Steven P

That was just your comprehension failure. Suggest you go back to that part of the conversation, read, take your time, understand.

Was going to say "Sounds exactly what Mark is doing, but you constantly bring it up. Maybe learn lessons from home on this one 'did not want sympathy or to be talking about it every day letting it define her very existence.' ". Or is it your hypocrisy coming to the forum again, what is OK for you and yours is not OK for others?

No one should ever have to attend a funeral due to suicide... but it happens all too often, all walks of life. Astonishes me that he uses mental health as a way to attack others on this forum when it is a thing that Arb workers have an increased likelihood of suicide (along with farming, construction and ex military). The root causes are not something to attack another for, the end results are a wooden box in many many cases.

Yes it is, suggest before you attack others you read up on the subject to prevent yourself looking like an idiot. Comes in the same line of conditions that causes depressions and is one of the major causes of male suicides.

I don't know. On reflection yes I should correct myself "Dementia kicking in and he is a liar"

I was considering an 'end of year' report for Trump, but given his overwhelming failure to meet any of his election promises to the workers of the US, the summary would be 'F - can do better'. However will let the election in Texas do the talking where the newly elected Democrat - in Texas - the first time for a Democrat to take that seat in decades had a 25% swing. If the Republican heartlands are voting Democrat with that amount of change I think that is all we need to know of his successes. Trump had selective amnesia from giving an endorsement a couple of weeks ago to "I didn't know there was an election". Dementia kicking in or he is a liar?

Probably for the best, he doesn't rate education 🤷‍♂️

You been drinking JonsonD, the NI reference was on this page as well. Keep up to speed

Yes, Mark, stop using your education to apply critical thinking to the world and news. You know it upsets JonsonD with his dislike for anyone educated past 16 years old. Far better to copy and paste from the biased and unregulated social medias, bypass the brain and just go straight to outrage.

3.5 tonnes... suspect this is total weight too, probably what they can recover. A tipper with 5 tonnes of chip in the back will need commercial recovery. Though "if the tipper is used for business purposes", as opposed to all of us who have a tipper for domestic reasons? might be able to argue that since all tippers are for business use this clause contradicts the earlier ones which the headline says they do cover? (Edit before anyone gets arsy, hands up anyone who uses a tipper solely for personal use and never as a business vehicle?)

Reminds me of a quote Joe Wilkinson said on a show ...sitting on a bus talking to a random stranger "we were getting along really well until I downed a jar of Loyd Grosmans Bhuna sauce and it all went weird"

Was going to post a pic of home battered cod and chips... but the family got in there first. I can post a pic of a lemon skin.... (Gluten free, as good as the chippy, as quick as their delivery service and half the price, top tip with GF is to add a pinch or paprika and turmeric for colour)

You'd be needing a radio license if you are deaf too.... (Had to check, might be memories to anyone over about 60)

If I had the budget, for 4" saplings I am not sure whether I would go for one of the 'names' and the premium they command, or to go for a 'domestic' saw, difference in price could give you an extra battery or 2 which might be compatible with other battery tools you might have. I wouldn't expect them to have the same build quality but you should be able to replace them - keeping the battery - as and when they go wrong. Of course, if you are cutting saplings all day long then look to one of the names. A couple of things to consider: Go for the higher voltage batteries - a rule of thumb higher voltage machines tend to be more powerful and should get a bit more life out the battery for the same AH capacity of a lower voltage battery Don't expect to be cutting with the full bar length - that will eat battery power, so 4" saplings a saw that comes with a 12" or 14" bar should do that.... and consider putting on a shorter bar to stop you being tempted

weirdly you could tell which was which too

What do you currently use and does it have any limitations for what you need it to do?

Not just KS, Cleverly went on behalf of Sunak (Sunak was pencilled in to go also), and who can forget, as she was then, the future Prime Minister Truss, opening up new pork markets in Beijing. Trump went to China and is planning to do again in April, even Albanese went last year... Seams like there is something in China that the world wants - perhaps some of the posters on here would prefer us to be left out, and left in the 1950s also.

Your legendary comprehension skills quoting out of context yet again, and after the conversation has moved on yet again. No helping some.

But of course. An entirely different agenda to when Cleverly went to Beijing with a view of Sunak following shortly afterwards.

We do however buy a ton of stuff from China, we can ignore them or talk to them - internet reckons nearly 8% of our trade is with China, compared to just over 9% with the US. Even Trump has been known to pop over to China to talk to them.

This bit of course is all wrong - our cash flowing overseas to fund the Belgians and their pensions (and the Chinese but enough of our cash goes that way to buy their cheap tat).

I am kind of with what Mark has been saying, once you have enough in the bank that you will never spend it in your life, why keep accumulating the wealth? Why not do some good with it? Gates is planning to give most of his away (probably paying for the microchips in free vaccines so that the lizard people can control us). He could be dong a lot to ease poverty. Governments have no incentive to ease poverty of course, it is a perpetual election promise to eradicate it, and yet, all these years later, it will be on the next manifesto to "lift 1,200,00,000 children out of poverty" (partly the way they measure poverty by relative poverty - being a percent of the average wage, and not absolute poverty - like do you live somewhere safe and have food and heating (which just embarrasses them because in the UK there are still families in absolute poverty taking a choice of who should get dinner tonight, or put the heating on).. so am with you there, up to companies to employ... and the minimum wage should mean those who work full time do not live in absolute poverty (but still in relative poverty) Anyway, was going for a short post and got side tracked, am going to disagree with your last sentance here: I reckon most of us would have some agreement that the political divisions are deepened by the massive increase in 'news' channels out there that have multiplied in the last few years. GB news being one... but at least they have OffCom watching over them to keep them from being too mental - it is the online ones like Linkedin and Twatter who sell themselves as opinions but people take them as news of the state of the world - I reckon most of us would go with them being a part of cause of political divisions.

No you rightarded idiot. Simple sums laid bare, that was all. Why do you attack when you are astounded by others ability to do simple mathematical sums? Is it out of your envy, or astonishment that others can do what you cannot?

That 6% tax instead of paying a 40% tax doesn't pay many times over. Lets assume that a generation is 30 years - granddad to dad to me - 30 years each time - that 40% would be paid sort of every 30 years when one dies. Which if my sums are right is 3 lots of the 6%... or 18% ? That is smaller isn't it and probably less than a lot of ordinary people will be paying.

Got to be lucky with the local contractors that they use, last time I needed them they recovered the car to a garage of my choice (within a distance, I was near home), time before the mechanic was a grumpy fcker but he did the job and the one before that left me at the motorway services with a "good luck" parting shot.