Brexit, for once some facts.
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Membership of the EU and withdrawal from toothless organisations that allow member states to bomb tiny countries in the middle-east while permitting the Israeli holocaust upon the Palestinian people.
A United States of Europe with a standing army to defend its interests would be my preferred choice.
Tom
"with us leaving" ... so are the French leaving now? Or are you British?
Or are you just talking about you leaving personally?
Just trying to understand his logic... and logic is personal.
The notion of toothy organisations, willing to bare their teeth is what is creating this mess. Unless we have and continue to have international parliaments, such as the UN which are capable of at a minimum of criticism of warring factions, the situation will be worse.
My Island...didnt realise Romans had got to Jamaica..Didnt leave much evidence behind...
I suspect it was tongue in cheek, ironic or written by a remainer (edit)..?
BTW...no wind here today. Cleaning equipment, washing salt off...and posting.
Nice and warm tho......
And a little EU/ UK moan. Tanked gas is dominated by Calor in UK...Every yacht, caravan, and mobile home built for/ in UK has Calor fitting. They don't fit EU / French bottles...so you have to buy a converter and a EU bottle and then carry empty UK ( Calor) and that's if your locker is big enough to take EU tanks.If it isn't...you have to buy yet another converter and go onto Camping Gas small cylinders. ( Calor in uk make a tall slim cylinder perfect for small spaces yet still holds 7kg of propane.)
I,m now running Camping Gas...( butane, which is rubbish for uk) 2kg cylinders...Because I didn't check type of cylinders on this damned yacht..Come on Calor...anybody would never guess we are in EU...
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I did consider that possibility, but since I also know that very large numbers here do actually think that way, I responded accordingly.
Nice here too, warm, clear sky and bright sunshine and only road salt in bins in South-East England.
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Calor's business was large and very solidly established in the UK pre 1972 so conversion would have had a prohibitive cost. And the EU would have chosen an existing continental standard to minimise the costs to them.
No doubt it's all linked to the metric - Imperial difference as well.
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Calor actually do a more convenient range of cylinders. Problem being there simply seems to be no equivalent size in France/ Spain for size I have at moment. And the fact suppliers refuse to refill UK cylinders. You can fit refillable bottles and utilise Autogas refill but it is a little frowned upon. Bit of a headache whatever you do..( Stations are within their rights stopping you refilling refillable ( not fixed) cylinders..( Folk have adapted their own bottles to do so, auto refillable have a cut off at 80% full..( as do genuine refillable cylinders)
if you want to listen to what Hatti said about brexit on BBC Essex this morning, tune in at time index 1:14
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06572p5#play
Hatti is a remainer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06572p5#play
Hatti is a remainer.
The essential difference is that the UK type connection is a clip on bayonet type at the high pressure end ,and pressure reduced at the cylnder . The french style uses a screw connection so that the high pressure butane can be piped longer distances and only reduced in pressure close to the appliance. It may link closer to usage patterns, where the uk version was used in isolated farmhouses, and the French in larger enterprises and industry.
I think, but am not sure that the French are more of an industrial standard, as they look great similar to the fittings on oxy act touches....
I'd thought this might be likely, and also the reason why Calor was such a large enterprise here.
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