"Pooh, being a bear of little brain, decided to invite the strange noise in"
Gary needs to learn that he rides a cycle, not a main battle tank.
On the way home form work this evening, he decided to face down the oncoming articulated milk tanker coming up the road (on his side). It wasn't until the rather larger opponent had backed down, that it occured to me how bloody stupid this was as an idea. Gary plus bike masses maybe 100kg. Tanker weighs in at say 20 tons. result of collision = splatted Gary, maybe a 1mph drop in tanker's speed.
Ah well, nothing like being stupid and winning :-)
In more serious news, Russia needs putting back in it's box. Sadly no one has:
a) The will to stand up for what they calim to beleive (namely supporting democracy)
b) The spare force (given Iraq and Afghanistan)
c) The foot print to do anything significant even if the did (the Americans are on the way, but this happened 4 or 5 years to early for Joint task force East to exist)
Ah well, good to see that Russia can still decide to invade it's neighbours when it feels like it, with out any come back. If I was Poland or the Ukraine i'd be sharpening up the old Homeland defence plans and looking worriedly over the border. The Turks may take offence at the concept of sharing a border with CCCP mark 2 however.