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Christians have moved on, mainly as a result of better education. Let us hope that Arab countries manage to do the same.
Christianists in USA still killing doctors, bombing clinics, no sign of them moving on, no better than the worst Islamists. Christianists from Ireland planted a bomb in 1996 which came within seconds of killing me.
Christianity and Islam are branches of the same religion, Judaism too, it's all Abrahamism.
If you have religion you get religious extremists, doesn't matter what flavour the religion is, they all represent the abrogation of common sense and it's replacement with superstition and dogma.
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I'm not so sure. Back in the 1980s when I did a lot of cycling I used one of those U-shaped Citadel locks, normally round the front wheel, frame and a railing so that the bike couldn't be taken away in a van to the privacy of a workshop. I routinely left the bike on the street all over London, often late evening, even once overnight on the Walworth Road, and nothing happened. I did normally remove the lights, which tended to be targeted by thieves. Someone in the bike trade once told me the two ways such a lock can be got open without the key, which I won't describe here. One would be very difficult to do on the street, and the other very dangerous.
Scissor jack defeats U locks, the vast majority of thieves are wise to that. Same result can be had with a couple of scaffolding poles and a bit of brute force, much harder to prevent scaffolding insertion than scissorjack insertion.
Consider Almax chain & lock, check out the videos on youtube of people failing to cut ALMAX chains. I swear by them! almax-security-chains.co.uk
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We once were infested with them, they were lurking in the tiniest cracks & crevices. As soon as it got dark out they came.
Woodlice powder would have taken care of them. A good sprinkle around the place, leave it for the night and vacuum it and the dead insects up in the morning. Some of the insects would have carried a small amount of the powder back to their brethren hiding in the cracks. Also works well on wasps nests, but some insects such as masonry bees seem to be smart enough to know when they're poisoned and not return to the hive.
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I spoke to them recently to discuss my one plan monthly contract and they knew my total usage and how much of that was tethered (still unlimited though on my plan which is supposed to be obsolete, but not been formally notified yet).
Maybe they can see your usage when they examine your account but they're definitely not policing it. Friend used 160GB one month and over 110GB the next month by offering his hotspot as a free-for-all around the marina, I'm still surprised he got away with it but he did, and he claims to have been doing the same thing for years. This was on one of those £15 3 PAYG bundles, the one where they just put the price up to £20 last month.
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3 don't seem to know when you're tethering! My PAYG is supposed to be no tethering but I've tethered almost daily since I got it. Same deal, different user, friend was leaving his phone in hotspot mode in a tupperware box on the roof of his boat so other people in the marina could tether and download films.
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ETA: Note that their link, enquiries.london@canalrivertrust.org.uk as dispalyed actually goes to enquires.london@canalrivertrust.org.uk Note the missing 'i' in enquiries.
Perhaps a subtle way of avoiding getting any submissions.
I didn't see that first time round and emailed the incorrect address, causing the message to bounce back. CRT's IT morons are using bounces rather than rejections (old method, frowned upon as bad technique), so many people won't even get a rejection message as CRT's mailserver is already blacklisted for backscatter.
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If you want to feed a buzzer from several lights (alternator, oil pressure, water temp, adverc, etc, you'll need to use a bunch of diodes as well.
This could lead into a very complex bit of wiring, especially as some of the things you're wiring have a positive "signal" and others have a negative "signal". Far easier to fit separate buzzers for each item, also makes it possible to use different sounds for different warnings.
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You could
You could always leg it through......http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/news/legging2006.htm
It's always been a dream of mine to have a go at legging a boat through!
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I dont know what he alledgedly did, I just dont agree with advertizing where people live who commit crime thats all I meant.
Maybe his mum lives at that address or maybe a girl freind with a young child, I think advertizing where people live is dangerous, their are some people who seek revenge and the wrong people can end up paying for someone elses crime.
This is all I meant, nothing more.
Maybe I just see things differently.
I do tend to agree, some people go too far to seek vengeance, and there are still plenty of criminals on the loose who might use this as an excuse to burgle the guy's house. Remember he's not guilty until the court says so, there's always a slim chance they arrested the wrong man.
So complain to the courts, not on here.
The courts have a duty to fully identify the person, which may include his address and postcode. You might take note that the newspapers use the court's information releases to make news articles but it is unusual for them to publish anything more specific than a street name.
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I don't see that anyone is two packets away from having to camp on the pavement, if you start from point zero, ie standing on the street with no money, or anything but the clothes your wearing, you can go to the nearest police station and they will put you in touch with the nearest hostel. Probably salvation army, you get an emergency bed for the night, then you claim benefits, and live in the hostel, the SA take it all off you, but you work for cash in hand until you get the deposit on a room in a shared house, then you find a job, any job, and move on from there. .
Exactly what someone I know tried to do. He got a hostel place and I found him some part time work with a local taxi firm. SA kicked him out and reported him for working whilst claiming, which got his benefits sanctioned for 6 months. The only reason he's not still on the streets is because he's since been diagnosed with a terminal illness and the 1% don't like finding dead bodies in their shop doorways.
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Drunken snatchings with sobering regret perhaps?
I quite often do things I find funny at the time to find myself marred with regret afterwards.
Two friends of mine staggered home drunk with a Barber's chair, neither have any recollection of where it came from. I found them the next day both feeling terribly guilty about stealing it as they're both completely honest people by nature.
Alcohol is a powerful drug!
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although there are still many Springers still on the canals most of them will have had or wlll need some hull work diong by now.
Mine's lost 0.5mm in 36 years, not bad for a boat that's been set on fire and sunk. Met a guy in the midlands who had one same year as mine and he'd lost even less!
The thing with Springers seems to be the interior, it's all flimsy and it wears badly.
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You are right that your pension contributions don't go into a fund earmarked for you; they simply go into the government's coffers and help to pay existing pensioners. However, that doesn't make them a benefit because you have actually paid for the pension that you will (you hope) receive.
I think that makes them technically a Ponzi scheme, rather than a benefit.
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Very true - had one on the Severn once who tried to ram the prow of his kayak under our stern as we were heading upstream apparently because "the wash is fun to be in". I did consider doing a sudden manoeuvre and seeing what would happen.....
I haven't done that in decades, brings back memories of paddling like crazy trying to keep my canoe within a couple of feet of my friends outboard. Yes the wash is "fun" when compared to flat water, but I wouldn't dream of doing it without the permission and cooperation of the boat in front.
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Mike, your mate is right, a feckin great great 12 inch Kenworth vertical stack. If your the type make it polished stainless steel for bling. The 28swg version. Would be best. You can get them in 14inch diameter.
There's a narrowboat around here with a big Eminox stack up the back, sounds lovely.
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My 1989 Springer has lost 0.5 mm in places on the hull.
That's the same amount my 1979 Springer has lost!
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Rings were put in all along the (offside) frontage of the new development at Aylesbury Basin. Then a child tripped over one and fell in. They have now all been cut off.
Without actually knowing about any specific incident, that's basically what I assumed was the problem with putting in rings, someone's tripped or cycled into a ring. I've come close to tripping over rings a few times, it's easily done.
Perhaps what should be put in is a series of small squares of grass or dirt, level with the hard surface but left soft so that mooring pins can still be hammered in.
At one location where we struggled to moor I found the outer shell of a couple of rawl bolts in the stonework well placed about 50 feet apart, a couple of M8 eyebolts would have enabled mooring. I now carry eyebolts, just in case. Don't think I'm cheeky enough to start drilling the edging stones and installing my own though!
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Seriously considering adding a large battery SDS drill to my boating kit to help get mooring pins through surfaced towpaths, following a breakdown incident earlier this year where I had to haul the boat half a mile just to be able to moor up and have a look what went wrong!
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When our bottom pulley decided to break and fly off right on the junction at Kidsgrove (on the thursday afternoon before a bank holiday), Dave the RCR/Canal Contracting guy went so far above and beyond the call that I'm still singing his praises months later. Although he was on call for the bank holiday weekend he used our boat as a base to work from so he could keep on working on our engine between callouts. He sourced us a new pulley, took it away and machined it to accept the jabsco pulley on the front, sourced us a new oil seal, all on a bank holiday weekend! The only reason the repair took until the tuesday to complete was difficulty accessing a lathe. You'd be lucky to find a boatyard anywhere to do a repair of that magnitude on a bank holiday weekend!
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RCR are great, possibly the best money you could spend!
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Pair of cheap computer speakers will do what you need without taking up too much space.
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They looked quite nice! they also looked secure, and there was someone around every time I passed (which was literally dozens of times over the long bank holiday weekend we were broken down there).
If you do take the mooring, check out the Blue Bell pub about 50 yards further up the towpath from the bridge, they do some really nice beers.
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We were broken down near there for a few days earlier this year, didn't see any actual trouble, all the locals seemed nice but saw dodgy looking (older) youths drinking cheap beer at 9-10am near the station steps a couple of times.
To clarify, are you talking about the offside moorings between the tunnel and the bridge or between the bridge and the junction?
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In future any CRT boat that overstays the seven consecutive days in ONE YEAR will get a patrol notice, failure to leave the Bridgewater will leave the owner liable to a £250.00 fine if it is not paid it will be attached to the CRT licence renewal, paying the £15.00 and transferring ownership to someone else to avoid the fine will not be accepted.
So Peel think they can transfer the "debt" onto the new owner of a boat? Is this in writing anywhere? Sounds pretty unrealistic to me!
Worst thing out of Weedhatch
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