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Here's a thing....................we have Catholics and we have the Church of England (which was suddenly invented by Henry 8th to suit himself). These religions are based on the 10 commandments, these don't mention the word 'Catholic, Priest, Rome, Vatican etc etc', why are we not standing up...

The great depression was caused by the collapse of the banks...................surely that wasn't due to tariffs?

Eddie, good post, but I doubt american tariffs led to WW2?

Tax is tax, the name is irrelevant, the cash still going into the treasury is the point surely?

Whenever I bought stuff in the states 'sales tax' was added at the till. I'm not an economist, but if a balance of trade defecit is incurred by cheap imports, then starting to curtail that has to be way forwards?

probably, but keeping workers in jobs, paying tax and not claiming 'workers comp' will help to fill the treasury's empty coffers

If beer goes up 1 cent a tin and the tax revenue increases exponentially and more Americans have jobs then he's done the right thing!! On a seperate note, I believe the Chinese are a nation of extreme workers, now that they have technology in their back pocket, they will rule the world in 50...

Is he gonna put up the price?....................surely it'll hold at the american rate, and I assume America uses more steel products internally than it exports, therefore more jobs will be saved than lost? and of course there's all that lovely Chinese and Indian steel???

So, he's gonna stop cheap steel coming in, so he protects american jobs............what a great concept ..................a politician thinking about his own!!!!!................and what have we got in response?.............we'll stop cheap berries and cheese coming in, jeez, that's gonna have...

Sadly young blokes don't realise a boy cannot be lippy to an old lag, I started off as an apprentice car mechanic, if anyone lipped an old timer he would lift the poor fella above his head, throw him against a wall n then the human projectile would drop into the tyre bath.................happy...

Sadly, most young blokes have lived an easy life, so in effect they are still mental children that have some academic ability but absolutely no hint of any hard life lived common sense. Being children, they get bored easily and have no motivation to graft. I reckon only 15% of young blokes have...

I've had a young bloke with me all week, as we all know, they're all useless, but sometimes they can put a smile on a wizened old fart's face............. I was about to start dot n dabbin, so I said to him 'go n put 4 inches of water in the bottom of that yellow bucket' then I thought he...

I'm hoping you clever lot know if there is an adaptor that will sit inside the old cast stack pipe after I cut it off so I can connect it to the new plastic soil pipe. I've used the rubber jobs in the past, but they don't like being squeezed in over the smaller diameter cast pipe.

It was a contractor I got chatting to, I hadn't heard anything about it and just wondered if anyone else knew anything of it

I've just been told the above by someone, is there any truth in this?

OnB................the boiler is upstairs in a bedroom, I want to control the sucker from downstairs in the family room and yes it's a combi Dan Robinson.................are TRV's any better today than the gormless things I had 30 years ago?

Jeez Eric....................that was a stonking post (gonna have to sit quietly for a bit to try n take all that in!!!). However.....................the answer lies in....................the SALUS RT500!!! n all for £20 new off Ebay, it's the simple man's answer to complicated...

If it's any help my boiler is a Worcester greenstar condensing combi 4 yrs old, I have no TRV's because when I fitted them 30yrs ago in another house the bloody things had a mind of their own (staying off when room was cold etc). I don't care about hysteresis and all that other sexy plumbers...

Hello gang......................OP here!...................what a wonderful long thread (I usually like the ones where people are having a good old snipe at each other best, but we've had a bit of that too), what was brilliant is getting 2 opposed answers right off the bat (I've decided not to...

Currently I have a Drayton digistat 3................JEEZ, I've had the thing for 3 years, it's waaay too complicated and without the manual next to me I cannot use the sucker!!............simples, that's all a man wants Someone tell me of a nice user friendly version n I'll buy that (I don't...