I thought that the members of NATO either combine together against a common enemy or individual members combine together to defend a threat to a fellow member.

I can’t speak for Flygirl but I mean “normal” in the sense of being what the majority do. Perhaps that is not the case, but I think our contributions were relatively light-hearted, in any case.

I am sure people generally understand “normal” behaviour and “abnormal” or “uncommon” behaviour.

1. ISSUE instead of topic or subject

2. ISSUE instead of problem or difficulty

3. ISSUE instead of problem or difficulty

4. ISSUE instead of topic or subject

5. ISSUE instead of problem or difficulty

It should be used sparingly as an alternative to subject, if that subject has serious connotations. But not hundreds of times every day by speakers and writers who should know better. I heard Martin McGuiness use it 6 times in a couple of sentences the other evening.

Thanks for clearing up any doubts I might have had about your fondness for her. Those jokes don’t wear that well, do they…….?:p

Grim901

I tried to make this clear before, i’m NOT arguing against you per say. I personally think trade with Europe is a good thing. What I was trying to show you was that if we were to say that we didn’t want the EU telling us how to run our own justice system and farms and foreign policies and the EU got petulant and turned off the trade, we COULD, if necessary, survive.

Exactly – without any difficulty. But in reality we need each other and the trade would never be “turned off” as you put it. It is a comon misconception that we can only trade with the EU countries if we are a member of the club. If that were the case the EU would be a very insular club.

Does your mother-in-law really epitomise the music hall joke mother-in-law or are you just having a laugh with all of us? If so, I am sorry for you – my mother-in-law, no longer with is, was a very jolly lady, whom I sadly missed when she popped her clogs a few years ago.

I guess we are.:cool: