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It’s good to have a reasoned argument/debate Alex. I agree with a lot of the points you make, especially in certain situations. On balance though, I think our country is a safer place if we don’t all carry guns.

Internal cable routing on bikes that is defo something dumb and worth banning.

A lot near me on Essex Suffolk border but never see them until week before Christmas or week after depending on weather. Neighbor go's on shoot in Wales and they bag 12 to 16 on top of pheasants..

You watch your back out there Alex, you know how dangerous Greggs can be at this time of day.

Or more likely, it’s because you are wrong and no one needs a handgun to do the weekly shop.

I think so as it's quite porous, unlike , say, oak, which can be difficult. Having said that you can virtually discount drying between mid October to late March outside in England, though that's probably changing.

Can you season it quickly? I assumed it would take longer than most due to its high moisture content.

So rarely seen in the woods I worked that I wouldn't dream of shooting them.

Yes, I have avoided it mostly but when dry it's okay. I think it leaves more ash, but that may be a bit subjective and it takes up more space in the stack for the heat it gives out compared wiht a good hardwood, like birch, oak, beech or ash. Comparable with softwoods really.

And probably Mick. Make the list as long as you like. A long list of wrong people is still a list of wrong people.

Me too Alex, don't miss me out

Likewise, I think you are also wrong - but that's what we get when 2 people able to think discuss things from different sides of the argument, rational discussion which is nice to see. Appreciating the civility. Likewise lunch here shortly, can resume later, though a bit minging out there today - my job is routing cycle cables in a new frame rather than cars.

If your not too confident on your ability to remove and inspect your pistons/rings but you have the heads off try putting oil in your cylinders and let them stand overnite to see if you have obvious signs of oil bypassing the rings. Not a 100% test but worth a go before you rip into it. In the past I have seen worn piston ring grooves that act like an oil pump when the engine is running causing oil to get into the top end and cause smoking. Worth a go.

What if what if what if. What if you tackle him, he wins and now he's buoyed by his victory and decides everyone else is getting it? What if what if what if. The eighty five year old woman from the news article I posted is behind you in the queue. What for her without her gun now? What if what if what if.

Probably because they're worried about looking like gun-toting nutters because that's how the other side of the debate wants to frame them. I'm not worried about that because I know I can debate civilly. And because I'm doing the heavy lifting of arguing my side of the matter anyway (broadly speaking - the argument has more than two sides). The ones that disagree with me, I think are wrong for probably the same reasons I think other people (you, Steven, markie, Matty, Bolam from memory) are wrong. More later. It's an important debate but lunch and my power steering are also important.

Because he might wrestle the gun off you because you bottle it, or you just wing him, then he shoots me or the kids with it. Yeah, cheers Alex, thanks for being there. 👍

if being allowed to legally carry a pistol is the most important thing in your life it is possible to emigrate to one of many countries that allow this of course once you made the effort it would then be necessary to go out looking for trouble to get your money's worth

I don't wake up shaking with fear that today's the day the kitchen tap might burst. I have a spanner though. There's a difference between being rattling paranoid and keeping a spanner. It's an individual rights thing. I champion your right to wrestle a man in a coffee shop with a screwdriver if you want to. I champion your right to shoot him if you want to. Why won't you respect my right to not want to wrestle him?

Fortunately for me, I live in a world, both a physical and mentally, where I am not worried about hypothetical worst case scenario events taking place. I don’t spend my time ‘ imagining’ such things being all around me at all times either, that would be immensely draining and unnecessary brain activity.

There are many gun owners on here, some of them will have had handguns before the ban, probably not happy about it, yet I don’t think any of them have agreed with you about allowing the general public in the UK to arm themselves with handguns, why do you think that is?

If no one had a gun then there would be no one shot If a tiny portion of people had a gun then there would be a tiny portion of murderers with guns. If we all had guns then the fights outside the pub on a Friday night would turn out to be gun fights. Similarly, if all guns had a magazine of say, 25 rounds then the murderers would be able to shoot 25 people before they have to stop, pause, reload and give time for all to escape If all guns only had 2 rounds loaded, then every 2 shots, 12 1/2 times as many pauses would be needed. Cannot see the problem with this since the hunters are highly skilled, only need 1 shot not 25 to kill their target If all gun owners had 2 guns.. with 2 shots each.. then the most they could shoot is 4 rounds before reloading. The issue in Australia isn't illegal guns, the father was authorised to have a gun, able to fire off hundreds of shots in quick succession. The big issue here is the type of guns he was allowed to own and use.

It seems there is a hole at the bottom of the stove that allows the bottom hinge pin to be driven out, thanks to @Kernow Jack who has not been able to post direct: I've just managed to remove this door, it was quite a job though. As I read in the posts above the 2 door hinge pins are each held in place by a short hexagon headed grub screw, which I managed to loosen with a few squirts of WD 40 from the door hingering. however the pins themselves didn't want to move at all. Both the top and the bottom pin had smooth rounded heads which were visible top one looking up and bottom one looking down. I found a round opening underneath the door where I could reach the bottom end of the bottom pin and after a long battle finally managed to hammer this pin out (again using WD 40 liberaly) by first pushng the door up so that top hingering against the top of the stove hedge, then trapping a nailpunch tight between the botom of the bottom pin and a metal block on the floor and then giver the door a few hammer blows down from the top of the door. repeating this procedure lots of time the bottom pin finally was pushed up free from its hold and I could the lower the door free from it top hold.

Tell this woman she should have had the balls to wrestle him. Woman, 85, shoots dead masked intruder while handcuffed to a chair in 'heroic act of self-preservation' NEWS.SKY.COM Christine Jenneiahn, who was at home with her disabled son at the time, was able to drag herself to a bedroom and retrieve her pistol after Derek Condon...

Maybe you're Bruce Lee but I'm not. What about a stanley knife? Do I fck want to hand fight someone with one. I'd run. But if I couldn't run, am I better fighting someone at six inches or six feet? Six feet please. Twenty feet better. Next postcode better still.