Steven P

But one of their base models is provided by the UK Met Office.... so trusted or not?

BBC rain cloud radar is good for me, gives me best times to go out on the paddleboard, generally within 5 mins given an hour look ahead, or up on the hills (enough data hours ahead of time to give me an estimated best time for a dry sandwich stop). Apart from that, hundreds of uses for accurate forecasting in the UK, I am surprised that in the US they have no need for accurate weather forecasts. Imagine with no forecasts, our next holiday "Excuse me hotel, what is the weather going to do today?" "It's going to be summer" "So does that mean rain jacket or shorts" "All we know is it is July so the weather will be summer" Vodaphone are doing some interesting stuff - Midlands way I think - the signal between phone masts degrades when humidity levels rise, coordinating between masts can pin point rain showers more accurately than radar. News story was this week, I think they do the same in the Netherlands. For the finances, Gareth suggests they spend 5 times more on forecasting? For a landmass 40 times larger than the UK? Sounds like they are doing well for the money. As for private vs public.... private sounds good till you look at the UKs privatised companies for comparison and the awesome job they are doing. It is a feature that doesn't lend itself to monetising really, there are no big profits, so the big investments won't be there and the big finances won't be there to rip out the profits to shareholders

never underestimate the power of "you are not allowed to do that"

I haven't looked at the age demographic though - yes, I'd tend to agree that let them go quick so that they can get out there, retrain, enter a new line of work and be happy productive workers. All well and good if you are under say 35. Once you get past 50, retrain and enter the workforce is going to take 5 to 7 years... you are starting a new career aged nearly 60.. and who is going to employ a near 60 year old 'new start' knowing they'll only get 5 years profitable work from them? Aligned with this near 60 year old looking for a new career, there could be another 4000 of them similarly recently trained looking for new jobs in a town where there are not that many vacancies. Let them move for work? Away from their lifelong homes, kids and grandkids? Look to the North East, it takes generations to revitalise an area when the sole major employer closes, holistically a managed decline is a better option I think, let them retire where they work, and develop the young to move into new industries.

Unfortunately a consequence of Thatcher - the Right wing hero - breaking the miners unions and subsequently the downfall of the UK coal industry. 40 years ago. Would be great if it was viable but with no UK iron ore mines to speak of, no coal mines to speak of the only raw material we produce is limestone - blast furnaces are usually best sited near the raw materials - wales had the coal locally, Redcar had ironstone and coal, Scunthorpe iron ore and lime, Sheffield coal, iron, hydro power, 'British Steel' in its various names and owners only really profitable recently because of the special steels division (rail steels and so on)... I'm not holding my breath that public ownership will reverse years of decline... but give it a go, it is better than throwing thousands of employees on the scrap heap.

If there is no suitable machine access to carry it away, First thoughts are a massive bonfire (heat should weaken the mud, and take out some of the roots, what is left should break up) Second thought is a pressure washer - soak it for a couple of days then pressure wash the mud out. Doesn't look like a quick job however you do it Remembering back to the thread on stump grinder injuries to shy away from suggesting that

... and what is really going to explode some minds, he is also venerated by Muslims and is a Muslim Martyr, crossing the divide between Christianity and Islam

My original comment "FFS, my preferred god grows cocoa beans, and my second favourite is a raging alcoholic, pretty sure both of them are keen for us to look after what we have been given".. Then I saw you capitalise 'God', my mistake. 'God' - she should be more particular which God she means, monotheistic religions (Single god religions: Christianity in its forms, Judiasm, Islam being the main ones)(yup, had to google the word) all have a character named God, so I wonder if they are all there at the crack of dawn waking up the sun, putting the moon to bed, fighting the polytheistic sun and moon goods (yes, google again for the word) and each other to sort out the correct running order of things, then jumping down here to make sure my beer and chocolate is as it should be.. and fighting off Quetzacoatl (that was Pratchet, not google by the way) and Bacchus (my old brass band conductor).. surprised they actually have time to do much. Maybe Humans should take some responsibility cause the gods are tripping over themselves I think. Anyway, the vicar-man doesn't come to talk to me much anymore in case I ask questions.

So, errmm, to ask the obvious question, if a discussion on your hero, the rapist and current holder of this threads headline, is not peaking your interest, why are you here commenting in this thread? Edity. We all love a good edit. Seriously JohnsonD, what have you brought to this thread in the form of a positive discussion? I was going to say ever, but you'd probably drag up some post from years ago "See SP a relevant point"... but certainly in the last couple of weeks all you have brought to this thread is agression and arguments, with the result - as Spudulike also alludes to - an attempt to drag this thread to the bowls of discussion threads much like your other obsessive thread, the Covid thread. If you cannot contribute to a thread as a part of a discussion why do you bother? It would be fair to note here that my views have equal and opposite views to some of other members, this is normal, and what is also normal is we can discuss Trumpy and the merits of his failings / triumphs (depends on your views), no insults traded. This makes a healthy discussion and a lively thread... but also quality and one to read. But you? No attempt at sticking to the point, just looking for the next attack at any member who is - well- not you really. I guess you were asked a direct question above, for one so keen on answers, you side stepped it "no, I am not discussing that", a bit hypocritical don't you think? (3/3)

Ahh but you appear to spend a lot of time obsessing over what we do do and whether we have actually completed all our online profiles fully. With some on here you get quite narky about their opinions, so I also suspect you are sleep deprived some weeks too.

Hydration helps - drinking - but if you need to hydrate you need to replace the salts lost in sweating too - electrolytes can help - check out say cyclist or runners shops for hydration tablets, or a pharmacist for the same - these have the right salts and minerals in. Natural cures would be salting food and bananas - bananas have potassium salts and salt has normal salts, sometimes an inbalance of the 2 can cause cramps - If you are deficient in one then it will be topped up, but won't go over a limit with the other? Might be wrong there. (else a bit minging... at the end of a long (running) race one runner had a cramp, another runner suggested "You need salts, lick my face" (the salts lost in sweat were now dried on his face as a handy salt lick) )

you reckon? Trump brags in Oval Office that his billionaire pals made a killing in stocks after he pulled the plug on tariffs UK.YAHOO.COM President Donald Trump gleefully recounted how much money his billionaire pals made on the stock market after he suddenly suspended most of his worldwide tariffs. Stocks zoomed...

For the ISA, sounds like the fund managers were asleep this last week, should have sold when the market was high and bought again today. I reckon the market will bounce back, slowl or quickly. If the shares are activly managed - buying and selling - you should come out with more (more shares, more dividends), fud manager needs to be awake though. But... considering the reports I was reading today quoting a couple of US politicians musing whether Trump has lost his marbles - or how many he's lost - and the tariffs are paused for 90 days - world share prices are likely to be in a bumpy ride for the next 3 1/2 years. Could be a lot of money to be made... certainly from The Rapists twatterings yesterday "Now is a good time to buy" looks to me he knew his tariffs would tank the share prices and some of his buddies have just made an aweful lot of money, off the back of ordinary peoples losses (for every headline billion made on the stock market someone, the little man generaly, has lost that amount).

You'd had thought a bit of sympathy would be in order wouldn't you. One day here whinging that you are being taxed a bit more from government policies. A bit more tax eating into your £120k salary for the vanity van the company provides for mostly your personal use (300 days out of 360 personal use) and it is the worst thing every. And yet when another, respected, member suffers financially the advice is "MTFU"... Kind of sums you up.

- Round file (I've never use the 2 in 1) for the teeth, flat file for the rakers, and also see the thread for bar dressing - Glasses - Brain full of experience which you'll only get with trial and error - A little bit and often rather than trying to sharpen a fully blunt chain

ahhh, are those the prices he is lowering, stock prices?

Mark, almost caught the last pub I had a beer in there, looks a lot better than it did on a rainy January night!

He didn't want the MMR jab, tried and tested, till that (white) 6 year old died. In fact he for the top health bloke, he doesn't want any vaccines (a well known anti-vaccine mouthpiece), However at the expense of covering what was in the Covid thread, again, a billion doses or whatever it was is quite a clinical trial and to date there hasn't been a million deaths or serious complications, in fact it is similar level of issues to what you'd get from any vaccine, still 60 years of research since the technique was developed, you'd expect that.

So if you want to talk about Lammys arsehole pop it in the Labour thread, perhaps it is something we can all get behind and like? Unity for a change. For now though, in the US thread, POTUS, happy enough to listen to a defence of RFK and his new views on vaccines, or go back up a step to my question of last night and what is the headliner, the big Trump, going to fail to do this week.

You could do but none of them are the US president and none of them have about-turned on MMR vaccines this week after years of denouncing them, so I reckon the relevance would be even less talking about Starmer and co here, cross threading.

mRNA was discussed at length in the Covid thread, they aren't a new method, been around for years (if memory serves me, might be wrong, 1960s 1970s?) however have been more expensive to produce than others, the preference was cheaper methods. For speed of production though they are quicker which is where they came to the front in the Covid vaccines where speed was the primary factor. For anything 'new' the conspiracy theorists come out the wardrobe, in this respect RFK has never been shy to show his proper mental side. RFK has had a vocal anti-vaccine stance, indeed blaming the MMR jab to cause autism and learning difficulties (most recently google thinks in 2023)(it doesn't). His comments a few weeks ago was this outbreak is 'nothing unusual' (despite wide press coverage) to 'serious' yesterday. He has been very critical about vaccines, not 'pretty open' about them. I think for him to about turn publicly, alienate his fan base, I think the measles outbreak should be uprated to 'very serious'

Garlic: Mine all started with 1 bulb from the supermarket, nothing fancy, got about 60 overcrowded plants growing now (Mrs P doesn't like garlic so all it does is grow). Leave it to dry it keeps OK, but best fresh. Likewise for the horseradish but that needs to be contained, Asdas best. Never managed to get their ginger to grow well though

US Hawthorn? I forget the name, not the wrinkly bark UK version

All the educated money is on the next 35 years it will be running down seriously. Edity: You'll probably refute the combined wisdom and editing practices if Wikkipedia, so here is some good old right win press, the Daily Express, on the rare occasion they stopped mourning: 'Exact day the world will finally run out of oil' revealed | World | News | Express.co.uk WWW.EXPRESS.CO.UK Alarmingly the predicted 'end date' is much sooner than many of us may have expected with the estimate likely to fall within many of our lifetimes.

... assembled in Wales by Sony, chips in recent years have been produced overseas. There are many countries in Africa that are not corrupt of course, Rwanda for one. All it takes is a bit of a push, cheap wages, plentiful solar energy are the requirement to surpass China - given that The West send out the designs their education (universities and colleges) can wait till the orders are rolling in - like China did. Like I suggest, when the oil runs out, electrical power will be king. Africa will be there. US, and the west, with high wages and the US dependence on oil, will struggle to compete with manufacturing. They will however keep Trumps tariff inflated prices.