kevinjohnsonmbe

Who's Spartacus....?

? I've got it! Nice one.... You done me up like a kipper! It's P70ggs innit? I see you Jon ???????? ewe peaked early for April ??????

You 2 are funny - there's love there I think.... ?

No, it's not. There is a massive delta - Vesp spends a long time thinking about his posts.

Mark, yeah, you got me.... I feel a right plum! I don't care how your spelling is, it's what you say, not how you say it, that is marking you out. Listen mate, I try really hard, every new year, to be polite, less direct and less judgemental. I never manage to sustain it very far into the new year but you are testing my f*cking (there, (*nervous twitch) I'm loosing it already) patience beyond reason. Wishing you a happy, prosperous and most of all safe 2019. Maybe we'll recommence later in the month and I can be a little less restrained.

It's got all lively whilst I was making the gravy. Mark, I'm all in and I'm calling you.... Come back and play when your voice breaks.

Bloody hell Stubby, you're crashing my basis for questioning the age based on grammar! "Wear off" - I'm gonna put that one down to alcohol though.... ??

It's called sarcasm and its derived from your previous posts. Can't believe I'd have to explain that to a man of your experience and years. I'm happy to fold, on a compassionate basis, if Dave's earlier diagnosis is accurate, otherwise cocker, I'll raise you.

Fair play to you Mark, if I ever make a 100 million tree fells and/or the ripe old age of 65 (and there's no expectation or desire for that since to do so would be a lamentable ecological cost to the nation - probably on both counts but more so the first since I might like to see 60 if not 65) but if I did, and after that I was STILL able to be so demonstrably excited over a routine task undertaken in what appears to be a fairly cavalier and sloppy fashion (noting that there wasn't a catastrophe, nobody got hurt and everyone got paid - which, I suppose, is a reasonable, if rather lame benchmark to aspire to) at the 100 million tree mark, I shall remind myself to think back to this thread and take an example from your unconstrained enthusiasm. Much like the pub, if someone spins a tall story there'll likely be a miserable bastard in the corner that calls BS! So here's the thing, and I stand to be corrected of course, but I don't think your grammar and presentation are that of a 65 year old with a life time of tree felling under his belt who has just suddenly taken to internet forums. The image I have generated is closer to a much younger person, possibly new to the industry sector or aspiring to enter it with a propensity for over excitement whilst witnessing something for the first time. Let's call it a poker game since I can't see your hand and you can't see mine. If you've been in the game +/- 50 years you'll be able to name-drop quicker than those boys topped out that tree. Your call.....

Wishing it would all be over and back to routine - load of old bollox

Why aren’t you down t’pub yet?

It's a vid that might be well received on a local FB page where potential customers might be impressed by the action but blissfully unaware of the sloppiness... Don't take it the wrong way, worth posting, but maybe just consider the audience and the potential to have alternative views presented.

Me neither.... This apparent obsession with ‘luck’ rather baffles me. I feel no guilt, nor shame, for the history of the nation I was born into. Nor do I consider it as particularly ‘lucky’, it just is what it is. I certainly feel no guilt for being born in the Northern hemisphere. I feel no jealousy towards those that enjoy a warmer climate when I’m labouring over the log splitter. I feel no jealousy towards those that have snow when I don’t. I feel no compulsion, nor duty, to self flagellate until the whole world has reached a level of common misery. Even the great Socialist maxim 'to each according to his contribution’ clearly promotes a ‘reward’ based system rather than opening the way to the parasitism and perpetual alienation which is already evident within the perversion of the UK welfare system (as a simple example of how this well intentioned theory of redistribution of wealth might have (entirely predictable) unforeseen circumstances.)) Some misplaced belief that all people can be equal (given equal access to opportunity) is shot to pieces by the very basic observation of sibling differences. People ARE NOT all equal, there is no way to change that. These theories of ‘free money for all’, despite all of the best academic studies and research, cannot remove from history the too many to list examples where such doctrine (and let’s not delude ourselves that it is too far removed from Marxism) has catastrophically failed, often with immeasurable misery, death and desperation as a side order. As another aside, it seems to be the case that those that proclaim to support the EU (and so often seem to denigrate the Brexiteers as “Little Englanders” or post colonial romanticists seem blithely to gloss over the historic colonial histories of the majority of European Union member states and the current (and future) effects of the EU in perpetuating those colonial exploitations, most notably within the the African sub-continent which directly contributes to the economic suppression and stagnation >90% of thereof.) I don’t mean to be overtly confrontational Chessa, it’s easy to appreciate that you put huge effort (and passion) into research and presentation, and that you truly believe in a utopian society, I just don’t buy it I’m afraid - I do like that your posts tend to encourage TVI to break cover though ?

There was a much more scientifically reputable social experiment directed by John Landis in early 1980's Philadelphia, USA where the contrasting effects of nature v nurture were explored by fundamentally altering the social circumstances of 2 wholly unrelated individuals living in the recessionary circumstances of post 1970's Federal fiscal incompetence and the after effects Reaganism. Not a new experiment however, the above is often considered a modern representation of the much earlier (100 years earlier) work of Mark Twain - funny old world where fact becomes stranger than fiction!

There are some uncomfortable truths / logic in yr previous couple of comments Vesp. Never catch on given the current state of society where everyone seems determined to find someone / something other than their own shit choices for their own shit circumstances.

And not constrained by any elements of a so-called social construct: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6373485/Daughter-Marquess-Queensberry-18-died-heroin-cocaine-binge-inquest-hears.html

Moody post that Ti (and Gary’s earlier one about personal efforts to help someone) Maybe the ‘answers’ don’t come from central government but from personal actions.

Which bit Mr P? The fake news figures or the duty placed upon all at sea (under international maritime law - UNCLOS) where it is safe to do so, to assist those in distress (imminent peril) where imminent peril is described under the SOLAS convention. Bit of a shambles really where well intentioned international conventions are being exploited by those that purposefully, intentionally and often criminally set out to exploit that which was never envisioned as being applied in such a manner so as to short circuit normal immigration processes. The answer - pick em up and set em back from whence they came. Maybe then the message will get out and the ‘victims’ will stop giving their money to organised crime and international terrorists....

Spot on! As usual, I want it to be a dozen different things on different days and each one contradicts all of the others! Starting to get the gist of a workable (compromise) plan in mind though.

They’re less than an hr away (and never been to Buuuude) so May have a run up there for a look-see in Jan. I dont mind cost where quality / design / functionality are seen in the product, and I like the no-drill, vehicle specific units.

Yes mucker, I do know what yome mean, I wasn’t contesting the irony of someone who voted for legal aid reduction then having to dig deep to defend their liberty. Like so many ‘systems’, there is always the potential for exploitation - Yam Yam Choudry for example. Maybe he’ll put a bit more effort into researching his voting tendencies in the future (and maybe be a bit more careful in his seduction techniques) I was just saying, there’s a subtle difference between being ‘innocent’ and being found ‘not guilty’ or acquitted.

He wasn’t found guilty ??s. Im not so sure that naturally equates to “innocent” however, just that there was insufficient evidence to satisfy the “beyond reasonable doubt.”

Been looking at Bott, Sortmo etc - plenty of vids on YouTube and Bott factory is only an hour away so worthwhile going for a look. Anybody done a racking rig out that works well in a medium sized van (Transit Custom L1H1) or have any tips / lessons learnt / things you’d do differently??

Chicken house has some merit, where it lacks aesthetic appeal, it gains back in ease of cleaning / slightly rounded edges & absence of nooks & crannies for mite. Like that idea! It’s what these have done but without the trendy colours and over inflated price tag for DFLs. And having forgot to add the link,here is the link: https://www.omlet.co.uk/shop/chicken_keeping/

But what’s the story with that right hip bone? Looks reet peculiar? Rest of yome Mrs looks reet proportional iffum you wouldn’t be offended by the observation ?