tree-fancier123

google knows - edit, or so I thought? hmm

I did think that after posting - my guess is even the French police are afraid of that. Say to France 'for billions, millions can we have our navy seals do the drone surveilance and rib slashing. France knows our forces would only be there for migrants, not to take the throne. The guy who wants to replace Macron has said he'd change the law to allow us to push back into French waters. My feeling is the Navy would object. But they are not civilians so how can they?

Erm - I meant wade out on the beach in France - see the screenshot. Migrants depart from a stretch of coastline maybe 50 miles or more long. We need our far right hard right and extreme right, almost right and quite rights all out there in the French water (innocent tourists hiding knives waiting and spread all along the Calais coast night and day every day) Particularly like today 6mph wind. They can take a day off when windspeed reaches 20mph

It sickens me that keyboard warriors will post about the small boat numbers, but not give up their valuable time to join the call to arms - wade out and stick a knife in the rib if you really care at all

are you saying he gets more enjoyment from publishing his posts to the world than you do in reading them?

tableting a solid argument - in the queue for the Saturday night rave up

are you being serious? "Tabling a solid argument" refers to effectively presenting a well-structured case backed by logical reasoning and credible evidence. The key to a strong argument is a clear claim supported by relevant and sufficient proof. To "table something" means to either propose it for formal discussion (UK/Parliamentary) or postpone discussion until later (US/General), creating opposite meanings depending on the region, though the UK usage refers to placing it on the agenda (the table).

they're tabling

why not try fitting a copy part yourself? - £17 delivered, may do the trick

we need to consider the unthinkable - build more shelters, get our people in secretly under cover of darkness, then launch a pre-emptive strike.

there is a film out 'House of Dynamite' or something - a nuke is spotted in the Pacific coming for Chicago, multiple attempts to shoot it down fail. One actor has the line ' it's like trying to shoot a bullet with a bullet' we don't need to be able to fight more than 20 minutes if there's a real war next time

the 261 may be 5 times the price, but is more than twice the power of the 162. It's not like they both do the same job

that has given me an idea for an app vicarious suffering on demand VSOD feeling unhappy with your lot - watch footage of someone being blown up by a land mine, or dying of syphilis, being beaten by a Sudanese militia, starving for months on end etc. All the worst suffering in the world at your fingertips. Sunshine on a rainy day

fair play, after zooming in, beech wouldn't have been my first guess, another guess - it's a broadleaf, another guess horse chestnut

beech or whopping great hornbeam

never sprayed off that big an area - if someone asked me I would buy a spray shield and some spray marker dye ( blue so I can see whats been sprayed)

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the worst bit for me was Trump coin.

I think you have carb issues - the scoring may not be all that bad. When storing a 2 stroke machine for more than 3 months I go over to some rough ground, start the machine, then with it running, open the fuel cap and pour the fuel mix onto the gravel etc, or a jug if you're eco, then rev the guts out of it till it stops. This way you are not left with stale ethanol fuel in the carb to gum up all the bits I know nothing about. BTW I've had mixed results trying to revive carbs with carb kits. Often end up hunting for a chinese copy carb and changing it out, or even a new genuine Stihl carb off ebay if its cheap. By tipping the fuel out after long term storage you still have remains of gakky fuel in the lines and carb. My protocol is for a tightwad who won't pay for alkylate mix. There's usually enough breeze to take the fumes away. And I'd hate to have spent all that money then get prostate cancer

weird how house prices were even more expensive than today in 1845 - before the minimum wage a lot of those people in 1845 would have been properly poor, so the average wage much lower

I feel for me, not being able to buy a bigger place, things were better in 1915 with a price to earnings multiple of only 2 - so if we were back in 1915 a house would be 70k in todays money, then off to the western front

I don't see the problems with taxation that you do - many of my customers are quite well off with big gardens, and not aristocrats, just people who worked hard and made good decisions when they were young. Taxation hasn't stopped them building wealth. On this forum I could mention a dozen or more guys who have build successful tree firms that are still trading, despite the tax burdens of recent decades. Take Beechwood and Aspen, both successful firms that are still trading. You could argue those business owners, as examples would be even wealthier if VAT was only 10% and Ltd tax only 10%, but my point is people are living a good standard of living in the here and now. I'm nowhere near as successful as the two I mentioned, a mere one man band, but I have savings (ISA) and a SIPP, my own modest home nearly all paid for and hopefully a few years left to increase my wealth before my body is degraded to the point manual work is not possible. Today's environment is good I'd say - I don't care about VAT or other tax, if I want more mony I just work more days, or sometimes get away with increasing prices. There is no poverty for the hard working that I can see. My tax hasn't all been sqaundered - I've seen a retired guy with a massive lump from leukemia now in remission, cancer treatments are better than 20 years ago. Someone has to pay. People can go to Uni, or become florists, bin men, chefs - all is right in the world

If the basic rate went back up to 33% of (PAYE) income over £12700 that would raise enough money to fight Putin for at least a fortnight

but it isn't the highest tax regime since WW2, if you read that Wiki history of taxation Mark J posted above it says the basic rate was up around 33% for a while. The government of Margaret Thatcher, who favoured taxation on consumption, reduced personal income tax rates during the 1980s in favour of indirect taxation.[19] In the first budget after her election victory in 1979, the top rate was reduced from 83% to 60% and the basic rate from 33% to 30%.[20] The basic rate was also cut for three successive budgets – to 29% in the 1986 budget, 27% in 1987 and to 25% in 1988; The top rate of income tax was cut to 40%.[21] The investment income surcharge was abolished in 1985. Under the government of John Major the basic rate was reduced in stages to 23% by 1997. 21st century Under Labour chancellor Gordon Brown, the basic rate of income tax was further reduced in stages to 20% by 2007. As the basic rate stood at 35% in 1976, it has been reduced by 43% since then. However, this reduction has been largely offset by increases in other regressive taxes such as National Insurance contributions and Value Added Tax (VAT).

it would be good if barbed wire grew from cuttings