[QUOTE=Snapper;1951291]Why is that a good point? It’s nothing to do with language, it’s to do with social etiquette.QUOTE]
Wrong, it has everything to do with vocabulary; learn to expand that, and it’s possible to express oneself without resorting to the same, tired old four-letter verb. Churchill got round the ban on calling a fellow MP a liar by saying that he was guilty of a “terminological inexactitude,” and, by the time the thought police had worked out his meaning, it was in Hansard, and too late to be changed.
I was lucky to have a succession of schoolmasters, and schoolmistresses, who instilled in me a love of the English language, and it’s truly painful to sometimes (all too often, in fact) read what passes for an official letter from my “betters,” with umpteen spelling and grammar mistakes, finally ending with the “writer” not having the courtesy to sign it.

Maybe, before getting wound up over foreign languages, we should try to educate our populace in their national tongue, English. From what I hear, wherever I travel, these days, if it has more than four letters, and doesn’t start with “f,” the majority seem dumbstruck.

And it’s in the papers, so of course it must be true; all governments are conniving scheming gangs, probably ever since they reluctantly (hah!!!) accepted pay for the job, instead of doing it for love/nothing. I’ve suffered at the hands of successive governments, of both hues, and no longer take a blind bit of notice of the yah-boo tit-for-tat mud-slinging, whether by politicians, or their supporters. Years ago, I was told, “Think of the incumbents of Westminster as a bunch of bananas; they start off green and straight, and finish up yellow and bent.” So far, I’ve seen nothing to dissuade me from that point of view.

Elevators – wooden, wingtip interiors – wooden, rudder – wooden, early clipped wingtips – wooden; on early Spitfires, the bottoms of the ribs were capped with wood, because the bottom skins were fixed with countersunk screws.

One day, given the chance to attain real adulthood, you might come to understand how some humans feel about a dog that saves the life of one of the family.

One of the things I am certain of – and Edgar may be surprised at this – is that the inside faces of the fuselage skins were never painted but the frames and intercostals were painted silver. .

Not too surprised; there was a modification, introduced in September 1943 “To delete painting of fuselage interior,” and someone had just pencilled in “IX” into the ledger.

Edgar – re AR213 – Westland were well known to adore Grey Green (or at least some variation of it) and must have stocked huge amounts of it as they painted everything that was not bolted down with it. I have seen the insides of Westland built Seafire XV outer wing sections – all that colour…. this practise was certainly in contrast to that of CBAF.

The Seafire XV might have come inside the drawing change, which went from silver to green; it’s yet another on the list of “things to check on.” As AR213 was Westland’s second airframe, there remains the suspicion that it, like the first “Mk.IIs” built by Castle Bromwich, actually came from a kit of parts supplied by Supermarine, not that it should make any difference to the colour.
A few years ago, the man who produced James May’s “Airfix Spitfire,” told me that former groundcrew had told him how they sometimes had to mix their own from camouflage dark green, plus Sky.

There is a place in the City where we have 650 odd psychics, they think they know the future, but it never comes to reality.
I predict the lot we have in now, will not be re elected next time.

Unfortunately, enough will be re-elected to allow the same sorry farce to be acted out over another 5 years, and so on, and so on…………..