WorcsWuss

A valid point has been made here, benefit fraud and benefit fraud are two entirely different things. My daughter has been diagnosed with Aspergers and it would not be too difficult for me to get a new car out of the system. I wouldn't be comitting a crime as such but I sure as hell would be defrauding the state in my eyes. Unfortunately there are more people than you could possibly imagine who are 'entitled' to benefits but who don't share my repulsion at claiming when you're not in genuine dire need of state support. There is no 'right' to a nice big flat, new cars, sky TV, mobile phones etc, but millions of people who, if benefits were awarded following a face to face interview with someone with a modicum of common sense and ordinary decency would not stand a chance of getting them, are getting all these things funded by the state, perfectly 'legally'. The TV bloke comitted fraud. But as rightly pointed out, his crime is not the biggest problem. It's the things which aren't actually crimes committed by people like Jimmy Carr who stretch the limits of what is right who are the biggest drain on the economy. I would dispute that any MP's are in the same tax scheme thought, or even type of tax scheme, as Jimmy Carr, if they were we sure as hell would have heard about it A LONG time ago, probably through the News of The World. I was not however at all surprised to find that those who came out in defence of Jimmy Carr were other 'socialist heros', Labour MP's and 'ordinary working class people'..... are they setting themselves up to take advantage of the system again if Labour manage to get back in? I suspect that to be exactly the case. Keep taxing the middle classes more and more heavily so that Napoleon the pig and his friends can have their cake, and everyone else's, and eat it. Snouts in the trough boys, especially the ones you would least imagine.... be wary. The funniest humour is based on your own experiences. How did it take us so long to find that Jimmy loved money so much...?

Yes!

Find a hot zombie chick, let her gobble me up a bit, become zombie, live forever without worrying about paying bills or personal hygiene. Ace plan.

Wow.... here's a thread I never expected to see...?! Seriously, some of you get high then get high?! I used to smoke A LOT of weed many years ago when I was at college and I would never dream of smoking anything any time even approaching work, let alone during. Unless you're getting ripped off and supplied with crap then I'd hazard a guess that any perceived ability to do your work as well / better than when straight is most likely the weed.... and not so much reality.... I guess I can see the benefit of reducing disco leg on the odd occasion, but that seems like a flimsy argument to me, I am genuinely amazed that some of you do it! I'm not passing judgement, I am just astounded.....

I've never tried the Stein so can't comment but I find my Petzl very comfortable. I tend to get headaches like a bad hangover from a poor fitting helmet but I find the Petzl fits very nicely and is very comfy, lots of adjustment. And it has foam rubber pads round it, not fabric or leather, so no 'stinky helmet' either....

Fab work Steve, thanks mate. 'First class Arbtalker, quick delivery, well packed, as described A++++' as they say on't Bay.... Grey one is very nice gents and ladies....

There's a video of something like that on the Redwoods in the states, I think they call it 'tree fishing' or something?

I am at work, I sit at a desk!

They're not what they once were.... I had a Mk2 Golf GTi insured with them [and HIC, their main competitor when I was starting out whom they now own] when I was 19 and they were ridiculously cheap on ridiculous cars for drivers too young to handle them.... I paid about £550 for my Golf [a friend had a Golf Rallye insured for under £800 back then, aged 19 as well!] Our Jag is insured with them [HIC] now for about £350, but they didn't seem too keen to insure me on an ancient Golf Gti when I enquired last year, aged 31.....

That for ali or steel body? Paul Abbotts, Specialist Arboricultural Services at Malvern would be worth speaking to.....

I would imagine that around sensitive areas, such as holiday parks etc they would be a great solution to a real problem, but for hardcore day in day out tree surgery there looks to be too many compromises. Not least the price....!

I'm going onto Ludlow in a minute? Want me to go give them a rocket?!

They're not 'emotive' Murray, they're just 'fact'....

Has the climate change thread burned out then?

A solicitor hit my mother in our lane years ago and claimed 'knock for knock'. She told him where he could stick it as she was pulled in and not moving at the time. See you in court he said. So she did, by herself, and wiped the floor with the snot nosed little oik.... [You don't go up against my fearsome mother mind you....!] I'd argue the toss if I was you.... But then you might be starting to get the picture that I have a problem with authority or people trying to take money off me and will argue with anyone.....

1971? I thought they were out of production by then and well into 'red giants' territory... Either the date's wrong [1961 maybe] or it's a 135 with the 1 missing, which would be a great result...!

But often burn out quickly [in terms of actual time] following LOADS of posts....

Total cart price, but then I like doing spreadsheets to make sure I'm getting the best deal! And I always spend up to the free postage threshold.... Flat carriage pricing is always helpful, but then we wouldn't necessarily get the best deal. I don't mind not finding out the exact postage cost until the end, but it's nice to have an idea. Like I say though, having a figure at which postage becomes free acting as a target suits me just fine...!

I wouldn't class any of that as a 'modification'... they're bolt on accessories, and I would contact the insurers and tell them as such. All the things I can see could have been fitted when new by Land Rover in theory, so would that have made it a modified vehicle when new? No, it would just have been 'accessorised'. Modifications as I understand it are performance enhancing alterations to the engine or driveline, upgrades to on board systems, changes to suspension, steering and brakes, where original parts which are needed to make a car go are replaced with non OEM aftermarket alternatives. Spotlights, nudge bars, tyres etc are all just 'accessoriess', they serve no purpose to 'improve performance'. If you can take it off and the car still works, passes an MOT etc, or it's something which wears out and is regularly replaced without any changes to the vehicle being necessary, I'd argue that's not a mod. Phone them up and ask them for the guidelines on determining what constitutes a modification so that you can give them an accurate list..... If they can't then it's fairly obvious you're just getting fleeced...

So I believe..... I've seen it on the internet!

I think you've cracked it. Tabloid journalism aside, I wouldn't focus on the case of two individuals, for instance this trout and Abu Qa-ptain hook, but more on the fact that far too many people [like the two mentioned] have children who really shouldn't. We can't rely on social services removing children, that's bad on two levels, one that many children in care end up having pretty crappy lives and two, that removing children from their parents is a horrid thing to do anyway. The financial incentive for having children needs to be removed from those for whom it is their only potential easy income stream, to prevent anyone but the best parents, who will bring their children up well, from choosing to have them. Plainly she's a scummer. But prevention is better than cure. Don't keep taking children away from people like this, I don't want to fund unwanted kids, they just keep having more. Give young poeple the education to encourage them to make something of themselves and not bring more of the poor little sods into the world....

I would promise not to laugh... honestly... no, really... Ppppppffffffff :lol: I thought this stuff only happened in Ricky Gervais' fanatsies...?!

That's exactly what I thought....but I tried REALLY hard!! Does anyone have a video of this set up and working...?

Hmmmm... I tried setting up as per pic 2 / 3 a while ago and found it didn't work.... pulling down on the tail to placed as much load onto the prusik on the standing end as acted on the tail resulting in deadlock....

My son would LOVE this.... Sometimes I am deeply disturbed by his high levels of nerdiness.....! [This week it's Minecraft... eh?] Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to help out with the woodland hire, it would conflict with our own role playing club [where we dress up in costumes running round the woods playing games, sometimes called a commercial game shoot....!] but I'll keep my eyes peeled.... Have you thought about just using accessible FC woodland Tagger? You'd get all the facilities you need without having to pay anything, but may run into the public on the odd occasion.... I reckon that any decent private woodland of that size is going to present you with the same problem, that it's going to be shot commercially and this comflicts quite heavily....