tree-fancier123

It's not somewhere I work, so haven't been right up to it, but that bright yellow is usually laburnum, quite a size for one of those. People with holiday lets and or kids around worry about them, as injestion of leaves and seed known to cause vomiting and even paralysis

they take a while to get big

the Israelis in Talks with Trump administration about US led administration of Gaza It would be no worse than any other injustice. Apartheid, slavery, holocaust - all part of human evolution

Harbour Energy are blaming windfall tax, Jeremy Hunt hiked that, seems to me Conservatives as much to blame, of course Labour are worse but Cons were quick to grasp at 'excess profits' These mid size oil companies are often loaded to the gills with debt to buy out smaller competitors, soon as energy prices drop they are in trouble. Equinor seems a good model - part state owned and part listed shares. Hit Farage up - he can add it to the manifesto

or add nitrous oxide

BillQ StevenP both cut from the same cloth, seemingly endless posts of almost interesting comments

he makes two observations about the spores 1 no leaf litter due to paved area below being swept clear 2 no other ash within 100m so, although the tree may have been infected, the absence of other trees and leaf litter means after abscission the tree can shed most of the pathogen and have a reduced chance of re-infection As above it may also be a genetically resistant specimen The leaf litter will remain at the base of most ash trees, aiding the pathogen's establishment. So if the author is right woodland ash close together are far more likely to succumb.

No, I exaggerated saying he was always in Spoons, I meant he was out drinking in the town most weekends. He said to me once ' I wish there was a job where you could get paid just for thoughts' There are jobs like that e.g a poet. Reminds me of the band UB40, band name referencing their source of income before they got going. So many creative types look at the benefits system as a way of getting money without having to go out and pick fruit or walk behind the bin lorry. I mean if you've been to art school why throw your life away on menial work, when you can have mental health problems and be free with you creative thoughts all day?

clearly someone with severe Down's or cerebral palsy isn't going to do much assembly work. But there are some with e.g Down's who could at least wipe the tables in the factory canteen. A chap I knew years back on the sick with mental health after art school, just kept taking the tablets, and often in the local Wetherspoon's - I used to think if he's well enough to go to the pub with his girlfriend, why can't he collect the empty glasses off the tables instead of scrounging? UK full of people scrounging. We are far too generous with benefits.

£30

We lost a lot of shipbuilding to the Philippines, among other places. Similar for a lot of our heavy industry. At least some of our Navy fleet was built somewhere else because it was cheaper. The fact that Dyson vacs are made abroad is just sick. Dyson vacuums are primarily manufactured in Malaysia, with additional manufacturing sites in China, the Philippines, and Mexico. Sick Sick Sick - we need to use the benefit claimants to make these vacs - if they won't do it - let them die

Trump isn't thick, no way. Maybe average, or even above average. Trump has cut illegal immigration to a trickle, whereas with Starmer we now have the situation where the French are handing out lifejackets as migrants set off and we are returning the lifejackets for the French to re issue. Trump doesn't have to be a good person to be not thick. Philipp Lenard was a German physicist who won the 1905 Nobel prize - he also became a supporter of the Nazi party.

They all went to what was once countryside, some to what we call towns and cities, sometimes two neighbouring towns grow so big they meet in the middle, forming one big concrete tumour

plague of locusts raping the countryside - a whopping extra 140 million people there since 1970

Having recently binged watched Yellowstone, then 1923 and 1883 I was pleased to see this chart, as it means net migration will fall below the peak of 3m during Biden's tenure. Trump's reasons for wanting migrants out are likely different to mine, my reason is the beautiful countryside you can see in the Yellowstone series and the whole stretch of wilderness the pioneers ventured through in the 1883 series will be more slowly infected by human nests if the population growth slows. I will never get to see America like those hardy folk who ventured out into Indian lands, and anyway I can't ride a horse, but the less condos the better. Trump's reasons are more crime reduction and reduced spending on benefits, from what I can gather. Maybe I'm wrong During the Biden administration, there were large and unexpected immigration flows at the southern border. The surge was dominated by those who lacked regular status but were allowed to enter for humanitarian reasons, including asylum seekers with a credible fear of returning home, participants in humanitarian parole programs for those fleeing from certain countries, and individuals who received temporary parole or a notice to appear in immigration court. The Congressional Budget Office estimated overall net migration of 3.3 million in 2023, including migration of “other foreign nationals” far higher than historical norms

pardoning the Jan 6 mob was a mistake - it sends the message that gang warfare is an ok way to achieve political ends. I wonder if there is a betting market for ' when is the next American Civil War? My fantasy ending to Jan 6 would have been the police lobbing grenades into the crowd below, as soon as some of them tried to break in. If Trump really does try for a third term there would be good reson to think the US has been hijacked and needs liberating.

surely for proper pleaching you would have left all the side branches near full length and tried to pull them in together with thin rope, rubber covered wire or similar? Alternatively for a proper pollard establishment cut to major forks leaving no stubs - so the union is only an inch or so behind both cuts

Acer Negundo var. violaceum box elder porno close up of it's sex life

I mentioned the crusades a while back, while arguing that historically the Christians were just as intolerant as the muslims and you were like 'what crusades?' As if to say to say there are no crusades today, so it's hardly relevant Anyway as its a tree forum let's imagine Trump banging his pretty spokeswoman under this pretty tree

No - they would be intolerant, like in Iran. But the Christians were pretty bad too - burning heretics at the stake and all that. You say the crimes of Christians in days gone by is irrelevant to today - I say, no it's perfectly relevant. It shows the nature of the beast. The only hope is forced atheism with compulsory demolition of all places of worship, synagogues, mosques and even churches. In the schools tell the new kids about religion 'this stuff used to be legal before we realised how much harm it causes'

Poor Tommy isn't the only one in wrong it would seem, from last year - surely the answer is to let everyone in to the UK and learn to love one another? And if muslims do become the majority - so what? Let them enjoy being in charge, just like Christians once had their turn. Or Not. Maybe it's not possible to stem the tide and huge changes are in store no matter how many Farages and Yaxleys there are. Countries sometimes break out into civil war, sometimes they become so overcrowded the sewage spills out everywhere.

I wasn't trying to be kind. I'm not saying he isn't racist - the whole thing is incredibly upsetting, but basically what I'm saying is he's put his life on the line for what he believes in - and is now in prison because of it. In todays world we are conditioned to accept newcomers no matter what. Britain is being swamped by foreigners. No I know you man of the world types will never agree with my blinkered views, but I don't mind. At least the Wall St Journal (who's opinion pieces are mostly critical of Trump) get my view on the real dangers posed by unrestricted immigration - Tommy Robinson is not quite in Trump's league, but they are both right on needing to clamp down on foreigners invading by land and sea.

you and SP and recently Yourn come across as more civilized, but its the substance that counts. It's like Tommy R, now I'm no fan of extreme racism, but TR has a point, he may be offensive, but he is a man of substance, someone who doesn't want to see an ever increasing number of mosques in the UK. There are plenty of clever wordsmiths who are also human rights lawyers and would be happy using long words in court to prevent the illegal immigrant from being deported. They may have words like concomitant, apotheosis, vicissitude etc, but that doesn't make them any better than Tommy. And rather than just putting up with JDs way, you have to try to change him - you're basically saying to him 'you should think and behave more like we do' Bit like the fascists wanted everyone to think and behave like they did

that is horrible - suggesting he lie low for a bit, just because you don't approve of the way he interacts At least he's vocal about the trouble a lot of foreigners cause - I mean look at this mess Mazyar Azarbonyad - sounds a bit foreign, Trump is even setting the stage for deporting US citizens Imagine some toe rag phone theif from London, born in UK, but still deported to El Salvador. That young lad has cost the taxpayers a fortune, and with a name like Mazyar it's got to have something to do with immigration. I mean immigration recently, not dating back from Roman times. We need offensive people like Trump and Farage and JD, to balance out all the Starmer types - Starmer would never insult people on a forum, but his whole government is an insult.

Imagine living for this dopamine rush ffs "I do worry that too many execs, used to hitting targets, just love chasing the numbers on LinkedIn. Attracting thousands of likes and hundreds of new followers is a more immediate dopamine rush and, frankly, a great deal easier than achieving a return-on-investment metric."