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the video is 40 minutes, you will probably think its all made up to portray Israel in a negative light

I used to like Pat Ferrets one . The little tubby geezer in the super hero cape . 🙂

890 people arrested at Palestine Action protest yesterday - including 17 on suspicion of assaulting police officers APPLE.NEWS A total of 857 individuals were arrested under the Terrorism Act 2000 over alleged offences, while... That will be those peaceful people supporting that regime that raped and slaughtered men women and children not so long ago.

Funny isn't it. You get to feel like you know people from their online persona. And why wouldn't you. They're still a person; just a person talking to you on a forum rather than in the queue at a petrol station. I've seen a band whose members' videos I've watched on youtube and meeting them afterwards and saying sick set bro was a funny little hero meeting experience. I'm just old enough to remember the days before the internet so can appreciate it from a zoomed out view so to speak. Not sure how kids now perceive the whole thing. The internet might not be the internet to them. It might just be life, seamlessly integrated with the rest of life.

Oh why anything? It's a bit of fun. I have a few different watchstraps. I'm wearing the firm colours today because I'm on the phone with my web bloke. When I work on the winch, I wear pink. When I do a job or need to be hard nosed about something financial, I wear yellow, the broadly accepted colour of capitalism. The garden keys are green because plants are green. The shed keys are blue because the shed keys growing up were 'the blue keys.' Little visual things make life that little bit easier, like Mick said.

totally - in one day, say witb an asylum grant rate at 80%, you now have to build enough houses for 800 people, more houses than the day before. It would of course be just as bad for housing if 800 care workers came in each day In the old days the elderly just had to suffer. The illegals are worse for us money wise, but all migrants need land. Send them to Russia, plenty of land there

So the answer is tax people more and just ignore the 1000 a day illegals. 🤷‍♂️👍if only we “ got it “ The cost to this country in the long term is way beyond just a financial burden.

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There's a lot of not seeing the wood for the trees going on in the UK at the moment.

The asylum/immigration thing is costing about £6 Bn a year. If we taxed multimillionaires at 1% over £10 Mil, and billionaires at 2%, it would generate around £25 Bn a year. That's more than enough to build houses for the people in this country who need them, fund the NHS, and sort out a decent immigration system that quickly sorts out the wheat from the chaff. Shooting the boats in the channel isn't going to solve the bigger problems our country faces.

I'm clean. Though I don't have a dog in my avatar. As I don't have a dog.

Understandable. In another life, I've met people whose real names meant nothing to me, but once I matched up their Forum name to them, I knew all about them.

Dump on driveway, just need pre-warning to move car out of your way.

Think your confusing arbtalk for a dating website. Especially with your other active web tab, are we allowed to call them that these days ?, but respect for not even incognito mode.

yes, but my point, if I even have one, is not the answer to the first why but all the underlying whys why is coded blue yellow? why you chose to code at all?

I mean look at this screen shot of récent postings. Nary an avatar to be seen!

I do. My dog is colour coded blue. I'm yellow. Guess how many times in my life I've bought new curtains btw.

my view is people piss about with avatars like buying a new set of curtains - you changed to blue and you dont even know why. Mike Hill took his boat one off that he'd had for years, Mark J only recently took his off

Yeah, that was a good one.

Yes, for you it’s the green D

Inspired by Jake Varah's slingshot, I wanted to try my hand at making something similar myself. In the end, it turns out to be quite capable. It easily throws my quite heavy 350g/12.3oz bag up near the top of tall pines without problems. * 2.1 meters of steel tubing, painted. * M10 threaded rod to hold the rubber bands. Heat-shrink tubing around the rod to protect the rubber bands. * Cheap exercise bands, rated "heavy". Wrapped in loops for twice the strength. 4-strand paracord constrictor knots to keep them together. * Home-made pouch of cow's leather, glued and stitched together with 4-strand paracord. Dyed black. Ended up looking more like a BDSM accessory than anything else... * AliExpress trigger for bows, gripping a 550 paracord loop. The trigger is surprisingly capable and doesn't let go even at significant tension. * Cheap single block for sail rigging, attached to the trigger with stainless steel wire. * Cheap rope cleat to hold tension, with some eye bolts to guide the rope. * Cheap pulley at the end, so I can pull tension upwards or sideways. We'll have to see how it fares over time, but so far it's been working well.

The migrants are waging economic war on us, 1000 in one day to feed and shelter, their legal work and health care paid for. It is so serious it should be declared a national emergency. We need to be prepared to shock the world with our ruthlessness, otherwise our country deteriorates further with each new one that comes ashore

Rather ratifying Mick's main main message, I only really noticed you on here about a year ago. Then I found you last night in the wee chipper thread about a decade ago. And I'm reasonably good at remembering internet people.

Is the avatar the little circle beside your name in a post?

it is but it's a choice, we always have fun on road trips, looking forward to the drive. Besides, much easier with internal combustion. I remember going over on foot when I was a younger man in the 1400's, even with blisters we showed them some bow skills.