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Yes. And people have a right to be who they are, closer to or further from animals or possessing more or less of any other characteristic. Birds of a feather flock together, which generally works. Africans scrat about mud huts for food and dancing. Londoners scrat about Canary Wharf for money and Porsches. Both peoples are surrounded by others with similar outlooks, goals, needs, wants etc so people understand each other and are able to get on and interact with relatively similar and equal understandings and demands of each other. The other way to look at it is to use intelligence as a metric. James Watson, half of the Watson and Crick known for discovering DNA brought up the issue a few years ago. In 2007, the scientist, who once worked at the University of Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory, told the Times newspaper that he was "inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really". From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46856779 He brought it up, from a scientific perspective of looking at a load of intelligence tests and then coming to a conclusion from the numbers. Then all the Brighton types called him a nasty racist so he said sod you and retired from serving the world if reason no longer matters to it.

No. I'm saying you might be if you can't keep up with what I'm saying. But how about we be civil instead and we might advance discourse and human understanding. It's not for me to design the world. Nobody can. People try, which is why it's goosed. But indicatively, no dole, no state housing, no state jobs where people can be hired at the expense of someone who has no say in who's hired. It relies on the eradication (or bloody close to) of the state, which is why it's hard to visualise. We're used to the state. But we don't need it.

See. Not mental. Not drunk. Comes from a coherent ideology of individual rights.

Of course they don't. One person's rights end where another person's rights begin.

Vastly reduce the number of them here by eradicating the public property and public money that harbours them. Ensure women can carry guns.

It boils down to believing in the rights of the individual. If you don't believe in those rights, fine. Plenty of people don't.

Don't worry. He'll have found your posts.

^Maternal drinking rears its head.^ If you can't follow it, that's fine but I've put it down coherently.

It might be the extreme end of the argument but the logic is the same. I believe in your right to have a dick as long as you don't force it on anyone. I believe in someone's right to live here as long as they don't force it on anyone (i.e. they keep off property belonging to people who don't want them on it - see above on the absence of public property).

Why do you care about the opinions of the scum in Westminster about what is legal or illegal immigration? If they said it was illegal to live in Norfolk but shop in Suffolk, would you respect it? If they said you couldn't move to Wales, would you respect it?

I generally don't like brown and black people and think that they're more likely than an equivalent number of white English/Euro types to perform crimes like rape because they're closer to animals like that. And I'm still in favour of open borders and them possessing the same rights as any other human anywhere. The important bit is that I'm also in favour of there being no public property and no public money. So they can arrive here however they want, as long as whoever owns where they touch down is happy with it and people are happy to feed/trade with them wholly voluntarily. The reality that would quickly become apparent to the Brighton types is that nobody wants them and they're mainly coming here for the dole. The desirable ones would be welcomed because if a black man turns up at my door with a great business plan or claiming to be a really good gardener or something, I'm probably going to invite him in. Anyway. No public property or money and the problem solves itself. Anybody who wants a black man can have one. Anyone who doesn't want one doesn't have to have one or pay for anyone else's. Nobody needs to shoot at any boats. Peace will reign and we can go back to arguing about Stihl vs Husqvarna.

By the same logic if men didn't have dicks, they couldn't rape children. Should we cut everyone's dicks off? Obviously not because it's a bit unfair to anyone with a dick who isn't going to rape anyone.

Good points all. Back in my box.

Remember that quote I told you about for the urbanite incomer to the nice village? He walked me round his new garden, huffing and puffing and throwing his arms up in the air at the stupidity of whoever had planted these trees, just all over the place. That'd be the planet, sir. I hope he runs out of money before he astroturfs the whole thing. A shame I didn't get the job because it would have been a nice job but good I didn't get it because then, to the rest of the people in the nice village, I'd be the arsehole tree surgeon who did the trees for that arsehole Londoner.

When did ratchet straps come on the scene? I love it when people tell me they can secure a load with ropes better than with ratchet straps. Ratchet straps pull a tonne. Hang off that trucker’s hitch as much as you like. You don’t weigh 333 kilos plus the friction.

The bloke in Hartlepool comes across well (been to his workshop) and has a fair amount of stock throughput, suggesting competence. But he’s in Hartlepool. I’ve never found anything else good in Hartlepool. It’s a place of quite extreme indifference.

The petrol Hondas on the 125 and 160 are great. The bigger ones (makes escape me) less proven. A couple of clients with the petrol 280 have had hot starting problems, some vapour locky kind of thing I think. The Briggs EFI gets a pasting from one guy in particular on here but I have heard of others with the same problem. The Kubota diesel that goes in everything is well proven. Mick said the engine code. 1505?

Duh. Perhaps we should need ID for arbtalk. You need it for all the other websites.

Lifted from the insufferable morning people thread. What are the business pros and cons?

I wouldn't. I've always been underwhelmed with infeed and throughput. The vertical roller ones are particularly shit.

Probably in part by me. How are you getting on with the switching?

How long have you had the 300 and how do you like it?

I for some reason had it in my head that the 400 came on 325 as standard. I appear to be wrong. Good. .325 is annoying. Always grated that my 261 was on it. Glad to see you're living life on your terms.

.325 or 3/8?

The unloading was really no bother. The loading is what killed me. It probably wouldn't have fitted on a tipper without massive greedy boards, which a luton in effect has. Character building stuff.