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1. Its the thin end of the wedge that will break apart the religion of AGW. 2. It will permit other nations to follow suite. 3. Not going to make any difference to the climate

There's always been a 1%...personally I have no problem with a few holding most of the wealth - provided the rest of us have a sufficiency, the protection of law and order, and the freedom to earn as much or as little as we can or want to, by the honest work of our hands. Let the rich eat cake, I'm happy with bread. It's guillotine time when the rich take away half your loaf and give it to those who won't work....

Cheers, nice to be appreciated!

"Hello - Traditional Tree Surgery LTD? Yes hi - do you do drone retrievals? My, ah, assistance drone is stuck in a tree..."

My pal was in India last winter. He found himself attending a cremation, and was offered a slug of "genuine Scotch Wiskey" - Glenlivet or something... Well...it might have been Wiskey, but it sure wasn't distilled in Scotland!! ; )

Agreed. Expulsion and exile is the way to go - and better screening for new arrivals.

Check out the Rapid Ascent System (RADS) single rope, top tie or base, with a descender and a hand ascender+pully. Hard to describe, but its what the industrial rope access guys use.

Should just be snug, movable by hand (gloved hand, carefully). If they too loose material will jam between the teeth, if they too tight will strain the machine. Also be sure to oil them well, all mating surfaces with a spray, preferably something natural like spray-on frying oil - and do it often, before and after every use, and during the day, if the machine is seeing a few hours use.

Wasn't serious - I enjoy the drama muchly! But I dunno how many here are members of Arboristsite too - like four of the top ten threads there are political, including a Manchester thread - and those fellers don't mince words. Its all relative...

We have a feral herd on some commonage behind our forest. Its an over-grown sitka plantation, some of the trees are two feet across and the goats have them wrecked. Never underestimate a goat.

Round up all the troublemakers in Arbtown and deport them to Arboristsite, and never let them back in

If you're unsure about where the tension lies in the limb - sometimes it can be hard to know, if the limb itself is under tension from something else other than gravity, ie. another limb, the ground, etc. - if thats the case try to make a series of shallow cuts all around where you want to cut the limb, to gradually release the tension and also reveal the nature of the tension. That will then give you an indicator of where to put your main cut.

Duterte declared martial law a few days ago. Isis gangs have taken over part of a city in one of the islands....he's considering letting legally armed civilians defend themselves, to supplement the police.

The Swedish defence minister reintroduced the draft a couple of months ago. Mandatory service for boys and girls...claimed it's in response to Russian activity near their border...

Yes, that's the Old Testament anyway, essentially the history of the Jews. Christian doctrine is derived from the New Testament. Old testament said "An eye for an eye", New Testament says "Turn the other cheek". Its a common misdirection, or intellectual dishonestly that people use to discredit Christianity when asked to compare Christianity with Islam. I've done it myself, to piss off the Jahova's Witnesses.

My money says we never hear about this guy again. Manchester bombing: Birmingham vigil 'interrupted by man with knife and baseball bat' | The Independent

Do you have kids, Mark?

Well sure enough, determined gangstas will do their thing, but the schemes do work for the most part, and certainly cut down on the door to door white van nonsense. Just having a neighbourhood meeting once a year would be a help.

With advanced age, the first thing to go is Judgement - or so I've read. That, combined with the practiced and sublet intimidation tactics used by the scum make resistance difficult. What gets me is this - how many doors do they knock on before they find a mark, on average? Like how many times are they turned away? 5:1?? 3:1?? WHY are the people in these neighbourhoods who ARE mentally coupus not reporting the incident to the police immediately? And if they are, why are the police not responding immediately? In rural Ireland, the white van guys have all but disappeared (and even our white van guys were generally not bad-uns) with community watch schemes. White van shows up, you make your excuses, and call the Guards. Guards send a text message to everyone in the area who signed up to the program (€10 a year) warning them about the white van. The people who aren't on the scheme get notified by their neighbours or family who are. Five minutes, and the who parish knows whats up, gates are locked, people are not caught off guard. This is community self-protection, its organic and natural. The reason these scumbags can ply their dirty trade is the "communities" they prey on are not really communities. Or thats how I read it, at any rate. There's a very easy fix to this problem, and that is the community alert program.

Yeah I've been. Roped in to accompany a lady friend who'd been several times before. I knew better, as I'm actually clearvoyant myself (we all are, if we just trust our intuition)...60 euros for a 1 hour session. Figured I'd better get my money's worth and asked her a load of questions about my past life relationships with people I know! Turns out I was an African slave (on a slave boat) with a neighbour of mine. I asked her if I had any connection with the Roman Catholic Church in a past life, and she told me I had actually been a Bishop! (Que air-punch) It was a wild ride, but all in all nothing of any substance. My own experiments with the occult have yielded actual concrete facts, so I think I might be a few levels above her.....

There used to be a registered new age traveller site in Brighton, water and electricity, toiltes - proper job, pitches £20.00 a week! Maximum stay limited to six months in the year...apparently it was/is quite a nice place to live, don't know if it still exists.

Same here. Does pressure and vacume, handy for bleeding breaks alone too.

Try cheap cooking rapeseed oil and see if theres a difference - rapeseed is very thin. Run some white spirits through first to clean out any of the previous oil. Find and clean the mesh filter in the oil tank as well. And flush the tank.

But what happens when we pay you with counterfeit notes? What if ours are better than your special "Korean" notes - how will you know the difference??? Or do you accept payment in "unprocessed" notes - ie. - firewood. I'll swap you counterfeit oak logs for counterfeit euros, hows that for an offer? Really, you won't be able to tell it's not oak.

My uncle had a guy top some trees - the guy is a knotweed eradication specialist but does trees as a hobby. He also teaches MMA. Dude climbs two spruces, two and a half foot diameter at the grind so I don't know how tall they were, lets say 100ft - climbs them freestyle mind, no ropes or anything, tops the trees about halfway up, while standing on branches. No tag lines. No charge, as the knotweed took less time than he thought...