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You forgot to mention Kim Jong Un's half-brother. Too much of a threat. He had to go. North Korea is an old fashioned communist country that feels threatened by everyone and everything. You just have to read any book about Joseph Stalin or Enver Hoxha (to name just two) to realize that communist leaders are paranoid. If we ignored them, they would do more to attract our attention. They seek nuclear weapons as protection (from regime change) but also as a means to blackmail other countries into providing aid.

Yeah. York voted Remain. I was travelling around England last year just before the vote and everywhere I went voted Remain. Didn't realise I could be so influential without even trying - or maybe it was just a coincidence.

Sometimes I really miss Top of the Pops. With some catchy lyrics - this would surely go straight to Number 1 in the charts.

In Togo, there are no takeaway restaurants. Confusing!

The soap opera Dallas was originally set in Dallas in Moray and involved two feuding distillery owners called the Barnes and the Ewings. However the US producers decided to move the whole thing over to Texas and basically changed everything apart from the names of the two families and the occasional mention of Elgin City Football Club.

.. and the M8 was so named to indicate the friendship between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Trump is simply pointing out that a good sales model is to sell dairy products to everybody within a 100 mile radius. Sounds like a great plan but then suddenly this other country just appears from nowhere and that kind of complicates everything.

It means they want a PHOP image but they don't know how to spell.

An astrologer in Christchurch accurately predicted the last 5 election results in Canada, New Zealand, the USA, the UK and Australia. He claimed he read it in the stars. He was later convicted for fraud when they discovered he had a time machine.

Is that a fact you just made up and you really don't like it at all?

In some countries, some people will come up to you and say "Where are you from?" You say "I am from Scotland." They then say "Oh I just love Scotland." and insist on giving you a bear hug. Afterwards you discover your wallet is missing. I know somebody who had this almost happen to them. They said "I am from North Korea." and the pickpocket just waved his arm and then walked away.

They'll ask if you know me.

Then you'll get someone who thinks you sound like an Aberdonian who was originally from Fife. The question is usually asked as a polite question by people who can't be bothered with the answer. Just say you are from China or North Korea and that will shut them up.

I read about a man who was at Hiroshima train station at the time and went downstairs to take a piss. Bit of a surprise when he came back up again.

He got a mention on Q.I. Stephen Fry described him as the unlucky man alive. The BBC had to apologize to the Japanese Embassy for that one.

Yes, the Americans cracked the code before Midway but then the Japanese changed the code again. I think that was a constant game of catch up. On average, the second world war claim 35,000 lives a day. Killing 100,000 people in one go obviously sounds horrendous now but not compared to what was happening every day. Ask almost any American at the time to choose between 1,000 dead Japanese or 1 dead American - and I think you know how they would answer. The Russians got involved because the Americans ask them to get involved. Bizarrely, if the Japanese had surrendered a week earlier before the Russians got involved (exactly 3 months after the surrender of Germany) then it is possible that Korea would not have been partitioned and we not have this crisis today. Purely "what if" I know but interesting.

A tasty treat after the long pork surprise.

Isn't this already covered extensively in the Pie and Bovril Algebra forum?

B and Q were twins. After setting up the company, one of them went on to work with James Bond but I can't remember which one.

In all fairness, maybe he was trying to teach you about road rage. "Keep your hands on the wheel and concentrate while I think of everything I can to annoy you."

I asked the same question until I realized it was the fire alarm.

Some people would say this is a reason to be out of the EU as well - since the EU outnumber us by 100 to 1 (or only 92 to 1 after Brexit).

"On a grim day in a grim month of a grim year, I walked down a grim street in a grim town under a grim sky. Of course, it had not always been so grim. But I get grim just thinking about those less grim days, so I grimly accept my grim lot and grimly soldier on." That was start of my novel "A Grim Tale" but I never got any further.

Yeah. Nostalgia is crap but I can remember when it wasn't.

Pay attention when they show you all the dents and scratches on the car. They get very suspicious of anyone that actually trusts them on stuff like that.