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Are you looking for someone to sell you your list second hand, either in part or in full? And are you an absolute beginner? You are looking well into four figures to get your whole list, and for bits of it you should really try out different options before deciding on something. If you are a beginner beginner, like I was when I did my first training, I'd expect the course provider to not only give you most of what you need - certainly saws and climbing kit, maybe not personally PPE - but also have some of the different gear available to experiment with, so you can actually see what's out there before buying something you hate.
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I just did a quick Google to be sure, and most people still agree that WD40 is fine on nylon and dyneema climbing gear 👍 It does attract dirt though, which could in turn get into your rope, so definitely wipe off the excess.
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I placed a stroopwaffle on top of an ever-so-slightly-wider-than-usual mug of coffee once, expecting the molten caramel goodness to go all the way to the edge. Walked away for a few minutes, came back to find a missing waffle, and the subsequent investigation discovered both stroopwaffle and coffee to be ruined. The structural integrity of the stroopwaffle couldn't cope with the slightly larger soft centre, and it took a dive. Lesson learned... sometimes, just be content with what you have, and don't ask too much of things.
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Chocolate sprinkles on toast then. Maybe aniseed sprinkles.
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How is another way? Maybe not so negligent after all?
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How do you mean? That it was a negligent discharge that he was recommended to claim as deliberate?
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Apostrophes?
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No apostrophe for plurals unless you are Dutch. Cheers.
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"Il Douche and Il Duce."
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Smashing, nameless heirloom mystery chillies. There should be more of them. You can get a bigger plant earlier on when overwintered, though seedlings often catch up with their youthful vigour anyway. Also, overwintered plants probably make good clone mothers, or would themselves accept a graft quite readily, to minimise the risk of genetics straying from the seed. It's how many growers of the Devil's lettuce preserve their strains, anyway.
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You lucky thing. Any exciting varieties? You can "scare" the last fruits into ripening, works with tomatoes, chillies, aubergines, anything like that. Go to rip the plant up by the roots, but stop short of doing any actual damage. The plant will panic and put on a sprint finish for its last chance to propagate. Might weaken any chilli plants you want to overwinter though, best done to annuals only.
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Quadruple action... you'd have to be really unlucky to have it wiggle out, and with the kind of kN needed to bruteforce it, I think you'd have other things to worry about before it would ever happen.
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Too f*cking right! I'd generally have been happy with anywhere west of the Rhine, but there really are some absolute shitholes out there to be born into. And North Korea (among others) is right up there at the top of the list.
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Russia has thousands of NK workers on a regular basis, there are work camps all along the border, and deeper into Russia. But the terms are clear to all workers before they leave Korea: desertion brings strict punishment upon three generations of your family. You are absolutely right, it might all be BS, but that's what we are told by everyone who escapes, and I doubt they all got together beforehand to get their stories straight.
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Three generations in internment camps, apparently.
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Didn't put a fried egg in it this time. I'm watching my figure.
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Yeah, can't really complain!
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Jeez, you are right there. Okay, you win.
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Storm Ashley approaches...
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Observing this conversation with an occasional chuckle from the west coast of Ireland.
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Chip butty with chipper curry sauce.
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Strimmer damage when young, tried its best to heal over time, slowly rotted to the current result? Could be an ornamental variety on a regular rootstock (doesn't look massively ornamental from the twig pics, but the poor thing hasn't been well...), and coppicing could revert it to the original. Which isn't a bad thing at all, of course. To that end, could be a bad graft that allowed rot in early and festered. OP, when you say quite a few years, how many is that? You might be best starting again with a healthier tree.
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You are technically correct... the best kind of correct.
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Getting castle-ier every second. 10 points to whoever can date the castle by the shape of the arrow slits.
