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A bit of Friday fun: Frustrated dad sticks fake legs in huge pothole UK.NEWS.YAHOO.COM James Coxall has been left fuming at the state of his village road after a pothole appeared eight months ago

I missed that video last night, will check it out later.

Ooooh, slippery slope there Gareth!! "Well she was legal in Thailand" (or was it Brazil, or Argentina, can't remember). Though yes different countries have different ages for all sorts - consent, drinking, voting, military service and so on, so have to apply the law to the country the act is committed in. In the case of Tate it is Romania, US or UK. Did they bring in that law in the UK though, for sex tourists, if under the UK age of consent they can be prosecuted in the UK? Can't remember, a digression though. Anyway, back to the case of Tate, yes, an open mind but it is tainted by having 2 or 3 jurisdictions investigating the same crimes to an extent of saying "when you are finished with him, can you extradite him to here" in the case of the UK. If it was me, I wouldn't be inviting him around to dinner anyway, and if it was my son doing the inviting would also be suggesting he picks his friends more carefully.

Under the age of consent.

Under house arrest, passports confiscated, Trumps team has a word, passports returned and they are off to Mar a Lego. Didn't realise they were also under investigation in the US, so that makes Romania, UK and US... to be investigated for child rapes in one country might be bad luck, 2 is a bit questionable but 3? Watch this space for them rocking up for dinner with Trumps boys.

That's because there is no defence offered for Trumps actions so smoke and mirrors, look over there, don't look here. Here is another, 'The Donald' has put in a word for the accused sex trafficker and accused child rapist Tate, pressured Romania to let them leave house arrest and travel to... Florida... Where Trumps Mar A Lego home is of course. Trump has a certain blindness when it comes to child rapists, showing itself again. Andrew Tate and brother Tristan ‘leave Romania for the US’ UK.YAHOO.COM Andrew and Tristan Tate are reportedly on a flight to Florida.

So the paid mouths that defend him (and are having an ever more difficult job) have been saying for weeks along the lines of "Trump will say things off the cuff, as he is thinking them, and it is his actions you need to look at" Or he opens his mouth without thinking is the message... but to put this out on his twatter feed took consideration and thought. Looking forward to what the hired mouths, sorry PR staff, err spokespersons, say to defend this and justify it. They are gong to be worth their weight in gold soon with the work they are going to do as he looses more marbles. Perhaps their weight in gold could be taken from the massive legged statue? Kind of hope that they give him a handler to censor his twatterings before he presses 'send' Should I do 'and in other news' (but related).. some find that a popular method.. so in other news, all hell hasn't broken out in Gaza 2 1/2 weeks later.

10 houses each enjoying the tree, adding £5k to each house price? Soon adds up I guess if you want.

As far as I can tell, the deal is to buy Ukraine a place at the negotiations table. (Trump with his casino owning days where you have to buy a place at the gambling table... same thing). Negotiations and peace agreements are to happen later

I'd take his word of who are very nice people with a massive pinch of salt, probably a dump truck of salt. (His current pals, the drug fuelled billionaire (Musk) and the hired hitman billionaire (Putin) )

Less than Europe has... but it is the right thing to do as well. Got to split your head away from your apparent stance that money = morals. It does not. Doing the right thing sometimes costs money.

But it is a fantastic starting point for negotiations rather than Trumps opening gambit of Russia retains all that they have taken, no room for territorial negotiation after then. Plus the '500 billion' charge just to let The Ukraine enter the negotiating table in the first place. Preference opening gambit would be return their land plus pay for damages caused and work from there.

I've had all 3 to play with, a loan of the main saw and own the other 2 - domestic side of things but not supermarkets that sell everything in the middle quality (always a bit better) So Petrol if I have a big tree to look at, refuelling and power is a lot easier. Around the house I'd go battery, I can keep it charged and will generally cut what I can split as it recharges (there is coffee and tea factored into that). Generally rule of thumb with battery the more volts the better, and within the same volts the better 'names' are more powerful. 35CC-ish saw and 36V battery are on a par considering everything. Todays battery job (14" blade) was 16"-ish log in the river, coped well enough, a bit slower to cut than the petrol but... grab and go rather than grab, fuel, ear plugs, then go overall about the same.

If you have tonnes and tonnes of it best bet is to ditch it... my drive, any time... It's been sat where it is getting wet (on the ground?) start it drying and it will be fine. The rotten parts obviously have lost some fibres and so on so less energy dense but the solid bits are not affected

Wha't ?

Ahh you are going back to type and your argument "this guy is bad, but that guy is more badr" when the more bad guy is also an irrelevance in the current discussion. It isn't a discussion that works really. For all his Faults, whether he can put on a pair of trousers or not, Biden didn't phone Putin up and ask "What do you want to stop the war? No concessions? sure, we can do that"

On both sides the ones being shot at don't care for the morals. They just wish that they are not being shot at any more, thanks. However they are not the ones who can broker a peace deal - and one that will last. So in todays discussion about who, why and when politics will stop the killing they are an irrelevance really. I think for the US involvement the choice is: "Roll over and accept the aggressor, his war crimes" or "Try to do the right thing" I think we call all see that Trump is firmly in the camp of rolling over, let Putin tickle his tummy and say "what a good boy". I think this is a step change from Biden who was looking at the 2nd option. The rest of the world also appear to be siding on the do the right thing. Apart from Putin, his allies and puppets of course. EDIT Not sure if Biden thinking he is Irish, American or even Martian has any bearing on his morals.

I suspect that Bidens negotiation tactics wasn't rolling over to every Russian demand though, perhaps looking at international treaties and agreements, trying to go with the rule of established law, rather than "That boy is bigger, lets give him all the toys". Perhaps Biden had an awareness of history (and like Trump, when I say Biden I am mostly meaning his advisors), appeasing the aggressor has been shown so so well to bring a lasting peace hasn't it.

Not saying they do, not saying they don't but... in his earlier years he was best buddies with a sex trafficking paedophile... didn't do as any normal adult would do and go straight to the law but went along with it (never implicated himself with any of that.. but complicit in the others offending). He has been known to be a bit rapey and abusive in his past (and not so distance past at that either). Rumours of the odd party (odd: Strange activities going on and not 'occasional'). 'Honey Traps' being a well known tactic used by the old USSR... sexual misdemeanours coming to public attention... particularly those that one might not want to disclose to any background security checks. Russian Security Asset - not so much as in send us lots of secrets but perhaps "do as we suggest else Fox News might see a couple of photos"

If I am not sure and to remind myself, I'll stop and count the digits, kind of reminds me they are there and not to be complacent.

Sounds like the fence we fixed... just needed to dig out 4 post holes, screw on 8 rails, nail on the existing boards, but while we were at it just fix the block paving... which means dig out the oldest fence post concrete (several generations ago), which means move the old fence about 1' for access, so might as well cut that up so the bloke round the back can take it... and the old paving slabs just put over there to make a step (needs doing anyway).. and levelling, so now it is too late to let the concrete cure enough for the fixings, so might as well get dinner, and breakfast, 4 posts... and 12 / 26 hours later... we were onto the fence boards

The wind will blow high, and the wind will blow low,... and all the Lassies will say 'Hello'

Ahh, yes, where they electrocuted the elephant... I've got to pop out, back in later, but I think (despite digressing from rightly knocking Trump) we are agreeing the problem is how to get the power from A to B, but like the rest of the world not quite sure how to balance the load to make it work? Problem of what to do after generation still exists, what to do once the wind blows too much? (and if we 2 can work that out faultlessly then this time next year we'll be millionaires!)

If we had a predictable stable baseload then yes, the power grid could probably cope... if the generation is where it is located currently... but to transition away from an oil based system and ahead of the 30 years for new nuclear builds then the generation is going to be distributed where the power is.. and to cope the creaky distribution network needs - and indeed is being - upgraded to cope.. or we put in battery storage at the point of generation to easy the supply side of things. Been a while since I did any course on transmission and distribution, they were concerned with AC, that's what was being installed at the time. HVDC is the flavour of the month for long distances though, must be a technical improvement over AC, I was assuming losses would be less - a bit more in the infrastructure costs but winning with losses

Tidal is tricky - OK we have a large coast but it is also a bit aggressive to infrastructure (particularly moving parts). Get the reliability in there and we are good to go, north of Scotland has a lot of potential. There is an option for tidal on some rivers in the West like the Severn and Mersey - away from the actual coast and a bit more protected. Whatever the UK does though, the network is creaking a bit and needs upgrading, new generation and distribution network. Might upset a few NIMBYs along the way (flip side, the redundant power stations and pylons that are taken down for example will make an equal and opposite amount of happy people to those getting narky). Same as in the US, their network isn't far off rolling blackouts either - only takes a small nudge to create problems, old systems and networks that need 21st century designs and distribution to where the power is needed now (and not 70 years ago). Trumps January actions have in the background been very interested in power (and I don't mean political power) - Argentina with Musks chainsaw, Ukraine with their oil and Lithium and Greenland potential for oil and rare minerals.