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Oh! I forgot, multimillion £ "state of the art" operating theaters should be staffed 24/7, to get the value out of a VERY expensive fixed asset. Ditto consultants should work evenings, nights and weekends, on rolling shifts. He who pays the Piper should call the tune. And time-served Ex Services Paramedics specially for the Friday & Saturday night crowd, looking for a fight.

Despite the appalling inefficiencies and incompetent staff across all professions within the NHS and at all levels PLUS the useless drunken twazzocks in any Accident & Emergency room, our local hospital, despite a generally poor reputation(and deservedly) has an outstandingly well run x-ray/ultrasound department, the wife and myself have had 4 xray/scans recently, in each case we were in seen and back out, all before the actual appointment time. I take it this is simply and purely because of whoever is in charge of this department being a good leader and setting an example. Altnagelvin on the other hand despite its better reputation, has appalling "no show" for booked appointment statistics, due to the local demographic. And after reading some of the statistics for monies paid out to those on benefits, i.e. per head or per household, surely ALL should pay the SAME for access to ALL services, and if necessery adjust the payments (upwards) to give every (sensible sized) family a living wage, and cut out ALL the freebies. i.e. In NI when those in employment, or not in receipt of benefits paid for their prescriptions, paid-for scripts were only 10% of the total. 90% being free. That is mad & unsustainable.

Yanmar engines in many rubber tyred diggers, & other small plant, harder to listen too than a Kubota, but I suspect more efficient/more powerful for the same fuel consumption.

Ah widnay want to encourage or otherwise get the wife into the habit o stubbing her fag on my testicles, otherwise . . .

Part of the appeal of the 'Nash is cos I got an acquaintence who knows them inside out, and will vet it for me, otherwise probably focus on a MF 4355, since loads about locally, but nominally 50% more expensive. m

Thanks TCD, tis only a 4 pot, but a tad nimbler for lacking 2 cyl, & seems like value for money, since the loader appears to be in good nick, & at least zero electrical gremlins to worry about. cheers m

Anyone want to offer an opinion on buying a 1987 International 856, with a fresh tight Q445 Quickie loader fitted? Iffen I am going to buy a sensible ag loader tractor. cheers m

I admired the simplicty of the "pull-off" transporter, pure innovative genius. Also jealous of the various tractors on display, so I must go a tyre-kicking today ps is the word "ingenious" derived from innovative genius?

Having watched a biography of Lloyd George last night, presented by his great great grandson Dan Snow, dontchaknow, which revealed that; (i) Lloyd George probably/almost certainly & disasterously lead the UK into the first World War, despite being "anti-war", because to have done otherwise would have handed the impending? election to the Tories. And throwing the British nation and Empire into a senseless slaughter was a small price to pay to prevent that unthinkable political event. (ii) Then wrote to his wife imploring her to prevent their 2 Sons volunteering, immediatly after making a rousing speech to encourage the young men of the country to volunteer to fight. A complete hypocrite, so, as they say, the Libs, "they got history" cheers m

Yes, to answer your ? OSM. ps Senior Managment asked why I googled "hotties", I dont imagine she really believed my entirely honest answer either. sigh!

Funny enough, having purchased and burned a few(briquettes) 35 years ago while living in Belfast, I was idly examining the pallet on display in Tescos only last week, but could not establish the weight of the pack. If produced on a proper industrial scale, I think a good product and a good idea. PS Why did all the , full, 1/2 & 1/4 of the displayed pallets of "Hotties" be deceitfully built with a hollow core? Does the vendor imagine his customers are as dense as the product perhaps? cheers m

Ere! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude I am apparently not the only one!

Ere, Ah just had a wonderfully comforting uplifting thought, you know them Eurocrats on their Platinum plated Euro saleries & pensions. I fervently hope when the Euro project collapses, they are locked in to worthless Pensions paid in worthless Euros. Now THAT ud be a proper result!

how does that well known saying go again Hairy, "great minds think alike, but . . . Since "DuH" was my very same conclusion:lol:

Assuming "rebated" diesel is available in France, a "no-brainer", proper Kubota territory that 35HP size engine is, AND Diesel is inherently safer, however with the significent recent developments in petrol engines, not so clear cut, application dependant(i.e is a quieter air cooled petrol pref to a noiser heavier, more expensive diesel), as it once was. So unless the petrol engine (in a chipper) makes the difference from below 750kg to above 750kg perhaps?

Our 40 kW Solarbayer, and now about 10 years old burns/burned ABSOLUTLY cleanly, despite being stuffed to absolute maximum with split conifer, after a little smoke during start up. Contrary to the instructions in the manual provided, I found it best to get a good roaring fire established with cardboard boxs and kindling consisting of the finer & splintery bits from the splitter, then "load her up" to complete firebox capacity. Drawing through 12m of twinwall flue, but ZERO visible smoke or even any perceptible haze. Oh and a buffer tank fed through a Laddomat. marcus

A bit like the abuse of postal votes by some inner city Labour Party supporters in the UK then! so an aspect worth considering. Anyway here in NI, we got PR, 'n look where THAT got us! But, without a doubt, any person wishing to vote, SHOULD be able to produce SOME reasonable form of identification, and I favour a simple photographic national ID card. Keep it simple.

But surely, to be "fair" the majority parties/points of view, should get a majority of the air-time? Why should the paying majority fund the minority groups, most of whom are crackpots, demanding the unrealistic or unattainable, or unaffordable. From my lifetime observations.

Re the Solis, IF David Tunstall (Tunstall tractors) chooses to sell them, nuff said, per the various comment I have noted down through the years on the Britishfarmingforum, about the unquestioned integrity of D Tunstall and his firm. Anyway, Carraro front axle, Perkins engine, Renault transmission/back end,no doubt all older technology, but perhaps the better for it, & all well hammered together. Being bought, brand new, by actual farming farmers, as scraper tractors, which should quickly test their robustness. Other than that I know nowt.

I read a really good SF novel(or short story) based on the premise of an intelligent civilization developing computers and conquering space travel to explore and settle throughout the Universe, finally developing AI which gradually and peacefully replaced the species that had developed it, all culminating in first a physical supercomputer with AI, then evolving to a non physical Galactic Overseeing Device, which watched and mused as entropy set in and the Universe wound down as the stars all burned out. Aeons later G.O.D figgered how to re-start the whole process, with a Big Bang, or "let their be light". And indeed per Jomoco, I would not rule out the possibility of an infinite number of alternate parallel universes, cos, "what do we know?" Presbyterian reared Agnostic that I am.

TCD I liked your post/quote re the difference between the youth/young men(& women) of 1944 compared to todays angst-ridden butt-hurt society. But the pendulum has started to swing, as evidenced by Milo Yappannoplis and his ilk. PS I am quite sure that Milo sniffed the wind before he choose his cause. 30 or 50 year ago his choice of cause might well have been different. Anyway About 40 year ago I was in Woolworths in Coleraine, just a 17 year old mooching about aimlessly, and trying not to hear the religious nutters preachng in the street outside, when an elderly Nun spoke to me, asking advice re a birthday card for her nephew. Now even me, with my youthful hot-blooded NI Presbyterian upbringing, (and all whilst marvelling at the quite magnificent hairy mole on her chin) could see the peace and serenity in her eyes. For her, religon, or rather a belief in God, had worked. I still reflect on that memory from time to time. Agnostic that I am.

The Canadian Professor was/is debating this whole issue today, kicked off over his bemusement at the 27 or 57 different genders he was asked to address with the "correct" pronoun. And was verbally & viscously attacked for his "non-compliance" by the usual strident "feminazi" types. Reminds me of the Dalecks "exterminate, exterminate" This gentleman, if I recall correctly http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-37875695

So? ho hum?, they ARE different, at least culturally. Anyway to change the subject, and put perspective on "First World" problems, take a look at; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalinga_Institute_Of_Social_Sciences A very good video on youtube as well .[ame] [/ame] They choose to attend school to get fed properly, with zero frills.

Sounds about right, from my own lifetime L. Govt. exp. PS "On massage" ya dirty brute!

Bahco adj wrenches are the best I have come across, my "go-to" spanner was a 10" adj rubber handled Bahco, as favoured by plumbers due to the wide jaw opening, quite superb, currently mislaid, hence I have been using the 15" and 18" big brothers(eye wateringly expensive for all I use them for, but a pleasure in the hand) for surprisingly fiddly stuff, which they can do due to the tight tolerences. I proper hate inferior tools and despair in this age of knowledge and CNC machining that such shite continues to be produced,(and that people buy it as well, sigh) when 100 years ago they could make good tools, with proper steel therein. I may yet design & fabricate my own wheelbarrow and long tailed shovel, our of pure despair/inability to purchase. Shite HSS Drill bits are another beef of mine.