Why do circuit breakers go up for on and down for off?

He never thought of what you say below. To him, move the stalk up means switch right indicator on. Right is up, left is down, same as the right wing party rules and is above, crushing the left below.

(in Spain, the right wing ruled for over 40 years during Franco dictatorship, and when he said this we were just out of the dictatorship)

I pointed this to him and he was crestfallen for a while. We liked him, but he was peculiar :-)

He taught painting and drawing, so he had an artistic mind.

There was an I Love Lucy episode about that, when they visited London.

Because if they come here, they can't buy their lunch with what they earn, but over there they are rich.

You should know this.

Less than a 0.01% error, probably.

:-DD

Nope, because WW1 and WW2 essentially bankrupted the country.

It certainly was raining cats and dogs last week. I know because I stepped in a poodle.

Plates of meat, that's your feet. Trouble and strife, that's your wife. There are more I can't recall now.

Cockney rhyming slang? Used by everyone? Certain groups?

Did I learn about this in My Fair Lady?

The council operate above the law. Do you think it's ok for disabled people to have spinal damage from speedbumps? And yes it does, my Aunt has a bad back and cannot go over a speedbump even at 1mph, it's ridiculous. They have to go a different way, or she gets out while he drives over the bump. Fun holding folk up though.

By the way, councils don't collect speeding fines, that would be the police. And they're too stupid to catch me.

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The value of a human life.

Can't see that an illegal is worth anything like $500K.

There are also a lot of phrases that come from the Royal Navy - square meal (from the square wooden plates); between the devil and the deep blue sea - the devil being the final plank of a deck, against the side of the ship and the hardest to fit; the bitter end - the end of a rope ... especially if you missed catching it as the rope went over the side; and a whole lot more.

I used to live in San Antonio, Texas, which is located in Bexar county. Locals pronounce it <baer>, rhymes with bare and bear, so you can always tell if a non-local is talking because they say the 'x' sound and create two syllables.

Back in the '70s, a guy in the UK had a problem with his car. He went to the dealer, who advised that it was a gearbox problem, but there were no spares in the UK. He contacted the manufacturer, who stated that they were not intending sending any, unless the minimum quantity of 10,000 were ordered. He fought this with the dealer and the manufacturer for some time, but eventually gave in and ordered 10,000 of them.

Some time later, the parts were flown in, but disaster struck, when the plane disintegrated in mid-air.

The evening news carried a report of it raining Datsun cogs.

Except that manufacturers like to use the same systems throughout all their markets and here (and possibly in some other countries), there can be reason to put them on while moving.

Here, it was was illegal to do so, but people sometimes did and government recognised that it was actually a good idea and changed the law.

It is now a legal and recognised sign to following drivers, on a fast road, such as a motorway or dual-carriageway, that you are approaching standing traffic and slowing quickly to a stop. As such it needs to be activated quickly and without having to take your eyes off the road.

Then call it "American". Why do you continue to refer to it as "English"?

You haven't changed anything, what you've done is keep our old version from when you fled from the UK billions of years ago. We used to write sulfur, you still do. We have evolved, you have not.

An RCD does not prevent fire or shorting the power source. It is only there to protect someone in your own house from a shock. Please learn what the different devices actually do before making such a stupid statement.