Felshampo
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8 minutes ago, frahkn said:
Ah, sorry I missed your point.
I can't take his campaigning seriously - much preferred 'the Hitch'.
No one could match his clarity and charm unfortunately.
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30 minutes ago, frahkn said:
I don't think Dawkins capitalises "Christian" somehow.
As a campaigning antitheist along with Christopher Hitchin I am pretty sure he doesn't have any christian names (the predictive text added the capital c)
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29 minutes ago, frahkn said:
Ooh you do take some risks!
I would have gone for something taking advantage of the fact that his first christian name is 'Clinton'.
"Christian" ......... Oops
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3 hours ago, Athy said:
I had thought that the term referred to those little films which some people post, which run for a few seconds and then repeat themselves over and over again - that would make sense, as they're replaying the "same" thing.
I think they are called gifs
59 minutes ago, Sir Nibble said:Which presumes that the teaching is the only thing going on. Where would we be if hospitals could,t cope because all the staff were at home with their children?
Could schools become like care homes if the staff have no ppe?
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1 hour ago, Ex Brummie said:
There's none so blind as those who do not want to see.
You beat me to it.
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10 hours ago, Ex Brummie said:
But then again, I left school and live in the real world
Try telling that to all the parents trying to homeschool a small number of children, makes the real world dig seem a bit lame.
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On 09/05/2020 at 16:01, ditchcrawler said:
Strange lots of similarities, both 13 both had birthday under lock down, and lots more coincidences.
Also has the same name, Emma, and they both call themselves Narrowboat Girl on YouTube. ?
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3 hours ago, Tracy D'arth said:
If you are in Britain, there are no mosquitos, they are gnats and midges, fruit flies, dung flies, bluebottles, crane flies, wasps and the venomous hateful vicious horse flies.
As Howard says there is about 33 species of mosquitoes in the British Isles including 5 anophelines which can carry malaria. This is now quite rare in Europe but used to be common in East Anglia where it was known as Fen Fever.
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This was last year at Stanwick Lakes on the River Nene.
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2 hours ago, mark99 said:
The opposite is true too; IIRC USA has had a lot of deaths but a low death rate per thousand population.
The US is a huge country with a lot of natural social distance between populations. Also they have a great and dynamic leader............
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1 hour ago, Parahandy said:
130 foot by around 70 foot I dont think he would be building any large houses not to mention the front gate abuts the Bridge Parapet , a notorious accident spot . Personally I think its ripe for one of those Agricultural sleight of hands were someone perhaps buys a Pony quickly followed by a Caravan in order to make a cup of Tea whilst they feed it ?
That's what we thought but he originally applied for three properties. This was turned down but he did get permission for two. The plot is 50m by 20m on one side and 10m on the other so sort of triangular in shape. It originally had a small bungalow on it so they built houses with the upstairs in the roof. Still three bedrooms but technically still bungalows apparently.
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If you could get planning provisional permission from the local council for a couple of properties then the maths is simple. A builder built two large houses on a similar sized plot in our village. He paid 100,000 for the land and told us each house was about 200,000 to build. They sold for 450,000 each. Not a bad profit for two years work.
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Field Studies have a composting toilet at one of their centres I worked at in the last century. It produced a large amount of compost out the back of the shed it was in. They were able to leave it to compost naturally over a long time before bagging it and spreading it on the garden. Worked well as far as I remember.
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1 hour ago, haggis said:
I found the program more interesting than the previous series as there was more about the history of the canal environment and less about the crews lack of ability at driving. Bill Oddie is a bit of a pain though ?
Haggis
He suffers from bipolar so you have to admire his bravery or stupidity to agree to appear on the program.
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16 hours ago, WotEver said:
I note that they don’t mention where they dispose of their non-composted poo-in-a-bag.
They double bag it and put in the CRT bins.
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4 hours ago, Jerra said:
An Eagle owl could take a fox while it was still ahead of the pack assuming of course they intend to use the owl to kill it. No need to throw it into the pack.
Thinking back to the days when I regularly saw hunting, by careful thought/watching the pack the owl could take the fox out of sight of the pack.
Like you I know they are using this as an excuse.
The handler was on foot so this made it unlikely he could get to the fox before the pack but it could be possible.
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On 21/01/2020 at 17:32, Jerra said:
The problem I have with that is size. Most people take the attitude large estates you should be allowed to wander on but aren't prepared to have their garden under the same rules. So why is it OK on a large estate and not on garden? Where would you draw the line 2 hectare (5 acre) garden OK, 1.8 hectare (4.5 acres) not OK?
If you are going to allow free access why should any land be classed as different to what is a couple of miles down the road.
I think in Sweden the right to roam is up to but not over 100m from a residence which covers gardens around big or small estates.
On 22/01/2020 at 18:01, tree monkey said:Well obviously they would never chase a real fox, cause that's against the law isn't it.
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We really need an irony smiley
On 22/01/2020 at 17:48, Jerra said:Possibly both as the hunt isn't supposed to be chasing foxes.
In Suffolk the local hunt has overcome this small problem. They go for a run with their dogs after a dragged scent. If they disturb a fox (as if) then no problem they have a man with an Eagle Owl who will dispatch the fox. I had a chat with him and he assured me his owl was perfectly capable of killing a fox. I asked him if it had ever been needed to kill said fox, "er no" . It was a magnificent animal and the thought of throwing it into a pack of dogs who had just caught a fox to dispatch said fox struck me as unlikely!
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18 minutes ago, Jerra said:
Currently they aren't supposed to be hunting foxes are they? Report them.
Lol.................
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9 minutes ago, Jerra said:
The local hunt usually (always?) has the permission of the land owner. Round here the packs are told to keep off some peoples land and as far as I can see obey.
Trouble with that is the fox hasn't been told that and the hunt follows them. We only had a few hundred acres and so weren't consulted. Only an irritation but they certainly did more damage than any walkers could ever do.
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1 hour ago, sirweste said:
Nope not what I said at all. Not that important either. But as you seem stuck on the point, I simply said that in my head hill farming, with livestock spread incredibly thinly over many many acres of hills / mountain sides, isn't agricultural land. It was said to support the argument that people shouldn't really be wandering through heavily managed farmland, such as crop fields or fields with herds in them, to differentiate between that and the ability to roam on a mountain side with very lightly managed and sparsely distributed livestock.
If you're of the belief that people should be able to roam freely through crop / livestock fields then we are in disagreement.
Just to add another aspect to idiots wandering through heavily managed farmland it seems odd that the local hunt is allowed to do it with immunity but a few harmless walkers cannot. We lost several pets to the hounds and had crops flattened and fences damaged by the horses.
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It says in the description it was designed for coastal travel. A 36" prop might dig in a bit on the canals.
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This has got to be a snip at £84k. I'm tempted..... Not.
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Having digested all of the above comments, so to speak, I have formulated some explanation for the behavior of my system.
I think the blue the previous owner used killed everything and so no gasses were produced and there were no smells to start with .
I stopped using blue after about six months and changed over to Silky but it seems the transition can take longer than I thought. If there is still blue in the system killing the bacteria, but not all of them, leading to some fermentation of the waste and some gas production which is venting along the pipe from the waste tank to the toilet.
The non return valve is probably there to prevent the back flow of liquids but not gases.
Hopefully with each new pump out the gas production will get less and less as a finally get rid of the last of the blue.
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On 06/01/2020 at 21:55, Sea Dog said:
What exactly were you expecting? Roses? Lily of the Valley? Freshly laundered linen?
Ah yes well. Exactly. No the comment was to illustrate the anomaly between the smell before and after.
Using blue no smell from toilet but waste tank very smelly. Using no blue toilet smelly but waste tank not so smelly.
That's what I don't understand. ?
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Isn't that because the air is so polluted?