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Yes, but I doubt his 'best mate', Farage, had much to do with it. Trump changed his mind on a lot of things when he met the European leaders face to face last week. Here is another example, from being only US Soldiers on the front line in Afghanistan, British Troops were 'Great and brave' British soldiers are ‘great and brave’: Trump backtracks on Afghanistan slur UK.YAHOO.COM Donald Trump has backtracked on claims British troops stayed away from the front line in Afghanistan.

Am not so sure that he has the ear of Starmer though enough to shelve the deal?

I knew it was someone, thought it was Vodafone, sorry!

O2 and Vodafone have merged too. Telecoms masts: The remote ones will have a back up generator but the ones near town will have a battery back up and that's about all - suspect in a power cut everyone will go onto their phones and off the WIFIs which will drain the battery powered towers. Not sure about whatever exchanges type of things mobile phones use, but if a power cut affects them it will knock it all out. Apart from the trees, a directional antenna should give you a better service - pointed at a mast somewhere - like a TV areal points to a transmitter 10s of miles away still gets a signal to most places.. but with the trees you would need that above the top of them Sounds like the solution is Starlink to be honest, suffer filling Musks bank account, and you should be able to move your number over - if not wonder if you can get it forwarded to a different phone but that might mean paying for 2 services.

Thing is for Biden, I don't think any of the commentators here were trying to defend him. However he appeared to have a team around him who were willing and able to take charge and keep the US on a fairly even keel, and to contain any trouble he was making. Leadership might have been missing but nothing too mental was happening. The end of his time wasn't a scary time for the world. With Trump, he has surrounded himself with 'Yes Men' who are unable to keep him contained, eager to please the 'emperor with no clothes' (unable to talk frankly to him), and going along with all he says. US is not on an even keel at the moment. Any madness of Trump is straight out into the world, the stock markets are bouncing all over, his allies around the world have no idea how to react and this is leading the US to be slowly isolated (who were his friends in his billion dollar peace blag? list the 17 other world leaders there and you'll see none of the powerful nations were represented, isolated in his madness). Trumps time is a scary time for the world.

Mind they can put them on the TV, we don't have to find them funny. There are funnier "DEI" comedians on Youtubes.... but I suspect also too many bad words for the TV

Yes, that was Jo Brands joke!!

Had a project years ago where they relayed a signal up a valley to the village using something similar - 2 antenna, 1 pointed down and one up the valley aimed at the transmitters either side. Put one of them where it can 'see' a mobile tower and have it beam the signal to the house. Depends where you need to put them, they might be away from the house and need a power supply. Antenna can be a pole by the house with a Yagi antenna on top (like a TV arial, directional). Something like that Muddy? Technically possible, the kit will probably be smaller and better than what we looked at, maybe even work off solar & battery so you don't need cables to it.

I've always thought of her as a one joke comedian, "lets all laugh because the disabled lady talks about sex" - and that is about as far as she goes. Not sure that is enough comedy to host a whole game show. There are quite a few who were like that, single jokes (Jo Brand is one "laugh because the fat lady talks about eating cakes"), they fade away unless they can develop more than the single joke (Jo Brand did do that)

Wallaby island on Loch Lomond has about 50 - secretive, if you paddle out there they all hide

VOIP - I thought all phones were going that way now? Our phone is plugged into a wall socket rather than the router but is VOIP - you'd need to check of course, but it should be as simple as that.

Some days I would go 100% asset grabbing and the next 100% narcissism ego boost. Probably in reflection though more ego than assets - coupled with things like renaming the Kennedy Centre he wants to leave his name behind him more than enriching the US. I didn't see all his speech last night, but the highlights were amazing... in his Daily dose of Trump WTFkery. A lot made of mistaking Iceland for Greenland... though I suspect this was a slip of the tongue and he meant Greenland, his mind might also be thinking Iceland too. He sent out a map, colouring in with the US flag Greenland, Canada, the US and Venezuela, which leaves a nice chunk middle south, Mexico, Guatemala.. and of course Cuba sandwiched between the 2.. and he has recently kind of threatened Cuba too. A man of peace. But... empire building too I think. There was his billion dollar peace thing too, didn't see the Europeans fawning over him to join that, and the import taxes (tariffs) for not agreeing to the Greenland sale is quietly being dropped too after he met them... suspect they politely told him where to go with his money making schemes. Billion dollar peace thing... which as the lead he will be creaming off it big time with contracts to his companies, his name all over the world, back to his ego. Yes, ultimate reality TV. I'll see if I can get a spreadsheet or even powerpoint dollars per radian / degree or turbine blade? As for Aliens... yes, probably not invading, we are quite capable of destroying ourselves quite easily.

Not at all, JonsonD you are obsessed with reporting rapists to this Arborist site... but only if they are 'not white'. As Oldfeller is saying, the colour of the skin is irrelevant to the crime... to all except for you. Unless they make the main news sites headlines, these crimes are not reported on this Arborists site by the other members. Noting how very quiet you are on the most news making rapist at the moment - but Epstein is a white man, with rich and influential white friends, but you never made a peep about him, funny that. Said it before and I will say it again, if we take your racially biased posts as true for the state of the UK, we will end up believing that only 'non whites' or Muslims commit rapes and sexual assaults, this is not the case. The overwhelming majority in the UK are committed by British citizens, but you never report any of these, funny that. All the members, except you, on this site are not racially motivated, perhaps this is why they are not obsessed with criminals ethnicity, but you are. Oldfeller is very correct that race, colour, religion are irrelevant, they have no bearing on the cure or prevention of the problem and the prosecution of the offenders. Until you can separate away from you racial agenda I fear this thread will be a bit like groundhog day, going around and around again.

Answered above in my post. Read and understand. If you need help with the big words, ask one of your kids for help.

For the rightard, the analysis I read was last year, one of the reputable sites - a bigger news sites or a fact check site, but I don't have the link. Your turn, can you validate your statistics though and show you are comparing like for like?

"It’s also statistically less likely full stop to be a white guy compared to some nationalities. " What he fails to mention of course is that his statistics don't compare like for like. His statistics are for all men in the UK, 16 years old to 100 years old. However 'some nationalities'... being his racially biased agenda... are not represented significantly above 30 years old. Which distorts the figures massively by factors of 10 and more. Weird he never mentions this isn't it? Just the values that the likes of Tommy Robinson sends out to the brain dead that are statistically dubious. There are some mathematical types out there who have done some calculations that show while 'some nationalities' do commit more rapes it is in the order of about 2 more per 1000. The vast majority of course are committed by British Men. Makes you wonder sometimes why he is so desperate to hide this.

I used to like you and all...

History repeats itself. After WW1 Germany was punished, reparations, payments for the damage done, massive debts, resentment from the population and along comes an empty promise of a better life. The populist vote. Parallels to the current thread headliner... US isn't all a bed of roses, Trumps base, the working classes, have struggled in recent years, and along he comes with an empty promise of a better life, the populist vote. So far they have only suffered financially.

Happy birthday!! Borne aloft.. like Simba in the Lion King, and shown the world

Fruit trees... if they are fruiting well then you are doing something right.

The exception to the rule?

Been busy last couple of days (probably spreadsheets and stuff like that). His Greenland thing is another - and getting more frequent "WTF" moment. He cannot invade because he would be kicked out of NATO, a good chance that would mean the US would also struggle to maintain bases in NATO countries... which threatens US security world wide. Which is why he is going for $700 billion estimation to buy it. The cynic might think that a Venezuelan won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Peace prize people are Norwegians and these are the 2 countries he is thinking of attacking... However it is nothing at all to do with security - as far as I can tell there is no escalating threat from Russia to the US, a long way for China to sail, and any missiles from either over Greenland would currently be intercepted. All to do with the climate change he doesn't believe in, melting the ice so Greenlands minerals can be exploited. The riches are worth far more than the 700 billion he wants to buy it with. And the Peace Prize.

Suspected as much.

Of course, heavy lift vessel would be fk a use on the onshore windfarms or solar farms. Likewise a strike on an oil platform could not be repaired due to the same lack of a heavy lift vessel. Take out a subsea cable or a subsea oil / gas pipe, it is the same vulnerability, perhaps you should appreciate north sea oil / gas is very vulnerable to subsea attacks.

He came out with Trump being the "make a wish president"