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So you could get a Datsun or Fiat with immediate delivery. If you were a real "executive" (only the British would come up with such a term), you'd wait 1-2 weeks for a BMW. If you were a loyal British car buyer, you'd have to wait between 10 weeks and 4-6 months for your car to show up so it could be reassembled with all the missing parts at the dealership. Gee, I can't imagine why 1977 wasn't a great year for British cars.
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Where's the rest of the review? You've been doing this lately, cutting things off in the middle. Why?
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Canal boating looks like a pleasant way to spend a holiday. Are there still boats there today? 1974 doesn't seem like that long ago to me until I start counting and realize it's almost 46 years now!
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I noticed that deer in the headlights look as well. Of course, this was in 1974, and diesels were still being touted as being less of a polluter than petrol engines, and the EU had a near universal program to encourage people to buy diesels. Turned out we were trading one kind of of pollutant for ones with a far higher impact on human health. Diesel fuel also now costs more in the US than gasoline, so any savings from more MPG is eaten up in cost per gallon. Back in 1974, diesel fuel was significantly cheaper that gasoline. Just another example of a government program attacking one problem by creating two more.
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This kind of takeover of British labour unions and the British Labour Party by outright communists was the beginning of the end for British industry, especially the auto industry.
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The show would have been much better if that presenter would have just sat there and shut up.
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@HowardLeVert I turn 73 next month and live in the US. I have purchased nine new cars in my life starting with a 1966 MGB (in British Racing Green, of course) and my what i presume will be my last, a 2006 Suzuki Grand Vitara. You'll note I have a penchant for buying orphans. I had to wait two weeks for the first one and two weeks for the last one. All the others, American, German, and Japanese, took a week or less. No matter how much I wanted some of them, circumstances were such that I couldn't wait 10 weeks to get the car. The first of August holidays are a huge deal in Britain, especially for the working class, and there's no way I'd wait 10 weeks either. The British car industry was not able to organize itself to deliver a decent quality product in a reasonable waiting time for the customer right at the time that Datsun and Toyota were managing to ship cars 6,000 miles to Britain and have them ready when the buy wanted one. This is the kind of thing that kills any industry, and it was certainly a contributing factor to killing the British car industry.
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For someone in the US, this was a real hoot to watch. The amount of bureaucracy just to tow a trailer (caravan) was mind boggling. Here you just got a hitch installed, hooked up the trailer, and away you went. I don't know if speed was still in MPH then or KPH. I'm assuming MPH since, even in in Britain, I can't imagine towing being restricted to 31 mph. In the US, except for a few states like California (the closest we have to British bureaucracy) that restricted towing vehicles to 55 mph, you were allowed to tow at the legal limit. You didn't need some special plate on the back of the trailer. I suppose those triangle tail lights were to warn other drivers they were about to crash into a slow moving caravan. That wouldn't have been an issue if the caravans were traveling at the same speed as the rest of traffic. Trailers here just had normal tail lights like the rest of traffic. Is that still required there? A 22 foot trailer is nearly as small as you can get here. I did have a 14 foot Cardinal in the same time period as the show but it was barely adequate for a weekend with just a stove, icebox, a manual water pump and a sink, a couple of interior lights, and a table that converted to a very cramped bed. I towed it with a 1970 Toyota Corona and it was barely able to handle it. I moved up to an International Scout SUV and 26 foot trailer in 1976 and things were much better. Even had a shower and a loo. The first thing you do when backing a trailer is take off your dang seatbelt! I suppose there was some regulation about that too. The program didn't include any actual tips about how to back. Once you got used to only using the bottom of the wheel and turning in the direction you wanted to go it wasn't all that hard. I've backed 35 foot trailers without much difficulty. And that periscope thing! I can't imagine what use it was in backing a trailer, and it doesn't seem like anything that could be used on the road. In almost 50 years of towing trailers I have never seen a periscope. Seems like another wacky British invention. :-)
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The best thing to ever happen to Britain was the closing down of the coal mines. It was rough for the miners, but burning coal for industry, home heating, and cooking was causing levels of pollution and health problems far in excess of the value of the coal mined. The North Sea oil and natural gas discoveries free Britain from a 19th century energy supply and moved it into the 20th century.
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@mattconnelly3867 So if those Japanese and Italian cars were so terrible, the British car industry had a golden opportunity to deliver their superior cars in a timely manner. If that was the case, why was it taking 10 weeks to 4-6 months to get a car? That was a really shocking situation. Someone that needs a car can't wait that period of time but, even worse, what the heck was wrong with a company like BL or Ford that they couldn't produce as many cars as could be sold?
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@liverush24 Indeed. It's hard for me as a foreigner to understand how chaotic and out of control Britain was in the 70's. It seemed like nothing worked right and the country was descending into anarchy. Unfortunately, it looks like it's happening again.
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@M6GOF I've watched that video, and it made me very sad. Britain went from being second in the world in terms of manufacturing cars in 1950 to fifth in just 30 years. It's now down to #13 behind Thailand. Friggin Thailand, for Cripes sake.
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The eight hour day agreement of 1915 was supposed to be a maximum eight hour day, not that you got paid for eight hours if you didn't do eight hours work. BR management also demonstrated they were incapable of managing a company without the employees hating them. Parliament was never capable of managing a railway company. It was a bad deal all the way around.
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Wow! All the way up to 30 channels!?! As an American, I've never unstood British television. By 1982, an average size American city had 8-15 over the air (OTA) channels. There were three main networks and then a bunch of local channels and second tier networks, as Fox was when it first started up. There's just no concept of a national TV channel like BBC, and certainly no concept of paying for a TV license. Unfortunately, most places have only one franchise cable company, so we became more like Britain in that regard. This kind of monopoly has lead to some cable providers to charge $50-$70 per month for just basic cable of 30-40 channels, and those that are real addicts can spend hundreds per month for hundreds of channels. The good thing is the switch to digital has allowed any OTA channel to have 2-4 subchannels, so now there can be more than 50 OTA channels. As the number of channels expanded, we have been inundated with home shopping channels, weird religious programming, and movies no one would ever want to watch again. It's interesting that the concept of an internet at a line per second was looking into the hazy future.
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@video99couk Really? So that means all 66 million people in the UK will never be able to buy another car unless the EU says they can? Toyota isn't made by an EU country. Nissan isn't made by an EU country. Kia and Hyundai aren't made by an EU country. Tata isn't made by an EU country. China isn't an EU country. Mexico and Brazil aren't EU countries. They are all in the top ten of car making countries. The only EU countries in the top 10 are Germany and France, and France just barely. There are now more cars and companies outside the EU than in it. Not that it would happen, but do you think the UK would collapse if no more Beamers or Renaults were ever sold there again? You think everyone who's turning a profit making cars in the UK will just put the lock on the plant gate and walk away? The UK can't source parts from the country of origin outside the EU? There's no reason, except for French, German, or Italian cars, that any parts have to come from the EU. Britain was still the fifth largest car maker in 1969 when the UK joined the EEC. It's now #13. You actually think things can get worse outside the EU? You have followed the remainer mantra hook, line and sinker.
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The beginnings of 24/7 outdoor surveillance of everyone in Britain's large cities, and this doesn't count the tens of thousands of private cameras. Next step is for just one camera inside your home...just for safety, of course, and just one...for now. The water around.the frog continues to heat up.
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@johndrake2729 I sure hope getting out of the EU will get Britain back as a sovereign nation again. Any economic union talking about starting their own army scares me. .
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Steve Barclay Yes, well, it would be nice if you had a PM with balls, at least figuratively. If she had held the EU's feet to the fire the UK would be getting a lot better deal. Regardless, a hard Brexit is better than no Brexit. I've already been through the "If we elect Trump we'll all die" thing here, and my take on the remoaners is they are cut from the same European leftist cloth.
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So what actually did happen to this building?
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@Landie_Man You can thank China and India for a large part of the increased cost of diesel. About 75% of the vehicles in India and 80% in China are diesel powered. As more cars hit the road, demand for diesel skyrocketed, and so did prices. In the US, it was also a combination of taxes and phasing in ultra low sulphur diesel really jacked up the cost in the US. All this started in about 2000, so it has also been 20 years here. Diesel prices have been coming down as the cost to convert refineries to the ultra low sup[her fuel has been paid off along with a continuing decrease in over the road diesel. At one time, the price differential was almost 40 cents a gallon, and that has now come down to 10-15 cents. I've even seen a few stations with diesel at the same price as mid-grade gasoline.
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@pneron2032 I'm American. Britain has allowed this to happen, and the British have allowed this to happen by voting in Labour and the socialists for so many years. The British people have allowed the dole to go on for so long and be so generous that multiple generations of people live in these council, estates like they own them instead of getting jobs and moving out. This is not something that we've allowed. By first allowing this for British whites, it has now just automatically been allowed for the Muslim hordes YOU have let in. Stop whining and vote all these socialists/communists out. Stop having anxiety attacks because someone calls you a racist. Get your schools and institutions back. Letting white people stay or not stay in a council estate is the least of your problems.
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You can't have a healthy construction and housing industry when most of the money is coming from the taxpayer in on way or another. Not letting the industry work out the problems on their won just prolongs the organic problems that won't and can't be be solved by the government.
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And now it's 2019 and the US is almost self sufficient in oil. The Arabs did us a huge favor by cutting off the oil. It lead to us prospecting and developing new source of oil that we wouldn't have done without the embargo. So thanks a lot, Saudi Arabia, Have fun trying to sell all that sand.
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Looks like up around Salmon Creek in Sonoma County, CA. It looks pretty, but it was always cold and windy, and nice sunny days, except for in the fall, were rare.
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@video99couk And the reason for all those manufacturers making money selling parts to the UK will stop doing so is what, exactly? That they'll have to go through customs? In the real world, Thailand makes a greater number of those complicated cars than Britain. So does Brazil and Mexico. Do you think the UK can't figure out a way to produce even the same number of cars that they do in Thailand? If so. you have a very low opinion of your country.
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@video99couk I was the logistics manager for a large public utility managing hundreds of thousands of SKUs from 10 penny nails to huge transformers. But, you're right, I don't know anything about JIT manufacturing. Brexit, which will happen, won't be utopia, but neither will staying in the EU. At least Britain will have the chance to thrive again rather than just wither on the vine like its car industry did under the EEC and EU.
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Katrina S How so? Are British trains performing worse than they did in 1982? Are there still constant strikes? Do they still have engines that are 50 years old? Baggage rooms being flooded when it rains?
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@pit_stop77 There was actually. The 60's and 70's were kind of the golden age if US television. We had everything from comedies Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners and Lucille Ball, variety shows like Ed Sullivan, and serious programs like 20th Century and Hallmark Theater. We even adapted some British programs to become shows like All In The Family, and I watched Fawlty Towers and Monty Python religiously. I was a kid/teenager in the 50's and 60's and it was rare not to have at least a couple programs of interest every evening. There were also local programs like Ghoulardi and his terrible but funny science fiction movies from my hometown of Cleveland that became regional favorites. Every station put on local news and weather. The idea of tuning into one channel for the news of the entire country followed by maybe two minutes of weather for the whole country was completely foreign to me. Local news generally lasted a half-hour followed by a half-hour of national news from one of the Big Three networks. Fox and CNN got their starts by providing news programming to non-network statons. My impression from watching reruns of BBC news, even into the 90's, was the British were satisfied with maybe 20 minutes of a just the biggest national and world stories and maybe a story or two that was local to their service area. Americans, by comparison, wanted detailed local news as well as national news. In particular, we wanted detailed local weather, with some weather segments running fifteen minutes, and weathermen becoming local celebrities. Stations commonly competed on the quality of their news and weather, and people would watch programs before or after their favorite local news, thereby selling more ad time. Most US station were operating until about 0200 in the 60's, and almost all were 24 hours by the 70's. It was mostly really old movies or cooking shows late night, but at least you had something on that would put you to sleep if you had insomnia. :-)
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Couldn't agree more. Britain has gone from one of the most admired countries in the world to a nearly third world country in less than two generations. It does make think this couldn't have happened without some high level planning. I'm just hoping that we in the US can escape the fate of our Mother Country.
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@bens1972 That would otherwise be known as the majority, wouldn't it? What a narcissistic and revolting view you have of your fellow citizens.
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@bens1972 No, narcissistic is exactly the right word for someone who believes you know that 53% of your countrymen are "disgruntled, envious, racist and ignorant". Also a apt description for someone who's ignorant enough to believe Britain had a healthy economy except for that one vote that killed everything.
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@bens1972 You leftists just seem to make things up to bolster your argument. The UK has been the world's fifth largest economy since at least 2007. That hasn't changed since Brexit because none of the trading schemes have changed. You are still a member of the EU as of today. The UK has been one of the world's sickest economies among developed nations. Debt per capita is one of the highest in the world, government borrowings is one of the highest in the world, and productivity has been stagnant since 2014. The GDP has been falling since 2014. None of these are signs of a healthy economy. My knowledge of the English language is good enough to tell me the first definition of word is not the only one. The definition that applies to you is "Magical thinking: Narcissists see themselves as perfect, using distortion and illusion known as magical thinking. They also use projection to "dump" shame onto others." It's people like you that feel so special and entitled that you can pass justment on the majority of your countrymen because you think your level of understanding is so far above all the "little people". You know, like the ones that voted for Brexit. Finally, we get the last refuge of today's leftists - Trump Derangement Syndrome. The "people" (your quotes, not mine) are so ignorant and stupid that they voted for someone you don't like. Because of this, the whole concept of democracy is now in question. Well, unless your ilk manages to get a do-over for Brexit and enough "people" vote to stay. Then, since they voted the way you wanted them to, democracy is now good again.
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@thomasingram7146 Thanks for that. My impression was many of those old tenement blocks were pretty awful places to live. One of the problems of living in council housing is you're at the mercy of the government.
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Katrina S I see. The old Tories vs Labour thing. What party was in power for almost 13 years after privatization (sorry for the yank spellings), could have reversed it at will, yet never did? Why did the former Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen general secretary Lew Adams moved to work for Virgin Trains, and said on a 2004 radio phone-in programme: "All the time it was in the public sector, all we got were cuts, cuts, cuts. And today there are more members in the trade union, more train drivers, and more trains running. The reality is that it worked, we’ve protected jobs, and we got more jobs. Railroads in the US created their own problems with bad management and militant unions constantly at war, rather like we saw in the UK. The railroads got better management, unions became more realistic in their demands, and now mainline railroads are thriving. Yes, there are less employees than in 1948, but that's a natural byproduct of increased automation, longer trains, and less switch with containerized freight. Still, the numbers of railroad employees, once we factor out the years of recession,, especially 2008-2010, when the severe recession of those years drastically cut freight car loadings, has been steadily rising since 1999. 1997 was deepest trough of railroad employment, with 220,000 employees on the payroll. It had risen ever since, with 246,000 employees in 2018. Most of these are high paying jobs, and many are union..Employment has been rising due to increased demand, but revenue per employee continues to climb. they have better equipment, more effective computerization and automation, and improved track and grades, all paid for with revenue from railroad operations. Our railroads have never existed to provide jobs, They exist to provide service at a profit. We have the most productive railroad employees in the world. They are a positive benefit to the country, paying tens of billions in taxes to the federal state, and local goverments and spend tens of billions for supplies and capital improvements. We continue to have the lowest freight rates in the world while providing more jobs a better return to shareholders.A large portion of business lost to trucks in 70's and 89's has been won back, reducing the numbers of trucks on the road, decreasing accidents, decreasing fuel consumption, and decreasing air pollution. One of the reasons why Amazon and other companies can promise two day delivery to anywhere in a country about 37 times larger in area then the UK is the fast freight services the railroads provide. All this was accomplished without government ownership and without costing taxpayers a dime. I realize that, as a socialist, you want the utopia of government ownership of the means of production. Give me the performance records for British railroads between 1948 and 1995, when they were nationalized. If they are just as good, I'll sign up for your utopia.
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@Tmuk2 Muh oh. Internet slap fight about to begin. Muh oh. Internet bofetada pelea a punto de comenzar.
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@calif1mc Indeed. I lived in Sonoma country for 30 years and have been up the coast to Mendocino many times. Like I said very scenic, but you'b better have a heavy windbreaker for most days in the summer, and that's after the fog clears. I could always tell the tourists in places like Bodega Bay or Point Arena because they'd be freezing in t-shirts and shorts. Of course, all they had to do was drive ten miles inland and it would be 90 degrees. Most tourists didn't anticipate the drastic drop in temperatures and increase in winds at the coast after being in places like Hopland or Ukiah.
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That rear wheel lift at 0:20 is quite pronounced.
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"Can't we get a socialist government to nationalise the tire business and then only allow maybe five types to be produced?"
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Real nice. That Stalinist, brutalist use of concrete to suck the last ounce of joy out of living.
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@omkr0122 Okay, so does some someone not trolling know what actually happened?
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Looks like a very pleasant (and cheap) way to spend a holiday. What exactly has improved since then?
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Katrina S Ah, so the Labour during that 13 years wasn't real Labour. Kind of like Stalin. Mao, and Castro weren't doing communism right. Corbyn impresses me as pretty near a real communist, so maybe he'll do it right. However, my question was how have US railroads done so well compared to British railways. You seem to have ducked that whole part.
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And now their children and grandchildren are anitfa and black bloc. These communists and anarchist were full of crap in 1968 and they're still full of crap.
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@HowardLeVert LOL. And here I thought it was when you all cleared out and went on holiday. Why are plates only issued twice a year? When I buy a car here, I get a new plate that is just next in line and then get a new sticker for the year and month of my birthday. I never get new plates unless I sell the car, just new stickers for the year at renewal. They are issued each month, and registration renewals are due by my birthday. There's no rush to beat some kind of plate deadline.
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So one two second shot of what may or may not have been a Baltimore police car driving away from us was the "Baltimore Police" of the title? YOu couldn't get more lazy.
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@MokkaMatti You seem to be living in a different country than me. Which would you rather be living in, the country today or the country in 1859, when we were about to fly apart? The dangers of thinking you live in a terminally unique time without any historical perspective.
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@nkt1 I don't know. If there's a large enough market for 9 amps fuses, and they can be produced and sold for a profit, then you'd be able to find them. Socialism would be to require these fuses be made regardless of demand or profit because you want one or somehow feel that those in need of 9 amp fuses are entitled to them.
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@Tegelane5 This concept seems to be a hard one for the hard left to understand. Of course, these same people believe the problem in the Soviet Union was the just weren't doing socialism right. We'd be a lot better at it this time.
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Stupid
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@theaccidentalcaravanner5404 The sound at 0:50 sounded more like an ignition being switched off. I stepped through the video up to 1:43 and that's the first time I can see the whole gas cover. The dent is there, but i can't tell if it was there before the segment started or not.
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Was there a speed limit then? The vehicle looks like it's going really fast in some of those shots.
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A lifetime driving license? Here in the US, my license expires every five years. That minister was a twat. Public transport thrives when it's faster, more convenient, safer, and cheaper than driving a car. The minister, with his posh accent, seemed like he was fine with taxing the crap out of cars and petrol to force drivers out of their cars. Compulsory seat belts are now a feature in all of the western world. I'm sure much to the minister's dismay, Wales now has motorways, allowing the lower classes to get London and see the Queen.
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@jusb1066 What paperwork is involved in renewing a lifetime license?
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Germans are now a race? Is there anything you leftists don't see through the lens of race? Amazingly, you still don't seem to have a clue why Labour was thrown under a very large bus and then backed over several times.
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@Hitogokochi When did I say I wanted to help you? You've dug your own hole, so you have to dig your own way out. BTW. there are British forces in Iraq as well, so let's nit get too smug.
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In three years that first caravan will have fallen completely to pieces.
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@mobilechikane8574 In 1973, when the UK entered in the EEC, the British auto industry was still the third largest in the world. In 2019, the British auto industry was the #13 after Thailand. With the exception of a few small companies, there no more British owned car companies. There are no British aircraft companies. Now, not all of this industrial decline wasn't due to the EEC/EU, but Britain certainly wasn't helped by them.
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@BMC You must be reading a UAE economic report, otherwise known as you're full of shit. Oil and gas are still 26% od GDP. The same sectors contribute 36% of government revenues, and the introduction of VAT added another 6% UAE population is 9.5 million, but only about 11.5% of them are native Emiratis and citizens. Except for a few select people, it's nearly impossible to become a citizen and enjoy the benefits the UAE extends to citizens. Another significant source of government revenue is the taxes levied on remittances by non-citizens. The UAE imports everyone needed for manual labor, and most Emiratis either don't work or will only stoop to white color jobs. As a result of this, Emiratis are some of the most obese people in the world, with 32% of the native population classed as obese. Non-citizens are not allowed to join labor unions and have no protection under UAE labor laws. Finally, the UAE us seventh richest country in the world by GDP per capita, coming in right after Ireland. Not much of a prize for a country with the seventh largest oil deposits in the world. Now get lost until you decide to quit lying.
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@BMC Your combination of defective understanding about what the GDP measures and misplaced nationalism has caused you to lie about oil's role in the UAE GDP not once, but twice. The article you linked to mentions nothing about a 1% oil contribution. However, since I don't rely on Wikipedia for anything, how about numbers right from the source - The UAE Embassy in DC? "As a mainstay to the economy, oil exports now account for about 30 percent of total UAE gross domestic product." https://www.uae-embassy.org/about-uae/uae-economy With that, I'm done with you. Anyone calling me a racist for a simple recitation of facts is not worth any more of my time.
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@BMC And you still don't understand the difference between production and exports. You expect me to believe the export of oil went from 30% of GDP to 1% is less than six years? Maybe you should ring up the embassy and ask them. There is no point in discussing this any farther with a nationalist who will not accept any evidence that contradicts your fantasy. Goodbye.
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You mean 20 seconds of a 59 second clip that's silent. A steam train with no sound isn't much worth watching.
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@gmg9010 Right, but title wasn't "Mount Snowdon Scenery", was it? I'd expect to see mostly what was in the title.
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That could just as easily be the telephone company or some civilian call center trying to sell you a vacuum cleaner warranty. I would be helpful if you'd provide some context to things that were happening almost 60 years ago now.
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@RockMonster1000 I blame coronavirus...
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@79devo Although filming it on a sunny day would have helped not make it look like an abandoned factory site.
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supernumery Do you think I wasn't a fully sentient human being in 1982? Do you think I wasn't actually watching TV then? We had 12 VHF and 69 UHF channels available. Do you think that combination wasn't enough to provide 8 TV channels. There were actually 16 Los Angeles channels on the air on October 1, 1982. That doesn't count a couple more channels from places like Santa Barbara and San Bernardino that were receivable with a good antenna system, and even XETV out of Tijuana that I was able to get when conditions were right. Just as a suggestion, the next time you want to type a lot of nonsense you know nothing about, open up Notepad and have at it. It's better than looking like an idiot on here. (https://www.radiodiscussions.com/showthread.php?486992-RETRO-LOS-ANGELES-TV-Friday-October-1-1982)
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And, at least on this side of the pond, we have Carfax. Tells you the last time someone spilled a coffee on the carpet or if it was ever totalled. Is there not something like that over there now?
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All those prices sound cheap today.
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@indiekid74 Possibly, but one two second shot of a police car not even a single police officer just talking to all those people on the street...well, they could have just as easily been "patrolling" from a taxi.
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I agree. I can hardly understand it at all.
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@nkt1 No, but the idea there should be some kind of law to limit the types of tyres smacks a wee bit of socialism, eh?
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@nkt1 So why bring up a product that has zero demand except as a strawman? Do you think the numbers and types of tyres available today are any less than in 1977? Any problem getting a tyre today, even for long obsolete cars, from a dealer or available online? I rather doubt it, so something obviously changed. There was a temporary shortage of certain types of tyres, but the gentleman from the tyre dealer's association said they could get them with enough notice. Doesn't seem like a big crisis.
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Being an American, I have no idea what most of these kids are saying. I don't know if that's a good thing.
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@bootchop88 Holy shit! Did you have to think a long time before you came up with that or did it just pop out?
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What a waste. Show the whole thing or nothing.
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He couldn't have dented the caravan. The worst he could do was put a ding in the fiberglass cover over the propane tank, and I didn't even see evidence of that.
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@kamrankhan-lj1ng Everyone looks like they are going too fast at times. I can't tell if that's real or an artifacts of the camera though.
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@pneron2032 Guess what? When you don't own a place, it's not your choice if you want to stay put. Life is hard.
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@MrThecarebear And? We have GP7s and GP9s still in service that are now between 65 and 70 years old. What has this got to do with running a socialist or capitalist railroad?
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Thirty seconds? You couldn't find more that 30 seconds worth of this program?
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@richardtheeighth4431 Fremantle owns the rights to all of the former Thames programming. Why would I have to pay them a license to watch what they already own?
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@richardtheeighth4431 That usually the kind of licensing demanded for commercial use. An outlet like The History Channel, for example, that wanted to show a complete episode would have to pay, the amount generally predicated on the size of audience. I don't think this is for individuals. They have shown complete episodes of programs like TV Eye. Maybe these are just 30 second commercials to attract outlets that might license them. If so, I wish they're say that in the title, although it's hard for me to understand how silent 30 second clips with no context for the complete show would attract anyone.
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