From: ChelseaTractorMan on
On Fri, 7 May 2010 16:42:44 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Eigg, Muck, Lundy, Steep Holm,
>Flat Holm and many others?

very nice small islands, at least those I have been to.
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From: Brimstone on


"ChelseaTractorMan" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 7 May 2010 16:42:44 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>Eigg, Muck, Lundy, Steep Holm,
>>Flat Holm and many others?
>
> very nice small islands, at least those I have been to.

I've no doubt they are, but I was thinking of their size in relation to the
"pisspot" categorization of the UK mainland. ;-)


From: Adrian on
"Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

>>>Eigg, Muck, Lundy, Steep Holm, Flat Holm and many others?

>> very nice small islands, at least those I have been to.

> I've no doubt they are, but I was thinking of their size in relation to
> the "pisspot" categorization of the UK mainland. ;-)

Australia. Now _that_ is a big island.
From: Halmyre on
In article <pck8u5583o9tkgvhithlmmmgv5kuijtdh4(a)4ax.com>, damduck-egg(a)yahoo.co.uk says...
> On Fri, 07 May 2010 17:19:36 +0100, ChelseaTractorMan
> <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 7 May 2010 16:42:44 +0100, "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>Eigg, Muck, Lundy, Steep Holm,
> >>Flat Holm and many others?
> >
> >very nice small islands, at least those I have been to.
>
> When I visited to Lundy a mates mate was the Farmer, Used to take
> great delight in telling visitors he had a Lamborgini.
> A lot were surprised to find that Lamborgini made tractors,there again
> some people have never realised what the DB in many models of Aston
> Martin was associated with.
>

Porsche made tractors as well:

http://akalol.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/porsche_diesel_super.jpg

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From: NM on
On 7 May, 11:50, Adrian <toomany2...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> boltar2...(a)boltar.world gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
> saying:
>
> >>> It would also force the major parties to stop ignoring the perfectly
> >>> valid view of poor british born people that they are disadvantaged in
> >>> access to services by large influxes of immigration instead of
> >>> labelling them rascists.
> >>This isn't the thread, but that's complete and utter bollocks.
> > Its not bollocks. As Brown proved with his petulant little "bigot" rant
> > against that woman who asked a perfectly reasonable question , the
> > labour party simply arn't prepared to have their multi-culti beliefs and
> > stance on immigration questioned. And when they are they resort to
> > playground insults in an attempt to close down debate. As those on the
> > left have always done.
>
> Lovely, an' all. But that's not what CTM said, and isn't what I called
> bollocks.
>
> I don't think there is any way in which "poor british born people" are
> "disadvantaged" by "large influxes of immigration". I'm happy for you to
> show me one, though...?

Southall in the fifties and sixties.