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Mick Dempsey

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  1. Mick Dempsey
    We’ve had the best of it. By the time most of you are 50 you’ll be living in a dystopian hellhole eating insects and taking orders from Somali slave masters.
  2. Mick Dempsey
    You love it really! Make a change having it at this time of year, less of that sort of thing I reckon, too cold to booze bare chested in pub gardens.
  3. Mick Dempsey
    So, it begins. Personally I’m looking forward to it. Don’t give a monkey’s toss about the manufactured outrage of the lbgt/etc. community. Their country, their rules. Wouldn’t set foot there myself purely cos it looks like a dump. Nevertheless, should be a good tournament, run us up to Christmas nicely. England in with a good shout, should come out of the group easy enough.
  4. Mick Dempsey
    When I first started (95/96) I worked with a guy who used SRT, ascenders, base ties all that stuff. Can’t remember exactly how he said he started using it, mountain climbing perhaps. At the time I was just learning the job and didn’t want to distract myself with other stuff so I didn’t try it out or anything. Certainly got the job done though.
  5. Mick Dempsey
    ‘More arduous than it would have been due to a series of economic own goals’ What could he be referring to?
  6. Mick Dempsey
    Albanians probably.
  7. Mick Dempsey
    1: Because they want to. 2: Because they can.
  8. Mick Dempsey
    Think you’re confusing the real father of the child and the feller of the tree when you say relieved at the verdict.
  9. Mick Dempsey
    Of course, I use some 3 plat plasticky rope for that, call it our ‘beater’ rope.
  10. Mick Dempsey
    I know, but (to rehash an old argument) The rope doesn’t move in SRT, and in ‘DRT’ there’s only one rope. Anyway, couldn’t really care, but the wife’s watching Masterchef.
  11. Mick Dempsey
    Thought it was Static Rope Technique
  12. Mick Dempsey
    Oak is pretty good for getting some embers in the morning, just to get it going. During the week we’re both of to work early so we stack it up before bedtime and hope the heat carries through.
  13. Mick Dempsey
    This was a great thread btw, worth a scroll.
  14. Mick Dempsey
    ‘Only 30 hours from new’ It is an underpowered piece of crap that I regret buying, hoping to find someone as stupid as me.
  15. Mick Dempsey
    Bit of a tangent, but on ads for machinery. ’no time wasters’ 1: I will waste your time if I like, you saying no time wasters will not put me off one bit. 2: It’s a second hand stump grinder, not a Ferrari, no one lives in a dreamworld about owning a pedestrian grinder. 3: ‘Relisted due to time waster’ Take a deposit before marking as sold you muppet.
  16. Mick Dempsey
    Me too, always think the contractors doing it look like bullies or worse.
  17. Mick Dempsey
    My prediction is they will withdraw diplomats, roundly condemn etc. but no way will they launch any sort of retaliatory action over a mistake. Unless they wanted a war before this happened, and will use this as an excuse, then they’ll leave it at that.
  18. Mick Dempsey
    I know, that was sort of my point.
  19. Mick Dempsey
    What sort of a reaction do you expect?
  20. Mick Dempsey
    I’ve earned £600 in an hour, rest of the day I earned fook all, but for that hour, boy, I creamed it in.
  21. Mick Dempsey
    Well no, they’re not going to start a war over a misplaced bomb are they? Nato a bluff? You’re having a giraffe aren’t you?
  22. Mick Dempsey
    It’s been on Twitter from the get go. They need to verify it before putting it on the TV news, which is understandable.
  23. Mick Dempsey
    As it goes I hate the ZZ. It self tends all the time when I don’t want it to. You release a bit of slack to go somewhere, turn around to go there and can’t move as the rope has self tended.
  24. Mick Dempsey
    Snakes on a Plane.
  25. Mick Dempsey
    I find them brilliant for ag type tyres on my grinder and loader. I can imagine they’re rubbish on turf type tyres.

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