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well now you're putting it like that it becomes patently obvious the issue is far too complex for someone like me to even begin to understand, so off the net for me and back to simple manual tasks

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my thoughts are only from what I read, vicarious experience, I've nothing against hunting, just the extension of the right to own a hunting rifle into the right to own something with an ammunition feeding device

it's always hunting types that love to support Trump and he knows it. These NRA mob, how can anyone justify legalising an assualt rifle? It is for killing humans in quantity

London is bad enough now, imagine if we had the same gun laws as US, regardless of fact shooter was felon, in a place where decent upstanding citizens can buy a WMD, more of these rapid fire toys will be within reach of felons and non offenders alike

My impression is Trumps support of pro gun mob is to help gain votes. It is relevant that he's now been on the receiving end. A hunting rifle or self defence pistol us one thing, but the rapid fire weapons some NRA morons would gladly sell the public, the only good thing about them is the manufacturing and sales jobs they create

About twelve days ago Times journalist David Aronovitch tweeted, then after a backlash deleted the following 'If I was Biden I'd hurry up and have Trump murdered on the basis that he is a threat to America's security #SCOTUS'. BBC presenter David Aaronovitch tweets 'if I was Biden I'd hurry up and have Trump murdered' after US Supreme Court ruling - before deleting 'satirical' post amid backlash | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK BBC radio presenter David Aaronovitch sparked anger after saying that US President Joe Biden should have Donald Trump 'murdered'. In the context of US history these are relatively calm times, being alive during the Civil War would have upped the stakes of 'who's side are you on?'

the price difference - Jameson set needs a pole bag, doesn't show on Buxtons listing, so add another 100 or so if you want the bag https://www.amazon.co.uk/Jameson-Carrying-Storage-Pruning-Products/dp/B0CJ191RL6 decide if you want 4ft poles or 6ft, I have 2 6ft and 2 4ft Sorbus has the Jameson stuff listed individually I got mine from Abbey Pro - seems they've gone under Agree the Jameson double pulley pruner is good, haven't used the saw blade, would take the HT131 - I'm not out rodding trees for utilities

A while ago there was a US tree firm owner lent his rope to crew, then it snapped on him when he next used it. In wheelchair. Said he always ran his rope through his hands before ascending, except on that fateful day

It is a different culture, the main thing I don't like about it is the same with Christianity and the crusades. The Arabs are as bad now, coming over here building dirty great mosques everywhere. They want everyone to follow their religion. Horrible walking around the outside of one of the big ones in London, couldnt believe the size of it. The muslims do scare me in that if they got close to a majority in UK , my guess is they would treat non believers as infidels. Not so much about skin colour, as mind control and brainwashing I would support a draconian ban on all new places of worship, with the stated aim to make UK majority athiest

If Le Pen and Farage had a baby there is still some chance that baby would love Arab people too.

If only UK had done something similar

Yes - UK governments - con and lab = short sighted retards The Government Pension Fund of Norway is composed of two entirely separate sovereign wealth funds owned by the government of Norway. The Government Pension Fund Global, also known as the Oil Fund, was established in 1990 to invest the surplus revenues of the Norwegian petroleum sector. Wikipedia AUM: US$ 1.626 trillion (March 2024) Founded: 1967; 1990 Owner: Government of Norway

Can Hezbollah overwhelm the Iron Dome? The Israelis seem like bullies to me out there - stealing land from Palestinians in the West Bank etc I know the rapist murdering Hamas aren't exactly angels either, but it just seems unfair the US has pumped up Israel with so much firepower they can ride roughshod over their Arab neighbours. I can see the other side that the Jews have been targeted for centuries culminating in the holocaust, and this has caused them to want to be stronger than any possible adversary, hence the nukes and all manner of high tech ordnance. Apparently they've done 35000 odd in Gaza, flick a few switches and much of Lebanon would be gone UNITED NATIONS, June 21 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday he is profoundly concerned by escalating tensions between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah and that U.N. peacekeepers are working to calm the situation and prevent miscalculation. "One rash move - one miscalculation - could trigger a catastrophe that goes far beyond the border, and frankly, beyond imagination," he told reporters. "Let's be clear: The people of the region and the people of the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza."

seeing as the OP has curated one of the most popular threads in the Lounge, I suggest he is made a moderator, so he has the power to quickly go through and delete at will, like pruning out the wild type mutations on a variegated tree or shrub

majority of them look fine - new laurel can also wilt and die off in a drought. I would leave all of it and hook out any dead ones, mix in a bit of gravel for drainage and replace with the same - even clay can dry out in a really hot summer - if it does get really dry (maybe test by digging down somewhere near) consider watering during July / August

peds you have been very negative about Farage, but seem unwilling to offer an honest and straightforward explanation of your thinking - Johnson asked a reasonable question I was one of the idiots who voted for Brexit - even though my Mum lives in France and the exit has made it more difficult for them to stay there and travel back to UK, we didn't fall out over it, but she did fall out with a UK friend of hers who voted leave. Immigration is the only reason for me, although net migration is still way too high under the Tories post brexit, my appraisal of the situation is that without Brexit we would be another overspill housing estate for all the poor countries that have joined the EU. Horrible human nests are spreading across our once beautiful countryside like a concrete cancer. I read Farage wants to limit it to 600k in - minus the est 500k UK residents who emigrate, to leave a net increase of only 100k, much better than the recent 600k pop increases of the past few years. Farage said if limiting working visas means there arent enough care workers and farm workers, then wages and costs will have to go up to fill those jobs. The land and environment is all there is - when a species with opposable thumb and forefinger dominates to the tune of 8bn it has the same effect as a plague of locusts - Farage is rightly reaching for the bug spray

only trouble is no way to bail out quick at the top, say he messes up and gashes an artery - don't tell me he never risks it without a rescue climber, or at least a letter to his loved ones

so Taiwan at the bottom with a supposed 10000 guns between 23.4 million people - they need to order 1 each PDQ before China attempts anything

No wars with Trump - because he would cast himself as a genius dealmaker and solve Ukraine by handing the Russians a huge chunk of the territory. Biden I think has had the most difficult job in trying to help the Ukrainians keep their country, whilst avoiding the appocalypse. Just yesterday Biden agreed to allow US munitions to fire into limited areas inside Russia to prevent Ukraine's much smaller army being overrun. Germany so far won't give them Taurus - my guess is Russia will win if the West won't risk some brinkmanship, after a Russian victory in Ukraine any nuclear bullies e.g China will think they can expand their habitat

Agree, but it seems the power insn't 2 in all cases A whole website devoted to EMFs and health Power law variations in the field from a power line WWW.EMFS.INFO The fact the brain works on charged ions conducting a current means it could be messed up bad if too close

No vote unless your great great great grandparents were born in UK

having left a big sticky up bit and a big bulge on one 'corner' on a supposedly finished purple plum haircut the other day, I certainly won't be throwing my hat into the ring I came up with the usual excuses about trees not being perfectly symmetrical and geometrical in nature, but on revisiting the garden a few weeks later I realized my pruning skills were only slightly better than the dreaded gypos

there's also the risk of airborne fungal spores infecting fresh pruning cuts, pruning now means the tree's anti- microbial defenses have some time to block up the pipes and seal it off before most of the spores are released in autumn

I thought he was on about Only Fans - a well paid side hustle for some