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...and frogs... and blackbirds... and hedgehogs... Go organic, save the planet (or die trying).

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.

Can you get 1/4 pico in a 42"?

Is it possible to fit one to an MSA200?

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.

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.

I have three thermos flasks available, so on a busy morning I can be super efficient and lose all three.

Need both threads linking to your video, yeah?

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?

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:

Updated Dutch flag, seen at the recent climate demonstrations in Amsterdam.

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.

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.

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.

Nice one dude!

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.

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.

Look, I know that I'm talking to the wrong people here, I accept that nothing will sway your opinion until Norfolk is underwater and the boats of climate refugees are either dropped straight into the starvation camps or machine gunned on sight. But here's a little thought, and the supporting document in question, from Noam Chomsky. Quote (discussing erstwhile President Trump's climate policies) "And notice that the wrecking ball in the White House just doesn’t give a damn. He’s having fun. He’s serving his rich constituency. So what the hell, let’s destroy the world. And it’s not that they don’t know it. Some months ago, maybe a year ago by now, one of the Trump bureaucracies the National Transportation Administration came out with what I think is the most astonishing document in the entire history of the human species. It got almost no attention. It was a long 500-page environmental assessment in which they tried to determine what the environment would be like at the end of the century. And they concluded, by the end of the century, temperatures will have risen seven degrees Fahrenheit, that’s about twice the level that scientists regard as feasible for organized human life. The World Bank describes it as cataclysmic. So what’s their conclusion? Conclusion is we should have no more constraints on automotive emissions. The reasoning is very solid. We’re going off the cliff anyway. So why not have fun? Has anything like that ever appeared in human history? There’s nothing like it." PDF document from the NTA: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/ld_cafe_my2021-26_deis_0.pdf So we've even got climate scientists on your side of the line saying that things are f*cked up, the situation is beyond all hope, so why even bother trying? Let's just make a few more dollars whole we can! If you'd like, I can keep dropping the occasional report or study or TED talk or whatever in here to give you something to think about? But no... it'd be a waste of everyone's time.

Nope, I've had none of that, but I'm only in two years at this point.

Absolutely fair enough. The really shiny silver lining to this cloud is that the next twenty years are going to make some great telly.

The life expectancy of someone born in 1970 is slightly lower than that of, say, my parents, who were born in 1945. My own life expectancy is significantly lower than that, and that of someone born in 2017 is dramatically lower still. This shouldn't be a difficult concept to unwrap.

Good craic, we were pretty busy back at the start of the year when people were still going outside, but then the pubs opened again here in Ireland and now everyone is staying indoors. I myself was scraped off a mountain by my then local team once, I would have definitely died if they hadn't wrestled me down some pretty spicy terrain in a blizzard. I since moved country and I signed up as soon as I'd recovered from my injuries. My two kids were a hair's breadth away from growing up without a father, and the thought of anyone else's family going through that just breaks my heart, so I want to try and give others the same help I received. It's a bit of a time suck, and there's the occasional plonker wandering around a forest in their flip flops who needs pulling out of a gorse bush or something, but there's also the occasional opportunity to do some real good in someone's life. If you've got the skillset, a bit of spare time, and the right frame of mind, I'd heartily recommend signing up.

LED lenser +1. We use them in my local mountain rescue team, they throw a strong beam a long way.

Well, you had my sympathies until that last part, because the short term economic sting necessary to effect significant change will inevitably hurt us little people more than the fabulously wealthy who can, of course, easily afford it. But I'm afraid the consequences of the ongoing ecological collapse and the ever-worsening climate catastrophe aren't just a problem to faced by brown people from the future in places with exciting food. Scientific consensus is that thanks to the knock-on effects of climate change on its current trajectory, anyone on Earth born after 1970 has had their life expectancy cut short somewhere between slightly and dramatically; the most common causes of death for people of my own generation (circa 1986) are going to be starvation and suicide; and my own children of 3 and 4 are statistically unlikely to make it past their 30th birthdays. I'm not sure what O-Level science textbook you are getting your ideas from, but the kick-off date for "global warming" isn't an agreeably-distant 2100 any more, for us here in the civilised western hemisphere we can't expect our pampered and luxurious lifestyles to extend much beyond the year 2030. To boil it down into simply economic terms as you are keen to do, we can either take a bit of a sting now and maybe stand a chance of not having global society collapse around us, or we can most definitely suffer the same economic sting a few years down the line and immediately watch everyone we know and love starve to death. The most frustrating thing is patiently explaining this to people like yourself as the clock slowly runs out.