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Never fails, a month after you buy the latest gadget, they trundle out the new improved model...sigh.

Everybody pay littlle, small gov ? 18% is about tops, according to the Laffer Curve (Art Laffer the famous economist) if the gov takes zero taxes it has zero revenue to run the machinery of state. If the gov takes 100% in tax, people have no money to spend or invest and the economy collapses = zero revenue. Charge them 50% and they hide some of it or hire accountants. Tax the rich too much and they leave, and take the jobs with them. Etc. So studies were done and they figured the sweet spot for revenue gain was 18%.

Yes but there are ways around that, if you're wealthy enough to hire the right accountants, business managers, grease the right palms in government etc. Though we're finally starting to catch up with the buggers, Amazon, Apple etc.

Sorry, been busy sawing. The sofa was originally purchased from a store by my neighbor's wife, who is a local girl. So obviously it was good enough for her and, by extension, I presumed, other local girls. Meaning that they would probably not fault me for having the sofa in the house...though by the time it came into my possession it was looking a teeny bit ragged...I'm a happily married man (not to a local girl though, she made me replace the sofa fairly soon after)...I dunno what all the innuendos are about, you lot must have dirty minds or something......

True. But those guys are travellers too - "perpetual travellers", see, if you spend less than 180 days a year in a country, you are not considered resident, so don't have to pay income tax in that country. So they spend five months in Switzerland, five months in California, and a month in Dubai and they never pay any tax anywhere. Cunning, ain't it? Ah jeez, I feel your pain though dude, I was an "other" as well growing up, still am in many ways. Can be tough sometimes...

Someone should start a thread called "Ever bought anything good off a traveller?" --- I bought (was pressurised into buying) an old sofa once. Got them down from 50 to 20 (sofa was worth 200 new though) and good enough for the local girls. Found out later it was my distant neighbor's old sofa, they sold him a new one on his condition they take away the old one! The hard sell was brutal though...bought a manual rotary pump one as well, not bad. Guy I worked for bought a genuine Honda generator for half price. Lasted about three hours.

Just to clarify, are we talking about Irish travellers or New age travellers? Or both?

I noticed my assessor doing that, whistle secured through the little plastic d-ring on the chinstrap. Thought, what a great idea - went for my whistle and it was gone ? fallen off my harness and lost. Maybe a couple whistles, one on chinstrap and one back of helmet.

The heat is savage right now. Last few days out been coming home with a headache, drinking 6 lt or more over the afternoon, with rehydration powder every so often. Still got a headache. I take it to be simple heat stress, as not dehydrated, urine clear. But I'll try salting my water a tiny bit today, and see if it makes a difference. I thought the rehydration powder (dioralite) would have enough sodium to replenish but maybe not..

Actually I.Q is very dependent on education and environment. Mexicans usrd to average 80 on tests in the USA, but their average is increasing. The Irish used to be 80 too, when IQ tests were invented, but the national average climbed over the decades and now it's on par with the States, British etc. It's a silly metric of intellegence anyway, as it's only about visual pattern recognition and such, so a very narrow mental application. I know people with genius level IQ who are clueless at the simplest practical tasks...

Step 1: Find out whatever animal or insect eats frogweed (some type of frog maybe) in its country of origin. Step 2: Take a holiday in said country and smuggle back a breeding pair of said animal. Step 3: Release animals/insects into your pond. Step 4: ??? Step 5: Profit!

I've only worked with one coke user, a head chef. He was a complete jerk...from working on a couple of stoner crews and talking with others who have done, I get the notion that it starts out chill and great comraderie then slowly gets messier and messier. Maybe it's me, who knows, but I'd now be wary of falling in with a crew where everyone is smoking on the job. At least with drink you can't really do it at work and get away with it...

It's not what you do that makes for work fulfilment - it's who you do it with, and how you do it. I figured this out around early twenties. I can be happy as Larry digging trenches by hand in the rain, in the right company. And sometimes the right company isn't who you expect...pub friend's can turn into horrible people on site. My first real job was on a hippy building crew. Flexible hours, cash money, free lunch and complimentary grass into the bargain. Idyllic as it sounds, it was incredibly stressful...unspoken site politics, passive aggressive backstabbing, subtle bullying, shaming, you name it.

Yeah we were thought that trick on the ground felling course, I tried it for a bit, can't tell if it makes a difference to the longevity of the sharp edge. I've stopped bothering. I believe the corundum dust is more of a problem for the bar than the chain, as it can lodge between the drive links and the inside walls of the guide rails, theoretically causing acellerated wear on the rails and making for a sloppy fit.

I don't. Gonna get some though, literally just talking with a landscaper/maintenance guy working on the same property today, who fell off a ladder and broke his heel several months ago. 3 misdiagnosis later and he will have to fly home to Poland for an operation, gonna be out thousands. He was on crutches, and could only use his ride on, no heavy work, had to employ a guy to do the hard stuff. He thought his PL would cover him ?...That said, I've never had an injury, and I'm superstitious about betting against it. Still, will be getting cover.

Actually the petrol was old 2-stroke mix, so it had oil in anyway. I think the idea of oiling chains before use might be a relic from the days of manual oiler buttons. It sure wouldn't do any harm, but I don't bother. Just put the new chain on and rev the saw slowly till it oils then off I go.

That black stuff is about half a teaspoon of metal dust and corundum from edging 6 chains on my grinder. I've been reading The Fundamentals by Bereneck, and he recommends washing chains in petrol after grinding. So I tried it in an old Aspen can, then poured the dirty petrol into another container for future use - this was left in the bottom of the can, and there was likely some still in suspension in the petrol. My plan is to keep using the same petrol, and carefully pour it back into a clean wash can each time. I always blow the chains with air compressor anyway, and this was washing before blowing, so I don't know how much the blowing removes. Will try blow then wash next time and see how much less crud results, if any.

Men who assault women for wearing revealing clobber are animals. Dangerous wild animals, incapable of reason, morality, or even self control through fear of punishment. They should be castrated and put to work in chains, IMO.....but, given that they are savage beasts, is it not prudent to exercise caution around them? You don't go into bear country with a string of steaks around your neck do you? That's taking responsibility for your own welfare and safety, maybe one "shouldn't have to" but the reality is the police can't be there to protect you all the time.

Don't let it get to you, Eggs. Life's too short mate...

Well yes, but wouldn't the prosecution automatically target the landowner? I mean, if the crime happened on his land, then he is presumed to be the offender, in the absence of contradictory evidence? Like if someone reported noxious smoke arising from your land, phoned it in, LA environmental section guy investigates and suspects burning tyres, nobody is present but there is visual evidence of burned tyre pile, photos taken, landowner identified through registry, and action taken against said landowner. This would be reasonable no? Of course, the landowner might not occupy or use the land from one month to the next, might have been abroad even, and some other unidentifiable party trespassed and burned the tyres. But of course the landowner would claim that to be the case, and if that were sufficient defence then every scumbag would be dumping rubbish, felling trees, burning etc and claim it was parties unknown who sneaked onto their land while they were down the pub....so somebody has to be presumed responsible.

Just an opinion but I would think it would be decided by a court (judge) on the balance of evidence, on a case by case basis. If the landowner had previous conviction for illegal felling then he/she would be a suspect. If the landowner can convince the court that he/she did not want the trees removed and suffered material loss by their removal, then I suppose he would be considered the victim. Whether liability could be attributed to the landowner would depend on the measures the landowner took to secure access to his land. Locked gates, livestock fencing, signs etc would be reasonable precautions, can't see how anyone can be expected to do more than that.

I don't know, I've never been in a working man's club in the north of England. Are they generally conservative up there? (I mean in the sociological sense of the word, not the British politics sense)

You do have a phenomenal memory eggs. I really still don't have the foggiest notion why it matters - I'm just an inconsequential nobody with an opinion, like everyone else...

People hate him because the media tells them so, and they don't leave their liberal bubble. Conservatives understand both ideological positions because we simply can't live in a bubble, even if we wanted to - we are force fed leftist liberal ideology 24-7 by the popular culture, the mainstream media and our friends. Liberals do not experience this, since their position is the establishment position, they feel perfectly justified staying in their echo chamber and never see the other side, except through the media filter. Now that conservatives have won political power in the states, half the population both there and here just can't get their heads around it. Conservatism had been pushed underground by the media, but it had not gone away, and came out in force at the voting booth. Like a famous sound bite of one shocked remainer, to paraphrase: "All those horrible people had been there the whole time!"

Yeah, I didn't have the heart to lay into him on the YouTube comments thread. The thing that worries me is there are several YouTube guys who work as arborists in the states who clearly have unsafe and lazy work practices, and also have quite a sizable following of adoring fans. Confessing to mistakes is great, but the rest of the time they display rampant one handing mostly, grab&cut stuff, and their followers leave comments like "OMG your amazing!!1! I'm learning so much from your vids1!!1".....kind of makes me worried for the young copycats.