trigger_andy

Damn, I’ve almost just re-written your post. 🤣 The missus likes her MacBook Air. We went with the Pro for our daughter as she likes the wee bit extra ooomph as she dabbles in digital art. This is a self portrait she did for 6th year.

I just bought my daughter a MacBook Pro. As she’s just started Uni as well. We’ve had our MacBook Air going on 10 years and only needed to change the battery. They are very well built machines. Personally I don’t like the operating system and prefer Windows but kids love the Macs and if they’re used for anything Arty then a Mac is the biz. As with anything get the best you can afford. Macs are a pain as you can’t add ram later so make sure it’s the biggest you can get. Personally I’ve found Windows machines quite throw away. You get 2-3 years use out of them abs they’re gubbed. Apple products seem to just keep going and going.

We’re actually quite close in age. 18 months between us. I think that’s the issue. We grew up competing for everything as we had nothing. Seemed to carry over into our 20’s and then then he moved to London. Now he’s back up in Scotland and we have similar interests so we’re working together on lots of projects. Would be interested to see some actual findings on the comparison but I guess in this day and age what’s the point? Not many building open fires. I certainly like yours though. What a cool build!

It’s all well and good waving your IR gun around but it’s quite meaningless. Your open fire has an uncontrollable combustion. A choke in the throat might accomplish something but I’m not sure what. I guess it’s limiting the Venturi effect? Less draws meaning less fuel burnt? Anyway, I love the work that’s gone into that open fire, what an amazing experience and something to remember your brother by. Having just started properly reconnecting with my brother it’s something I can really appreciate

Don’t worry, Les has not been able to see much since he was 13 due to his personal habits. He just pretends he can to fit in.

Back on the oak. Maybe too good for truss ties but will be exposed. Rush order, rush prices. [emoji16]

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With all that in mind where is the evidence to back up your claims?

And I’m up here in lunatic Scotland where no matter how you vote we end up with the SNP. The SNP propped up by the Greens. The Tail now wagging the Dog forcing the SNP to pretend to want to do away with our biggest asset, Oil. A massive new project has just been abandoned due to the Greens demands and Sturgeon’s weakness at a loss of around 2000 potential jobs. Coalitions you say? Yeh, as I said. No thanks.

You assume I keep voting for it. We need a fundamental step-change. What we don’t need it some idiots with a single agenda being handed the keys to number 10. As bad as things are that would be monumentally worse. You not voting for Starmer and me supposedly voting Tory just results in the Tories getting the massive win they got at the last election. You’re as much a part of the problem as you believe I am.

We’ve been in a race to the bottom in British Politics since at least Blair’s time in power. To clarify, there is less and less accountability, they are more and more brazen in their sleaze and willingness to break the rules, their pledged and their own supposed ethics then just saunter off into the sunset on their buddies gravy-train. The Tories, the Lib Dems and Labour are all at it. Just like most things the Tories are simply better at it. This is has nothing to do with Brexit, this is internal British Politics that has existed long before the remotest possibility of Brexit was on the cards. There has been far more Brexit wins than there has been losses but failings in British accountability and Brexit are two separate issues. Perhaps we followed the EU’s playbook of unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats neck deep in corruption and cronyism a little too closely?

I’m not dyed in the wool. I’m exasperated that’s we’re in a race to the bottom and that the Tories have free reign because the opposition is so weak. I am actually having to pay tax to Scotland these days unfortunately. Due to the SNPs policies off offering everything for nothing to maintain power we pay 1% more up here than England. Couple that with the disgusting policy of removing the tax free allowance when you go over a certain threshold means that I have a a higher liability in Scotland than I would in Norway. Such is life.

You’ve given a non-viable answer in my opinion. What we need is accountability. If we can’t have that then trying to replace the two main parties with smaller ones with lunatic axes to grind is only going to compound the problems we already have. As I say, Scotland and the SNP are a prime example. That’s me starting my day Eggs. 😁 Make Hay when the sunshines and all that. Gotta keep the SNP voters in the lifestyle they’re accustomed.

I’ve asked what can we do. Voting for lunatics is not the answer. We see that in Scotland.

I can see why you deleted the picture of the wrecked boat dumped on that council estate as it’s a perfect metaphor for what we could have had under Labour. 🤣

I don’t like what the fringe freaks offer here in the U.K. But no I don’t think coalitions work. We seen how well that worked for the Lib Dems and Labour the last time.

Oh right. No thanks.

How do we do that?

A broken record poster gets a broken record reply. What do we do with this information though? What viable alternative is there? Genuine question here. Voting left, right, left, right is clearly not the solution. I guess we could just keep having the right wingers post up bad press about the left and the left wingers post up bad press about the right? It’s not going to accomplish anything other than build stronger walls in our own echo chamber. And yeh, thinking about how much worse it could have been under the other mob is relevant. We’re clearly no where near outta this shitshow and sooner or later we’re gonna have another election. Since we don’t have hindsight to see how Labour would have played it we can only surmise and for me it puts a shudder up my spine. Can you honestly imagine Corbyne and Abbott making a single rational decision? I certainly can’t. By having such an utterly weak and clueless opposition we’re giving the Tories carte blanche to do as they please knowing no one in their right mind would vote Labour. See, I knew it was all really Labours fault really. 🤣

Oh I know. But it’s the only real reply to a man that’s so blinkered with hatred for one particular party.

I shudder to think how much worse it could have been.

I thought 20% was about bang on considering an average open fire is 15%.

I take that with a pinch of salt. I abuse all my tools and never had an issue with DeWalt in the last 3 years or so. Before that and for a period they where made of chocolate right enough.

Thats amazing! And the owner did not want it back? Did it actually produce Walnuts?

Modern Woodburners with afterburners are extremely efficient. For a 1 ton bag of logs you're getting over 80% of the heat into your room, with an open fire you're getting 15%. Its 85% of the the logs literally up in smoke. There is no point trying to reinvent the wheel here and debating it, thats the facts. An open fire clearly does not blast out the heat like nothing else, thats why its 15% efficient and a modern stove, which literally blasts out the heat like nothing else is over 80% efficient. You clearly have a hard-on for an open fire and dont seem to want a 'crappy woodburner'. Knock yourself out.