trigger_andy

Have you considered contacting some on the Millers on here? They might be worth a dropping a message in the Milling Forum.

How can the vulnerable catch it if they are properly self isolating and those far less likely to die from it allowed to get back to some kind of normality? We're seeing reports now that those over 60 might have to self isolate for 12 months at least. I'm willing to take the chance with my health. The chance of a healthy child dying because of this virus is minuscule.

Im liking the Logosol system more and more then. Barely puts a visible dent into the wood.

How far do those Dogs bite in?

I think we can all agree that Richard Branson is an utter cock and can go do one.

When the vans a-rocking don’t come a-knocking!

Have you considered a battery saw? Im not sure on the weight difference but I know an 80 year old who owns an estate and its what he uses these days.

Fair enough. Never realised it was deleted. I get enough shit for things I do post, I dont need blamed for things Im not even involved in. So cheers.

What? Seriously, go fuck yourself. Dont drag me into your witch hunt. I dont know if its a racist comment or not and neither do you. Why dont you ask him? It certainly has nothing to do with me ya dobber.

Now you know how we feel.

This about sums it up. West Texas Intermediate futures are trading at -$38 a barrel, which is astounding really. I dont really understand all the futures trading to be honest. But its not looking good at all. Brent Crude, which covers the UK and Norwegian oil produced is still trading at $25 a barrel. Im not sure what the knock on effect will be over here? We've been really busy in Q1 for installing new Wells here in Norway with Q2 getting even more busy and Q3 & Q4 looking to be very busy for us too. Lots of projects for Drilling on-going and its dificult to just suddenly stop. Semi-Submersible and Jack-Up Rigs are on 1 year and 2 year contracts. Sometimes just 1,2 or 3 well contracts though. The Rig Im on just now is rented by the oil company for $350,000 a day, its on a two year contract. All the equipment to Complete this years Well's have been bought and at least partially paid for. I'll assume its simply cheaper to continue operations and hope we come out the other side of this soon. Interesting times for sure. Edit, I was just reading this; How did you end up with negative oil prices today? This happens when a physical futures contract find no buyers close to or at expiry. Let me explain what that means: 1. A physical contract such as the NYMEX WTI has a delivery point at Cushing, OK, & date, in this occurrence May. So people who hold the contract at the end of the trading window have to take physical delivery of the oil they bought on the futures market. This is very rare. 2. It means that in the last few days of the futures trading cycle, (which is tomorrow for this one) speculative or paper futures positions start rolling over to the next contract. This is normally a pretty undramatic affair. 3. What is happening today is trades or speculators who had bought the contract are finding themselves unable to resell it, and have no storage booked to get delivered the crude in Cushing, OK, where the delivery is specified in the contract. . This means that all the storage in Cushing is booked, and there is no price they can pay to store it, or they are totally inexperienced in this game and are caught holding a contract they did not understand the full physical aspect of as the time clock expires 5. The contract roll and liquidity crunch that made the extreme sell-off today possible but it DOESN’T necessarily represent futures market conditions: NYMEX June settled today at $21.13 6. The June contract is not out of the woods either: today’s action indicate that physical oil markets at Cushing are not in good shape and that storage is getting very full. 7. A decline of over 15% in the June contract price points to real worries that the physical stress will continue to reverberate, and will force a lot more production shutdowns during May than the ones announced so far. 8. So today negative prices are the reflection of dire market conditions for producers, with the hope that demand restart before the middle of May and that the June contract does not face the same fate.

What a guy. You're completely bonkers. Consistent though, I'll give you that.

I knew that was coming. I have 4 kids now. All paid for my myself I might add. But my Sister is not having any so I took her quota too.

Im not sure if you're being facetious or not? Anyway, introducing a one child policy would be simply unenforceable and clearly wrong on a lot of levels. It seems the better people are educated the less children they have. There is also the 'cultural' issue to deal with, a lot of these 'cultures' will continue to breed and breed and breed regardless. It also seems that the poverty class have way to many children. Reducing the massive hand-outs given to them might make them reconsider popping out child after child knowing fine well the tax payer will be picking up the tab for their up bringing. A huge step change is needed but there is far to many bleeding heart lefties that will whine and moan about any and every restriction put in place for the benefit of the future.

I dont think the gloss is wearing off, where it ever there in the first place. I think collectively those with even a median level of intelligence are still letting out a deep slow breath that Labour did not win the last election. Johnson was by far the lesser of two evils when stood next to Corbyn. Many people who continually whine about Johnson and the Tories seem to suffer from conformation bias and will of course find links to back up their point of view. You simply cannot debate with these types. So the usual Twatter/Facebook ranters are all out in full force whinging at Johnson? I'll assume many just dont care about their point of view enough to bother replying to it. Ive seen a fellow Arbtalk member posting what I think is nonsense regarding this very issue and I'll not engage him there about it but will happily do so here.

Or ignore the thread if its not to your liking? This is a general section after all.

Thats the plan. Lots of test drives too.

I do that too. Very therapeutic. If you think thats bad Im seriously considering painting my Charger Pink when I come to restore it.

Bloody minted!

I run Intelligent Completions (yes I know, somewhat ironic ) and provide training in Norway as when required. As little as possible as it means being on-shore in the base. I also do the topside integration meaning sometimes Im out just to swanny around with a laptop and an RS323 cable.

Hmmm, thanks for pissing on my chips. You're most likely right too! I can see me migrating to a more remote spot of Scotland as I get older. Or I'll manage to convince my mate to sell me 20 acres of his forested land and I'll build a cabin on it and live happily ever after. The family are down to their last 1000 acres, its only a matter of time before they sell another parcel.

For example?

Such a misleading article. You just have to look at the light pollution in the articles own picture to see what nonsense it is. Its like looking at a virus spreading in a Petri dish. We've also bisected the landscape to such a degree that wildlife simply does not have a chance. What is not built on is given over to farmland and the issues that causes as well. That will need to increase in relation to the population as well as we'll have more mouth's to feed, more homes needing built and more roads needed to connect them all. Thank feck Scotland is so rugged and isolated that the prospect of urbanising it like England will not happen in my generation. Hopefully in my Children's, or Grand Children's Generation we realise the folly of what we're doing, or something comes along and makes that decision for us.

There’s always a few elusive stickers you just could never find for your sticker book!

Out of interest do you hold the people of Germany today responsible for the atrocities of Nazi Germany?