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Originally Posted by Boeing Guy
I hope not, the Lancasters are pretty old now
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Yeh ... but they have class ... like old steam locos
I believe Britain built over 7 thousand of them, at great expense to the taxpayer.
The big drain on Britain's natural wealth in the twentieth century were the two world wars which were started by .... mmm, let me think ... it's on the tip of my tongue .... wait, I'll try google ... ah yes, it was Germany
The UK spent billions in cash and millions in dead and wounded to stop those arrogant bastards ... and now look at them, strutting around Europe as if they own the place. It really bugs my ass.
Remember a couple of weeks ago when Merkel mentioned in a speech that the problem with the euro was the biggest crisis Europe had faced since the second world war
Shouldn't one of her Google Page Ranking people have taken her to one side and said: "Look Angie .... maybe it's not a good idea to mention that incident ... still lots of folks around who remember it, and who started it. Give it another couple of generations and then we can start behaving as if it never happened ... Oh, and be a little kinder to the Greeks; after all, it wasn't so long ago that fun-loving German soldiers were using them for target practice."