kevinjohnsonmbe

Are you thinking of a chocolate orange?

Could you tweet back to your mate "Undocumented Immigrant" (on behalf of all sane Bulldog Brit's)... Something like.... It's OK to be confused Ahmed, The 2 parts of the of the story are entirely unrelated and frankly, irrelevant - Gary appears to support Brexit and Cheddar Man appears to have had a tan. Now gather your things, get back across the channel and perhaps try stabilising your own nation rather than leaching off ours, oh, and by the way, try going to the embassy and putting your papers in because for as long as you're 'undocumented' you ain't welcome here chopper.... Huh, what says ya....?

That's enough for me Mark... Perhaps you were right all along? Now, where's my Massai spear and sword, I'm off out to tend the cattle and dance for Ngai.... Cheers for clearing all that up for me

New pads and shoes when you gave the dogs back....

Mr E is just yanking your chain... We all know those attributes don't stop after 30 years and they're certainly not exclusive to the "Right!" Pubs open Mr E!!

I can wholly relate to the 'fringe benefits' that you mention above. Any alternative that represents 'intangible' (untaxable) benefits are good with me - so long as it represents equal advantage to customer AND service provider. There is a good deal more to 'value' than £'s alone. Here comes the but.... But, none of that is intimated in the OP which (by my reading) represents itself as exactly the kind of PITA customer that wants a dozen quotes for a minor task so as to shave £10 off the already pitiful value they have predetermined that the task warrants regardless of the time and effort expended by the people providing the quotes and deserves an fairly immediate and fairly pronounced body swerve. One of the great pleasures of being a service provider is the privilege to decide who you might want to provide your services to, and conversely...... For those that think the privilege of deciding who will do the work sits with the customer alone, good luck. I don't think the discussion has got out of proportion. Post to an arb forum saying you've been ripped off because you don't like a QUOTE - kind of intimating that all tree workers are rip-off merchants. The responses have delivered a fairly balanced nationwide summary which I'd interpret as: Busy, professional outfits seem to be of the - "...it's there or thereabouts territory, or might consider it on the back of a ¾ day...." 'Handymen', the desperate or the very local Saturdays and Sundays brigade - "...would probably knock it over for cash @£150..." Farmers - "...push it over with the tractor..." You pays your money (or, apparently not in this case) you takes your chances....

And then a 100 phone calls a month with "couldyajust's" and "what would you advise for the following's" (which actually means - if you give me the benefit of your years of experience, knowledge and training, I'll get dumbo from next door to do it like you said and hope he doesn't break anything/one.) No thanks - bash it, block number.....

and that, right there, is good “all round” advice!

That wouldn't be news......

The article is trash and biased (Obvs - "...The unpopular media pundit..." ?? No so unpopular for me) in a trash rag read by beret wearing, bearded hypocrites. Yeah, so she's investigating white farmers being murderd and dispossessed - observable historic fact. Given the propensity, in certain quarters, to protest about such matters when it's the distant relatives of indigenous populations complaining about colonial injustice (Rhodes Must Fall for example), you'd think the hysterical reaction to apparent injustice would carry equal weight regardless of the relative skin pigment. It is after all - a strikingly similar scenario. So what....? It's only injustice when its white against black but it doesn't really count when it's the other way around? I'm not sure which sickens me more, the grass roots complainants of the far distant ancestry of the aggrieved indigenous populations, or the hypocritical BS of their sympathisers....

It's an 'ignore thread' scenario, only other option is to tell him he's a ?? and I'm trying to be 'nice' this week!

Just listened Mr E..... It made a pleasant change for JOB (Commander in Chief Bremoantard) not to be bleeding his gums over Brexit...

If the previous owner swapped his wife for a MPT, she must have been a rare old bird!

Cheers Paul!! I'll have a look at those in a bit... HS is an interesting one that could be catching people out. 3 HAV prosecutions in 2017 that I found. Looking back through the year's stats for prosecutions - (builders) falls from height and farmers (generally) seem to be featuring quite high 11/7/17 http://press.hse.gov.uk/2017/engineering-firm-fined-after-exposing-workers-to-hand-arm-vibration-syndrome-havs/ 3/10/17 http://press.hse.gov.uk/2017/council-fined-after-worker-diagnosed-with-havs/ 4/12/17 http://press.hse.gov.uk/2017/company-fined-after-exposing-workers-to-hand-arm-vibration-syndrome-havs/

Having a look at implications of HAVS.... HSE brochure says: a daily EAV of 2.5 m/s2 A(8) that represents a clear risk requiring management; and a daily ELV of 5 m/s2 A(8) that represents a high risk above which employees should not be exposed. (EAV = Exposure action value, ELV = Exposure limit value) Anyone make any sense of the equations and translate them into English before I start Googling etc... The brochure makes for an interesting read (in a certain context!) http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg175.pdf

Thats gonna bite em on the backside!

The definitive answer is upon us! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-5351721/DOMINIC-LAWSON-Lefties-no-oil-paintings.html (Don't worry that it is being reported in the Daily Mail (take a Herculean effort to set your personal biases apart for a second), that is merely the reproduction and interpretation of the source reference which comes from the Political and Life Sciences journal - a biannual, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal with a global audience: http://www.aplsnet.org/journal.html) And there we have it.... Handsome bar stewards of world unite against Marxism!!

I'll drink to that Speaking of "don't have to answer", I'll just break down the previously implied observation and leave the outstanding question hanging out there for you: You seek to lambast those that identify / align / admire JRM on the basis that he is duplicitous because his personal beliefs don't neatly align with his party's political policy position on (your quote) a single issue. Are we to assume the plank in your eye has blinded you to the obvious, multiple parallels which exist within Comrade Corbyn's personal v party political policy positions - or is it just that the single example you seem to be presenting for JRM's unsuitability as a politician is more significant than the multiple apparent moral conflicts that Corbyn faces. Or is it simpler than that.....? Perhaps you're one of those angry, illogical, shouty, self entitled, momentum louts that thinks suppression of intelligent discussion is OK so long as you're wearing your Che Guevara T shirt, beret and "Anonymous" face mask? You don't have to answer...... (it's quite apparent)

I thought you were..... But you seem to have completely missed the point

You'll be well rid (once the shock has passed.) Wrong tree, wrong place. Is it Staffordshire by any chance? So many suburban houses with tiny front gardens seem to have these beasts.... There must have been a couple of hooky container loads doing the rounds 30-50 years ago....

So by that logic... Don't vote Tory because JRM personally opposes abortion..... And you'd vote Corbyn.....? What madness is that??

(did you mean Parliament??)