Steven P

Gut feeling is hot air rises and depending on the set up it could be possible to 'stall' the chimney - where the external air acts like the chimney, reversing the expected air flow and making the fire very tricky to get going. Particularly overnight at winter when the fire is out, chimney pots are at say -5 deg C, loft at 5 deg C could see this happening. Smoke, fumes and any heat is pumped into the loft, best worse case is the smoke alarm goes off at silly o'clock in the morning with a false alarm, worst worse case is it isn't a false alarm. Related to this is having a down draught of cold air next to the chimney cooling the exhaust fumes more than usual you might find the draw is reduced from this. Not an expert in this though, just gut feeling.

Reading the last page about how most oils are from the same base with scientifically experimented and calculated additives in to make it do the right stuff and then "Yeah, but, I just bung diesel in it to make it work right"

but your not all over the forum banging on about how ludicrous the idea is and in the next breath bragging of your hypocrisy and earnings from it

Net Zero is only a rebrand of being green - or did you miss that bit? The conversion from an oil based electricity system to green energy, net zero energy has accelerated with technology advances, but has always been a goal - pretty much since north sea oil took off and they realised that there was only limited supplies, certainly all my working life. So then got to ask is it the branding you oppose then if the end result is the same? Still happy to be taking that shiny shilling whatever they call it, it is the same thing. Still the same hypocrisy to apparently get angry about it and accept it as a wage earner

Nothing to do with me. You. You are on here constantly ripping into 'Net Zero', Windfarms, solar farms, electric vehicles et al and in the next breath are out there taking that bucket of shiny windfarm shillings straight into your bank acount. Pure hypocrisy. "Bad things but I'll take the cash anyway"

and their profits are pouring onto the pockets of the likes of you for their maintenance. Don't forget that most of your £10k monthly salary is coming from windfarms this month. Or is that hypocrisy too much for you?

Couple of bumblebees out and about this weekend

Now as for the chicken nuggets. The Albanian in question - the case hasn't be finalised and is under reviews at the moment with doubts to the claim. More than likely that he will be deported (the man spent 2 1/2 years in jail, stripped of UK nationality) once the review process is complete. Weirdly the online news sources for this are: The Daily Mail, The Express, The Telegraph, LBC interview with (that moderate) Farage, The Mirror... so a balanced press out there! As above, clever (or not) arguments to prolong the process but the ultimate will be him deported and I would be willing to bet that little will be said in the papers above when he is!

and if there is a UK that contradicts the ECHR then the UK law takes precedence (or whichever European country you are currently in, their laws.) Personal opinion that the ECHR is an easy scapegoat. 'Daily Mail' readers are baited with it to increase anger than anything with the word European in is a bad thing. While there are some obscure and rare rulings (which make the press, and guess which paper...) the majority of its work is good. Often these headline making cases are not ruled on by the ECHR but are an interpretation of the rules and a careful argument by a lawyer (perhaps can be equated to the odd case in the UK where drivers are not banned despite racking up 30+ points in 3 years... a clever lawyer... but we are not advocating that driving laws should be scrapped, clever arguments and persuasions)

Might be that in the thread "war in Ukraine" that war is discussed there. Might be that in the thread "Covid" all things Covd was discussed there Might be that in the thread "Potus" the all things (currently Trump) are discussed here. and in other POTUS news, I see Lewis Hamilton was disqualified from the Chinese F1 grand prix

Yup, not quite thousands every day but I'd reckon 50 people on the train for the morning commute - in the carriage I sit in, and the same home again. And the same the next day. How many people do you come into close contact with in your vanity van commute? However apart from injecting bleach, Trump doesn't do a lot with Covid these days and his thoughts were well covered in the Covid thread. But on topic news, I see that Disney are releasing a live action Snow White film

without being there and knowing all the background and full kit list... is that big blue jobby on the right of the video big enough and powerful enough? (all good from an armchair of course)

what New Mexico?

Editing. Editing is a godd thing: Considering you have been on about it for the last few posts -today- I am guessing that today is the day you should start to get a tad concerned. What your daily rant today has to do with this thread (POTUS, not he Labour party, there is a thread for that, not your vanity van, there is a thread for that) that is yet to be explained. Back on topic, any thoughts and insights as to what Trump is doing? The biggies are his "Only kidding" statement (where he is now saying effectively "You know what I said before, I was joking"), such as stopping the Ukraine war in 24 hours, or the war in Gaza. Perhaps you have some views on his desire to take Canada or Greenland (but not Mexico weirdly). Perhaps is immigration, Musk, his economic skills.. you choose, but on topic?

'Morning devils advocate here.... you are of course forgetting the local traffic officer, council man who wants the road opened ASAP for evening rush hour. External pressures as well. Young climber (I did read that bit right?) might not have the conviction to tell the council boss man to feck off when a single cut shortens the length of the job and Mr Miggings can get home for dinner instead of waiting in traffic. (Something I stress to The Boys, remember who it is going to be in the hospital - usually when they want to argue with cars on their bikes)

To be fair, some here who lean politically to the right are able to hold a discussion... though this is often up to the point where Trump gets criticised... but discussing around a subject kind of works. There are some who are unable to hold any discussion. I'd concur though that the right leaning commenters here tend to fire out the insults and those with the left leaning thoughts kind of let them wash over their heads rarely trading insult for insult... but that is to be expected when their 'hero' is doing exactly the same thing just on a grander scale.

Always used Stihl Synth Plus cause that's what my local shop sells, does OK.

Couple of things in this afternoons posts on this - cameras... if you are being recorded it is because you are showboating, wanting to show off. All good, perhaps on a tripod or with a spare groundy who would only be sat in the van otherwise. Still need those looking out for each other to be concentrating and not whether the lighting is good. Working at height... Yup. HSEs first question will often be "Did you need to work at height" - not just arb industry, but if you can do it from ground level then that it best. However he never went up the tree expecting to end the day in hospital, mistake was made, but how do we learn from watching the videos? All good to say "I wouldn't do that" but.... he isn't the first, won't be the last, just he was in video. Is it worth showing the video to your climbers every 6 months as a subtle reminder? I've had no end of similar videos shown at me, different work sites, and they do make you think for a while. Some make a lasting memory....

Didn't look at the link yet, was it the UK has 53% of our food supplies, the rest come from overseas?

For Heathrow it is something I've often wondered why we put all our major air routes through just one airport. Any issue with it, like today, and as above, nothing is moving. Disperse the flights - connect up Heathrow to Gatwick with a decent train line (cheaper and easier than a new runway at Heathrow), if you want do the triangle with London City or even onto Stanstead. Do European flights from Gatwick, Americas from Heathrow, UK Internal to City - plenty of capacity in that. Regional hubs in the North, North West, Wales and Scotland rather than centred in London... so take out 1 Airport you are not stopping all flights (though the green part of me says bung in more fibre cables, only need half the number of business flights a day, far cheaper)

Oh dear, here is another child predator Republican... who was pushing to protect girls (though by inference I assume all children) from 'Trans People' (but not protecting them from himself). The longer Trump is in charge the more obvious that it becomes he sees no issue with grown, rich men raping children. No morals shown, no leadership shown and no comment that another of his team is wanting to sleep with children. MAGA Republican Resigns After Being Charged With Soliciting Sex From a Minor UK.YAHOO.COM Justin Eichorn was arrested the same day he tried to make "Trump Derangement Syndrome" a recognized mental illness

There was a similar thread a while ago, boards generally or go back the next day with a pressure washer if I remember right

'tis true that the authorities moved him for his safety, there are 3 or 4 'marks' on his head and he has it easier where he is now than others similarly segregated. Still whinging that he hasn't been murdered but been kept safe though.

But... the prisoners that The Conservative party released early are all OK? And of course, not a patch on your hero, the Rapist, Trump, who released hundred of 'insurrection' criminals all at once with no checks as to their actual crimes, just "off you go lads"... assault on the police, the odd murder, rioting, criminal damages, trying to overturn the state, off you go... free as birds.

That's the story I am getting, along with the advice to take a brand new phone with you in case you have said anything critical of Trump ever, but generally avoid the US. Trumps administration hates free speech.