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That's why you should spread them far and wide and, like everything else in the natural world, try not to be too sentimental when they don't make it. I lift as many seedlings as I can from paths and pots and move them somewhere better. They might still die, but it's a better chance than they'd otherwise get. Like corralling turtles into the sea, protecting them from hungry seabirds on their way to the waves... most of them will die anyway before they get to adulthood. You've got to try anyway.
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Andy is absolutely right, you do need to get out and do more tree planting. Great stuff, carry on.
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Shhh, they don't like that question. They'd rather answer the question about how it could be better if it had been done differently.
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So we are all in agreement, we need to tax the rich and put all the freeloading politicians up against the wall to be shot. Viva la revolucion!
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I think it's adorable how you seem to have convinced yourself that you are a higher earner. In their eyes, you're down here in the muck with us plebs, buddy, and they laugh their dentures into their cinzano rosso every time you defend tax cuts for the wealthy, as though you're the one being talked about. The wealthy wipe their bottoms on your paltry little tax bill.
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Lots of ways to measure it really. If you can afford a slightly-smaller megayacht to follow around and carry all the toys (the jetskis, the scuba rib, the helicopter, etc.) for your everyday megayacht, you're unreasonably rich, and should be paying for things like hospitals, railways, universities, that sort of thing. Instead of the second yacht, you get a medal. **************** it, you get a medal for every single billion you give back to the society you benefit from, and a little folder to display them in like a world cup coin collection. I couldn't say for sure, but I don't think anyone on here qualifies. Sorry. (I once saw a megayacht called Lady Lola, forget where, Nice or Marseille probably, with another little tub parked nearby called Lady Lola's Shadow, with all the toys alluded to above plainly visible. I promise you that money could be better spent on... well, anything, really.)
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So we are all in agreement... we need to tax the rich.
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Rather than the liquid seeping from the wood itself, which I imagine would be pretty unpleasant, I'm wondering about the product of the humidity removed from the kiln. Of course, it should just be plain old H2O with no carried flavour or character, but anyone who has ever dipped a finger in the product of a condensing tumble dryer knows that's not true. I also wonder what effect a few chips of it would have while taking a long bath in neutral spirit (that is, barrel aging of whisky without the barrel), and how much you could sell a relatively tiny amount of wood for to any enthusiastic moonshiners. Try posting a photo on https://www.reddit.com/r/firewater/, see what people think. Might be a cool way to get rid of any scabs and scrap.
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What does it taste like? Obviously you'd not go drinking from the reservoir of a condenser dryer or a dehumidifier, but I'm curious what the sweat of 5000 year old bog oak is like.
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Presumably stacking the rings them between stickers and ensuring decent airflow would be better than just having them all on top of other, but it's definitely not ideal. A well-stacked wall of splits can get quite high, and arguably can use less space than the equivalent of stacked rings...
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Aside from being dangerous to climb, the brittle tips provide a pretty handy early diagnostic tool. Knock the suspect tree over, and if it explodes everywhere it has dieback and needs to be felled. If it remains fairly intact, it is healthy and can be put back up.
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How much should I charge for a day's willy waving?
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No-one will want this wonky bit, I'll take it off your hands if you need.
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That looks like great fun.
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I think that'll fit just fine. Thanks Sutton. In other news,
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Ahh, I was hoping for something with a few more syllables to be honest. Similar in nature to this one, for example, plucked at random from the web. Waldeinsamkeit We talk about the “solitude of the forest”, that feeling you get when you are walking in a forest on your own. Waldeinsamkeit is a very dear term to the tradition of ascetic monasticism and to the movement of German romance, which promoted the rapprochement of Man to Nature.
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I just can't help but wonder at what point people like you are going to get on board with the changes ahead. Will it be when rice is no longer available in the supermarket? Not just a dozen different brands, or a choice between basmati or jasmine... any rice. Or will it be when you can no longer visit Spain during the school summer holidays because there's too great a risk of quite literally poaching in temperatures and humidity that the human body - most life, in fact - is unable to deal with. I'm sure there's a word in German for the vague and intangible, sort-of bittersweet emotion that comes from observing people who have yet to come to terms with an horrific truth. They've got a word for everything, those Germans.
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Entertaining read, you two. Cheers.
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I doubt they'd let a youngun do that these days, no matter how character building.
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The first block of work experience I did at15 was 2 weeks in the kitchen of a hotel, and I was given a part time job straight off the back of it which I had for the next 3 years until I moved away from home. So, already being employed, when the second block of WE came around aged 17 in 6th form, a couple of friends and I went on holiday to Dorset instead and volunteered at the steam railway near Corfe Castle, smoking weed and drinking like a teenager in the evenings, and repairing tracks, slash-and-burning overgrown cuttings, polishing the engines, and riding up and down the railway all day. Great little trip.
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Absolutely no argument from me there.
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Attempted assassination of Nancy Pelosi, her husband is in hospital undergoing brain surgery, which can't be much fun for a guy in his eighties. I wonder who will be targeted next.
