Mike Hill

8 hours ago, monkeybusiness said:

A thread about depression, and people attack someone who has been very open historically about their own struggles with depression.

Unbelievable - internet bullying ****************whittery at its finest.

 

Reading your post has made me depressed.

3 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

As I mentioned the owner was pretty tight.

 

New tyres would have probably made a world of difference.

"Pretty tight" considerable understatement.

I remember when the gearbox blew on Hammersmith roundabout blocking two lanes day before a bank holiday. We had lost second gear weeks before but fatty insisted it was just a worn selector fork

4 hours ago, Squaredy said:

I wish I could disagree with you, but I think the reality is more and more people are waking up the reality.  Look what happened in Germany.  In 2015 crowds applauded the new immigrants arriving.  Now in 2025 all recent polling shows majority think it has gone too far and not been managed.  Sounds familiar.

 

By the way anybody who bothers to actually read Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech from 1968 will see he was not a racist but a very wise man.  Yes the language is now dated, but he actually undertsated the case.  In many ways it is far worse than he foresaw.

Yet Angela Merkel maintains that her policy was a success and regrets nothing.

Blinding ignorance seems to be a strong theme amongst leftist politicians. None of whom are effected by their policy failures,they leave their positions to hop upon the gravey train as consultants elsewhere.

Years ago my ex-wife worked for the Norwegian government as a hygene inspector for resturants and anywhere that served food.

Every now and again they would " raid" all the kebab shops in Bergen at the same exact time,Police,tax inspectors and immigration staff involved. Normally they would find evidence of meat smuggled in from Sweden,ileagle workers,cash etc. One time her co-workers found a chest freezer full of folding stocked AK's .

11 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Yes very true.  He even seems an elder statesman of politics now.  Apparently he has quite a strong influence over the current Labour Party.

That does seem to be a strong Labour traight, Helen Clark and her manic world veiw steered Jacinda Arden's foreign policy.

33 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

I haven’t seen the recent series about it but I have followed this for over thirty years.  It is still not over; a suspect will be coming to trial next year in the US I believe.  Incredible that the UK and US governments have known from day one the truth, and still the farce of investigation continues.  It is the most incredible waste of public money.

 

Can you imagine any other person found guilty of murdering 270 people being released after just 8 years?

Yup

Tony Blair never did any time, all the while knowing WMD's were a hoax.

How very diverse! Surely just a misunderstanding?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/12/19/green-party-councillor-arrested-over-modern-slavery/

Australia has alot of introduced animals that are classed as pests,same as NZ. Each time firearms laws are tightened the number of these pests increases because of the fewer number of firearms and those suitable for pest control deminishes.

I used to get paid to shoot ferals,started with a bolt action,then a semi auto SKS,then a mini 14 with a can. With each upgrade my tallies rose. All of the blokes who did this on the weekend or after work had an effect greater or equal to the official cullers. When semi autos were effectively banned in Aus and NZ the feral populations have exploded threatening many native species with extinction, especially those native birds and lizards which nest on the ground.Some Australian native species like the Casserey are devastated 

While its true that some cullers have access to semi autos the draconian restrictions on even minor spare parts means that the gun is out of action for weeks as you have to apply for any spare part.All magazines are serial numbered woe betide anyone who drops one out of a helicopter because your fcuked if someone finds it and hands it in.

Well that didnt take long...

'Toughen these up': PM flags law changes after Bondi

WWW.THENEWDAILY.COM.AU

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Australia's gun laws will likely be tightened after the Bondi terror shooting that left at least 16 people...

Or how about vetting people properly?

"But he refused to comment on a report from the ABC that ASIO examined one of the men six years ago over close ties to a Sydney-based Islamic State terrorism cell. He also declined to confirm reports that a black IS flag was found on or inside the alleged gunmen’s car"

Bondi Beach gunman: Mother insists son is a 'good boy'

WWW.GBNEWS.COM

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The mother of one of the Bondi Beach gunmen has insisted her son is a “good boy” following the massacre which <a...

ummmmm.....yeah.

Both the shooters were on the ASIO watchlist apparantly but still were allowed to keep 6 guns. Tge pump shotguns were already ilegal ,but amazingly terrorists didnt follow the law.

The four uniformed Police armed with pistols and radios cowered behind cover for 20 minutes untill a plain clothes officer closed in and began engaging the shooters,then the four officers remembered to protect more than just themselves. In the meantime an unarmed green grocer had herotically disarmed one of the shooters.

But now the cops are looking at tougher gun laws because removing law abiding peooles freedoms will somehow make them safer.

7 hours ago, Johnsond said:

Maybe during the Cold War when west Germany was littered with NATO forces including our own BAOR  it was literally ready to fight at a few hours notice. Nowadays I’m not sure, we in particular just don’t have the armed forces anymore and is the leadership and political will there ?? . 
4 years in and it’s still nothing more than wind and piss about increased defence spending. 
Right now  the USA calls the shots, Europe including the UK only has themselves to blame. 

It was commonly thought that Dave and in the late 60's BAOR probably had war reserves. By the late 80s some of the armoured devisions didnt have enough ammo to bomb up all their tanks but that was ok since there wernt enough trucks to resupply or any ammo reserves.

I am with Steve on Nato,its a paper Tiger. Especially with Germany buying Russian gas but sending Tanks to Ukraine. The Russians have parked a load of old Nuclear reactors up by the Norwegian border and the european nuclear energy comission pays for the upkeep of the site.

Total farce,the Ukraine war is an unprecidented grift opportunity. Like the Norwegian firm selling £300  neck scarf's that can be bulk bought for £3.

If you want a trouble free Först,dont you buy a Jensen?

32 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

 

Do you know the thread size? When I needed a nipple for my smoothbore .58 I ended up ordering a few from an Aus bookshop via ebay, these bods:

 

https://viceroybooks.com.au/advanced_search_result.php?keywords=Nipple

 

Thanks for the tip. I dont know the thread pitch untill I pull the nipple,then my mate will make one.

Handsome French Jæger Rifle in .58 cal.

First time out with it today,needs a new nipple but its ok otherwise.

See if you can find an old ALICE pack ? Thats what we used in the bush for carrying oversized shackles .It was just the frame remaining.

Just buy a regular pack. 

Those frame packs are pretty specific and you wont need the expense of the rigid frame from what you are doing.

1 hour ago, Rich Rule said:

It was Endre’s Job.

 

I don’t think he added twat tax.

 

I wanted to charge that tax in the form of a crane to get the stick out but some people prefer the harder approach to the smarter approach.

Rediculous.

No Norwegian would intentially over-complicate any basic task for reasons known only to them.

What are you goung to be using it for?

DIY around your garden and allotment or clear felling Old Growth?

Thats a shame. I have been wearing them for 15 years,or about 40 meters of rainfall.

I re waterproof mine anually with Tekwash but the zips usually give up after a couple of years of pretty much daily use.

Ex Army Gortex.

Swazi wearer's are poofs.

I bought a 4 Bore Muzzle Loading shotgun,its an absolute beast. Many thanks for a forum member here who stored it literally years for me.

Four ounces of #2 shot and 180 grains of FFg black powder.

£500 is about £400 too much honestly.Thats if you really want it.

You dont know who or how the crack was fixed,will he refund you if it cracks again 5 clays in?

I would swerve that gun personally Matty,unless it was free. You guys are spoilt for choice in the UK,you could do much better than a cracked Miroku if you have £500 to throw around.

48 minutes ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Would heated handles on toppers help?

Only for one hand

Put the battery on charge,see what the voltage is.

Remove the fuel filter and inspect.

Check all your connections on the fuel line,you might find it weaping somewhere.

If that all checks out,join a clear bit of hose from the supply side of your filter to the fuel line itself.Providing you have refilled the fuel filter housing the chipper should fire and pull diesel up past the clear bit of hose.It might need to be bled at an injector or it might not.

Now you know you have diesel from the tank to the filter and from the filter to the pump.leave it and see if air appears in the clear hose up at the filter housing. Providing the housing is at the highest part of the fuel line.Thats all if you just dont want to replace the fuel line which you might end up doing.There is a slight,slight chance there is something floating around in the tank that blocks the end of the fuel intake but thats an outside chance imho.

Kubotor engines did have pretty weak lift pumps,I have replaced a couple with electric lift pumps but the symptoms were the engine farted and hunted rather than were hard to start.