermit Weeks, but at some point that vast collection will have to be sold off. The loss of the Sunderland as a flyable aircraft seems frustrating, and the Lancaster doesn’t appear to have made any progress either.

What and get a free chip on my shoulder?

Chips come free with the Mars bars. Chips on shoulders seems a somewhat ironic concept in a UKIP thread. :eagerness:

I might be wrong, but from your comment;

There is so much I would like to say on this subject, but I’m sure it would attract numerous posts from people who
suffer from genuine ailments (…)

…tends to suggest that you would like to make such a post but you are worried that somebody somewhere might not hold the same opinion. Your choice of wording ‘genuine ailments’ suggests that there are less-than-genuine ailments being talked about somewhere, which I logically deduce to be the article on eating disorders.

Tell me I’m wrong!

Sorry Tony, the news in your link looks like a good thing? Could you clarify please?

Any fule kno that eating disorders are a liberal invention that only goes to show what happens if you give kids too much personal freedom. In my day we had porridge 3 times a day and none of us had even heard anorexia, bulimia or binge-eating. I blame the yanks, poofters and women for introducing these ideas to our impressionable kids.

Am I on the right track?

Re 16

They’re not the sole province of lefties. My concern is drawing attention to the influence of State control.

Absolutely. I was meaning, rather more simply, that ‘libertarian’ is a homophone of liberal, and perhaps somebody could read one as the other.

“…he is a nostalgic spasm for a Britain that never was…”

Not sure ‘spasm’ is the correct word here. Having said that, I would tend to agree with Brand’s views on Farage in this instance.