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Maybe it's time to consider a new approach in your "discussions". A touch more empathy, compassion and diplomacy for instance. Something is clearly not working if you have to resort to physical violence on top of verbal assault.

No surprise there then.

Reckon you're far better off with your stoats if the eat the filthy rats and mice!

That said, I'm also a fan of sycamore as logs. Splits lovely, dries well, (with or without mould), burns lovely. Not keen on it as a tree though. It's a real tree weed and blocks light from everything around it with its heavy shade..

I've had bloody rats living in one of my stacks. Droppings and rubbish everywhere. Smells too. Rank creatures.

Lipton?

This might be controversial to some but I'd welcome seeing more of that in future. Obviously we're never going to get the lack of contrails that we saw in Lockdown, but I'm sure a big reduction would be possible and very much needed. The less exotic holidays and business travel the better IMO, for various reasons.

Telescope to find the drone when you lose it?! [emoji12]

Great idea for a thread this, nice one. It's about time we focused on some positive aspects of this big old mess. They may be few but they are there. With an 18 month old little lad and his mother back at work full time after 12 months I've not exactly had more time available to do useful stuff around the house and garden! Much less actually. I have however spent far more time with him than I would otherwise have done in normal years. It's been really nice, if hard work at times. Important for bonding at his age I think. This was only the case for the first and only real Lockdown. The positive impact on the environment was lovely to see, one of the best aspects for me. Nature really seemed to bounce back with the massive reduction in filthy, polluting, annoying traffic. Also for us as humans; it was so much more pleasant walking and cycling around quiet roads. Makes you realise how much cars have come to dominate our lives, in lots of adverse ways. As a result of barely leaving the house and having very few places to go anyway, we've been doing a lot more walks around the local area. That's been really nice. Lockdown as an excuse to not do things, mainly social things. I've definitely enjoyed that! Again, more during the first Lockdown. It was a real booster for building community spirit. Something sadly lacking normally. (I'd argue that in part that's a consequence of cars and too much busy traffic). There was a WhatsApp group set up on our road to help support those that needed it. First time I'd spoken to most of our neighbours. It's proved to be a good way of sharing local information. Money wise we've probably spent a bit less but not much. The ease of online shopping has almost counteracted the savings of not going out! Lack of physical human contact is bloody tough. I'm dying be be able to hug my mum again, and for her to hug her little grandson. It's also sad that he can't play and bond with his cousins, looking forward to the time when he safely can.

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Bloody hell, you're even worse than normal this evening aren't you?! You really will fight with absolutely anyone. If there's no immediate disagreement you will chop up people's posts and then twist selected bits around until you've manufactured something to kick off about so that you can then launch into a tirade of abuse and propaganda. You really are toxic. But, why oh why oh why? Mr Scottish Window Cleaning proposed a theory as to why you are the way you are, in a post a few days ago. You deride him as you do almost everyone else, but maybe he was correct in what he said. Does it never bother you that you have upset and pissed off so many people on here? That so many people have blocked or muted you? I would be asking myself some very searching questions if that were me. I'm not expecting any replies to these questions btw. We're all well aware of your inability to answer questions that you don't like.

I've got chili seeds germinating nicely but that's it so far. Too early for my staple things like courgettes and beans and salads etc.

There's still a hell of a lot of people outside our local hospital puffing away. Most look like patients though these days. The doctors are probably still doing it but hidden away round the back somewhere!

I've noticed the same with a lot of ambulance people and nurses too, an awful lot of bloaters around. It's just a sign of how endemic it is in this country I guess. (Present company excepted!) I caught a bit of some Highland Zoo prog in TV last night. There was some kind of staff charity Tug-of-war thing going on. I was struck by how many of them were on the large side. Pretty much all of the 10 or so on either side that I could see. It really is the new normal. People with a healthy body shape are often in the minority in some contexts these days.

Exactly. We can now even map the complete human genome.

Here we go, back on the personal attack. (In lieu of a robust response to the Norway Vs UK debate maybe). My turn now is it? You're skating on very thin ice by talking about racism. The tone and content of some of your many posts hint at something sinister lurking just beneath. You'll have to take my word for it but I'm one of the least racially prejudiced people that you're likely to meet. I have nothing against immigrants, of any race, colour or creed. I didn't vote for Brexit. You've also twisted my words as you are so fond of doing. Go back and have another read. I said something like religious beliefs are most common in ethnic groups. I don't believe there's any implied criticism or indeed negative connotation in that.

All true. I too am uncomfortable with the speed with which they've all been developed. There's a lot of info available out there explaining how they are safe though. I've not studied any of it in depth but the gist of it is that development/testing/approval processes have all been done in parallel due to the urgency and thus extra funding available. Normally all those processes would be done in series. I'm sure some will ask for further proof but that's enough for me to decide that on balance it's better for me to take a small risk with the vaccine rather than a bigger risk from the virus.

Fair enough. Guilty as charged, I don't like to be wrong. I'm sure that less than admirable trait has got worse since I've been on here. I must have been learning from the best!

I apologise, my mistake, I misread your post. You didn't ask a question. However I'm sure you were trying to make some kind of point, and it probably wasn't in favour of vaccination, but I may be wrong .................. great news if you have finally seen the light.

BAME = most religious Under-30s = biggest users of social media Those in most deprived areas = most distrusting of authority. Easy.

You've answered your own question there I think. ""The study notes that doctors are the only staff group at the NHS trust in which minority ethnic individuals form the majority"" Which demographic groups in the UK do you suppose are most likely to hold religious beliefs? Seems quite a simple answer to me.

Typo. No consistency.

Didn't people used to go on about how well Sweden was doing without a lockdown? They did bit they haven't been latterly. Funny that isn't it? No consistently.

Maybe you misread my comments again. Religious convictions. Belief beats logic and science every time unfortunately. We see evidence of that on here.

Drs!!!? How do you mean?