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Fascinating stuff, cheers.
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Radium release hitch is a pretty fun thing to have in the tool kit. A pair of pears and a few metres of 8mm. Used for taking the strain off a system to pass a knot through a device or to switch a load onto a different rope.
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Yeah, that's a handbag. Monkey fist is a tight little ball, not sure what applications it had in other arenas, but for mountaineers you'd lob it up the cliff towards a suitable looking crack or V, hoping it would stick fast, and you could hand over hand (or prusik, etc) up the rope to make progress. Not one you'd want to unravel on you. It's also used in various sizes in a part of Germany with very soft sandstone rock as protection, instead of nuts, cams, hexes, as they would wear the rock down too quickly. Edit: I'd like a video of your magic mechanical advantage knot, please.
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I was told it's a handbag.
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Yeah, same.
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Trucker's hitches all over this expensive piece of metal, one in a loop of tat holding the three legs together, and one on each guy line to stop her from keeling over. Quick and dirty way to get a bit of tension on a line. Barely visible to the right of the picture next to that red rope bag is a slower and more powerful way to get a bit of tension on the line, enough to start approaching the forces required to destroy the system... if it weren't for the load limiting devices being used. Highlines. Fun stuff.
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Absolutely nothing wrong with an overhand. System D knot.
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Well that's just a nasty thing to say, and you are at serious risk of hurting my feelings, professor. Edit: anyway, maybe you should have carried on with your studies, and become a Latin teacher. Seeing as they are an endangered species now.
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Best solution for two ropes welded together after a big load/heavy pull: reef knot with a fisherman either side of it. Game changer for me.
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Thanks, I will, I'll keep it subtle from my side, Einstein. 👍
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A bowline can and does undo itself if loaded, unloaded, loaded, unloaded etc., unless rethreaded or given a Yosemite finish, or given a massive tail (very useful sometimes) but then it isn't a bowline, it's a bowline with extra steps. An 8, once tied (correctly...), is an 8 until you undo it. So if it's a knot to be used, unweighted, ignored, used again, unweighted, left alone for a while, used... etc... an 8 is miles better, in my humble opinion. A bowline will take a 3 way load, though (that is, up the rope, on the loop, and down the tail...), so you can have something on the bowline loop itself, then a massive tail with whatever you want tied on to it as well. You can even chain loads of bowlines one after the other, without weakening the rope; whereas a fig8 must not do this unless you've got an isolation loop followed by another 8 (or a different knot. A bowline maybe?). So they both have their place, and there are places where one knot cannot replace the other.
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A fig8 instead of the bowline for a lot of your applications, probably, but I still see the value in a bowline. The 8 is better in some instances, the bowline better in others.
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Lolwut? Do you think there's a finite supply of Latin teachers? They didn't stop making them at the fall of the Roman Empire, and we've been running through the stock ever since... History teachers often double up, as do other humanities, to a lesser extent, as do other language teachers, also to a lesser extent. I know of one biology teacher who also taught Latin. There may be others. I didn't want to sink to this level, but seeing as you are already down there with your opening statement, why the hell not. Many schools offer Latin only to the more academically gifted students. Maybe there's a reason you aren't aware of the availability of Latin in schools across the country.
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General life advice.
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I was at school in the 90s. I don't understand the point you are trying to make.
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Latin was available at my secondary when I was young, just a run of the mill local school for local people. Podex perfectus es and caput tuum in ano es are the only phrases I remember. Might be spelled wrong.
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So it looks like you've got juuust enough space to knock it over, shouldn't be a big job for anyone to take it down for you. Depending on what specific cultivar it was it might coppice just fine, if it's only dead from the waist up, and not below the belt... but it could be a goner altogether. Either way, you need to get it removed, it'll become more of a hazard every day that passes. If you're at all interested in having it grow back, just mention to whoever gets rid of it for you that you'd like it coppiced and they'll leave the stump in the right condition for it. I actually removed one in my own garden to let a digger through 2 years ago, it's come back just fine. I'll get a picture later. It was winter, I assumed it was just another sycamore. Edit to add photo: some coulorful mini maple, anyway.
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Sure go ahead, you can't do the tree any harm at this stage by the looks of it. What was it? Sycamore possibly? Snip it at ground level, wait and see if it'll coppice.
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Yeah, far from ideal. Speaking as an immigrant myself, I absolutely agree that you should try and look after the Irish before worrying about refugees, but I've found that the only people shouting about it aren't really the sort to help other Irish people either.
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It's an interesting situation all right. I've had a few fraught conversations on the subject lately. Definitely some nasty ideas being pushed around more than they need to be.
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Some of the tadpoles in the pond we dug last summer are almost thinking about growing legs. Edit to add: I've just counted, there's bloody loads of them.
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It varies an awful lot, especially depending on where you are from, but some people call the bottom of the hind legs hocks and the front legs hands. Some people call them both hocks. Noone calls the back legs hands. Some people call the front hock the knuckle instead, particularly when it is cut smaller. The hand as a roasting joint often contains a bit more meat from further up the shoulder, but not necessarily. It could be called the hand and spring, if cut to include even more from higher up the shoulder. Just the same as the question "is it a shrimp or a prawn?", the answer is more based on geography than the animal.
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Bargain!
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“I don’t know about you, but at about this time of night, I like to place a small orange thing on the back of a heron.” – Vic Reeves
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I'd never heard of the Free Speech Union, so I thought I'd Google them quickly. All for free speech as long as you are saying the Right thing, obviously. Toby Young proves my conviction that cocaine does nothing but amplify one's preponderance to being a raging bellend. Say what you want about Toby Young – no, really, he’ll defend your right to say it | Joel Golby | The Guardian WWW.THEGUARDIAN.COM The grifter who keeps on giving has turned his attention to defending free speech on Twitter. What a... Free Speech Union - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG Toby Young - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG A few quick links there in case anyone was as uniformed about the organisation and its founder as I was and wants to gauge the quality of the opinion piece JD has listed before dirtying their eyes with it. Nothing surprising, obviously. Carry on!
