The big problem with displaying your equality credentials, is that they may come back to bite. If only Anglo-Saxon history is to be taught, then 1066 will disappear from the syllabus, since, as far as I’m aware, William was a Norman.

Moggy, I apologise for giving you extra work, although seeing that my last posting was at 01.04, several of us must have disturbed sleep patterns.
Perhaps it’s something in the water…..

Can only speak from personal experience, but normally it’s because of the water wanting to escape.

And here we have a perfect example of why my Mum advised me never to discuss politics, or religion, because it’s always likely to end in a fight. When the red mist descends (as it’s bound to do,) reason goes out of the window.
Did Mrs. Thatcher know, in advance, about the invasion? Of course she didn’t, since it was the duty of her Foreign Secretary to find out, and brief her, which he signally failed to do. Did she know we would win? That’s another “of course she didn’t,” and to imply that she made herself more popular by going to war, is daft beyond reason, since she’d have been finished if we’d lost. The days of Jingoism died in the 1914-18 war.
Do I have any time for her politics? No, I don’t, but not for all these emotive smokescreens that are being put up; I remember the sell-off of the water industry, when companies were allowed to cut off supplies to those who couldn’t pay their bills, effectively starving them to death. Neither do I have time for Wilson, Callaghan, Blair, Heath, or their minions and successors, either, since they’ve done nothing but cost me money and heartache, all my life.
However, I stop short of wishing them dead, or being glad that they are, since I feel that, sadly, says more about your personality than ever it does about them.

I thought most drivers treat red lights as pretty decorations, anyway?

A riderless horse was probably just following the herd [it would never have won].
It was running in it’s own comfort zone NOT being forced to accelerate when it was tired,jump when it shouldn’t and didn’t have the weight of a jockey either.
I’ve just done a 3 mile run round my village at my pace so i finished without killing myself BUT if someone had been forcing me to run faster and faster halfway round i doubt i would’ve finished.

You are (deliberately?) missing the point; that horse (just as you were, running in your village) was there, because it wanted to be, and riders don’t “force” a horse to jump, they ask it. Jockeys are not sadists either; see how often a horse is “pulled up,” because the rider can feel that it has nothing more to offer, and, contrary to your opinion, he/she does not want to see a horse suffer, or die.

And a riderless horse came in second; rather calls into question the “forced, by slavery, into jumping” notion, doesn’t it, especially since every fence has a run-off area, at the side, which any horse can choose to take, if it feels like it?

When he gives his face its annual wash, everything will be fine.

As soon as the South Korean/U.S. wargames are over, and the Americans go home, the North Koreans will be able to tell their populace that they’ve forced the opposition into a humiliating climbdown, and everything will go quiet again.