Iceni warrior

Is Canada not the wealthy nation I've been led to believe then? Higher GDP per head of the population than many other wealthy nations such as the UK for example?

Luckily you can all self medicate with legal pot. It's not all downsides with liberal dystopias. High standards of living and top scores in happiness indexes.

Poppycock. How many wood fired power stations are there in the world?

Chaz is going to bring down righteous indignation upon us if we keep straying too far from the topic at hand.

Virtue and the moral high ground. Alien concepts to some I'm sure. For the love of money is the root of all of evil - Timothy 6:10

Back in '79 I'd have agreed with you. By '87 I was with The Larks...

You'll have to ask a Canadian about that. I'm from the land of the Iceni. With just enough Irish blood to get an EU passport.

Most Irishmen don't consider Orangemen to be real Irishmen but luckily for me the Irish passport office does. God save the Queen, God bless EU citizenship and down with coal. Maggie was right for all the wrong reasons.

I love coal like an Irishman loves sobriety on St Patrick's day.

Ah, the ''if we don't do it someone else will'' argument. If I don't sell my dog to the Korean restaurant someone else will sell them one...

Sure. Solar powered steam turbines are a great way to generate electricity too. Coal fired power stations though, not so much.

The right is always good at mislabelling environmentalists as ''the Left''. Coal is going the way of the steam engine and about time too.

Coal is so 19th century. Good on Canada for finally working it out. Now you just have to accept that oil is so 20th century and you're right up to date.

It's my default position.

I imagine the Canadian army has a much higher budget for feeding it's men. We had a budget of around three quid a day per man for breakfast, lunch and evening meals. I blame Maggie's policy of privatisation and granting contracts to the lowest bidder.

I have actually cooked for the British Army at STANTA including for Prince Harry when he was there with the Marines. I didn't resort to deep frying everything and regularly got comments like ''best food since joining the army'' in the comments book. I will admit that I was perhaps the exception rather than the norm. In defence of my less conscientious fellow cooks I will say that the average squaddie didn't have the most sophisticated palate. The food in the officer's and Sgt's messes was generally of a higher standard.

Could have been worse, they could have stayed in Liverpool.

So Canada's national dish is either French or Italian. At least roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is British.

You can push us only so far before we go all Agincourt on your arses.

I mean, your national dish is cheesy chips and gravy.

We may be rude motherfucker but this meme about bad food is at least 50 years out of date.

It's all there in the heraldry. The three lions, or more accurately leopards, of England side by side with the Scottish lion at the top of the shield. The Irish harp and French Fleur-des-lis in the middle. And at the bottom, of least importance, the maple leaves of Canada.

I've met a few, liked them all.

One would hate to be a snob but one is not convinced that any decent ale has ever been served in an aluminium receptacle. One would also like to draw attention to the second ''i'' in the word aluminium. With that said, one must depart to feed one's peacocks.