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Try a gentle exfoliating cleanser with salicylic acid, or a scrub based around brown sugar and apricot husk. Regarding a replacement, I think I've seen people just using cut-up old beach towels for the same application in those 30 second shorts with the annoying music on various social media platforms. Regarding the race to 1000: there needs to be much more contention, we can't just keep harping on about how great capillary mats are. I'm happy to play the role of devil's avocado if needs be.

I know exactly how they feel.

Unacceptable. Put all other business on hold until you've achieved optimum elevation. I demand a resolution.

Well I suppose so, but if the current problem is not enough capillarisation, surely a little less gravity would help? Could you reach a happy medium... maybe try equi-level with the waterees?

Now, I might be wrong here, but I think the capillary matting might be able to capillitate more effectively if the reservoirs are above the target audience. In the same way one would syphon water from a higher altitude to a lower one. You've then got gravity working in your favour, rather than against you.

Thank God (capital G) for that, there's enough nignogs and wogs in hospitals as it is, we don't want their inferior darkie blood in there as well! Let's not dilute our white blood!

Yeah, I'm agreeing with you. The God of Abraham is a massive prick and anyone who relies on Him as any sort of influence or guiding light in their day-to-day life needs their head examining. Load of nonsense. In this day and age, in the 21st century! Anyway, you never shared your thoughts on Project 2025?

COLOSSAL irony. HUMONGOUS!

Yeah, he's a right pillock that God of Abraham, so he is. Caused nothing but mischief!

I simply don't understand why we ever even stopped hunting whales for the precious spermaceti they produce. It lit our homes, it is a renewable resource, it provided jobs for thousands of hard-working families, not that the wig-wearing aristocrats in their ivory towers would know anything about that (and don't even get me started on ivory... another renewable resource!), and we, as an island nation, have a rich history of harvesting the bounty of the seas. My family in particular go back generations in the whaling game, so I have an in-depth and unbiased wealth of knowledge on the subject. All these bloody retards saying that we are just going to run out of whales are off their bloody rockers, have you even seen how much ocean there is out there? It's bloody massive! We could never run out! This newfangled idea of electrification and these bloody stupid incandescent light bulbs are just a flash in the pan, a phase, a fleeting trend. It'll all be gone in a few years and all the sensible, pragmatic, common-sense-led people will realise that whale oil is the only realistic method we've got available to us for lighting our homes.

Yes, quite sure. She's been tested for all sorts, and is allergic to the most inconvenient of things. Particularly lamb, which she has a taste for unfortunately, and is the reason she was given away from her first home... a sheep farm. She had landed on her feet with my friend, a lifelong GSD owner. She gets binfuls of tripe and assorted butcher's waste, and mixes her own.

I must dig out a picture of Baldric doing his civic duty a decade ago, picking up empty cans from a frozen lake. Stay tuned. Just found in the pet food shop... plant-based dog food! I have a friend with a German Shepherd who is allergic not only to most common meats found in dry food, but also the dust mites living in the factories and silos that they make it in. Feeding her is difficult and expensive. Maybe plant-based is the way forward...

Ever done a ball in a cage tree stump?

(...that’s odd... I could have sworn I saw another post in here...) Anyway, who wants to share their thoughts on Project 2025?

That's nice. I don't think I've ever thought of you...

What a mess. I guess our only hope is that both of them just straight up kick the bucket at the earliest available opportunity. Not sure where to go from there, but it's a start.

Well, fingers crossed for them, hope they wake up. Hoping to plant 6 more apple trees myself ASAP, not finding the time at the moment unfortunately. They are just sat there in pots, waiting.

I like to remind myself of that every now and then by letting it bite me.

Problem with using a bight that you've clipped into is it weakens the rope and provides a possible point of failure. That point of failure is probably still wildly outside the forces you are working with, but still. A rope grab is exactly what you want in this situation, or even a prusik, as long as it's made with decent strong cord, if you use cord with 20kN breaking strength then it definitely won't be the weak point in your system. The good thing about rope grabs and prusiks is that they start to slip on the rope a looong time before the forces get high enough to cause catastrophic failure, which is actually a good thing. Where prusiks have a slight edge over rope grabs, other than the cost, is that they bite the rope again sooner once the forces are lowered. Double check the numbers, but these things generally all break around 20kN, grabs or prusiks start slipping somewhere between 8 and 11kN, then grabs grab again at about 4kN, but prusiks prus at around 6 or 7. These are figures from memory, don't quote me, I'll try and remember more exact ones at some point. That bowline on a bight won't slip at all, it'll hold on until something breaks, giving you no opportunity to identify snags in your system before it explodes.

Yes mate. That's a nice bit of kit. 200kg obviously, but how mobile is it really? If there is much wobble from slosh, you could add a few baffles internally. Might not need it, might not be worth the effort?

It was surprisingly tricky to find a suggestion as to what temperature ear wax melts, but here is an answer. You say you've tried a hair drier, but I think you get better results in a 55⁰c oven, positioned holes-down, obviously. You might also get good results using either cheap olive oil or bog standard sunflower oil, warmed gently, to help loosen the deposits. Depending on where the technology is in the earbud, you might even get away with a shallow bath of the warmed oil, in a low oven. in culinary terms, we would call this technique confit.

At that point, don't even bother with insurance at all. How do the two totals over your lifetime stack up, money paid against reimbursements? Think of what you could have saved if you'd just gone under the radar, like I suppose the young fella who hit you was... Again, this won't be helpful as hindsight is 20/20, but what were you thinking agreeing to a 2k cap? If it's the other party at fault, that isn't something for them to offer. They either cover the costs entirely, or they don't, and insurance does. At this point, be happy with the 600 quid sting, I suppose.

This might not help now, but I'd have gotten insurance involved immediately, on the day, without fail.