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Would spelling and grammar count towards your final mark?

It's pretty subtle all right, some people might need some time to millet over.

Back when I was a chef, I was of the opinion that you couldn't claim to be gluten-free until you'd completed a pop quiz about what gluten is and where it comes from. Would have separated the wheat from the chaff, so to speak.

So Brexit didn't answer the immigration question... I know, we'll Brexit harder!

I agree, but the problem lies with who we decide is too dense to vote. I suspect the tests would be quite different if written by the various members on this board.

I mean, has anyone ever been to the sun to really prove it? All we have to go on is what the MSM and Big Science have been telling us, no doubt to make their money from untested and unproven SunScream sales...

Ah yeah, I already answered that from my alternative account.

Answer to what? A question that didn't exist?

No, nothing I have ever typed, either on these boards or elsewhere on the Internet, in either recent history or past, could have ever given that impression, and I'm honestly perplexed as to how you could have ever taken that as a meaning. The mind is boggled.

This is yet another example of why arguing with you is ultimately a pointless exercise. The words you read on a screen seem to be in no way connected to those written by whoever you are talking to. They just seem to drop their context somewhere down the tubes between one's fingers and your eyes. I guess it makes life significantly easier for you if everything says what you want it to, but man, it sure makes communication frustrating.

Yeah, but it looked just like that three years ago, worse at two years, and a sneeze away from dead last year. I guess we'll have to check back in a year or so and see how she's doing? On the topic of recovery, perhaps as a wasted effort... anyone had any success on the seaweed and biochar approach?

Excellent reading comprehension there 👏

Don't think I've ever said that mate. Any proof?

He's right up there all right, he's responsible for some colossal changes that will take generations to fix, if they ever do.

I have taken part in many votes over my life. I also have opinions on a great number of things that I've never experienced or taken part in.

And you think this fact strengthens your argument?

And the others? Not the only one I've seen. I don't know, perhaps I'm just being optimistic, and there are definitely thousands of skeleton trees visible all over the place right now, but maybe the projected 95% fatality rate will end up a bit lower. 80? 75? Every little helps.

Changing species would be a very effective way of avoiding dieback, maybe more trees should try it. As far as I can tell, and I'm happy to be corrected on this, it is a self-seeded native Irish ash. Its location renders anything else improbable.

I don't live in your country buddy. Edit: anyway, that's bollocks. You aren't allowed to share any opinions on anything outside your small corner of the UK. Best not share any of your thoughts on the current debacle stateside. It's not allowed!

All politicians should have 2 hours in a pillory towards the end of each election cycle to allow the public the opportunity to gauge how successful they've been at delivering their promises.

No, but if they are happy chucking things at Farage, he's more than welcome to stay there.

He should spend more time there then, try and win them over!

Breaking news: Brexit celebrity and failed politician gets pelted with milkshake for the second time

Prove it!

I've got a photo here of a tree that was 95% bollocksed last year. It had a handful of greenery right at the very core of the crown, and nothing out on the boughs. Honestly, if you'd seen it over a footpath or next to someone's driveway it'd be gone 2 years ago, no question. But because it's out in the middle of nowhere on my regular dogwalk route, it got ignored, and it seems to be doing brilliantly. This doesn't look like a panic display, a last gasp attempt at using its final energy reserves, it looks like healthy new growth. There's still a good few dead sticks out at the ends, but pretty much every bough has a decent amount of growth on it. This isn't an isolated case: I've seen loads of new growth on trees that I'd written off as screwed before. Just yesterday I was chatting to a previous client about a heavily leaning ash over his front garden. He likes the tree and wants to keep it if he can. It's got the dieback, but again, it looks much healthier this year than it did last year, so I advised we just wait and see, the worst damage to clear up if it does go would be a few holes in the lawn. Am I imagining things, or has anyone else observed this kind of thing too?