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[/url] Previous owner of my house used these to secure 6' long double banked radiators to the plasterboard wall. They ought to be up to holding a shelf for cats (assuming you're talking domestic cats of course!)

Lay back and think of bacon?

Question - would the impact of several hundred feet of water from above, combined with the sudden emptying of underlying aquifiers, on a global scale, likely cause geological upheaval in any way?

I would be interested to hear Mr Salmond's reply to this. As he's busy demanding independance for Scotland from England ( :wink: ), he can hardly ignore the claims from Shetland to be independant from Scotland and grant them their own referendum in such a case. Should Shetland leave...

I'd rush outside and hobble their horses to stop them riding off into the sunset!

Russia's defence in the past has largely been A) Huge numbers of troops, B) Distance and terrible infrastructure, and C) The weather. Napoleon invaded and was defeated by the Russians trading distance for defence, destroying food and infrastructure as they went. Thus Napoleon's army was unable...

Fit legs to a wood base plate and make a short table to stand the cooker on? You could use the same legs as the rest of your kitchen units and the same plinth.

Climb to 45000ft and hold for 15mins until everyone dies of oxygen starvation, or point nose at the ocean and throttles to the firewalls and die in a ball of fire? I'd go with option B. I think Charlie Brooker had rather a good angle on that.

Condensing the last few posts here : Flashing lights stand out more, and yes it's illegal if your headlights/marker lights flash, even on a bicycle - but not if you wear them yourself even if you are the rider. You should have a non-flashing rear light on your bike so drivers behind you can...

But what reason would one or more of the flight crew have for killing all the passengers, except to prevent them interfering if they decided to use the plane in a 9/11 style suicide bomb? In which case, you'd have expected them to hit something. If one of the flight crew wanted to commit...

The BBC has ten theories on the missing planes of which no 6 sounds the most plausible. In the Google+ discussion referenced the author points out that in case of electrical fire on board, the pilots would have shut down many of the systems (including comms, automated telemetry) to bring them...

I would assume so as Operation Sealion was originally slated for 1940 before the invasion of Russia (operation Barbarossa) in 1941.

Offhand no, seen the opinion repeated a few times on various History Channel documentaries repeated on Yesterday or Quest. (eg Hitler refusing to allow the 6th Army to be withdrawn from Stalingrad). It might also have been mentioned in the World At War series.

It's starting to sound like the plot of a James Bond film. They should be looking for a bald man with a scar across one eye and a fluffy white cat.

Actually no - in the early 70's the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst ran a series of wargames with the original Operation Sealion plans and several of the surviving German senior military officers taking part. Conclusion was that an invasion of Southern England would have been stopped in...

In recent seasons F1 has ceased to be about whose the fastest but instead about who has the best pit stop strategy or who can nurse their tyres around the track best. If you want to know whos the quickest just give everyone Suzuki Lianas.

BBC just produced some interesting stats here on the greatest F1 drivers of all time. Suprisingly, the most F1 championships per country is GB with 14.

My theory is that driving on American roads is just too boring and people stop paying attention. 55mph on a long, straight road in a car with US spec extra-wallowy suspension...zzzzz... I've done the A140 between Norwich and Ipswich a good few times which is single track and limited to 50mph...

I think speed cameras are every motorists pet hate, and not just the maniacs trying to do 150mph past the primary school (who are probably running false plates, or just havent registered the car to themselves after buying it). There's a road near me that goes past a primary school. The road...

Thanks guys, I did actually manage to find the right regs (I think). As best I can tell the bit about enclosed gardens being longer than the building is tall doesnt apply to single domestic homes. I plan to put a discrete back gate in the fence when I replace it anyway just in case - if I'm...