Alfa Brera. So disappointing. I actually had a 350Z at the time but I’m an Alfa addict from way back, and this is still one of those cars that make me stop and stare every time I see it, so I test drove the V6. Total crap.

According to the CDC it would be about 700 accidental deaths by firearm in 2013. So since 9/11; about 10,000 people. US deaths (in the US) by terrorism over the same period; 247 (with a very broad definition of the word “terrorism”). Number of terrorists killed by armed citizens in this period, 0.

Switzerland would be wrong then; 2.91 deaths by firearm per 100K, population 8m = 233 deaths per year.

No, he had it pretty much nailed.

I just bought and brand new gaming PC, and haven’t played any games for a few years (two young kids). First game back, runs like absolute dogshit. Good times.

And yet I was working full time when I was 16. Paying tax. Not a child.

I was very disappointed by it. It just felt “meh” to me. I won’t go into anything spoiler-y, and I don’t expect Bond films to have brilliant plots, but I don’t think this did what I think of as “Bond stuff” very well. I actually preferred MI:Rogue Nation.

That’s not what they’re investigating; the rolls took place over Lincolnshire at a later date, which is so tedious and dull that I couldn’t wait to get away from there when I was a kid, but not actually water.

The runway wasn’t long enough for Mirages in the first place. Skyhawks might have been a problem, but the Argentines seemed to be scared to death of deploying out of Stanley anyway. The raid certainly had a psychological effect, but looking at opened MOD files the general view from the historians is the raids weren’t…

Wow so much rage in one small low-IQ package. News flash numb nuts, I’m not even American, I don't give a shit what you do, I just wonder why you do it.

You do know a vintage plane wiped out a bunch of people on a motorway only a few months ago right? In reality the UK authorities have a pretty decent attitude towards airshows given the population density, but they’d be strung up by the balls if that Vulcan crashed on a busload of Nuns and they hadn’t exercised due…

Shame they missed most of the runway though.

Yeah we did eventually (well the bigger kids anyway), although we started out with .22s from memory (it was a long time ago!). I remember my Dad being surprised they’d let us have a go with long guns (he was ex-army).

“Fraud and coward”? What the fuck? Are you off your meds again? Oh and good change of subject by the way. Back on topic, the debate was Israel. I-S-R-A-E-L. Dusty place on the Med, maybe you’ve heard of it?

Which makes sense because the acting in East Asia is key to US economic interests. Israel isn’t key to anything. If you accept the concept that the military is a function of diplomacy, of course you exercise your military influence where it can have the most effect.

What the US does in Korea*, or Japan or Europe is irrelevant. Your argument has nothing to do with America underwriting Israel, because its not about the money in of itself. US support for Israel creates a net disadvantage for American interests, and the fact that the US doesn’t even need to do it, because Israel has…

First, the value compared to US overseas basing is a false equivalence; giving money or weapons to Israel is not the same as stationing US troops overseas. If Israel acted as a US proxy and fought its middle east wars on its behalf, you might have a point, but it doesn’t and you don’t.

All of those things are terrible reasons for alliances.

a. I think you have different values of “non-crazy” from me. And

I don’t think it did even then. The US wasn’t a particular backer of Israel until after the Six-Day War (under Eisenhower, Israel was slapped down hard during the Suez crisis), and it already had a growing relationship with Iran back then, and Egypt for that matter.