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This is a Soviet T34 battle tank

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Well, okay...

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admittedly it's now a decommissioned hunk of metal.

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It was bought from the Czech army

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after the collapse of the Soviet Union

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used for some filming --

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a Shakespeare play of all things --

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and then bought by a local resident, here in Bermondsey

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And it's been installed on this bit of waste ground

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and painted ridiculous colors ever since.

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But that's not what I'm actually here to talk about,

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I'm here to talk about something a little more general.

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Specifically something that makes every British tank

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better than every other tank, and every other fighthing machine

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in the world.

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Now I realise that's a slightly Jeremy Clarkson-ish thing to say,

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so let me explain:

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British tanks all have something called a BV:

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a boiling vessel.

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Technically it's a CV or a cooking vessel now,

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but what it is: it's a square thing,

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about that big,

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that you put water in

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and you turn it on and it heats the water up

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...it's a kettle.

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Basically, it is a kettle

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and all British tanks and all British fighting machines

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have one of these

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and what it means,

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is that British tank crews

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can have tea whenever they like.

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And to me,

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never mind your caterpillar tracks

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and your all-terrain

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and your range finders

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and your weaponry

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never mind all that.

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To me: the ability to have tea when ever you would like

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makes the British tank

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every other tank

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in the world!

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You can fight that one out in the comments.

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Anyway, that is something you've might not have known.

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