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If you bought a Toyota Corolla and didn't change the oil for fiteen years, it would probably still work. Climbing gear users shouldn't be taking the piss like that but climbing gear manufacturers should be building resiliency into their products.
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I agree. Complain if it isn't. Gear should last.
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I'm now moving into engaging freelancers more than being one so that was clever of me.
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Pedsanesca (peds's puttanesca recipe) except I forgot to buy olives so I used a big mushroom I found growing under the tomato plant jungle in the polytunnel. Tinned tomatoes I'm afraid. Aforementioned tunnel ones aren't ripe yet. Photographed before adding a layer of cheese that would meet building regs. On peds, I spoke to the cheerful little hobbler the other day. He plays whist with the black bloke from the BBC televison programme interludes and has teamed up with a guy with bad arms to service their respective wives as one aggregate unit. He didn't wish anyone well but don't take it personally.
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I do it sometimes where it's not even necessary for my protection - to normalise it. I'm fed up hearing about scum clients taking tradesmen for a ride so I'm nudging the market towards being safer for us. Similar activism as charging what I dayrate charge for freelance climbing (usually starts with a 4 or 5, sometimes a 3 or 6). I decided rates were a piss-take and I was going to push them up. You're welcome. Or I'm a chancer. Whichever.
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Vote for 'Bare ended, no splice' if you haven't already please.
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Cleaning in the washing up and blowing out will do most of the work.
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50% or 100%, depending on client, mood, weather etc.
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It's what I do for people I don't know or trust enough.
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Vote for 'Bare ended, no splice' if you haven't already please.
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I so nearly added that one and then for some reason didn't. Now have. Could you vote for it please.
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You can vote for more than one option if you have more than one rigging rope, kept differently. If your answer isn't in the poll, reply in writing instead please. If it depends on who used it last, vote for all the possible ways you might find it.
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OP. It's not going to be worth the hassle asking. Just find a tree you like and decide whether you respect the owner's property rights or not. Or indeed if the tree is on public property, remember that you're the public. The same logic by which you may shelter from rain under a traffic warden's skin stretched onto a frame btw.
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Yeah, approach a golf club as a grown man wanting to climb trees. That'll work.
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Last time I had to send my licence in, I took photos etc to make sure they didn’t rescind my permission to drive a traction engine or submarine or whatever. To my surprise, it instead came back with the updated B+E. They must know I’m out there, hard at work turning the wheels of the economy.
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Rich, I imagine the DVLA pinch entitlements knowing that a lot of people won't fight back because they're backed into those sorts of corners. Rules upon rules. They want you to trip up. Bullies.
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Meeting a machinist this morning to see about producing a proper prototype of the handiest thing in treework since child tax credits. Obviously I made a fairly significant (0.5kg) change to the design at 02:10 and haven't been to bed yet.
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Don't you worry about that happening. I discriminate.
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Ah. Month, not week. Mea culpa. Anyway, that's fine by me. The less tax taken the better. I can see why you want it taken though. You're long term dolescum. Tax is how other people's money became your money. And why are you so obsessed with these bureaucrats' rules for being here legally or not? What made you such a follower? A handsome and reassuringly dominant sergeant with a thick and lustrous moustache no doubt.
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He's outearning you, sleeps next to his wife every night and isn't being being robbed to pay for dolescum to sit on the sofa. Yeah, what a wanker.
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He's making six grand a week. I hope he enjoyed his day off and is happy with his new moped.
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I looked at another house with off grid water yesterday. I cannot be free of these parasites quickly enough.
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The joy of free markets is you don't need to do anything. However well intentioned, nobody knows how to sort water for everyone. So just back off and it'll sort itself out or it won't. Meanwhile, a factory worker in Falkirk won't be forced to a pay for a pipe to be run to a laird down a dead end track in Caithness.
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**************** it. Let it impode. We flush toilets with drinking water. We deserve to desiccate. No need to buy it back. Just remove the restrictions that grant the monopoly and send me photos of their crestfallen little faces when they realise they just had seventy million slaves walk out the door.
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Push it onto a flatbed trailer with a loader/digger (take that too). Use the flatbed as an infeed/outfeed table, loaded by the machine. Or leave the splitter up on the flatbed to gain some outfeed height.
