kevinjohnsonmbe
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Quite so, well put! What is it with people? "...Whaaaa, I don't like it, make it stop Mummy..." When did it all become somebody else's responsibility to monitor, filter, cleanse and sterilise what individuals choose to say, read, discuss? (notwithstanding of course, it is the personal choice of site owner / mods to take what ever action they see fit with their site.) What's with all the ban it, shield me, protect me from the nasty people. Why isn't there a 'hide" button etc... There IS, just don't read what doesn't interest you - simples! :thumb up: No point engaging an unarmed man in a battle of wits!! Agreed, and exercise th freedom to engage (or not) as suits...
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You, you f'king idjeet!
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I live by a simple mantra Gary: Everyone is a * until proven otherwise! * - insert expletive of choice. 😳
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I like that approach! 👍🏻 I'd seen the FC 20% canopy piece.
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I'm at 3k (7 months - probably walk more than I drive!!) I had a similar, but very much less pronounced than that which you're describing, situation. An occasional burning smell. Fairly subtle but noticeable which I put down to "newness." It was generally after one of my long haul journeys (22 miles / 30 mins.) Discussed with dealership, they suggested it was regen cycle. Not so noticeable now. Yours sounds pretty bad!
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Mate, I'd have vomited at the point first card didn't arrive. Never mind recorded delivery for replacement, I'm on my way to collect it - where are you again? Head Office 1-23 Blaggit street, Abuja, Nigeria 🇳🇬 👍🏻
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For that to be true then, anything less than 1 acer (acre) cannot be a wood... (Dhoooh! Less than 1 acer cannot be a wood, less than 1 of anything can't be a thing??) Now we know that not to be the case which must draw into question the accuracy of yr boss's declaration. I think it's more likely, in modern usage, that a wood (regardless of size) is an area not in commercial management, whereas a forest is in commercial management (with certain notable exceptions - New Forest for example...)
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Does an inbox become full when it's got too many messages in it??
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:lol: What a mess we're in.....
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Where necessary Richard, entirely appropriate. What I saw today was completely unnecessary - even the wife commented, "what's the point of that?" and that's really saying something! My point was, things are done, because they've always been done - regardless if necessary or not. A fortnightly cut, where it's NOT necessary might equate to a school crossing patrol which is being chopped... That's my point, multiply all those unnecessary cuts and what does it add up to? A service that is being cut because management can't be bothered to review work schedules. Boils my....
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LEADER might still be trudging along: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rural-development-programme-for-england-leader-funding If you want to jump through tiresome and pointless admin hoops, justify your existence and verify that you actually already have the necessary funds to purchase that which you might need to retrospectively reclaim some of the cost for (yes, that really IS a qualifying criteria - you must already HAVE the money to buy something which you might want to get some cash back afterwards for from LEADER!) It's a beauty! I'm convinced the "system" will have spent more on staff costs and admin than it will have ever dispersed as grant funding. Classic public sector inefficiency!!
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Yep! She crashed (that's perhaps a little melodramatic) the van into a wall that had been there for centuries and that she'd driven past many times before... Apparently that critical inch is vitally important! Backatcha! Difference between wood / forest / coppice etc is a little bit easier to differentiate than that which might, or might not, be classed as a wood/woodland...
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Apparently, it's NOT important (should read: that's not inches) when parking or driving, or crashing into 200 year old church wall... But there are scenarios when it might be....
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Not a great help Steve... That's the trouble, by your suggestion that could be in a plant pot! Does size really matter??
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anyone got any decent definitions of a woodland by any chance? What does it need to "be" to be classed a woodland??
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Why don't you look at the capitation rate of a trained police firearms officer and compare it with the capitation rate of a private soldier then come back and talk about VfM rather than cuts.
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Desperately hoping it isn't bad news but acknowledging the sinking feeling inside!
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Of course he's incensed, who wouldn't be? Whilst there has always been arrangements for military aid to civil authorities (floods, BSE, Olympics, fire strikes, prison officer strikes, fuel tanker strikes etc...) It is an acknowledgment that that department is unable to manage their area of responsibility - nobody is ever going to "like" that. But, and it's a big but, outside of periods of sustained / large scale military ops, there is a public resource that can, and perhaps should more often, be called into effect. I have absolutely no doubt that the ACPO etc will use this an attempted justification for budgetary uplift. It's not entirely necessary whilst there already exists a cost effective alternative. In fact, like the fire strikes, it will be seen that the military can provide considerably BETTER VfM than the organic resources. It's embarrassing, that's why he might be incensed.
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It's a blatant "piggy-back" on the thread...! But i too am excited and relieved that an item has finally arrived!!! 💥💨🌪🏅🎺🎯🚚🚀
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Like the "Tory cuts" narrative for example?? I've seen LA staff out cutting roadside verges & islands today. Absolutely nugatory, unnecessary and costly. You'd think (for "Tory cuts" read "an attempt to instil responsibility for local expenditure") "Tory cuts" would result in a drive to improve efficiency and budgetary responsibility, but no, LA's will continue to plough on, as they always have, thoughtlessly & wastefully expending resources whilst blaming central government for institutional inefficiency.
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These unts exploit weakness and fear strength. There would be less of them if we started shooting the known.
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I'll have to catch up with some of the later posts, but for now, what about this... Shoot all the maggots on the watch list and all known associates. Fair do's, some who may be innocent might die, but to be fair, ALL the children at Manc Arena were innocent!
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No. It's not the "cuts" you seem so desperately to want to believe are the cause of the current deficiency in armed police officers. The UK has never had (relatively) high numbers of armed police. It's been a conscious decision over many decades that it should be so. The current European terrorist "risk" status has grown faster than organic policing capabilities have been able to adapt. Op Temperer is an appropriate (albeit potentially perceived as radical) use and deployment of public services. The military will take a fixed role in physical security of pre-determined areas thus releasing the firearms trained police from those areas to raise the armed policing profile in the public eye. It's subtly different from hysteria about "troops on the streets."
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Thanks! You can take that as true... If I had seen it, or been aware of it, I would have said so Now I do know about it, in so far as you have described it, I couldn't give a monkey's. It's semantics. Surely you are not seriously suggesting she wants to implement a holocaust style genocide as a "solution" or mitigation to the current islamist problem? Seriously, you're not are you?? Are you suggesting the words "final" and "solution" should be eradicated from the Oxford English dictionary just in case there could be some paranoid aversion to the use of the words for fear of a historic association of the phrase when the words are joined together.... Mark, please, you're bigger than that.
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Sorry Mark, I'm not sure what you're asking there? I re-read the article and couldn't find a reference to a "final solution." Is it something she has said previously or have I missed something?? The government thing.... Well, it's obvious there isn't a silver bullet solution. I don't think we can blame or congratulate Labour or the Tories for where we are. We are where we are (maybe you could blame Blair for Iraq mind) but I'm more interested in stopping or slowing the continued decline and, to me, that is as obvious and easy as taking direct control over immigration. To do otherwise is to import further problems. It doesn't fix the 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation "home grown" issue but that is much harder. In the meantime (Jeremy) let's NOT make matters worse!
