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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Yoshi on February 26, 2009, 14:11:05

Title: Shell DERV
Post by: Yoshi on February 26, 2009, 14:11:05: Go on then, how much do you reckon i just paid for 25 litres of Shell DERV?????
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Post by: Disco Matt on February 26, 2009, 14:24:53: £25.50?

101.9 for Texaco here...
Title: Re: Shell DERV
Post by: Yoshi on February 26, 2009, 14:33:43: nope lol, £16.00 :D lol 0.655 per litre :D

was also on UK soil at the time too!!! lol
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Post by: V8MoneyPit on February 26, 2009, 15:47:20: Channel Islands?
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Post by: wormster on February 26, 2009, 16:30:49: Bet that's in Gibraltar :grin:
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Post by: ChrisW70 on February 26, 2009, 17:07:23: judging by his spotted post, my money's on gibraltar too
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Post by: V8MoneyPit on February 26, 2009, 17:41:28: Quote from: ChrisW70 on February 26, 2009, 17:07:23
judging by his spotted post, my money's on gibraltar too

OK, so I wasn't being very observant :P :lol:
Title: Re: Shell DERV
Post by: Yoshi on February 26, 2009, 17:55:35: Yup, Gibraltar!

Decided on a day trip to there today. But it wasnt very good tbh. I was woo'd with stories of exceptional inexpensiveness and bargains galore (not just on fags and booze) but found it was actually alot more expensive than in the UK.

Plus also the weather. It was a typical UK day in Gibraltar. It was nice and sunny in most of Spain, til we got about 10km away and then it clouded over. Once in Gibraltar it was on the verge of raining!!!!
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Post by: Gordo on March 04, 2009, 13:39:09: Quote from: BadgersRover on February 26, 2009, 14:33:43

was also on UK soil at the time too!!! lol

No you weren't. Gib is British, but not part of the UK. [-X

Ditto the Channel Islands and Isle of Man.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is England, Wales, Scotland and (obviously) Northern Ireland.

Sorry to be pedantic and all ;)
Title: Re: Shell DERV
Post by: diggerdog36 on March 04, 2009, 21:53:30: Hmmmm, thats disputable, it is in fact 'The European Territories of the United Kingdom'.
So he was on UK soil, as we own it!!

This means the United Kingdom and Islands, plus Gibraltar, which is a British Colony with its own citizenship. Citizens of all parts of this area are UK Nationals in European Union law
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Post by: Gordo on March 04, 2009, 22:02:14: Perhaps it's best to stick to British soil.

Describing the European Territories of the UK as part of the UK is tenuous at best - Of and In are not the same thing.

Curiously, a similar ambiguity also applies to the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed which was variously English and Scottish, and often referred to specifically in addition to the two nations. Although it's definitely part of the UK though :)
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Post by: diggerdog36 on March 04, 2009, 22:04:43: Berwick upon Tweed, they can keep it!!! :lol:
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Post by: crazymac on March 08, 2009, 12:15:17: I can't remember Gibralter.

Went there with the Royal Navy in the 80's, 365 pubs in 2 square miles!!
Title: Re: Shell DERV
Post by: Gamble on March 13, 2009, 23:29:13: Quote from: diggerdog36 on March 04, 2009, 22:04:43
Berwick upon Tweed, they can keep it!!! :lol:

No, No, NO honestly it's on your side of the border so it can stay there. ironic how it's now england but back in the anglo-scots wars the english burnt it to the ground and killed everyone. Sounds like glasgow on a saturday night.