kevinjohnsonmbe

My vote is for Stubby 👍🏻

That monkey spice stuff Egger.... You’d have to be in some state to whack that up your hooter.

I have seen that, or something similar previously. Maybe should be shown in school?

I know - it was a cheap dig - but any chance to have a pop at SNP must be exploited 😂 Its fair to say the drugs misuse / addiction counter measures currently in place are ineffective. Having a ‘law’ that is widely ignored by (apparently) such a large portion of a society generally indicates that the ‘law’ is wholly inappropriate. I wouldn’t suggest decriminalisation is the answer - certainly not in isolation. And legalisation also has consequences - legalised supply of pharma produced product really will lead to a zombie nation. What is the answer? Just say no....

Fair play to you J - very best wishes for future success 👍🏻

Are you definitely going J? Have I missed that in another thread somewhere?

That's obscene J! No heating is even discussed in this house before November 🥶

Cheeky!

Self seeded might still be struggling with competitive or sub-optimal growing conditions - just saying, self seeding doesn’t guarantee growth to maturity. There needs to be a natural ‘failure rate’ such that the strongest push through. It might be that other faster growing trees / vegetation are out competing self seeded trees. Certainly agree 2018 presented considerable challenges which were observable in crown of many trees. Hopefully just a particularly bad year in a 100 and established trees will shrug it off over a longer period.

Notwithstanding the broader regional observations from other posters, the tree(s) in the pic(s) look like they might be subject to a combination of some or all of the following: = sub-optimal nursery stock struggling to become established = poor planting and after care (stakes and bands still in situ, possibly poorly planted, inadequate planting pit, inadequate watering?) = poor surface area preparation / maintenance around base of tree(s) = strimmer damage? They don't look like they were given the best chance to get established. This might be combined with, or contributing to, poor resilience which denudes the tree(s) ability to withstand environmental and biological challenges. Part 2 What should you do? They don't look like they would present any particular hazard so probably no need to remove straight away. You could either retain and try giving them a helping hand for a year or 2 and see if they stand a chance of recovery or remove and properly replant good stock with a suitable after care schedule. If there's no rush, give them a helping hand and see what happens for a year or 2, if it's a lost cause, cut your losses and start again.

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Don't assume he either has other quotes or that yours is already the lowest. All you know for sure is that he's asked for you to sharpen your pencil. It's not uncommon nor perhaps should we consider it to be rude - he's just trying to save himself a fish & chip supper. (would have been a steak dinner but Brexit, Covid and inflation have put paid to that 🤣) If you're not bothered about the 50 squid, play him with some overt complimentary nonsense so that he thinks you're doing a 'special' just for him, or, even better, upsell him with something else that you can do that he may not have considered yet.

No witch hunt from me Mick, I'm pretty sure I simply pointed out an "anomaly" in something that was stated and it has pretty much invoked a hissy tantrum. Couldn't give a monkeys either way prior to that, was genuinely neither bothered nor particularly engaged by him. I currently place him more towards the less complimentary end of the scale but it's not irrevocable. More BS will push him further into (my) irrelevance bracket, if he posts well considered, honest, detail then he may veer the other way. I'm not without humility either, if he were to send a redacted copy of a couple of VAT returns showing his "£10s of 1000s" of VAT awaiting forward payment I'd say "pass the salt and pepper, I'm about to eat my hat!" (with an accompaniment side order of humble pie, apologies and due respect.) Fairly safe bet I'm on lamb chops tonight though....

Lick me.....

Para 1. Just move on you clown. Unlike many, I don’t have an inherent dislike or ‘issue’ with what you post - on 1 occasion I referenced your BS. Now you appear to have a little hissy-fit, hairy shirt, poor me ‘thing’ going on. Stop being a dick, you wrote crap and I highlighted it - simple as that. Para 2. Yes, that would be an interesting thread but with your habit of utter BS - you may call it hyperbole - I rather doubt you’d be a particularly credible contributor. Para 3. Promotional technique? Your stock ain’t exactly peaking at the moment. Summary. I ‘wasn’t’ part of the ‘that blokes a dick’ group prior to, or even as a consequence of your previous nonsense. I am now and the way you’ve ‘handled’ a simple criticism of a blatant untruth rather reveals that which lays below.

@retiredbullshitter - classic micro aggression and victimhood. Haven’t you got a chapter in your book which covers this? Just leave it pal, move on, live your life.

Could you throw a magic handful of punctuation into that passage of seemingly, randomly connected, words so that we might decipher which, of the several possible meanings you were intending to present....

Yeah, I remember that meeting..... Bolam, Johnson and Mendiplogs RV with “retired bullshitter” in the desert:

Do one you chopper. You were trying be Billy big balls but turned out to be Billy BS. That's just a matter of credibility. To paraphrase, why would I bother....?

Yeah, you're quite right, you'd have to be billing 50k to generate the 10k that would need to be passed on. Same BS call applies though...

I didn't "ask", you stated. I called you out on it because it's horse shite which you seem to have now acknowledged.

Mmmmmmm, some call it detail, some call it BS.... You clearly and unequivocally said you have tens of thousands of £s worth of VAT awaiting forward payment per ¼ to play with as you like. I'm calling 🦣💩 60k spend would give you ONE ten thousand to play with. You reckon you've got "tens of thousands" so you must be spending 1, 2, 3+ times 60k per ¼ from your garden shed...

A retired climber with 10s of £1000s of VAT per ¼ ‘to play with?’ Whilst working part time in garden shed? What are you doing importing guns, drugs and girls? Sure you haven’t over sharpened your pencil??