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Yep, I agree. Also, switch to solar, wind, and nuclear, and cut down on your energy usage. Also eat the rich.
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Yep. Better than being burned in people's stoves at home, better than being buried in a hedge. Not as good as being sealed into an coal mine to take it out of circulation and limit the microplastic pollution, but it's one of the least worst options available to us. There are often no easy answers, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
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I do worry that it'll reduce enthusiasm for recycling among the people who've been doing it for decades, without encouraging the people who just bin it all or throw it in a hedge to come to the fold. Still, let's give it a go, see what happens.
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I knew a girl like that once.
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Yep. Stop buying stuff from China.
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I'm plant-based.
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Nah, you're grand. It's like yelling in the wind at this stage.
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I mean, this is exactly what the trouble is. Dinosaurs who don't appreciate the scale of the problem, and are unwilling to make, or even acknowledge, any of the changes necessary to stop the planet from becoming incompatible with complex life. The history books about this time period are gonna be freakin' wild, man. You know... if there's anyone left to write 'em.
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By your numbers there, and my napkin maths, we are 3.5 times dirtier than your average Chinese person. But yeah, stop buying stuff from China. Also, stop flying, don't set fire to things you don't need to, stop using weedkiller, cut out as much meat and dairy from your diet as you can stand, stop dredging the ocean, eat more farmed mussels and oysters, try and avoid plastic as much as possible, stop voting for people actively clamouring for the destruction of the planet, protect what little wilderness we have left and try to rewild as much as you can... ...you know, all the stuff the scientists have been advising for the last 40 years or so. Cheers.
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Only 2 here, not loads, but we keep banging on about it because unless we change the way we use our planet, our children are going to starve to death. Sorry to sound like a broken record, but yeah. Buy local, don't fly, don't buy stuff from China, etc.
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I don't think you should be allowed a stove or fireplace in any kind of urban area. If you're out in the sticks, hundreds of metres from your neighbours, burn away. I feel sorry for people living in the closest urban centre to me, where burning coal, peat, and wet wood is still the done thing. Air quality is terrible. This isn't the 1700s, we've moved on. I'll be fitting a stove this summer hopefully, of course.
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Following surgery on the right middle finger, any unexpected contact or a sudden knock was hugely painful for about 14, 15 months after. I'm at 21 months now, and it's a lot better. Aggressive massage in hot water with an arnica cream afterwards as often as you can, and continue to be patient.
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Crikey, Nostradamus knocked it out of the park there.
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Quite correct: all evidence has been swept under the rug and deleted from the thread.
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Hasn't stopped anyone before...
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Ah, I think you'll find, actually, that jokes concerning the mortality of the Royal Family are not well received in the jokes thread. Fingers start wagging. Maybe it'll be different this time around though, on account of King Sausage being an absolute twazzock.
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Prolly a fackin' sleeper agent innit.
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I know! It's a world apart. I wouldn’t like to carry my tree harness up 1500m of ascent in the Alps though. Might try a day of tree work in my skinny skimo (ski mountaineering) harness one day, see how bruised my hips can get.
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Some of you need to spend a day dangling around in a nice skinny mountaineering harness. You don't know you're born.
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The Judean People's Front?!
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Yo, give us an underside shot too. I need to make one for our bath. What finish? Back on topic, sort of, has anyone ever made a bird house from rot pockets in wood? I've got a growing pile of bits of wood with nice pockets, of various sizes, I'm going to hollow them out a bit and stick a roof on, make sure there's drainage and all that. Small one here for illustration.
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Life, uhh... finds a way. Want an easy life and a low-maintenence garden? Work with nature, instead of against it.
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There's loads of different makes and grades of membrane, there's a really cheap and shitty one that's just like a really thin roofing felt, two months on the ground and you put your foot through it with every step. But because it's the cheapest available at the garden centre and comes in the smallest length of roll, it's what every bodge job homeowner likes to bury under that apricot tree from Lidl that they plan to freeze to death. With the woven ones, it absolutely has to be Mypex brand, I used an off-brand alternative recently and it was thinner, poked holes in it too easily, started unweaving at every cut edge almost instantly... at least Mypex is durable and holds itself together well. Which at least is better if you have to pull it out of the ground in twenty years time to repair some bellend's landscaping choices.
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Absof*ckenlutely. Total disaster leaving mypex and gravel all over the place, unless you RELIGIOUSLY clear every speck of organic material from every inch of it before it gets the chance to decompose into a lovely rich seed propagation bed, perfectly drained with the gravel layer. People expect it to be the end of their weeding woes, failing to remember that new weed seeds appear not just every year, but several times each year. It never works out how people want without constant maintenance. When it gets bad enough, some landscapers just put a whole new carpet of mypex down on top of the previous disaster and re-gravel it, instead of taking up the old layer and switching to a better long-term solution, creating a horrific lasagne of compounded problems for future generations to deal with. Under hedges and around trees: 2 or 3 layers of brown cardboard covered with bark or woodchip. Maybe a bit of sheep fleece if you are into that aesthetic.
