Mark J
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Tory implosion.
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I try to find quietish places and if approached by rangers etc, just explain I need to rest and I'll be away in the morning with no mess. Never had a problem yet.
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Aye, even though the logo looks mint for 82, I was only five years old then so it escaped me.
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It's interesting how music from different places can be so similar. Folk music sounds' folky' everywhere.
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To be honest mate, I'm not sure it really needs a warning label. You'd have to be tapped to mess with one of those. I've noticed when I've been on travels, that you don't always have a sign warning of deep excavations etc. I think it's just accepted alot of places, that if you're daft enough to fail to see a hole or you bang your head on something, you deserve to...
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Aye, that's how I found them too.
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Probably.
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I learned as a raver that salt cures cramps. I wish I could remember the rest...
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Blakes was my favourite hitch for years. The stopper knot just acts as a back up for when all your training and knowledge abandons you for some reason. In much the same way that you may tie a knot at the tail end of your rope. I mean, no one in their right mind is going to descend off the end of their rope, however, sometimes the unexpected happens.
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I reckon she was constantly on edge, waiting for a xenomorph to explode from her body to do much research.
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Maybe your exotic holiday should involve a trip with a tanker to Kielder.
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I reckon he should be the next host for Question Time: "Next up, one proper angry geezer who doesn't know what he's farkin on abaht'...
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I understand why you might well have justifyable malice towards certain people. Not everyone who lives out a caravan is a villain though. That's important to remember.
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Some of the most profitable work I've ever done was for Travellers. There's bad apples in every walk of life, prejudice helps no-one.
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I quite like the sentiment.
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Good question Thankfully we're unlikely to find out.
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Hardest job - Hand cutter, climber or groundsman?
Mark J replied to Gary Prentice's topic in General chat
Aye, I struggle to understand the concept of anything other than 'Job and Knock'. -
Hardest job - Hand cutter, climber or groundsman?
Mark J replied to Gary Prentice's topic in General chat
The hardest job is biting your tongue. -
Terrible:
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However, you can't call a communist the same as a fascist just because you don't understand either of their ideologies.
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Me too.
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Aye, perhaps that wasn't the best word to use. 'Terrifying' would have been closer to my intention, but I thought that may be too reactionary for people to read it.
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Interesting take on current events: https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fintan-o-toole-trial-runs-for-fascism-are-in-full-flow-1.3543375?mode=amp
