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What would you call the basics?
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Half. I’m being half cryptic but I’m also pointing out there’s bias in language used to describe this kind of thing. The passive tense is commonly used as propaganda by a wannabe truth-definer. Say the guy doing the stabbing was right to do so. You wouldn’t call him dangerous. You’d say he was stabbing someone. Ruminate on it. View all news through that lens.
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And don’t fcking die.
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To whom? You wouldn’t call a fireman dangerous to fire. There’s an amount of bias in language.
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It’s probably written on the gear. Or at least on the advert. Learn what minimum breaking strength/load and safe working load or working load limit mean.
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Speak in the active voice. Who shot who? Who was dangerous to who?
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Then err on the side of caution. If you think it's 40kg, pretend it's 200kg. 40x11 (for a worst case, dead stop - like a fall factor 2 in rock climbing parlance) is a lot of force. And get your wraps right so you don't pinch. Every rig is a job interview. For natural crotch, get some 3 strand. 16mm Marlow is cheap and good. I've not used it but polysteel from ebay looks fine. Your anchor is weak too. One pulley on side scaffold is a big lever. You want two, ideally perfectly angle-split but if you need to reach the other stem so be it, pull it together. Flick the V fingers like Churchill (Prime Minister, not dog). You'd rather have them pushed together than pulled apart. Don't fcking die.
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I used to go there. Did they have the floating platform there in your day?
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Tell us, grandad!
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Stihl released the 500i six years ago. They're the bollocks. Why aren't more saws injected by now?
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Bolam summed that up so well in a thread a few months ago. Climbing rope deemed untrustworthy to support a 100kg man but somehow fine to swing 400kg pieces over a £20,000 conservatory.
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For anyone who might enjoy the original.
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That guy's the new peds!
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I do my research, Mick.
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@Rich Rule I can’t find the Stone Island thread so here will have to do.
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Mick and his low-effort internet opinions.
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Professional opinionholders. Big whoop.
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Hills upon which Mick will die, part twenty.
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Robocop. Rare example of a remake living up to the original(s).
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More of a general business strategy: 261K views · 809 reactions | Obviously, nobody really does this… but... WWW.FACEBOOK.COM Obviously, nobody really does this… but I think it’s quite funny! Music credit goes to masterplaster - the...
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You have to get up there to cut it.
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I never went to college so I didn't take the Hippocratic oath.
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Why?
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As coincidence would have it, that VALID tree risk bloke posted something I think related on faceboook this morning. I think he's on here. @Acer ventura Are these things linked? Talk down a bit please. I don't know much about tree biology.
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Join the club. My mates all have a similar look and nod for, "I'm pretending to follow but what in the tangential fck are you on about Purser?"
