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    Then it will probably look similar to the pressure cap on top of your car radiator. Put a pic up and we'll tell you if it's right.
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    Do you mean the header tank for the engine or the central heating?
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    Except this response contradicts what you said previously. Point is there are useful degrees and pointless degrees. There are easy degrees and hard degrees. However, this has always been the case, the mickey mouse degree is not a new thing. What is definitely true is that there are far more university places now, with more graduates hitting the workplace so guaranteed jobs for graduates is largely a thing of the past. Today's graduates have far more competition for jobs and have the added financial difficulties of large amounts of debt to factor in. 30 years ago the 'eternal student' was a known thing, which entailled hopping from one degree course to another, with an maintenance grant each time. You're right that many students also hold down full time jobs - the financial situation makes that a necessity. I would have far rather studied for a degree in the 60s or 70s than now. The odds were far more stacked in your favour back then and in many cases students were sponsored on their courses.
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    No, but I'd favour voting for a government which invests heavily in improving education for all. Spoken like someone with not a single clue of what they're talking about and just parroting a myth.
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    This bit is particularly informative. A higher level of education does indicate more knowledge, but it goes deeper than that. At degree level, students are encouraged to think for themselves, to do their own research and to question evidence. Essentially they learn how to learn. It is therefore to be expected that graduates would apply themselves similarly to the brexit question wherein 68% voted to remain. This is exactly why we have the form of democracy we do: we delegate the responsiblity of determining complex matters to people we have voted in on our behalf. When we give a referedum vote to the people, we get a result skewed by prejudice and misunderstanding. I'm in favour of a second vote (I'll be marching tomorrow) because, to me, it's the right thing to do. But I wouldn't be surprised in the least if the outcome was similar to the first vote.
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    You don't know. It was a secret ballot so it's all conjecture and extrapolation really, worked out from which regions voted which and then comparing that to age demographics from exit polls along with average incomes in each area, average educational attainment in each area etc. My comment about older people voting the way they did is based on my own anecdotal experience. Often from those people blatantly telling me when their guard was down. Their voting choice in 75 made them feel foolish subsequently (because they got something different to what they expected), and so in 2016 their vote was a protest vote, driven by spite. No wonder the younger generation feel so resentful about it.
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    I'm talking about in 92. There was no 2/3rds majority in 92 because there was no referrendum. People in 92 were uncomfortable with going into the EU because they felt like they had been misled in 75. They stayed uncomfortable unitl 2016. I know lots, including ones who have openly stated it to me. I also have many friends who have reported similar from relatives who were old enough to vote in 75. That is sad really. A United States of the World would be a very good thing. Sadly, humans are too controlled by their tribal instincts to make that ever likely to happen.
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    Some do, some don't. Of those who don't, did they fully realise what the alternative to staying in the EU would be? because a lot of people don't seem to like that either.
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    I actually agree with this. Not because it was democratically necessary but because by then many people were distinctly uncomfortable with what was going on and had realised their lack of understanding of the consequences of their vote in 1975. Not getting a referendum in 1992(?) led to a deep resentment that the older generation have held onto for 25 years. Then in 2016 they all marched out to the polling stations and registered their protest.
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    Depends on who you define as the 'elite'. Specific media moguls and business leaders are very keen to leave. Usually a bit of digging reveals that they have outsourced their production to the far east or have their money tied up in various tax avoidance schemes and would benefit greatly from a very low regulation economy.
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    Sorry, no. Political union with Europe was already a very well established ambition of the UK Government by 1975. The referrendum was clearly understood by those who had done their homework, to be a stepping stone to far closer political integration. In fact, 1975 was the culmination of a process which had been in motion since the end of the war. If those who voted to join in 1975 did not understand this, then they were voting in ignorance. Similar to those who voted in ignorance 2 years ago. I know an awful lot of remainers, and I've yet to hear this argument put forward. Is it really a common view?
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    Many things weren't taxed in the old days which are taxed now. Things change. I really hope you didn't think voting brexit would involve any sort of return to the old days, or you're going to be very very dissappointed.
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    Well said. The whole Jaffa cake/biscuit debate is a consequence of UK law, nothing to do with the EU. It seems blaming to EU for everything is an easy cop-out for some. I wager right now, that if we are all to pay for white diesel for our boats, being in or out of the EU won't make a shred of difference. We'll still have to pay.
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    The pub in Wheaton Aston has permanent moorers I think. There's a longish stretch of well used off-side visitor moorings within the Meaford flight. I prefer to moor far away from pub moorings, even if i'm going into the pub. They tend to be noisy and awkward to go for an early morning walk or run from.
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    I never said that!
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    That'll teach you to go to Thetford! We're you collecting a new toilet? Plus codes on google maps seem to only work for listed locations on google maps. You can't just put a pin on the map and get a plus code. Or am I doing it wrong?
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    I think having some form of shelter can be reasonably said to be a necessity. If my choice of shelter is a house and I use diesel to heat, I can use red. Why should it be any different if my choice of shelter is a boat? Your argument would follow that if a couple lived in a two bedroom house, they should pay a higher rate for their gas, eletricity etc. After all, they could live somewhere smaller. If we're defining necessity as anything above that needed to sustain life, then surely housing benefit should be scrapped and replaced with handing out tents and sleeping bags? I know of a roving trader that 'roves' and 'trades' approximately one day a year. Can't think why!
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    What about residential boats? Are they a luxury?
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    Or boats?
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    You have to wonder why some people have dogs?
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