You have been warned for triple posting.

ive tried many peopls mums cooking in my 32 years od being alive and i do have to say that
my best mates mums cooking is better than my mums, other than that my mums tops all others.


she just cant get the gravy and yorkshire puddings right.!!! and she keeps putting
brussels on under my cabbage.

however my best mates mum doesnt hide the brussels from me and her yorksha's look like
aunt bessies but they are real home made ones, and her gravy is lovely thick and smooth..

but my mums toad in the hole is unbeatable.

before all you lot start knocking brit tech and age of stuff,, might wanna see just how
old the nimitz class is.. i can tell you now its past the 30 years old mark its self!! it
has to be comeing close to 40 years old now all 10 of the super carriers. they where
started construction of these in 1968 ands it took untill 2006 to commision them all.

now i suppose by ship building standards and how long it takes to make these things you
could say they are really pretty new.. thats 40 years to manufacture just 10 aircraft
carriers! thats along time. and surprisingly enough 4 years is supposed to be fast for
construction in back then and also the nimitz class wasnt exactly a small cv so yea i
would say the nimitz is probably not the newest carrier but its far from obsolete. they
only finished constructing the last ones in 2006..

this information is from the nimitz class carrier wiki page so probably inaccurate lol.

it was however astonshing to see just how many carriers the us navy has lol,, may i ask
why the hell they need so many in the first place. no one even comes close to it.. they
coul have a qaurter of that number and still be the most powerful navy on the planet today
not even russia can match that. not even all the navies of europe could match it. half of
europe dont even have naval vessels.

i think the reason he picked the incible was due to its size and capability.. it has to be
one of the smallest aircraft carriers on the planet with some serious capability and its
planes are flown by some of the best pilots in the world.. other than that the cv is just
crap.

there was once a time when the brittish navy was unmatched in all the world.. oh the good
old days, then planes where invented!!

hence the song "rule brittania brittania rules the waves" this was in the 1600's though so
it was really down to who could build the most the quickest rather than how good the ships
where.. cause if im not mistaken both spanish and french war ships of the day where better
than the brittish,, we just had more, alot more!! and most of our war ships where not even
military, most of them where east india tradeing company vessels in teh service of the
king and privateers. hell we even employed and commissioned pirates.

best way to get a powerful national navy is to nationalise it and give companies the
power.. its just how you opperate when you rule 3/4 of the planet. you have to find some
way of policeing those merchant sealanes so the money keeps flowing.

also in those days the brittish military wasn brittish at all the solddiers where usually
consisting of local consripts from the port cities around the world.. and these soldiers
where also on the pay roll of the east india tradeing companies. makeing these companies
in some cases more powerful than the crowns that they served. so it wasnt a rare site to
see brittish soldiers in uniforms not of the crown but still bearing the crown, because
these companies where given the right by the king to wage war if necessary in the name of
england.. it made them very powerful and very wealthy very quickly..

and it wasnt just english east india setups every major nation was at it, the brits just
did it a little bit better than the rest. i suppose its one of the advanatges of being an
island nation, you find astonishing ways of just being that little bit more effective at
everything.

"Lol @ Typhoon. Do you know how many times the TK 208 (The only Typhoon SS in
service) has
failed its missile tests? Astute >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Typhoon."

You are wrong. The Project 941 Akula uses the R-39 and it has not failed it's missile
tests because it is in service with the 941 Akula. The sucessor for the R-39 the R-39M
was cancelled and instead the RSM-56 Bulava will be the sucessor for the R-39. Yes the
RSM-56 has had 7 failed missile tests it also has had 8 Sucessful missile tests.

This topic is so horribly biased and slanted that It's not worth eloborating or continuing
further discussion.

He says the Harrier owns, tells you a lot.

Toast > Harrier.

Similarly mysharona, there is no way you can say her toast is the best in the world,
unless you've already tried every single toast from every single person in this world
and was able to come to that conclusion.

Because if you haven't, how do you know there isn't a better toast out there?
You're trying to say it as a fact, when you have no way of proving it is.

A better way of saying it would be, her toast is the best I've ever tasted.

"i feel a leander love in here.

the eloy alfaro is ex HMS Penelope who served in the falklands"

Actually the ship was decommissioned and the Eloy Alfaro of nowadays was sold by the Chilean Navy.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_frigate_Almirante_Condell_(PFG-06)

As long as it ain't hugging the shores, silly Sind ^^

actually emma, sinders mum does make the best toast