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  • "There are two types of patriotism, although sometimes the two are mingled in the same breast. The first kind one might call nationalism; nationalists believe that all other countries are inferior in every respect and that one would do them a favour by dominating them. Other countries are always in the wrong, they are less free, less civilized, are less glorious in battle, are perfidious, prone to falling for insane and alien ideologies which no reasonable person could believe, are irreligious and abnormal. Such patriots are the most common variety, and their patriotism is the most contemptible thing on earth.

    The second type of patriot is best described by returning to the example of General Fuerte. General Fuerte did not believe in ‘my country, right or wrong’; on the contrary, he loved his land despite the faults that he could so clearly see and that he labored to correct. It was his frequently stated opinion that anyone who supported his country when it was so obviously in the wrong, or who failed to see its faults, was the worst kind of traitor. Whereas the first kind of patriot really glories in his own irrationality and not in his country, General Carlo Maria Fuerte loved his country as a son loves his mother or a brother his sister."

    --Louis de Bernieres, 'The War for Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts'

  • My router was free with my fibre connection and it's worked perfectly for three years along with the free TV streaming box

    My car cost 12k brand new cos it's a little shitbox and that's all I need

    My pc was about 3k and I built it myself

    I'm guessing here, but it sounds like you're an pretentious dick and I wouldn't ask for advice anyway

  • I've also been online and pirating for 25+ years and your bragging horseshit is hilarious

    Fuck off mate, we've all had browser toolbars and had to reinstall windows multiple times in the past. Not so common now but before it was part of the deal

    Don't be a dick, you're not impressing anyone

  • Use torx all the time on not only building sites, but in machinery repair too.

    There's only one type of torx and I think OP is winding us up :)

    Edit - ha ha oh my fucking god. So it turns out the patent for torx expired in 1990. No change for us in Europe, we're still mostly using the original design.

    Not so much for the yanks. Textron, the original patent holder, realised it'd be faaaar more profitable to "licence" slightly improved designs and try to phase out the original

    Enjoy your torx my euro friends, and have a giggle at the seppos paying for a fucking screw head lol

    Greed to the point of mental illness 😂