sime42
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I think it would probably be better with the Tories. We haven't really got a true Conservative government at the moment; we've got a Boris Johnson and his little friends and cronies government.
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Aye, there was certainly no shortage of cigarettes. Cheap too, so a real treat when I used to indulge.
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That used to be one of great things about Eastern European countries;- hardly any fatties to be seen as there were no Macdonald's, (and barely any other fast food joints or convenience/processed foods available). I went to Ljubljana, Slovenia, once, it was a jaw dropping experience. All the women were like models. [emoji3]
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I've heard people being told that they need to go back into the centre of Kyiv, (or some other besieged city), to get the biometric checks done, having already struggled to get out of the city to relative safety. Ukrainians on way to UK hit paperwork dead-end in Calais WWW.BBC.CO.UK "No visa for at least another week," said Misha, simply. "No-one can help us in Calais."
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Good man. Respect where respect is due. Hopefully they can navigate the tangled bureaucracy if they do ever need to take you up on the offer.
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Old Jimmy Krankie was on the radio at lunchtime today actually. I think she was chatting some sense about the Ukrainian situation and the ensuing refugee crisis. We've only accepted a meer 50 of the 1.5 or so million so far. Confusion and excessive bureaucracy in the visa process are impeding things. Not very good really is it? The rest of Europe are just accepting 10s or 100s of thousands of people as they're clearly in desperate need. World at One - 07/03/2022 - BBC Sounds WWW.BBC.CO.UK Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague
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Ah right, ok. Thanks. I wasn't aware that English was a racial type. England in itself is a multiracial country these days anyway, I'm sure Scotland must be similar.
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Racist, how so? I'm just curious as I don't live in Scotland so have no first hand experience.
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That must be one of the most frequently posted YouTube videos on Arbtalk. No complaints though, it's legendary.
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Straight as a die our dear Boris is.
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Joking aside, I have similar sized socket bar handy in the van, primarily for nuts and bolts but also in case of need, should any knobber decide to try some road rage.
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That's what I thought initially but the lines are too parallel and too evenly spaced, especially for a handsaw it looks like to me.
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Yeah I have been wondering about their culinary suitability. There'd be plenty of meat, they're goose sized easily.
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It's just the one, a male, that's aggressive. He's a sneaky bugger; as soon as you turn your back he creeps up on you. Surprisingly quiet for such big birds. He's drawn blood on a few occasions, with me and others. If they were mine I'd use a big stick to teach some respect. Got to be careful though, not good for customer relations!
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At work today ............ I had to contend with Peacock shit. It was all over the tops of some of the branches of a big Weeping Willow that I was working on. They roost up over night in there apparently. There's four of them, and one is a right vicious bastard; tries to attack me every time I go there.
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You're a lucky man. Maybe come back to dirty old Blighty for Midsommar though ........ Midsommar - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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That it's in a nutshell; honestly, honour, integrity and empathy. They are all dead with the current lot in charge. I'm not into party politics, I don't have a particular dislike of Conservatives, having voted for them several times in the past, when their policies have aligned with my views. I've heard a few old school senior Tories interviewed over the last couple of years, they've were all of the opinion that what we have now is not a Conservative government.
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How very odd. They're very evenly spaced, so look manmade somehow.
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About time to start thinking about padlocks on those log stores I reckon.
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Yep, houses deteriorate rapidly when there's no one living there to do even simple maintenance. Water is always the biggest destroyer I think. Quite nice to see in a way through; how quickly mother nature erases the marks of man. Good efforts with the reusing/recycling/upcycling of previous contents. Sure you can do the same with the bulk of the building materials. Pretty much all building stone can be reused, if you've got masonry patience, or hardcore if not!
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Take the roof off and rain will rapidly do the rest by the sound of it...
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I heard that too, though it was in the context of big buildings, old factories and warehouses etc. Shame; it leads to far too many examples of beautiful Victorian industrial architecture getting demolished. Must be a higher environmental cost to rebuilding versus renovation as well.
