I smoked from aged 17 until I was 40. Latterly I was going through a pack of 200 a week. I stopped when my wife was pregnant and I haven’t touched a cigarette since (almost 11 years now). Looking back now, I enjoyed smoking but I don’t regret stopping for a minute. I didn’t find it too hard to give up either.
Nowadays I can’t stand the smell of others smoking especially those that hang around outside doors of pubs or restaurants. I’m sure some might call me an ex-smoker Nazi but frankly I’d rather be an ex-smoker than a smoker any day.
As far as banning smoking in cars with children, why does it have to be enforceable? Like most other laws, the fact that it is illegal should be enough. If common sense prevailed, laws like this wouldn’t be need to be made in the first place.

Food regulations are designed to keep us safe. How this can be twisted to be seen as a bad thing, I have no idea. Oh wait….the regulations come from the EU don’t they? It must be bad then..:rolleyes:

In the example you gave, you actually used the “‘Less then ten in figures, more than ten in numerals” rule and it seems to work. However if the wrting is to be factually accurate e.g. then you would need to pay attention to the details. If the street is called “Seven Sisters Road” then “7 Sisters” would be wrong. Calling it a Cessna One seven two would also be factually wrong as the type designation is Cessna 172. So as well as flow, accuracy helps a great deal too.
A quick peruse of some novels on the shelf show that there the use of small numbers as words , less than ten or maybe less than a hundred seems to be common.
117-year old would appear to be used rather than one hundred and seventeen year old but twenty six year old would be more common than 26-year old.
Ther are exceptions to all rules so it would be better to say there are seven 3-year olds rather than 7 3-year olds or the rather more clumsy seven three-year olds.

“All my taxes are paying for your benefits!”

A better and more accurate way of stating it would be “Our taxes are paying for our benefits”

This automatic dismissal of all things “celebrity” totally fails to appreciate the place of “celebrity” in the modern world. Yes,there are many vacuous and talentless types – these usually grace the right hand column of the Daily Mail website.
There are however many very talented people in walks of life that use their “celebrity” to further causes, raise money for charity and provide good role models. Look at Stephen Hawking, Eddie Izzard, Bono and many others. Are they judged in the same way as the dreaded Kardashians or the cast of TOWIE? It would appear that to some they are all the same.

The comparison between Justin Bieber and One Direction is a good case. Bieber is an arrogant conceited little man who does his best to alienate those who put him there in the first place. One Direction on the other hand largely come across as decent and pleasant young men who are totally aware of why they are where they are.
(As a father of a 10 year old girl you have to know about these things…..)

Imagine going through life with cameras following you all day every day. Then ask yourself if you would carry on behaving “normally”.

Interesting that according to Wiki it used 560kW engine rather more than your design.

128m span!. There isn’t an airfield on the planet that wil be able to accomodate it! Maybe you should think of a seaplane.

So you had to trawl through the net back ten years to find that. Don’t forget if you go back a couple more generations you will find a Bomber Command Pilot who called his dog N*gger! I suppose you would call him a bloody fascist as well!

Yes, I noticed his views seem to be similar to a few on here….funny that….