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You have to feel for the likes of old disco and 4x4 drivers, the mrs a few years ago ditched her Nissan  pathfinder when the tax hit nearly 600 a year, 7 seater too which was ideal for her and kids etc in rural Aberdeenshire especially in winter.  Current state of the roads in Scotland is abysmal to the point you literally spend more time dodging potholes than anything else. Anyone who’s been to Glasgow lately will totally get it. 

Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi given Muslim burial despite claiming to have converted to Christianity - Mirror Online

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Footage has emerged of Clapham chemical attacker Abdul Ezedi being given an aparent Muslim...

🤷‍♂️what a joke, hopefully the mugs who assisted him feel some shame. At least the taxpayers don’t have to feed him now which is a result as far as I’m concerned. 

JK Rowling dares police to arrest her as Scotland's new hate crime laws come into force

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Supporters of the new laws insist they will make Scotland more tolerant. But critics such as the...

Seems like the utter lunatic green fringe that supports the SNP led by that sick sexual deviant “ Harvey” are definitely calling the shots up in Scotland now, legislation that looks like it’s straight out of a chapter of 1984. The ban on gas boilers in new builds which came in also slipped by virtually unnoticed yesterday. Utter madness, we live in the coldest wettest part of the UK yet the drive to push everyone away from everything other than electricity as a source of heat is relentless. My last decent power cut ( not uncommon in rural Aberdeenshire) was 5 days. Luckily I’ve a decent backup generator, an oil fired boiler  propane fuelled gas hobs and a wood burner. Take those away and make us 100% reliant on electricity and it would have been a miserable few days. 
For those on here who think Green is an option at the next election, be careful what you wish for.

Humza Yousaf condemns racist graffiti targeted at him near his Dundee home

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Police are investigation

BANG 👍🤷‍♂️how convenient the very next day. 

But let’s just ignore Humza and his  infamous “white “ speech up in predominantly “ white “ Scotland. 

11 hours ago, topchippyles said:

Watch this its a cracking insight how little putin care about the russian people. Kill a thousand soldiers and they will send another thousand one of the ukrainian soldiers commented i suppose its the same with the railways. 

Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods - BBC iPlayer

It’s not Rocket science eh Les, as you say they care little about people’s health and safety and uprooting a few communities is neither here nor there to the Russians. Combine that with the vast wide open spaces then it’s not hard to see how they can lay track quickly. I watched the documentary, certainly puts the bollocks we worry about such as this new hate crime crap up here and all the LGTQB shite into  perspective. 

13 hours ago, GarethM said:

HW90K was the last Weihrauch I had, definitely getting another one day.

 

I got lazy afterwards with PCP and had Air Arms, possibly my 5th. Just remember whatever you're budget it's 200 for a decent scope plus sports match mounts.

Went full on into the pcp thing for a while but ended up getting rid and just running with springers ( 97k) again, far less hassle and it tends to improve your basic skills. PCPs are incredibly accurate,  easy to shoot and a very effective pest control tool but for a bit of fun teaching kids etc the sprig guns tick the boxes for me. 

On 29/03/2024 at 08:29, Adam Bl said:

Good Morning,

 

I wondered if anyone knew of a sawmill in the South West (Somerset area) that had a vertical band Resaw? 
 

many thanks, 

 

Adam 

What’s dimensions of the beam and maybe put up a pic or two. if it’s just one length have you considered chainsaw milling it on site. 

5 hours ago, topchippyles said:

A proper bandsaw mill will be far better than a vertical one if you can find someone locally. 

To be honest Les it might be just as easy to chainsaw mill it on site if it’s a one off cut 🤷‍♂️

Hi All

Just wondering if any member has applied for and runs with a restricted o licence. If yes did anyone use one of the many firms offering assistance or did you just undertake  the application process yourself. 
Cheers 

29 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

If I don't hear the bang from 70 miles away you can always drop in for a tea if you go home clockwise then north.

lol yeah if that goes pop it will be a quick way to go 

15 hours ago, Botty Cough said:

That's a question not an assumption..

 

 

Imply/Infer 🤷‍♂️who cares eh, and no I’d go for the most right leaning common sense candidate I could find, probably an independent nowadays due to the PC/Woke basically weak nature of the Blue/Red/Yellow or Green options. 

11 hours ago, Mesterh said:

He's been doing it for the last 5 years, I don't think that he is going to give it up anytime soon. 

5 years is it 😞doesn’t time fly when your enjoying yourself. 

9 hours ago, Steven P said:

 

No, bored is posting a political commentry in a forum in the hope of some human interaction, not a 7 word quip to that posting

Hope you had a decent post tug Kip, I’m easy either way if people reply or not, you normally do mind. Busy on a UXO job upstream of the Montgomery at the min so not a lot of time to answer, I will if it’s a good one though 👍

46 minutes ago, Botty Cough said:

So your with the Alba Party?

Another one assuming, guys you are obviously bored. Go and crack one out or something and have an early night. 

2 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

Your only option is the SNP then

That’s you assuming again I see either that or you lead a blinkered existence 

On 27/03/2024 at 16:03, Mark J said:

What Have Fourteen Years of Conservative Rule Done to Britain? | The New Yorker

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Living standards have fallen. The country is exhausted by constant drama. But the U.K. can’t move on from the Tories without facing up to the damage that has occurred.

 

People might want to face up the carnage the last Labour administration left the Middle East in before deluding themselves that things “ can only get better”. 
Definitely an election where independents will stand a chance or Reform  possibly . Quite frankly the options are crap either way you look with the two main parties. 

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🤷‍♂️😂they are all with the odd exception the same. 

On 26/03/2024 at 20:58, Whoppa Choppa said:

You wanna get into timber. 90+ hours a week at times and rarely if ever over £20k per annum take home.

To be honest the milling I do when I’m home is far harder with longer days and some serious graft involved , more so than i ever do in my day job. I know I’m getting a  decent wage and appreciate it. 

3 minutes ago, GarethM said:

Horses maybe, but they're considered pets so don't need id.

Pretty sure equine passports and registration has been around for years although as with many things it’s only the law abiding that comply. 

1 hour ago, Botty Cough said:

Could be a canal forager which wouldn't count as offshore for tax....😂

Tax offshore in North Sea is unavoidable. 

2 minutes ago, Stubby said:

Any way , a recent study has concluded that electric vehicle now pollute considerably  more than the equivalent  petrol powered vehicle . Because they weigh more  their tiers and brakes wear out quicker releasing higher toxic particles than those that come out of a petrol engine tail pipe . I still think Hydrogen is the way forward . I believe Toyota have produced an engine that runs on liquid hydrogen in the same way a petrol engine does in as much as you just fill the tank like you would petrol and of course the only thing that comes out of the exhaust is H2O .      

A lot of egg on a lot of faces me thinks if that ever gains traction. 

1 hour ago, Rich Rule said:

He is a diver mate.

 

Pretty hard to do that on land.

The fins are on the rack nowadays. Dive control and supervising. 30 plus years of getting wet was plenty. 

55 minutes ago, Botty Cough said:

Finally a sensible worker.

I too manage 4 months a year or so , mostly doing house upgrades.

During the 7 months a year I work full time I make an absolute wad.

Spread it out over 12 months. During my rest months I spend a bit of time repairing kit and pissing off numptys on the internet 😂😂😂😂

What I make I make 🤷‍♂️it’s my business. We get by but are by no means Rich, as labour and the SNP labels anyone who tries to get on in life. 

16 minutes ago, Steven P said:

 

I don't think anyone is disputing that there are well paid jobs out there but they are the minority, a manager on 50k is 1 person, the team they manage could be what, 6 to 12 people? Cannot all be managers, someone has to do the work.

 

 

I have always taken salary, job, workload and lifestyle as a sliding scale. Earn nothing and you have all the time in the world to do what you want (not necessarily the money to do it though), earn 100k and more and you have all the money in the world but no life to enjoy it (OK nice house, but if all you do is sleep in it what is the point). Somewhere in the middle there is a happy point for us all, the trade off between wages and no life, or a life but no wages equalises with job satisfaction. 12 hour days, or working away from home and you never see the kids grow up and develop, you are just a lodger to them, regardless of the cash you bring in.

I average 4-5 months a year off at home, I’ve worked on jobs close to  home doing 8-10-12hr shifts. You are up and away before kids are up and back late. Eat sleep work 🤮absolutely crap. As much as it has its disadvantages it’s worked well enough for me. 

18 minutes ago, Steven P said:

that is OK, I will forget oil and gas (UK average £50,000, Forbes), Construction (UK average 38,000 Reed), Welding ( £32,000 Reed), Lifting Ops (£38,000 Glasssdoor), Aerospace engineering (45,800 checkasalary), IT: (£44,733 statistica) and Finance (£48,197 statistica)

 

With the UK average salary around £34,900 (2024, Forbes) most of the people you meet will have a salary of under £100,00 and even £60,000, in fact half of them it will be under £35,000, in fact most couples will be under £60k combined salaries.

23 minutes ago, Steven P said:

that is OK, I will forget oil and gas (UK average £50,000, Forbes), Construction (UK average 38,000 Reed), Welding ( £32,000 Reed), Lifting Ops (£38,000 Glasssdoor), Aerospace engineering (45,800 checkasalary), IT: (£44,733 statistica) and Finance (£48,197 statistica)

 

With the UK average salary around £34,900 (2024, Forbes) most of the people you meet will have a salary of under £100,00 and even £60,000, in fact half of them it will be under £35,000, in fact most couples will be under £60k combined salaries.

Do you have much real life experience rather than google and statistics?. Those numbers are crap. I don’t know anyone who does a 35-40hr week, I guess a lot depends on who you associate with in regards most people you meet. Most people I know are grafting hard and making good money, often 100k plus. Are they rich,absolutely not, what they are is hard working people who have trained themselves up and often as not sacrifice time with family etc to pull in good money. Those sacrifices unfortunately are not reflected in the brutal levels of taxation we are hit with. 

15 hours ago, sime42 said:

I must move in the wrong circles. The vast majority of people I know earn less than 100k. Even combined incomes between couples. Those that do earn over that are doctors, consultants, and don't begrudge the tax they pay at all. Not surprising with the conditions they have to work under.

 

Id be surprised if many tree people on Arbtalk earn over 100k actually. It'd be interesting to know.

 

 

You obviously do. 
Contractors all over the country in different trades or disciplines. Forget Oil and Gas, construction, welding, lifting ops, aerospace engineering, IT, finance etc etc, guys who work away from home banging in 7x12hr shifts  a week, Hinckley for example 🤷‍♂️. None of these will get the belter NHS pension neither. Doctors and Consultants are the only ones you know !! Conditions 42 “ seriously” I’d say the conditions they work under are better than 99% of the workforce. To be honest the amount of 100k plus people in the NHS, Police and Civil service etc is  huge. Try the middle of the winter in the outer Hebrides living in a bunkabin and you will know what harsh conditions are. By the way everyone I know is pissed off big time about the level of taxation on hard working people in this country “ worse in Scotland “ , apart from the ones you know apparently. 

8 minutes ago, mtt.tr said:

 

It's more then 94% of the population 

It doesn’t matter, it’s still not huge, I’m not condoning the cost of living or the current government. My instincts are conservative but this government is far from that. Less tax for those lower down would benefit everybody.