Well I live in England, where we don't get extreme weather, so I feel justified in saying that to anyone I meet in the UK.

However, with the right clothing, people have survived all kinds of strange conditions (even underwater), so I reckon you just haven't found the right clothing for your frozen mix. (A full scuba drysuit is almost like a climate-controlled building, so you might be right about that).

Exactly. There's no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.

I don't mind the cold on my bike, but I don't like lots of rain as my road bike doesn't brake well in the wet and I have to go a lot slower which takes the fun out of it. Snow is good fun with the right set of tyres, but we don't get a lot of snow here in England.

Sustaining 20mph isn't that hard. It takes a certain amount of fitness, but I'm 45 and can manage it on the flat easily enough as long as there isn't a headwind. Over a normal route with some hills, I typically maintain an average of around 17mph for over an hour, but I know amateurs who are way quicker than I am. I do a lot of cycling, but I'm certainly no "elite" racing cyclist.

You may be right, but does it really matter what the reason is? As long as the medics get to where they're needed then I don't see that ulterior motives should be our main concern.

How about fingerprints being unique? That's generally believed with no scientific evidence to back it up.

Playing Devil's Advocate here (woohoo high score!). This law might get passed due to the ruling parties having a strong majority in the Parliament. Maybe a future UKIP party gets to power with a small minority and gets blocked repeatedly by the other parties combining against them - they'd easily be able to use this law to get rid of their opponents.

I haven't seen a pound note for years. Probably the last one I saw would have been a Scottish one ('I think you'll find that's legal tender').

It probably depends on what scales you use, but in general if you ask someone their weight, they'll answer in stone. In official contexts KGs are probably preferred.

I don't know about Morrisons (my closest one is too far away) but Aldi currently beats Tesco and Asda on quality.

We still use imperial measures for height and weight of people (e.g. 6'1" tall and weighing 14st 6lb).

Which currency we use can be very important due to factors like inflation or qualitative easing. You have a point as for most transactions the currency is just used as a middle-man for swapping services (e.g. time you spent working for someone) for products or other services.

If you have a lot of currency "saved" then the choice of currency can be very important as the value of each currency can dramatically change (e.g. hyper-inflation can wipe out the value of a currency).

As a UK subject, I don't feel sentimental about the pound, but historically it has been a lot more stable than other currencies. At the moment, I believe that Sterling is in a safer position than the Euro as the Euro has problems with some of the countries having financial difficulties (e.g. Greece).

Yep. I much prefer to use Linux, but my wife complained when I replaced all the Windows in our house, especially the double-glazing.

Depending on where you live, often the purpose of security is not to stop someone entering but to ensure that they're going to make a lot of noise doing so. If you're in a street with lots of neighbours, then a burglar is not going to want to be smashing windows or wooden doors.

This is also why dogs make good guard pets as some of them make lots of noise when they see someone they don't know. A lot of dogs would just go and excitedly greet a burglar, but the burglar wouldn't want to take the chance and will often pick a house without a dog.

I'll have you know that Windows is far more secure nowadays than it ever used to be.

If people insist on repeatedly buying rubbish, then why should the manufacturers have to pick up the slack?

Personally, I run Linux and the only problem I've had with drivers not working from one release to another was with a Multitech multimodem that I've not been able to get working on a anything newer than a 2.4 kernel. Luckily, I can still quite happily run an old OS and thus it's still working today (although why we need to run fax modems anymore is another question).