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Tony Blair's in 2006 originally, then it got binned off for a while, but came back under the Tory/Libdem coalition, which has gradually morphed into what we now use. More info on wiki page

Sadly doesn't give us a very good idea behind the intent without, as you say, reading a lot more about it.

"That's a challenging wank"

Sean Lock on "8 out of 10 Cats" (skip to 3 minutes in)

They're mixing up their metric and imperial sizes. These are from Forgefix, which are a British company. Many British people aged about 55 and over tend to still use imperial sizes for some things.

So it's not 6-8mm, but "the size of wall plug for 6-8 gauge screws, which are 3.5mm - 4mm screws in metric.

Strangely, if you buy a multipack of masonry bits, they give you 3, 4, 6, 8, 10mm bits. Some brands of wall plugs tend to use 5.5mm, 6.5mm, 7mm. It is a conspiracy!

Your options are:

1. Use a smaller drill bit and wiggle it, just a little bit
2. Use a larger drill bit and pack it out with a shim/matchstick/chopped off half-a-wallplug
3. Individually buy the masonry bits which correspond to the plugs
4. Buy a different brand of wall plug, which uses 6mm or 8mm bits

Short answer : Not a lot.

Long answer : If they reach a certain amount, they get discussed in parliament and you get an official response to the issue. The response is normally "no". I don't know of any occasion of one causing major changes.

What it does do though, is force (somebody within) the government to take a position on an issue, and they can no longer say they are ignorant of it. Having an official response means they must explain their counterarguments and reason for denial. If this is then brought up by other means in future, you know what you're arguing against.

Depending on where you live and who your local MP is, you may get better results writing to your local MP, who in theory should be supporting the views of their constituents.

Ultimately, it's a bit weak. Perhaps the response is worth it, as a stepping stone to further methods on an issue - though it's been suggested that it's a distraction, making people fill in a form to "get the anger out of their system", and then not protesting or raising awareness by other means.

I still fill them in, but I don't expect much from them.

Imagine how poor Jesus feels about all those crosses in churches and on people's necklaces.

This is a good and thorough answer, and it is likely entirely correct.

I still think traitorous cunts made a ton of money off it though :)

Because some people stood to become personally very rich off the back of it, and were willing to damage a whole nation for their own benefit, because they're traitorous cunts.

I wish I could be a big enough thot capitalist to sell my farts for $45k.

You should give them away for free, comrade. They are the people's wind.

I know society expects me to dislike a macaroni cheese pizza, but that looks absolutely delicious.

Hahahaha, he's very high on the list :)

Obviously it depends who you're talking to, or what about, but yeah. Constantly in some cases.

P.S. In case you weren't aware, it means "a lady's front bottom" in British English, rather than the arse, as it means in American English.

Nothing if the legislation was written properly.

Not good if the legislation was written badly.

It's hard to put them into a 1st, 2nd, 3rd position.

What about Bum Farto?

Dick Trickle?

Or even Fanny Chmelar?

raises his pale, sun-forgotten, semi-transparent hand

"The Scottish and the Northern British, sir"

If you image search for the abbreviated form of "Gulf of America, This Space Exactly" (GOATSE), that should clearly show where the Gulf of America is.

It's hard to tell. I hope somebody has left a trail of single notebook pages, diary pages and dictaphones scattered in various drawers and cupboards nearby.

This is really interesting, thank you :)

Also available on Kobo (Canadian Company) as an e-book. It does contain Adobe DRM though, so you would need to remove that with Calibre if you want to keep it on other devices.

Yeah, but with "RFK Jr" in charge of everything medical, and Donald's age, poor health and probable lack of a vagina, I don't anticipate either the baby or the birthing-parent surviving childbirth.

So when we take the horrific pain, and 0% survival rate into account, perhaps it's more of a "twisted and bleakly sadistic dream' than a nightmare?

I'm not quite sure what you're on about there, sorry.

I literally only spoke of the people who are caught in a debt-poverty trap, who you accused of being rich people that just wanted free money, rather than people who genuinely needed support.

I didn't even comment on anything else you have referred to.