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  1. Just feels like a big difference between a few thousand deaths as a result of poor crowd management or fire safety, which are entirely avoidable given proper planning or whatever, and a few thousand people just cooking to death under the sun. Which, thinking about it, would also be avoidable if they just chose somewhere better for a holiday. Saudi Arabia has never been near the top of my travel wishlist, but Saudi at 50⁰c is definitely somewhere near the bottom.
  2. Not sure about the trousers, but there's some lovely looking tools on that site. Japanese stuff generally seems well thought out, the bits and bobs I've used anyway. My steel toe cap slip-on kitchen clogs from Japan are still a favourite shoe, long after leaving professional kitchens.
  3. Google images for "Swiss chalet mail box" returns some ideas that may be worth emulating, and some that... aren't.
  4. Annual updates from this moment onwards then. Is it too late to add a poll? Lovely woodwork, but I think the box let's it down a little as well. Would you ever build one out of wood to carry on the theme? Swiss chalet style, or something.
  5. They'll eat smaller, weaker, or slightly-injured live chickens too, if the mood takes them.
  6. Don't give up that easily, argue your case!
  7. Mine love eating the Polystyrene around the outside of our raft foundations. Cannot get enough of it, the weird little bastards.
  8. Well, I can't speak for the others of course,but I think it's a good idea to provide a little pushback against some of the misguided, offensive, hateful, or racist things you sometimes come out with. Otherwise we run the risk of you taking over the conversation and turning the place into an echo chamber, and anyone reading this site might think that it's okay to hold some of the ridiculous views that you do. Not everything, mind. Occasionally you manage to post something fairly useful, even insightful. Don't ask me to find an example though.
  9. Yeah... that wiki link is listing the 00.1%, by your numbers. I actually think, percentagewise, you could probably add another few zeroes after the decimal point. Maybe you should have more faith in the bahaviour of our armed forces.
  10. See, if you ignore whatever biodynamics says about the phases of the moon or only stirring your preparations clockwise (counter clockwise in the southern hemisphere, obviously) or a few other choice bits of comedy, there are some decent ideas in there. The cow horn thing is a great way of transferring any number of beneficial organisms from one soil biota to another, if you bury the horns in the right place (a healthy forest or an established organic growing space, that sort of thing), and then you sprinkle the resulting preparation around wherever it needs it... a newly-created growspace with imported soil, anywhere with shagged-out soil, somewhere recovering from chemical pollution etc. But yeah, you really have to cherry pick the worthwhile bits of the biodynamic thing.
  11. Same as sugar on yeast when baking, just readily available fuel for whatever organisms want to eat it. Explosive growth and a kick-start into action for the soil biota. Try sugar water on a hot compost heap sometime 🚀
  12. Nice. Love the apple juice and molasses, that'll wake everything up.
  13. Go on, spill the beans on the magic potion... (A well-aerated compost tea?)
  14. I was born in the UK, and I generally think that war crimes are a bad thing. I guess I'm in the transsexual hippy cuck club again, aren't I...
  15. Body language experts would probably have a good bit to say about these two pictures.
  16. My wife's boyfriend is from Tajikistan. We're hoping their kids will be good horse archers.
  17. If I were in your shoes, I'd get a nice battery Stihl, MSA 200 or 220 for playing in the woods, stick with the Screwfix yoke for processing it at home, and maybe get a cheap Chinese 50cc run on Aspen at some point in the future if you need it.
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    Fishery PPE

    Skellerup Euro Forester Super Safety Chainsaw Waders - Green ABBEYDALEDIRECT.CO.UK The Skellerup Euro Forester Super Safety Chainsaw Wader is a new addition to Abbeydale. This fully... Thigh highs, at least. You could probably glue a cut pair of full trouser waders to a pair of chainsaw wellies and get a watertight seal easily enough, and wear them over the regular trousers, but I wonder if the manufacturers would stand over such a modification if the worst were to happen. I hate thigh highs anyway, it's either wellies or full wader for me.
  19. I'd imagine it's the same as any animal, younger is better for roasting, older needs a bit more simmering, except for loins. One of the best meals I've ever had was half a 6 week old baby goat, just chopped into 3 pieces and thrown in a woodfired pizza oven until the edges of the bones were starting to blacken and char. It lived its short life in a shed next door to the restaurant, in a tiny village underneath the tallest mountain in the middle of Corsica. Phenomenal. But yeah, I'd eat venison again, I'm happy to do my bit in the fight against invasive species 👍
  20. Whoops, forgot to thank you for this at the time. Did pretty much this, some time in the fridge until a bit crusty, then trimmed and sliced. But I made them a lot fatter, around 2.5 to 3 inches, then gently hammered them out to 1.5ish with the testicle crusher. Pan fried, basted continuously with garlic butter, allowed to cool to room temperature, then sliced and tossed around in their own juices. Tacos, molé, salsa, pickled veg, guacamole, etc. So unbelievably good. Tender as anything, rich flavour.
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    Depression

    “After having personally conducted over the last fifty years more than four thousand psychedelic sessions, I have developed great awe and respect for these compounds and their enormous potential, both positive and negative. They are powerful tools and, like any tool, they can be used skillfully, ineptly, or destructively. The result will be critically dependent on the set and setting.” – Stanislav Grof
  22. My paternal grandfather was RAF in WW2, and stayed in for decades following. They lived in France for a few years in the 50s, stationed on an American air force base near Paris, and my dad, born in 1946, distinctly remembers the collective national pantswetting when the Yanks brought over their Coca Cola not in the traditional curvy glass bottles, but the fancy new tins. Very exciting times.
  23. Somewhere between an inch and half an inch of oil. You'd expect a lot more basting with pan-fried too.

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