For the record I don’t think there is a god. Quite why this means I have to belong to a group of individuals beats me. The way I see it, I am better at some things than others. I am quite a good musician, whereas I know people who are tone deaf. I know people who are deeply spiritual, but I myself find I struggle to even imagine what that must feel like. I don’t think I need to ever congregate with other spiritually-lacking individuals expressly to bitch about those that find solace in organised religion, but perhaps that is just me.

I think that politics will change over time, and that atheist leaders will be accepted in the fairly near future. I’m more surprised that people value Blair’s supposed faith, though he did tone (geddit?) it down a bit whilst in power.

Excellent news, after all it’s simply a revenue generating tool, if the cars were a problem they should be removed, not simply fined and left.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27952341

I’m not a car owner, but this is good news. I get especially annoyed when this sort of practice is peddled as having an environmental benefit.

What’s all this to do with the Scottish Referendum:confused:

I dare say Salmond has shown his true colour by choosing to quit on the spot. Whilst hardly surprising, if he really had the interests of us Scots at heart then he would be sticking out his term. Perhaps history shows this is always the case, I’m not knowledgeable in this regard. I really do not look forward to having Sturgeon as our next leader. Again, Salmond was the only good orator in that party, whilst Sturgeon squawks out smug platitudes and hyperbole with neither wit nor sophistication. I was lucky enough to catch her on Daily Politics failing to answer any questions whilst giving it the duh, its obvious rhetoric.

From reading his web site he seem to be talking about being under suspicion of using his aircraft to smuggle drugs…

The website of Maurice Kirk paints him as a delusional Walter Mitty crank. Sadly he is anything but unique on the internet in this regard.

To quote;

Maurice’s life is now dominated by his legal actions as a ‘chronic litigant’. He believes that his nightmarish harassments by police in Somerset, Guernsey and South Wales are due to the fact that he was assumed to be smuggling drugs with his aeroplanes. Harassed by police in South Wales, resulted even in being struck off the register of veterinary surgeons, in 2001. Having won over 120 allegations, brought by the South Wales Police, he is now currently leading numerous Actions, including several at the Court of Appeal. His current Actions, for civil damages against South Wales Police, include costs claimed by the Police for over £800,000. The Police, however, were abusing MAPPA regulations to try to have him shot or at least to accept a Broadmoor prison sentence, for life, instead.

I wonder what it is about aircraft modellers?

Must be all the fumes.

It could be my monitor. I’m using a dual-monitor setup and I recently did a factory reset on both of them only for them to default to completely different hues when displaying a white testcard.

Olive may be over stating it, but there is a deeper, bluer almost turquoise edge to the colour of the Vulcan seat. For a real laugh, dig up a Britmodeller thread on the colour ‘sky’, and maybe go so far as to claim they got it right in the BOB film. :eagerness:

A wonderful find. The colour looks a little interesting. From spending too much time lurking on the Brit Modeller forum, it would appear that aircraft interiors are commonly painted various shades of Eau-de-Nil or BS381-283 Aircraft Green Grey. This seat appears to have a wee bit more olive to it, though it may be my monitor. Has the seat been restored by the previous owner prior to its trip to the scrappies?

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D’awwwwwww.

I do not think Salmond was the man to bring Scotland to independence. As a Scot, I did find his paucity of solid facts rather troubling, though it is easy to say that he was/is the best orator in Scottish politics by quite some margin. However, this time it was a one man show and I think the Yes/SNP/Indy camp will realise this once the dust settles. With such a strong turnout they can hardly claim malpractice.

I’m interested to hear what English forum users here think of the idea of English devolution. To my mind it seems like a logical conclusion as it rids you of problems such as the West Lothian question. I personally see no reason why us Scots should be able to freely meddle in English-only matters.