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9 hours ago, Ratman said:

Touching cloth!

But what is it? A sausage in a donut?

National Grid to drain electric car batteries at times of peak demand

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Trial will see cars plugged into grid to ease burden on Britain's creaking energy...

EVs may help keep the lights on 😂

2 hours ago, Gimlet said:

Johnson's push for net zero started long before his present difficulties. If he wanted to move on from partygate and keep his job, he'd find a way to back out of net zero, not push even deeper into it. He must be aware of the catastrophic economic damage it is doing already before it's even got going, and he must have noticed that we've noticed as well. Net zero isn't distracting form his current problems, it's making them vastly worse. 

 

This eco bullshit didn't start when he got caught having a glass of merlot in the garden with office staff. It started when he invited the latest Mrs Johnson into his bed, and from there into senior government.

He could solve all his problems tomorrow by abandoning net zero, commencing fracking and building mini nuclear plants, reducing taxes, reforming the NHS, lighting a massive bonfire under defunct EU regulation, invoking article 16 and draining the Whitehall swap. In other words, doing what he was elected to do and what we thought he believed in. But to do any of that, he'll need another divorce. 

It's no good. They'll both have to go.

😂👍

1 hour ago, LeaLea910 said:

 

Thank you for taking the time to replying and offering your thought.

Potential kits to include but not exclusive to- 

HaemoCap™ pressure dressing
PELI Waterproof Hard Case or Belt Pouch

CAT 7th Generation Tourniquet

QuickClot Dressing

Compressed Responder Gauze 

FOX Chest Seal 

Emergency Haemorrhage Control Trauma Wound Bandage Dressing

Trauma Shears

Medi Gloves
Thermal Emergency Foil Blanket

 

It will allow quick response and action. Hopefully never needed. What do you think? 

Many Thanks

I was wondering if you were marketing a new quick acting, quick drying coagulant glue-spray that a lone operator could apply before mobiling for help.

Pads & gauzes nevermind tourniquets are a faff, particularly one handed.

Have you experience of trauma induced shock? I've seen it. Find one product, easy to carry, easy to apply and proven by experts and you may have a seller. 🙂

7 minutes ago, CambridgeJC said:

Absolutely not. As the tree is seemingly strong and surviving and not posing a threat as it’s in woodland then I would leave well alone and cite it as a special case. I am not one of you arborists. I am a retired scientist with an amateur and increasing interest in ivy and its potential threat to the environment. Thanks. 

Good. You used the phrase "clear and present danger" which suggested you weren't just a researcher 😂

53 minutes ago, CambridgeJC said:

I find the link here which helps understand the growth habits of ivies etc. Really worth a read.

 

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Heteroblasty--a+review.-a0259155098

 

 

 

 

Here are two images of the same tree. 
Any ideas how old this ivy is?

In this case it has clearly not killed the tree but there are so many examples that act as sails on more vulnerable slender trees. This is when there is a clear and present danger from falling trees. Can you really say there is no problem with ivy???

 

By the way. I now believe the two leaf types are from the same plant in most cases where both apparently exist on the same tree. And in the uk probably Hedera helix. Please correct me if you are absolutely certain of your facts. Thanks 

Good find. I work in woodlands. It's not like formal gardening. Ivy of this age has scarcity value. Would you cut this ivy to save its tree scaffold?

Give us your list of proposed bleed stop items?

23 minutes ago, benedmonds said:

Has anyone any experience of courses, training or resources for team leaders.

 

Excellent operatives do not necessarily make are excellent team leaders and would like to give some of the team some tools to help them. 

In the past I have promoted guys to team leader and it has not gone well, some are just ineffective and productivity drops, but  some take the chance to sit back and watch others work, resort to shouting and threats to motivate or simply just leave as they can't cope with the responsibility. 

 

Part of the reason I was told to come here was gleaning leadership pointers. Not my current boss but his predecessor was ex-service and was well known for being able dangle carrots and crack the whip.

From what I've seen, it's not all learnt from a manual. Some is inbuilt talent too.

9 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Ha, evidently not!
Fraudsters apparently and that's just this chunk from Bounce Back Loans.

I think that the first line of this paragraph sums up the Gov's approach to this whole covid shenanigan:

 

Just watched the vid you posted. Says the country's stuffed and the people in charge have stuffed it! No checks nor balances. Only cheques and silences!

Amazing! Then he snaps his book shut says goodbye with ominous finality and marches out. Dear God.

2 minutes ago, Mark J said:

Minister quits in Lords over government handling of Covid loans fraud | Conservatives | The Guardian

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Lord Agnew resigns in parliament after £4.3bn write-off, saying oversight of scheme had been ‘nothing less than woeful’

4.3 billion written off, where did that money come from?

We know where it went?

59 minutes ago, nepia said:

Without defending one little bit Putin, a horrible little psycopath with serious Little Man's Disease, Russia has always been paranoid about expansion across Europe; the North European Plain extends from Moscow to Ostend and gives all Russian leaders sleepless nights.  The paranoia results from being invaded twice via the Plain when both invaders all but reached the gates of Moscow.  In Putin's shoes I would feel uncomfortable about the US presence in Germany, Ukraine etc.

 

Also, and I don't know if this is relevant, the independence of Ukraine cost Russia its free bread basket; Ukraine grew most of Russia's wheat, now Russia has to buy it

My penny's worth to add to this is resources. Time was when strong countries invaded weak ones, subjugated Its people's and expropriated it's resources. Germany has neither oil nor gas only coal. Russia is playing war games with the West. They supply, we pay. They put the price up by strangling supply, then the yanks step in.

We're thinking of going off-grid 😂

9 hours ago, john87 said:

Not sure about the first bit... Take the other scams, The only one most people have heard of is "CORGI" and they went and changed their name.. As for the other scams, NICEIC, ELECSA, etc etc, mr average punter could not care a crap about "part P" and is not in the least interested in certificates. All they want is it works and it is cheap..

 

You sell you wood at the right price and they will not care about anything else.. That is the way of the world. Why do you think people buy chinese shit??? All they care about is price, nothing else..

 

john..

Your pioneering spirit is what makes arbs a cut above the rest. I enjoy reading all reports from the outer edge 😄. But consumers are reassured by regulatory stamps of approval. It's what keeps them coming back. Educating them rather than us producers is the challenge. 👍

2 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Might not be chinesium, but being Tory donors Mr Bamford's son got massive state handouts to fund this project. Shocking I know.

Bamford and his like make the world go round 👍 but yes, there are lines.

31 minutes ago, djbobbins said:

I grew up near Stoke. It’s definitely gone downhill over the last 30 years IMO - I remember when some of the bigger pot banks were still open; H&R Johnson, Beswick etc. Plus a couple of pits.

Now - and it’s a genuine thought - I just don’t see where the major sources of employment growth will come from, which might bring some economic prosperity. Stoke is pretty well placed for logistics I guess, but as far as I know warehouses don’t employ huge numbers of people, nor are those jobs particularly highly paid.

Let’s hope Michelin and JCB keep going…

JCB are not totally chinesium

JCB's hydrogen-fuelled combustion engine examined - Farmers Weekly

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JCB is one of the first agricultural engine makers to successfully modify its...

19 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

It would be interesting to see how new stove sales have been affected.

 

In my little parish there is some reluctance to collect a lorry load of ash which was agreed in October.

Haulier prob?

41 minutes ago, AHPP said:

Oh, John. Don’t say things like “100%” and then straight away drop a bollock (the golden rule and a load of other stuff). You come off like Vespasian, a former member and pretty serious know it all.

Golden rule? Like Goldilocks?

Any chance you could say a bit more?

John was interesting on a thread about council legalities. I'm a numpty so no essay. Just a pointer or two 😀

19 minutes ago, Gav73 said:

 

I have to agree with this, which words are used in legislation can open up something, which should be relatively simple, to a wide version of interpretations.

But that doesn’t mean it will be easy to prove that a chosen interpretation is valid, it would still need to be tested in a court of law and for the judge to decide it’s correct or whether the “spirit of the legislation” has been broken.

Personally I think you’d be on a hiding to nothing trying to justify your interpretation of the 2 cube rule and it was probably cost you more in legal fees than just paying woodsure.

 

Exactly. Legal terms are closed down tightly to very precise meanings. There is no open to interpretation guff. A law, statute or regulation will have its own in built qualified terms too. From my v tiny understand of law, lawyers make their money when there is wriggle room or a disconnect between the rule of law, the spirit of the law and a particular case.

19 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

If you need any firsthand information on how our police/cps/courts work I'll run you through it.

 

In June 2019 I got lifted for an assault, carrying an offensive weapon and drink driving, I did poke him one, (but he came at me) there was no weapon, no vehicle, yet I had to go to Ipswich crown in April 2021. My barrister told me I was best of taking the charge off breach of the peace, and suck it yo.

So you were innocent of abh and had to plead to a lesser catchall? Hope all ok now.

I tried the search engine duckduckgo for a bit as an alternative to Google. Didn't get as good results back. Also, when looking up the filums, it always comes back in with a result of IMDB in russian! Click on the link and it obviously reverts to English/UK.

Maybe Putin wants to know what we're going to watch 😂

26 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

No

Damn! You saw my trap. 😂 I'll conceal it better next time.

Not to worry. You can start back at Level 1 tomoz.

56 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

Yes. Nothing but self serving parasites. 
 

The French had the right idea on how to deal with Royalty. 
 

If they genuinely bring in anything remotely like 2 billion then why pay them anything and fund their security? Seems like they can fund this themselves quite easily so let them. 
 

It baffles me there is still grown men defending such a disgusting organisation.  

So, to continue the provocation, to see if it has legs, let's say all the crown's wealth reverts to the state, all ill-begotten jewels returned to the countries of origin, all privilege and patronage, opening and closing ceremonies stopped, what then?

I'd say it would end up being a cross between George Orwell's Animal Farm and the current Welsh Assembly or maybe even Holyrood. Corruption and incompetence would see all the pomp and glory wiped out into grey dispair for the ruthless few.

You say it could be different and better? How so? Paint a picture for us.

Anyway, did they eat the pig after they finished with it? 😂

Having to explain the joke most often kills it. Brits have always dispised politicians haven't they? The last century's serious political leaders did serious harm, no? Stalin, Hitler? I don't mind a joker in No.10. I hope he stays on because we won't have fun after he goes with next set.