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The kids were fairly pleased with their climbing frame beds. I definitely shouldn't have assumed the floor would be flat or the ceiling level in this old cottage, but a bit of jiggery-pokery got it in. A lot of the timber is reclaimed from big pallets, all the steel bars are scrap from work.
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Yeah, and what if he tripped on a kerb and got mashed by an artic... what if he had a heart attack following a particularly violent sneeze... how many more scenarios can we list where the helmet doesn't matter? Loads, I bet. But an object falling from height onto a visibly, obviously damaged helmet... questions will be asked. PPE is there to do two things, protect the wearer and tick a box. Even if this particular helmet still worked at 99% for protection, the chip in it means it no longer ticks the box. As suggested, I'd be happy to wear this lid while trimming or strimming in my own garden, but I absolutely would not wear this professionally.
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Until the inquest and inspection of all PPE concerned, resulting in a cheque for naff all from the insurance.
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Buy house next to huge London Plane?
peds replied to ceebee13's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
Sorry if that upsets you Triggered Mandy, but how were we supposed to know that the pub, which had only been there for 300 years, was going to be so noisy? Anyway, there are still other pubs nearby. -
Buy house next to huge London Plane?
peds replied to ceebee13's question in Homeowners Tree Advice Forum
I moved into an apartment right next door to a pub a few years ago. The noise was terrible, every night at closing time there'd be shouting, singing, etc. We complained about it all the time and eventually we got the pub closed down, and we could finally live in peace, surrounded by people who hated us. -
My chickens used to eat slugs but, annoyingly, eventually went off them raw. They'll only eat them if "cured" in beer, brine, or vinegar. I've never had them, but I believe ducks are far more reliable and less fussy.
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I hadn't thought of it like that. We're saved!
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...and frogs... and blackbirds... and hedgehogs... Go organic, save the planet (or die trying).
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I'd love a bit of heras fence for my peas, beans, and raspberries. Also December raspberries here, November isn't unheard of, but Mid-December is taking the piss a little. I was shown a picture of someone's apple tree in blossom last month. Oh well.
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Can you get 1/4 pico in a 42"?
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Is it possible to fit one to an MSA200?
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We have an open fire to heat our old, poorly renovated, uninsulated cottage. I resent the speed at which it chews through firewood, and as soon as it's out, the room is cold again. We are renting, hopefully only here for another year or so whilst we build our house. I am weighing up the cost and hassle of converting the fireplace to a stove, which we'd bring with us to the new house anyway, compared to the time, energy, and timber it would take to chop 5 times as much firewood to keep the place from freezing. Open fireplaces look great and are fun to play with, but they suck at heating anything further than a few metres away, and eat much more wood to do a bad job of it.
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An outboard cut will fall flat (possibly), an inboard cut will fall tips first (maybe), which can be a useful tool depending on where your targets are, or provide an amusing game of Whoops Bouncy Branch.
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I have three thermos flasks available, so on a busy morning I can be super efficient and lose all three.
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Need both threads linking to your video, yeah?
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I was looking for reviews on the 86, great to see so much positive feedback on them. Probably be one of my Christmas presents to myself this year... Anyone in this thread found any problems with theirs in the last 5 years?
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I mean, this is just perfect. As a work of satire, I can't see any way that this could be improved on. Bravo, sir, for such penmanship. Feel free to enjoy this similarly satirical broadcast:
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Updated Dutch flag, seen at the recent climate demonstrations in Amsterdam.
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I totally agree. Luckily, the planet feels the same way, and will be taking measures accordingly. It's just a shame that mankind couldn't cop on and try to help out before it became inevitable.
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Well, there's a very simple solution to that. Violent and thorough redistribution of wealth. Anyone with a yacht big enough to fit one of their smaller yachts inside it should have neither.
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Great idea, but I would suggest actually moving more people into the areas destined to be uninhabitable, starting with anyone still actively rowing in the wrong direction. I could start drawing up a list if you want, comrade. With regards to absolute barriers preventing the movement of people, those will be standard national policy by the early 2030s, with horrific results. Starvation camps that dwarf the likes of Auschwitz will be commonplace, and instead of being viewed with disgust as they would be by any civilised human being today, they will be seen as absolutely essential to survival. This is a change of my own opinion that I'm not looking forward to.
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Nice one dude!
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The debate is slowly, thankfully, finally, being quashed because it's only being perpetuated by the likes of knuckle-dragging simpletons without even the most basic grasp of what is, at the heart of it, incredibly well-understood science. This level of "the debate" should have been knocked on the head back in the late '80s, when we started getting concrete proof of the presence of anthropogenic climate change, when we still had a genuinely decent chance of averting the crisis. That it is even labelled "a debate" in this day and age, at this late stage of the game, is nothing but a source of bewilderment to 99.5% of the scientific community, and should cause great embarrassment to anyone still stuck on that page, and yet, it seems to worn as a badge of honour by an incredibly-small but unbelievably-noisy number of people.
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You misunderstand... this isn't a variable that concerns any single individual, as you illustrate with your lottery ticket. It concerns each separate generation, from then until now. For someone born in 1970, after having 5 or 6 of the most frail and doddery years trimmed off of what would have been their life expectancy if society wasn't going to fall apart, it's not such a problem. For someone born in the last few years, who will be enjoying the prime of their life during the very worst stages of the climate wars, mass immigration, weaponised starvation, and genocide, they are likely to live only half as long as their parents' generation. THAT, however you look at it, is a catastrophe. That's the sort of thing that young Greta is upset about, and the primary cause of an astronomical uptick in depression and suicide among young people.
