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My brother used to work on a golf course. Some of my favourite memories are of going out at 2am in the morning in a golf cart with a rim fire for some lamping Nothing beats a bit of shooting. I love shooting grey squirrels
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Don't get me wrong, I think anyone that steals a workman's tools is absolute scum that deserves 20 years in a Siberian gulag. However, our society generally values human life over material possessions. That's why the police put more time into vehicle safety as opposed to stolen goods.
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how many acres are you talking about? what do you want to do with the land? if you want to turn it into woodland why not plant some trees and remove the bracken around the tree until they are above the bracken? you can also plant trees like beech which are shade tolerant. my dad owns about 25 acres of the thickest bracken you can imagine. cutting it down by hand is a fairly thankless task (and as others say it recolonizes). I'm planting trees on it and removing the bracken by scythe/pulling.
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amongst other things they caught 12 uninsured drivers & 14 vehicles with no MOT. I don't understand why the police are being criticised here....
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That was literally the best 31 minutes of my life!
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Is sewage sludge/cake used to make horticultural compost?
matelot replied to TimberCutterDartmoor's topic in General chat
it was always my understanding that sewage sludge couldn't be used to fertilise fields used for food production due to heavy metals in the sludge. I wouldn't have thought they could put sludge in compost sold to the public. -
that would p1ss me off no end. if the guy is acting like that it's probably because he's not going to be working for them much longer...
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I use "CutePDF" I understand it's a free download. You press print and select "CutePDF" as a printer.
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A simple test to see if water comes from a sewerage system is to throw a stone into it. If there are bubbles it's likely to have some sewage in it (bubbles due to soaps etc). With the blocked pipe in my parents garden they had no idea it was there (they had been in the house for 40 years).
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I work in construction. All our PPE is yellow as it is more visible. To wear a high vis jacket in summer is torture - you sweat like a mad man. Best have a vest in the summer and jacket in the winter. We have special Velcro high vis vests. They rip apart if they catch on something (ie branch going into chipper). It's the type of thing H&S guys love to see on a risk assessment. If I was looking at a risk assessment I'd much prefer someone using a chainsaw had chainsaw trousers as opposed to high vis trousers.
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My parents had a really large puddle in their garden beneath a sycamore. It turned out there was a blocked pipe causing the puddle. Perhaps a pipe was damaged when the tree was taken down? You can buy "drain dye" to put in toilets/pipes to see where water goes to. I don't see why the roots of a tree would still be pumping water 6 months after the tree has been cut down...
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If you want to get technical look at the first two drawings in this document. This document says the trench width should be pipe diameter + 300mm http://www.standardsforhighways.co.uk/mchw/vol3/section1/f_series.pdf I've always assumed there are 2.2 tonnes of stone in a cubic metre of gravel. What do you actually want to drain? is it surface water or sub surface water? If it's sub surface water you don't need to have the stone to the top of the trench. If the area to drain is not that big I would use "waving coil".
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LOL, I'm sitting here in a yoga position with a cup of dandelion tea.
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When I was a kid of about 7 we were allowed to light fires in the garden and have a knife, but to give a toddler a machete is asking for the kid to be taken into care. is that Park Circus in your profile pic?
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imho you were very lucky not to have your kids taken into care. does anyone else give a toddler a machete to play with?
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I apologise if I've caused any offense. It's just when I see the world around me the evidence seems to point to certain things. I suppose some groups are just painted in a negative light. Like travellers for instance, some travellers commit crime and the whole community is then tarred with the same brush. People ignore the vast majority of decent/ hardworking/ honest travellers and focus on the actions of a few.
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I think we've all seen the advert on telly for the charity looking for money for Africa. It shows a black kid getting water from a dirty puddle then shows a donkey p1ssing in the puddle. You really think a culture that cant erect a fence to keep p1ssing donkeys out their drinking water is to be celebrated? You think a culture that cant dig their own wells is to be celebrated? 50 years ago people would have accepted that the races are different, in places like India/ the Middle East etc they accept that the races are different. This White Liberal idea that has developed over the last 50 years that all races are "equal" is quite frankly laughable. There's no evidence that says the races are "equal" in fact most of the evidence says the races are not equal. It's about time we all woke up and smelled the coffee.
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The Village Idiot, I was a bit bored and found the info below. It's interesting stuff. "And some scholars have reported differences in average brain sizes between Africans, Europeans and Asians. J. P. Rushton has argued that Africans on average have smaller brain cases and brains than Europeans, and that this is evidence that the gap is biological in nature." "Recent reviews by Nisbett et al. (2012b) and Mackintosh (2011) consider that current data does show an average difference in brain size and head-circumference between American Blacks and Whites" I base my opinions on scientific evidence. What do you base your opinions on? Wishful thinking or posters produced by lobby groups?
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Wow! a poster produced by the "racism" industry against the Nobel prize winner who discovered DNA. Who is more credible?
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in the middle ages Europe had really bad winter weather. The river Thames used to freeze over and they would have winter fairs on it... Having 4 months of bad weather is equally as bad as the weather in Africa... Major diseases? We had plenty of them until we eradicated them...
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The next time you watch the Olympics look at the races that win the track events and look at the people in the swim events. Jamaicans are brilliant at 100m track events (did they not win the top three places in the last Olympics?). Is that really down to cultural differences or genetics? Obviously not all immigrants have HIV etc. But would it not be good if we never allowed people into the UK that were going to be a drain to us? To turn the tables, do you have any evidence that all ethnic groups are the same? Why are some countries like Russia and the US able to build rockets that can fly people into space, and then some countries need help to dig wells? This idea that all the races are equal does not seem to be reflected in what I see in the world....
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Well the person I quoted discovered DNA, he received a Nobel prize for doing it. You seem a smart person, I presume you know what a Nobel prize is? To be frank I think I'd have to be absolutely stupid not to give weight to what a Nobel prize winner says about his specialist field.... It's fairly well known that races are physically different. For instance Africans are brilliant 100m runners, but whites are better at swimming. Is it really that crazy that the races have different levels of intelligence? Look at the quote, he's implying that our approach to Africa is wrong, if we changed our approach to Africa and it reduced the amount of suffering would that not be a good thing? Or do we just have to accept pictures of starving children on our telly for ever more?
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This is what the person that discovered DNA had to say about race and intelligence. I'm not trying to be controversial, but it is an interesting viewpoint and it is a Friday night. By the way this person got a Nobel prize for his work. "On October 25, 2007, Watson was compelled to retire as chancellor of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island and from its board of directors, after he had been quoted in The Times the previous week as saying "[i am] inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa [because] all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours—whereas all the testing says not really." He went on to say that despite the desire that all human beings should be equal, "people who have to deal with black employees find this not true."[51]"
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tell you what, to show there are no hard feelings why don't you name a single African scientist who has made a world class discovery/ invention?
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I bet I've had a better education than you. Why did Zimbabwe go down the pan after the Brits left?
