Haironyourchest

Yup. Broke the cardinal rule there matey. Reputation, and all that.

12 meter below ground sounds very deep. Are you sure you didn't mean to write 12 foot? What's on top of the sewer? Compacted clay, gravel? Cities are riddled with old sewers and 30 tonne lorries drive around on top of them all day long.

"Your new tattoo of Greta Thunberg has turned septic..." Too good!

Tried it, it's true! My location is always turned off, unless I'm using Google maps as a satnav, so the tracking was "off" by default.

How do propose we take back our flag? (We as in "you guys" - I'm Irish, but you get the idea)

Maybe the far right thugs were planted by the far left? You know, to cause trouble and make the right look bad...I mean, that's what the left accuse the right of when they riot, isn't it?

Probably just need oiling. https://youtu.be/MeFz_gFKmg4

Safety margin redundancy?

Well, a lot of people seem to be well bored of it this last week. Riots, arson... Big "solidarity" protests in London today. Is it genuine outrage at the police killing of a man in another country (like that doesn't happen 10 times day, somewhere in the world) or is it an excuse to defy the lockdown? I was certain this imposition on our civil rights would end in mass defiance.

I've a green Bosch one, very horrible to use, vibrates the hell out of the hands so don't use it much. But when it's needed, and nothing else will do the job, boy is it great.

Huh?

I'm an anti-vaxxer.

Cut the overhanging stem at waste hight then treat the wound with urea or something and cap with aluminium sheet. Wind a strap around it above the cut to prevent barberchair.

What's this ash worth?

We have a moral duty to break unjust laws.

Absolutely frightening. The speed this thing reacts at...

They already use "robots" to kill bad people in the US. Basically a remote controlled, armoured mini skid steer with cameras and sensors etc. I read a thing about an armed guy holed up in a building someplace and they sent in the "robot" with a hand grenade on a stick and just trundled up to him and detonated. Future soldiers are today's ace video gamers, can work from home too.

Tell us more about the ones who sat on your lap please. Details. Sounds like fun.

Precisely - knocked it out of the park, Andy! If Covidiot is really a thing, then I'm one, and 95% of people I know, work with and strangers I meet are as well.

WHO recommends 1 meter distance now.

A local man, retired doctor, requested me to put up a post box for him, a week into the lockdown. I rocked up, found the box and started. He came out and stood right next to me. Now, this was during the "Everybody will DIE!" stage of general hysteria. So, I asked him: "You're not worried about the virus then?" He just smiled and said, "Oh, no." We have two friends who nurses. Neither one social distances around people they know, who are not worried. There are three kinds of people who social distance: 1. Those who do it out of respect to strangers or people they know who they know or suspect are worried. This type does not social distance with people of the same type, even in public. 2. People who are actually worried, or "cautious". 3 People who are not worried but do it out of obedience to authority and/or percieved social pressure. Type 3 are more dangerous to free societies than the virus.

Remember the boy in the bubble? David Vetter - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

Good. To hell with lockdowns wherever they be. Same here in rural Ireland. Many, if not most, people just don't give a damn anymore. Some examples. Standing in queue outside hardware store today, an auld feller starts mouthing off about how the government are "arseholes" and the whole thing a farce. General agreement from the queue. A different auld feller gets in the face of the door man with the auld feller joshing and joking, and - get this - puts his hand on the chap's shoulder, you know the way you do when you're joshing around. The doorman recoils in mock horror. General hilarity of "We're all doomed now", "Been nice knowing you" Etc. Etc..... In the "strictly enforced" shop interior, I wait patiently for yet another auldish guy to complete his nut and bolt collection from the rack. He sees me and says "Am I holding you up?" I reply, "Depends how fussy you are" he replies "I'm not fussy at all" ... With this mutual understanding, we crowd together at the fixing rack, both picking out of the same trays. And you know what? We enjoyed it. Local country shops: sign on the door "1 customer allowed in at any time" - reality: jammers with the bewellied elderly, youths, dogs, loiterers, all cheek by jowl. Not allowed to drive around? Could have fooled me. Saw 1 single squad car these last 8 weeks. Worst comes to worst you get sent home, big deal. At a shop counter, the sign reads: Due to Covid19 we can no longer accept cash - payment by card only. So I ask "Oh, you don't take cash no more then?" .... shop owner replies, surprised, "Of course we take cash - no problem!" No, outside of the cities and bigger towns life has continued apace, albeit discreetly. It's like play acting, people repeat the politically correct phrases, and then go ahead and get on with violating the rules. Like putting on your latex gloves, sanitising them with the dispenser, then patting them dry on your filthy shirt, before coughing into your fist, then wiping your nose and shoving your hand in your pocket for change. But it's ok, you wore gloves, virtue signal achieved. And I for one, love it, and I don't care anymore. Human nature wins again.

Gabion baskets look ideal, but they are pricy. You know the mesh cages they fill with rocks for embankments...

€88 for a 25 yard roll, 1.2m tall. Assuming "boxes" of 1 yard square, that's three yards and three yards layed out X fashion, the four sides folded up and laced together with wire or steel zep-ties. Maybe a strand of bull wire around the too for strength. So 6 yards per box - double thickness on the floor side. 24 by 6 is 4 so a box costs €22, and some wire. But, you can find something else for the floor, pallet or whatever, then you get 4 yards per box just wrapped around, so 24 by 4 = 6, €88 by six call it €15 Euros per box.