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**** you and the high horse you road in on! Captain Mike Kealy was in command in that fight. Yeah Mayne started the SAS. What the hell has that got to do with anything. What's the matter chum, pissed off because i'd rather have a Sikh, Gurkha or Fijian watching my back than an Irishman?

I'm not an expert but I know a bit. I take it from your tone that you know everything. So please enlighten me regarding my comment. You obviously take issue with it.

What are you going on about here?

Totally agree with this. Ghurka or Sikh for me. Both totally hard and from warrior cultures. Sikh's made up 20% of the British Army in WW1 and something similar in WW2. The Victoria Crosses awarded to Sikh's are proportionally higher than for any other nationality in the British Forces...

I was accused of being AL when I first joined here. Luckily people soon realised I wasn't interesting enough to be him.

If that happened I would break off from enjoying my threesome with Charlize Theron and Zooey Deschanel and do a celebratory lap of honour round the garden whist fighting off the hordes of screaming A-List female lovelies who are desperate to make love to me. Was that enough delusion for you?

Yeah they do it all the time. Really bugs with SSN in particular. They repeat everything almost constantly all day long so does it really hurt to leave the soundbite a little bit longer and get the true story? Those SSN presenters must be going mad with the total boredom of their jobs.

Easily misconstrued but I agree with the others who say that they meant this as a compliment. Still a ****e paper mind!

That comment isn't fair in this case. The Channel Islands and IOM have their own governments and own fiscal structures. The tax rates and structures were in place well before tax exiles and financial business' decided to move in an take advantage of them. The extra people who arrived with it...

Weird is the word.

Sounds plausible to me. I'll agree with that!

<laugh> Ah the fun that can arise from typos!

Noooo not celery! That stuff is like krytonite to me. The most evil substance in existence ... period!

A sensible law from a happier time! <laugh> So if I was stood on the rocks by the castle fishing, wearing a Gsy football top somebody could murder me with a crossbow and get away with it. The scriptwriters for Bergerac missed a trick there didn't they!? ;)

I'm leaving in fear of this. I'm imagining a small army of voles and field mice led by a particularly vicious rabbit all kitted out in Lord Alfie's livery charging at me armed with swords woven from grass! <laugh>

Edit: talking of old laws. There is one still on the books over here that it is legal for a husband to beat his wife with a stick so long as the stick is below a certain size (can't remember what). I'm saying no more about that one ... <whistle> Edit of Edit: Don't know what happened...

Oh blimey ... if i'd known I was talking to a Lord I would have bowed and given in straight away. Sorry m'lud this damn peasant never did learn his place ... <laugh> Like you have said Alfie, the current Queen doesn't abuse her powers the way she could and it isn't really an important issue...

The democratic party system is flawed yes. As somebody said (Churchill I think) "Democracy is the worst political system available ... with the exception of all the other systems that have been tried". Not a brilliant quote but it makes the point ... democracy is the best of a bad bunch...

My school PE teacher instilled the tactic of giving the player you marked a kick during the first tackle of the game so that he knew he was in for a battle. You pretty much had to take an axe to a player to get a yellow card in those days. Ah ... sweet memories! :)

Exactly. A team mate of mine scored a goal with a diving header and took a kick to the head in doing so. He sprang to his feet ran around like a maniac celebrating the goal and then ran back towards the centre circle for the restart, telling everybody who asked that he was fine. It was only...