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  1. AHPP
    I’ve been wanting one of these for ages. Idly looked on Facebook marketplace last night and lo and behold one close by being sold by a tree bloke. Was initially skeptical of the funny switching but positions four and five are actually really useful. Like clicking on a tube screamer. I’ll probably set it up with elevens in drop B when the fresh nines it has on wear out. https://www.ibanez.com/na/products/detail/s521_03.html
  2. AHPP
    I’m sure I could. Who’s paying?
  3. AHPP
    The most depressing/laughable thing about this thread is that since Bolam and I artfully prodded it half of the contributors are talking about ELI and half are talking about PLI and nobody appears to have realised.
  4. AHPP
    No.
  5. AHPP
    Stir it.
  6. AHPP

    The Cooking Thread

    AHPP replied to AHPP's topic in The Lounge

    Ratatouille but couldn’t be arsed to cut an onion. Aubergine, courgette and tomatoes and chilli and garlic. Dash of balsamic. Sweet potato mash with enough butter to make the french wince. The best kept secret in bacon. 75p/lb in ASDA. You often get gammon steaks.
  7. AHPP
    Someone said much earlier in the thread that they use a 220 for stuff up to 4” when climbing. I don’t start getting frustrated until nearly double that with a 120. A 220 will monster through bar length and bigger.
  8. AHPP
    Paddy. Have you told your wife about all this?
  9. AHPP
    Since this thread is already ruined, I’ll further confuse matters by pointing out there are only three kinds of statutorily mandatory insurance: car, employers’ liability and some finance thing I’ve not looked up properly. Apart from those, you don’t have to have third party liability insurance unless you bind yourself to needing it contractually. Also consider that third party liability (whether insured for or indemnified for) can be assigned to someone other than who would have it by default. Hand grenade over shoulder, exit through audience not giving a fvck.
  10. AHPP
    Steve. Just take the forum down and make Arbtalk a single page site that explains the difference between labour only and bona fide subcontractors for about six months.
  11. AHPP
    Is the company asking you to do more work like you would do as an employee (their gear, working with other company men etc) or are they trying to get you to do some jobs on your own (they being very hands off)? The hourly rate suggests the former?
  12. AHPP
    Bollocks. Years ago, my then boss (in a completely different industry) told me that we weren't going to do anything to guard against a perfectly legitimate risk because that would make him liable for it, grumble grumble, law's an ass, etc etc. My sense of injustice was inflamed and I suspected that that wasn't really the law. Fast forward a few years, I spent a while reading thick books about the law and discovered that I was right; ignoring a potential problem until it's a real problem is, legally speaking, a shit move. I've seen a few of your posts about the law on here and your understanding of it is fabulously bad.
  13. AHPP
    We think about saws very similarly. I've got a 500 with a 25" and a 661 with a 36" and it is a luxury. I'd rather not have the 661 but swapping 25" and 36" bars on the 500 just isn't realistic (unless you're one of those mad Scandinavians who can change a bar in 4.3 seconds). I got the 661 because it was a good deal and it'll ideally live in a mill for stints as long as possible. I always reach for the 500 if I can for normal stuff.
  14. AHPP
    That's a fast flowing canal!
  15. AHPP
    I once watched a friend smoke an entire box of cigarettes standing over a molehill with an auto 5. He was there for hours. Dedication. Fruitless but dedication nonetheless.
  16. AHPP
    You could offer to insure with them again next year (at an agreed premium!) if they cover the hire cost. I'd be amazed if they accepted but it won't cost you much to ask.
  17. AHPP
    Suffice to say we both understand the situation.
  18. AHPP
    Yeah. I said that. You missed the important bit where the government cvnt gets paid for setting it up. That's the bit that makes subsidies increase prices, not just get to the same price another way.
  19. AHPP
    I didn't realise. You called for them to do things. Say your ideal government gets in. You give them loads of powers. A few years down the line, a worse government gets in and inherits the powers. How pleased are you now.
  20. AHPP
    Once these people start interfering, they can't/don't stop.
  21. AHPP
    You'd see the real cost at the shop, which is preferable to the current system of seeing artificially low prices but paying the real price plus some. Subsidies make things more expensive. The thing still needs paying for but then so does the administration of collecting tax and paying the subsidies. You pay less at the shop but more overall. Say milk costs 80p. Pay the shop 80p and the milk's yours. Now say some government cvnt decides to force milk to be 60p at the shop. He gives the farmer 20p so he sells it to the shop for 20p less. You pay 60p at the shop but you've had to pay the 20p the farmer got in tax somewhere else and then more tax to pay said government cvnt to go to work, say 5p. 80p milk now costs 85p.
  22. AHPP
    State food control. No thanks. North Korean famine - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG And since this thread is primarily about the environment: Aral Sea - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Stop calling for the state to do things. At least on the planet I live on.
  23. AHPP
    I even love Sunderland.
  24. AHPP
    Despite many reasons to not love England, I love England. We’re only the poor man of Europe in the same way some old-money gentry looks poor because the jacket that his great grandfather gave him is tied up with the string that his grandfather gave him. We’ve got wealth (and class, and grit, and guile) in spades.
  25. AHPP
    Pigou was a commie loser.

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