Steven P

Scaremongering? Ha, idiot

Sorry, your referring to me? I think you need to look back about 6 or 7 weeks to see who the 'sick prick' is - the one who was saying that the child victims of Epsteins rape gang were somehow responsible, who has been constantly defending the paedophile... not me but your mate there... I think you should choose your friends more wisely especially with your obsession on grooming gangs and his defence of them, victim blaming and thinking that a 40 and 50 year old is OK to be raping 11, 12, 13 and 14 year old children. Suggest you read backwards on this thread to see.

In todays financial news.... Trump wants to give every (eligible) American a $2000 dollar check, funded from his increased import taxes, whoops, tariffs. Just goes to show how much he is raking in in taxes off his people. Internet reckons it will make a surge in the stock market and Crypto market... Now I might be cynical but most of Trumps cash is in the stock market and his Crypto holdings outweigh his property. Not that he would do that for his own financial gain. Tacked onto the end of the article was a note "they are working on creating 50 year mortgages" - so the young can afford to buy a house. I might be going out on a limb here, but if you cannot pay off your mortgage before you retire - with the drop in income a pension usually brings - can you actually afford to stop working...50 years... plus saving for the deposit (say 5 years)... I reckon your US mortgage would be paid off by the time your 80. Then you can retire. And where the US goes, the world often follows. Be warned. Farage by the way is a big fan of all things US....

Exactly this. Wonder how tricky it can be to understand: WW2: 1939 to 1945 Pakistan created 1947. Suspect JohnsonD will not be saying "Oh, yeah, made a mistake there"

As above that book is rated I don't have it but it is worth a read. I assume you want to prune the tree to be a more appealing shape... though my ugly apple tree gives a good crop, the apples will taste the same whichever way. - Use sharp clean tools for the job, secateurs will be OK I reckon... sharp ones. - I tend to think about any cuts so that any water will run off (i.e. not horizontal) - The most you can really cut off a fruit tree any year is about 30%... about 1/3 though the next year it will grow a lot of new shoots to compensate. 10% to 20% off is better to prune for its shape - First cuts - look for any dead branches and remove them - Then remove any branches that cross each other touching (only need to do one of them) bearing in mind the shape you want for what you remove - Then look at the tree, you want a reasonably open structure inside it - airflow and light. Any branches that cross from one side to the other consider if you want to keep them - However you should be able to order the book from a library to read (for the youth... Library, a kind of store full of books you can borrow... Book... like a PDF but IRL...). Books are better - you can take them out to the tree with you and refer to it as you go

... apart from the ~2 million Indians who died during WW2 of course...

I'm just old fashioned paranoid, but the bank is only a 10 minute run away - couple all my banking with being out and about at lunchtime, cannot hack that. Though 2 factor identification is a pain in the butt, unless your sitting on your phone. Sometimes nice to put the thing down.

Yes. "Correlation Firearms and Firearm Deaths The correlation between firearms and firearm deaths is a significant concern in various regions. Studies have shown that higher levels of gun ownership are associated with increased rates of homicide, particularly firearm homicide. This relationship is observed across high-income countries and even when the United States is excluded. The evidence suggests that where there are more guns, both men and women are at a higher risk for homicide, particularly firearm homicide." ... a summary of the internet by Google.

There is a direct correlation between the number of guns in the general population and the number of people shot. Odd that.

He does have some strange ideas. Going back to mid-September for his worst.

Cannot beat an old inner tube - so many uses. Also see 'Wild Sling' for another use. And windfalls. Seen this, D ring and a couple of steel cable ties.

Didn't like Javid, ruined The Kirk by taking its business away (we got about), Christmas in The Kirk most years, summers we went to The Mall, gave MacMillans a miss mostly.. but yes, from about age 16 to mid 20s. Not sure we got the 10p pints that year though, though they ring a bell (might be that I did get them and just cannot remember)

Cinzano Biancos! Can I deny everything? (Then onto the Mall after)

I refer you to the earlier comments on assumptions and your comprehension problems. Suggest you seek help for both.

Ahhh, your usual comprehension failure. Suggest you take a look at doing a basic English comprehension course, it might help with your understanding of the world.

From the comment I remember reading, might have missed something in between the million posts you put up. BillQs comment was factually correct. BillQs comment was not expressing an opinion either way. I reckon that is another apology you owe him today. Idiot.

Not AI related but the help yourself tills are a game, usual routine for me is the -usually a lady- (ladies don't get shouted at or the agro that men get) has to pop over once or twice a shop. I once managed to get the whole till to shut down, go off line and show the 'Windows' screen (not sure exactly how, wish I could remember what I did). If the lady isn't there with the fob, I'll just leave that till 'broken' and move to the next one (saw the shop staff run out the shop for a shoplifter, check the cameras and realise the 'shoplifter' was just doing his shopping at a till that was working right. Yup, I know a few of the supermarket staff just because I'll ask them how their days were - trolley man who does saloon car racing, shelf stacker whose having a slow breakdown, other one whose boy is in the police - embarrasses The Boys "Dad how do you know them" "I don't, I just chat with them". AI won't do that. On topic of course, AI will have to cope with the grumpy old child in me who loves to work out how to break the machines.

Oooh the forums shining whit, and I note you were so pleased with your comment that you came back for your obligatory edit. However assumptions do make an as out of you, as they say. Idiot.

If that is what you say then it simply must be true despite the evidence of your earlier comments.

To the knife thing, it is a very rare occurrence, despite the best efforts of the Daily Mail and Telegraph to portray it otherwise. Advocating that we should all arm ourselves with a gun seams a bit over the top and doesn't actually cure the problem of people wanting to carry a knife, nor the fact that you pull a gun on them all you're doing is shifting the problem to someone else who doesn't. Criminals will then assume that the people are armed and just go for bigger guns. Look to the states who have more guns than we do, concealed carry and so on, and yet, they still have the full range of street crimes that we have and in large numbers too.

See the bit "Word origin"... offensive term for someone with Downs Syndrome.

If you are going to use the word make sure you know the meaning of it. BillQ is correct with it's meaning. Suggest a wee apology to him might be in order.

Only a matter of silicone

Yes, probably has done that to you. Certainly showing it tonight.

I know there are benefits - and draw backs - but I think the flip side of it is we still need to be busy, have a purpose in life - which most of us on here have some get up and go... but there are others where the get up and go is suffixed by "to the fridge for another breakfast beer"