LancsLad said:I believe that was answered before with the line " cause he didn't trust the English in the dark", the other reason being that since you can't drink until the sun is over the yardarm the beauty of a worldwide Empire was that the sun was always over the yardarm somewhere.
Lancslad the jig is up, you are from a part of England that anyone south of Birmingham would hardly consider England more third world than anything else