Indian is a nationality anyway, not a race.

What’s sad is that you confused “development costs” with “new build planes, spare parts, fuel, motor oil, tires, paint, bombs and training for 2,000 supersonic stealth fighter-bombers over a period of fifty years”.

And how badly you are trying to avoid the Chief.

And in the scheme of huge ships, aircraft carriers aren’t even that huge.

The SDB has a CEP (circular error probable, the distance from exact aiming point) of 5-8m. The GAU-8 has a CEP of 40.

The Australians are simply used to their toilet water draining the opposite way down the walls.

What are they complaining about? The toilet’s output goes right into the sailing and swimming venues.

You’d think the mayor would appreciate somebody who didn’t dwell on Rio’s problems.

That would really take some doing - Thatcher was an even bigger asshole than Reagan.

You know that Wales voted for Brexit, right?

Why would Wales leave. If this is to with EU vote you do realize that they voted to leave EU. I see a lot of Americans not understanding this.

Doesn’t work that way in the UK. Trust me, as someone only a few years younger than Clarkson who spent their formative years drinking in places like Doncaster (I lived in Hull, about 30 miles away), Clarkson was not anyone’s idea of a chav.

Are you kidding? He once punched Piers Morgan. He should get the Presidential Medal of Freedom for that. That alone makes him a Great American, even if he’s English.

Problem is with the Northrop Grumman intercooler, the WR21 was designed in a collaborative project with Rolls Royce. Just google the type 45 and it will pop up a tonne of links you can pick and choose. http://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/putting-the-ty… is probably one of the better ones though as it discusses the…

No but I have drunk hot tea after a tennis match in the Australian summer, there’s a reason why the British drink tea everywhere. As as long as it’s a dry heat it will cool you down.

I know you’re kidding but you are correct about the size of the fleet.

Iced tea? Bloody awful stuff that the Yanks invented after threw all the good stuff into Boston harbour. This is the senior service, tea is always hot, sugar and milk optional.

Most of the US ships aren’t as new as the Type 45s, and the new ones are built by a lot of the same guys given that the US Navy is one of biggest customers of the company that designed them.

This was just bad engineering, ocean surface temperatures have risen only about a half a degree in the last 30 years. Air tempatures a fraction of a degree. So this is hardly an “OMG GLOBAL WARMING” issue.

In hindsight it seems inevitable that a top player in a big sport would eventually come out like this. But still, it's incredibly brave of CR7 to use such a high profile occasion to reveal to the world that in his heart he's a huge Madonna fan.