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I agree. It'd have been easy enough to arrange, too. Marchant into the centre instead of Daly and then Radwan can be on the wing. I just don't get Jones' obsession with Daly. I don't think his domestic season has been altogether stellar. I guess we're a little short in the centre right now.

Oh bless your little brain. One can only hope Scotland's backs are quicker with their rugby than you are with spotting sarcasm! You didn't wonder why I followed that line up with 'Anyone got anything sensible to say' or at the end '...Not that [our batters will] actually be able to bat for long'? I'd have thought the tone was ridiculous enough for my meaning to be clear...I'll spell it out in words of just one part to them the next time... Indeed! I think it's going to be a pretty competitive tournament - one notable exception!

Do you mean from the tee, or in-game? If the latter, I don't think so. It tends to bog us down anyway. I'd rather we laid off the kicking a bit and ran with the ball. With Smith, Slade and Daly in the middle, I think we could be pretty dynamic. And if we need a rethink, Ford's on the bench. From the tee, possibly. He does give his cheap points, but without him, we might be tempted to go for the corner more?

I don't know of anyone who said they would hump the Aussies? So...your post is, 'I know nothing about the thing I'm talking about,' followed by 'here's a thing that's wrong'. Glad we cleared that up...

You mean ODI world champions and T20 number one? If they are, your little lot are in trouble...

It's that time again! England's team's been announced and it looks inexperienced but surprisingly dynamic. Back Three: Marchant, Steward, Malins Centre: Daly, Slade Fly: Smith, Scrum Half: Youngs Eight: Simmonds Second Row: Itoje, Isiekwe, Ludlam, Curry (capt) Front Row: Genge, Cowan-Dickie, Sinckler Replacements: George, Marler, Stuart, Ewels, Dombrandt, Randall, Ford, Nowell. It's nice to see Curry in the armband and out of Number Eight. Thoughts for the tournament?

I got lucky in my instructor - he told us not to wear chainsaw protection gloves and my assessor backed him up! They both had a healthy dose of common sense in them

Chainsaw gloves, I agree with, but there are a few reasons why wearing gloves is a good idea - and none of them have got anything to do with cutting yourself with the chain. Firstly, chainsawing is physical work. your hands get sweaty and if the weather's warmish, you will be rubbing sweat out of your eyes. That makes your hands wet and slippery, which is a bad state of affairs to be in if you're holding a chainsaw. A pair of gloves will give you grip even if your hands are sweaty. Secondly, having gloves on means you're able to remove brush out of the way easily. If you're cutting through thorny stuff, the last thing you want to be doing is batting undergrowth out the way with your saw if you can help it. They're unwieldy things at the best of times and if you're constantly waving it out the front (even without applying the triggers) you're asking for trouble. It'll also make the day a lot more tiring. Thirdly and connected is gloves can protect you from infections by saving you from the cuts and punctures that come from working with timber or undergrowth. No one wants a rusty nail through a hand because they grabbed a piece of fence post, but missed the nail sticking out of it and blackthorn's notorious for infections in wounds. A splinter in the hand from a lump of wood you're cutting up that's sat in the wood shed's no biggy...unless of course there are mice and rats running over it and constantly weeing everywhere. Anyone for a dose of leptospirosis or Weil's disease? Fourthly and perhaps most importantly is gloves are protection from white finger. Vibrations can knacker nerves in the hands and fingers. Over time and especially in cold or wet conditions those vibrations damage and kill the nerves in your hands. This is permanent damage and can't be undone. Chainsaw protection ones are bulky and give you very little feel and control through them, which is why I don't wear them - I use pike fishing gloves as they give thorn protection without any loss in feel or dexterity - but wearing some form of hand protection absolutely comes under the heading of common sense when it comes to chainsaw work. The rotating chain's not the only thing you should have in your mind when it comes to protecting yourself.

Cheap it is, but it meets proper safety standards! Class 1 is standard, good quality protection. It'll stop a chain up to 20m/s. In context my professional ground saw (Husqvarna 550xp) chain speed at 133% of maximum engine power speed is 26.1m/s. So to go through my Class 1's I'd have to rev the saw up to its beyond max speed, then grip down hard on the trigger then ram it into my thigh! At its working max, it's only running at 19.6m/s - and that's a good pro saw. Basically, you'd have to deliberately try and cut into them, even then all domestic saws and a lot of beefier ones too would get jammed before they get to your leg. It's a very good kit - assuming you can fit into it all! Here's Felixia Banck, aka FemaleLumberjack on youtube playing about with Class 1 trousers At Stihl HQ in Denmark with a similarly powered pro saw: a Stihl MS261

Yes. The chaps don't wrap all the way round, so they don't need a waist size and the helmet's obviously adjustable. If you go into the Description tab near the bottom, you'll find the gloves are a size 10

I made my dad get that set. He's been very pleased and I'm pleased he's in it. As others have said it's best to do it right and not compromise. Remember that PPE isn't a substitute for safe practice. I've got the qualifications and the kit up to the eyeballs, but that's not what keeps me safe. That's the training and the common sense. However things can go wrong and occasionally it's not the fault of the cutter, so it's worth having the safety kit too. You only get one set of limbs, so it's best to keep them connected to the body...

And after all that, we're back where we started. Fury fights Whyte, Joshua fights Usyk. Fury/Whyte must be by the end of April Tyson Fury v Dillian Whyte: Frank Warren wins purse bid for WBC world title fight - BBC Sport

Gray Report published in full! Seems legit.

Agreed. And the new feats seem to be getting more and more convoluted. Once upon a time it was just climbing something new that mattered. Now it's the first to climb without rope, or on a new route, in a new season, first solo, first without oxygen etc.. But the more complicated the 'first' becomes the more diluted the achievement, so it really does become just about ego, and ego doesn't tuck your kids up at night after you've been killed in a rock fall.

Like you, I am ambivalent about it. I understand the draw, but I think there has to be limits. His free-spiritedness is fine for selfish ambition, but it masks his responsibilities to his girlfriend and his family. I'm sure they're all glad he died doing what he loved, but I bet given the choice, deep down they'd rather not have had to go through his death and the loss. Celebrating a life at a funeral is hardly the same as celebrating a life at a birthday, Christmas etc...

This. Yup. If it's in good order it's a great gun. If it's not, then it's worth the money spent on making it so, because they're excellent.

Huh. that's gotta smart a bit.

I think he probably will, but it won't be his choice, which kind of makes it worse. They don't even have to give him it, it'd be pity money, because if Joshua steps aside, Fury will jump at the Usyk fight because there's no contract agreement between him and Whyte yet. It was supposed to be agreed by now, but this deal with Joshua's shoved everything back.

Tyson Fury v Dillian Whyte: Anthony Joshua in talks to step aside so Fury can fight Usyk next - BBC Sport Basically the idea is Joshua steps aside from his rematch with Usyk, freeing up Fury to fight Usyk in a winner takes all bout, Joshua avoids getting beaten twice in a row and would be seen as mandatory challenger to Fury/Usyk winner - as well as getting £15m for not getting punched in the face - and we all walk away happy. Except, of course, for Dillian Whyte, who once again will get shafted and lose out on his shot at a title. All stinks a bit and proves that Joshua's talk about it all being about winning belts is nonsense. And you have to feel for Whyte. I know he'd probably get beaten, but he's put in the hard yards to earn his shot, so for the WBC to continually punt him into the long grass is disgusting.

Robot vacuum cleaner escapes from Cambridge Travelodge - BBC News I'm guessing this is what's being referred to?

Very nice. It's a well used practice in a lot of places. Well used - but badly publicised😡 Plenty of reserves use a variety of livestock depending on the requirement of nature. I worked at a Wildlife Trust site for a while that specialises in chalk grasslands, and has a good number of Chiltern Gentians, which are a combination of browsing Hebridean sheep and grazing Dexters gave the ideal conditions. Not that the crazy vegan brigade would accept that! Conservation grazing works. And tastes great😉

Relisting after facebook wastrel let me down. Well padded and in good condition. one external pocket that has two internal pockets. 45" x 14" Happy to post, but buyer to pay extra £35 HW110 not included...

The HW silencer is the best. The Air Arms ones aren't bad, but I had one on an S510 and swapped it for the HW and it was quieter. Fine margins, but definitely quieter. A slightly different pitch, too. The sound's a bit sharper and higher than the HW one. I'm not sure there's much science behind this, but I feel it's a more attention drawing sound, less of a dull unassuming thud that you get with the HW

Wasps should have gone for the bonus! that lost opportunity might come back to bite them. But even so A tremendous win for them

They're massive! but discipline isn't there and Wasps look far more creative and accurate. 5 mins to go...Great game