Steven P

Well, that's funny: Trump wants to send the military into Chicago.... "the murder capital of the world" apparently (doesn't make the world top 50, you might be surprised to know.. in fact, by head of population, doesn't make the top 30 in the US either) Trump's Bonkers 'Chipocalypse Now' Post Salivates Over Potential Chicago Takeover UK.YAHOO.COM "Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR," the post read.

If you can get a shot of the full tree, might give more to work from. Fungus won't show that the tree is going to fail this year - might be years from now. An overall shot of it all might show the condition further up. Handy for you n the future if you need to apply to remove the tree you can get some photos over a couple of year (at similar time of year helps) to show the tree declining. Termites... I assumed you were in UK? Highly unlikely if you are.

Oh, was waiting for it all to kick off here last night, nothing. Apparently a 15 year old school girl was sexually assaulted on a train to Aberdeen this week. No reports of that assault on here.... perhaps because the attacker was a white man which makes it more tolerable to some?

Modi - India - is going the same way too over Trumps import taxes

Could always clad the container (inside or outside) in sleepers - thick enough that the angle grinders can't cut through... but if they want in they will... back to the beginning, keep the chipper inside so you arn't advertising what else you might have hanging about.

That's weird.... for one who whose time has been occupied too much, it is still taking up thinking space.

But that is a pertinent point.. likewise those making the most noise about asylum seekers on this forum live a long long way away from where they are housed, and form their opinions as far as I can tell from Farage, the Daily Mail, Linkedin and twatter, rather than going to find out what is happening in reality. It is the singular headlines that are reported here to try to alter opinions and never the complete picture... and those singular headlines are reported from a press with an agenda, with owners who have an agenda )and the agenda is usually make the press owners another billion).

Over time there has been a few threads on container / yard security... to save time in the discussion we usually fall short of wiring it to the mains on an evening. The more you can do the better, you'll know the yard - how would you break in, then add an angle grinder and brute force then work out how to stop that. Best you can do is slow them down really if they want to get in. What is the visibility of the yard like? Out of sight or not? A couple for you to think about - what exactly are you going to keep? Just the chipper and trailers or more? Just chipper and trailer you can secure them individually, but a container full of stuff needs some thinking, also the values - no point putting in £20k of security cameras for £5k of kit for example - but ask the insurers the minimum they will accept too in the case of a claim.

...and yet... the one who brags of the highest wages, 3 or 4 times the industry standard is the first to whinge like a bitch with every tax rise, every penny of tax money paid out, and the ones whose political affiliations are to the centre and left, barely a peep. Are you actually reading the threads in this forum?

Eventually all trees become unsafe, die, or fall over. Are you looking for us to say yes or no? This week, no. In the next 50 years, probably.

Same radical loonies who want to do this: Giuliani, Trumps lawyer who took the hit over the voting machines getting the Medal of Freedom Trump To Award Disbarred 2020 Election Denier Rudy Giuliani The Nation's Highest Civilian Honor UK.YAHOO.COM Past recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom have included Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Mother Teresa all within the realms of possibility given that Giuliani has also been taken to court for sexual misconduct. Great minds think alike and all that..... Woman suing Rudy Giuliani reveals tapes detailing alleged vulgar remarks WWW.INDEPENDENT.CO.UK Noelle Dunphy filed transcripts in court of former NYC mayor allegedly making sexually explicit and anti-semitic remarks

We'll see.... floating voters have to be convinced to go against the grain and vote for a black woman. She does have some of the aggression needed to succeed though

Really? Apparently you didn't spend enough time, came back for a check and an edit: "Posted 14 hours ago (edited)"

We lost about 400 apples in the last storm (sad enough to count them...) - not quite there to eat but stewed they will do for pies and crumbles - and they freeze OK stewed up. Not tried yet, but I believe sliced they will freeze just as well like that.

Not sure the Epstein thing will kill him off, if the voters were to be persuaded that he was conspiring with Maxwell to keep Epsteins crimes away from the courts they would have been persuaded by now. Not to say that moving on with Trumps many other failings makes him innocent, politically there is little more to be gained I think. Would need a video of Trump in the act as it were. I think the game plan now is to make Vance electable, spend the next 3 years working on that.

I suspect right to left: Road. Kerb. Garden.

It has been fairly clear this time around that -given the same security knowledge Biden had, and he had before- his view of the world and the US is at odds with what is happening in reality. Things like recently the 'crime wave' in Washington where a week later the National Guard were litter picking are a good example of reality not matching what is in his head. Someone else is passing on a world view to him. It is also well known that he never actually reads any briefs in the first place... the world outside the Whitehouse isn't given in bare facts, but is narrated by whose turn it is to translate facts to him. The forces behind him arn't mysterious and shadows, Vance is a big force in persuading him and behind Vance are the likes of Thiel. Makes sense though that Vance shapes the current administration if he is tipped to lead the next. You're right though, not a mysterious conspiracy but in plain sight that he is being manipulated from behind. I've often referred to the 'emperors new clothes'.. which is what I see happening.

Maybe, my thinking is when he was elected he was mostly all there mentally and at that would never voluntarily quit. Behind the scenes you would have to be fairly confident then that medically you can declare him unfit and then to replace him with who you want - too much of a risk I think when it has been clear for a while that a lot of people know exactly how to play Trump. Dementia isn't a straight line thing "Have these symptoms here, in 1 year you will have these", hard to predict then when his marbles will go. Physically - remember he is the president that is in the best shape, ever, doctors have never seen anything like it - but also monitored by doctors - so am not sure they would get him on physically grounds either. So I think the plan was always keep him as a puppet this term, keep Vance in the background, present but not over bearing, with hints he is 'ready to take over' then next term Vance steps in. A bit of momentum keeping him in place... but you are right, if the time comes, he will be dropped pretty quick.

No, his hands are because he vigorously shakes hands with many people, and to a lesser extent his left hand with many Boy Scouts, didn't you get that memo? You would however expect a scar or missing bit of ear if a bullet had gone through it, especially considering the bandage he was sporting afterwards, but if he had just bashed it as he was pushed to the ground all would be OK. But that would just need a sticking plaster for about an hour, and where is the publicity in that. However they did say it went through his ear like a miracle. JD Vance indicating he is ready to take over if Trump falls ill.... (where is Vance this week, more holidays than Trump spends golfing), got to keep Trump in power this term though to keep playing him.

Yes there was something odd about that one the more you look at the videos from other angles.

Likewise a wall full of CDs and DVDs, all my cars have CD players, house has CD player, and I even found my old discman the other week (along with the converter to plug into a car tape player for the first car before I upgraded to a JVC stereo in the days that you could).

You pay too much attention to the political posts on here....

About 30 years ago the radiation from mobile phones was going to kill us. We haven't died.

I am doing this... kind of... along the back fence a good layer of wood chip to break down but then level the ground enough to mow the brambles, nettles etc that grow through the fence - ground level is all over the place at the moment - point is, in some cases it can work... but not on their own. Depends on the weeds you get you might consider ways to embrace them or use what grows there as a guide to what plants to plant as replacements

You're an old man, must have met thousands of people in your time. Did you ever meet a 'furry', ever talk to one? Have you ever been scared by a person wearing a onesie? To be honest, I am a lot younger than you, the thousands of people I have met are perhaps more my era, and I have never met one either. Scared of what is statistically improbable in society? Enough to make an issue of it? Perhaps time to leave the pages of the printed press, the Telegraph, Mail and Express and come back to reality to check it out every now and then. 'Alphabet people'.. again, so a man might like to touch another man - what is there about that that makes them different to you or me? Again a fear propagated by the press you read I suspect, come to the real world, it really isn't that scary. ... I say scary.... you appear in you messaging more aggressive than a lot on here.. and yet there you are, scared shitless by what people do in their bedrooms.