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Not enough people know about Lysander Spooner btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Letter_Mail_Company

One massive danger is service of legal proceedings. There are timescales that start when a form is posted, not received. With a long enough postal delay, you could get sued and lose by default (by not replying) without ever knowing about it. Perhaps state business should be delivered by state postmen.

The first one does. That looks steep as. Any photos after casting up?

Every November, the people who run the firework night near me have the fhucking gall to put a card through my letterbox to display in my vehicle, purportedly granting me permission on the night of the event to drive along the road I own and park at the house I own. I've chased the bloke down the street to give them back before and I've several times made a point of going out in the van to calmly waft past their signs and security people. Did it twice once. Have they bollocks got a traffic regulation order.

Fawcett Down would have been just as funny and not appalled at least 51% of the client base. Like Pete's daily three words from the paper, you have to sound it out.

Deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall. You need me on that wall.

Just in case anyone else is as stupid as I am and keeps old gloves on the off chance you’ll one day sew a few fingers up and make some usable pairs. Fhucking forget it. Put them on the fire and live your life. IMG_6242.mov

Freelance climber is the best term in England. It sounds the most like the actual legal relationship in 99.9% of cases, that being a labour only subcontractor as opposed to a bona fide subcontractor. Contract climber gives the (false) impression that you can contract out of what the law will deem the relationship to be. Possibly correct in America. No idea what the law is there. Just let them use it anyway.

Stop the boats!

You'll never see a white horse using them. Fhcking disgraceful.

https://arbtalk.co.uk/forums/topic/137540-ladders/#comment-2100832

It's for Eritreans to stand on to spear fish and stab swans. They're going to be installed everywhere, paid for by taxing the sale of remembrance day poppies. Can't say how I know.

Great post. Covers a lot of ground.

He won £25,000.

I'll have some somewhere. Ask next year.

Margin Call, 21 and American Beauty the first three that spring to mind. Might try the Usual Suspects again.

Best Kevin Spacey film?

That’s broadly speaking the premise of Se7en. Retirement project for you.

While at risk of making this thread the Sailor thread, I nevertheless feel compelled to report the great day he’s had. A luxury breakfast of half a hare he was very interested in when I hung it up last night, served on a bed of English snow with a hint of power steering fluid. Then beating where he was firstly funny as fhck, causing a pair of roe to career straight through my mate’s ride, twice, on two separate drives. Literally brushed his leg the first time and he had to take evasive manoeuvres to avoid one in the lap the second time. Then came off the chases at distance. And a hare chase. Didn’t lose him out of the drives. Then just did some perfectly credible gundog things, despite realistically not being a gundog. Flushed loads, picked up a really awkward one without chewing the back off it and worked a wood edge at distance, waiting, going ahead, coming back, all while I was fifty yards out with a stop flag. Couldn’t believe it. And now just lying round, just amusing me by ruining my carpet and looking tired. Success upon success. Best dog I’ve ever owned.

Apple. It was much bigger, banging into the conservatory, loads of the apples unpickably high and up the middle etc. Read the various orchard threads on here and conferred with an enthusiastic contributor to them. Brought it back in to a working shape in something like five prunes over three years. Managed to not scare up shitloads of regrowth by doing it piecemeal, one big one per zone and let it settle sort of thing. Did a bit of bending and wedging/tying to pull branches into empty spots. All the tricks I learned from here. What a useful website. Anyway. I’ve called it reinstated to working form and told the guy to get a silky and maintain it himself from now on. He’s pleased. I’m pleased. There are a couple of branches that offend me now I look at the picture. Can only assume there was a good reason to leave them on. You had to be there, man.

Ave, barkeep. Two cups of Gaulish wine please. Leaded or unleaded, gents? Interesting. Didn’t know that. I do know why plumbers are called plumbers though. The scientific name for lead is plumbum, hence Pb on the periodic table. So a bloke who works with plumbum pipes is a plumber. Confusingly, nowadays house water pipes are made of copper but a copper is the big fellow with the moustache and the truncheon (at least according to a film I saw once). Nice trivia.

Is that bottle a funny shape or your camera lens a funny shape?

I looked at those a couple of years ago. Hugely confusing selection of models. Some rifled, some smoothbore, some belt fed, some rotary mag, some pellet, some bb, etc. No logic to the combinations. Gave up. Post a group when you've got used to it.

Do not trifle with me, Sir!