Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]

[Clockwork Cupcake]

mko9 said:

Visiting forces drive around on US plates for a short while right after the car arrives until they can get the lights modified and an MOT accomplished so the car can be registered in the UK.

You mean exactly how I said in my post? I even posted a link to the relevant web page.

Here's the link again for you
https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/...

Here is the relevant section:

You can usually use a vehicle with foreign number plates without registering or taxing it in the UK if all of the following apply:

• you’re visiting and do not plan to live here
• the vehicle is registered and taxed in its home country
• you only use the vehicle for up to 6 months in total - this can be a single visit, or several shorter visits over 12 months

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 23 June 15:48

[mickythefish]

UK has 2.7 billion debt, 120 billion on interest payments alone. Let's say global interest rates don't increase how long would it take realistically to repay it all off?

[98elise]

mickythefish said:

UK has 2.7 billion debt, 120 billion on interest payments alone. Let's say global interest rates don't increase how long would it take realistically to repay it all off?

It would depend on how much of the debt we pay down each year. At the moment thats zero, because we're running a deficit.

Edited to add...

Debt is 2.7 trillion, not billion. The deficit is 40 billion

Edited by 98elise on Sunday 23 June 17:31

[Sigmamark7]

Surely on page 911 of the thread “Things you always wanted to know the answer to (Vol 15), somebody should ask why no manufacturer can make a car which is better than a Porsche 911 in its many guises, so I just have!

[hidetheelephants]

They can and have, because a warmed over Beetle isn't a very good car in objective terms.

[mickythefish]

98elise said:

It would depend on how much of the debt we pay down each year. At the moment thats zero, because we're running a deficit.

Edited to add...

Debt is 2.7 trillion, not billion. The deficit is 40 billion

Edited by 98elise on Sunday 23 June 17:31

we pay 100 billion interest and another 100 billion off debt.

20ish years?

[Cotty]

Sigmamark7 said:

Surely on page 911 of the thread “Things you always wanted to know the answer to (Vol 15), somebody should ask why no manufacturer can make a car which is better than a Porsche 911 in its many guises, so I just have!

Did you know that in the setting each member can change the page length to their own preference. For me this is page 456, for others that may be different

[captain_cynic]

Cotty said:

Sigmamark7 said:

Surely on page 911 of the thread “Things you always wanted to know the answer to (Vol 15), somebody should ask why no manufacturer can make a car which is better than a Porsche 911 in its many guises, so I just have!

Did you know that in the setting each member can change the page length to their own preference. For me this is page 456, for others that may be different

You do know the default is 20 posts per page and most people won't have changed it.

[audi321]

Cotty said:

Sigmamark7 said:

Surely on page 911 of the thread “Things you always wanted to know the answer to (Vol 15), somebody should ask why no manufacturer can make a car which is better than a Porsche 911 in its many guises, so I just have!

Did you know that in the setting each member can change the page length to their own preference. For me this is page 456, for others that may be different

Yep 456 for me too. So how comes Ferrari make the best supercars in the world?

[Alickadoo]

Why don't the Scots stay on in Germany and support England?

[President Merkin]

And why would they want to do a thing like that?

[RizzoTheRat]

Cotty said:

Sigmamark7 said:

Surely on page 911 of the thread “Things you always wanted to know the answer to (Vol 15), somebody should ask why no manufacturer can make a car which is better than a Porsche 911 in its many guises, so I just have!

Did you know that in the setting each member can change the page length to their own preference. For me this is page 456, for others that may be different

Why do some people prefer to scroll forever rather than just click a next page button?

[Newc]

mickythefish said:

98elise said:

It would depend on how much of the debt we pay down each year. At the moment thats zero, because we're running a deficit.

Edited to add...

Debt is 2.7 trillion, not billion. The deficit is 40 billion

Edited by 98elise on Sunday 23 June 17:31

we pay 100 billion interest and another 100 billion off debt.

20ish years?

About that, because you would also have inflation nibbling away at it.

But you would need another 40bn-50bn to remove the deficit, and new laws that required any MP who wanted to increase state spending to first spend two nights in a small room with a hungry bear.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

captain_cynic said:

You do know the default is 20 posts per page and most people won't have changed it.

How is that the problem of the grown-ups?

[Truckosaurus]

Alickadoo said:

Why don't the Scots stay on in Germany and support whoever is playing England?

Indeed.

[Doofus]

What's the business model for funfairs?

Does one person/business own the lot, and employ people, or do different people own the rides/attractions and they just come together as a collective?

Presumably somebody has to be in charge, and who's responsible for things like fences, litter and the like?

[GasEngineer]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

mko9 said:

Visiting forces drive around on US plates for a short while right after the car arrives until they can get the lights modified and an MOT accomplished so the car can be registered in the UK.

You mean exactly how I said in my post? I even posted a link to the relevant web page.

Here's the link again for you
https://www.gov.uk/importing-vehicles-into-the-uk/...

Here is the relevant section:

You can usually use a vehicle with foreign number plates without registering or taxing it in the UK if all of the following apply:

• you’re visiting and do not plan to live here
• the vehicle is registered and taxed in its home country
• you only use the vehicle for up to 6 months in total - this can be a single visit, or several shorter visits over 12 months

Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Sunday 23 June 15:48

Posters often give the same answer as posted earlier. More frustrating is when the second + replies get acknowledged and the first poster giving the answer is ignored !

[captain_cynic]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

captain_cynic said:

You do know the default is 20 posts per page and most people won't have changed it.

How is that the problem of the grown-ups?

Because we're not the ones trying to pretend otherwise.

This is page 911 unless you've changed the defaults... Stop getting upset because you've done something differently.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

captain_cynic said:

Because we're not the ones trying to pretend otherwise.

This is page 911 unless you've changed the defaults... Stop getting upset because you've done something differently.

I was just being silly. You are, of course, correct

[98elise]

mickythefish said:

98elise said:

It would depend on how much of the debt we pay down each year. At the moment thats zero, because we're running a deficit.

Edited to add...

Debt is 2.7 trillion, not billion. The deficit is 40 billion

Edited by 98elise on Sunday 23 June 17:31

we pay 100 billion interest and another 100 billion off debt.

20ish years?

The problem is we don't have a spare 100bn each year we have -40bn.

If we had 100bn surplus every year we wouldn't have the debt in the first place.