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3 hours ago, wisdom said:
The dogs name was not offensive at the time.
I suspect a certain part of the population would disagree on that. I don't agree with this trying to change history to fit modern values but it has always been offensive and always used in such a way.
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1 hour ago, enfieldspares said:
But now this scheme...have no doubt... they WILL be someone in IT or computing or communications who has got a "nice little earner" out of this contract arranged, no doubt, via some or other "consultancy" headed by an ex-MP, Peer or other crony of the Tories.
Fujitsu is the company that has been given £5.7 million for this warning and it is said to cost £10k/day from now on.
You may recognise the name, they are the ones that caused that scandal in the Post Office when the post masters were wrongly accused of fraud and locked up.
Michael Keegan was or is the CEO for the European section, husband to conservative MP Gillian Keegan, Secretary of State for Education.
I said the same as you and found this out after. (subject to my info being correct)
11 minutes ago, Sweet11-87 said:was 15 mins between planes on 9/11 and an hour before they came down and allot of people on the ground in the immediate area and people waiting inside the towers died becasue of the confusion. an evacuate immediatly text might have saved a good few lives.
and the chances of sending a text warning of that were zero even if such a system was in place. Scully is right, it is just to scare people.
I have 3 phones for various purposes, none got the alert. Missus got the alert at 8.30 this morning, presumably she would have heard the ICBM, tsunami, terrorist attack well before that.
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Your friendship is dead either way, tell him to do one and save yourself the £50.
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Bread keeps better out of a fridge. Something to do with starch molecules and temperature but it will go stale quicker in a fridge
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18 minutes ago, oowee said:
Because it's at risk of operating fraudulently. We should make card machine and receipt mandatory (Greece is an example).
I have lots of customers that pay cash, it isn't fraudulent, they get a VAT invoice and it is all declared. I don't want a card machine and even if I did it wouldn't work because they rely on a good phone signal and internet connection which I rarely have.
There is nothing wrong with cash and I am fed up with all these new rules, ban this ban that, don't allow people to do stuff they have been legitimately doing for ever. If there is a problem enforce the existing rules not just create a load more.
Here's a good example (or a bad one) whenever there is a firearms incident a load of new rules come in when if the existing ones had been abided by properly the incident wouldn't have occurred in the first place. New rules don't end criminality they just give something else to be quickly circumvented and the only effect is to the innocent ones
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19 minutes ago, Wymondley said:
Any business regularly banking large sums taken as multiple small amounts, like car washes, should have a mobile card reader.
Why?
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Canadian government froze the bank accounts of the truckers when they were protesting.
That alone tells me all I need to know.
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Chap next door went all posh and replaced his ibc by burying an industrial wheelie bin next to his pond.
Popped the lid up to shoot at the ducks. 🤣
Seemed to be a 50:50 split over whether it was considered genius or bonkers.
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I think you have forgotten those that vote for the least worst.
Boris gained a great number of votes from Labour constituencies afraid of the disaster of Corbyn getting in last time around.
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Chap near here saw one 13th March with pics to prove it.
Not seen one myself yet.
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Wouldn't hesitate to recommend a CZ452, lovely guns and probably more accurate than the shooter 9 times out of 10.
Had mine for decades and accounted for many thousands of rabbits.
Also have one in 22WMR which I am equally fond of.
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Telling you in Kurdish that his is working ok.
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I think the demise of the local is part of the cause of the increase in loutish behaviour. The older guys in the pub kept the youth in check for the most part.
Without that guidance from the older folk in the village the youths are just running riot. A great shame and a great loss to society imo.
Most pubs that I drank in have been knocked down and several houses built in their place.
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From being outside for 60 years I am convinced the climate is changing and already has.
What I see hear and read I am also confident it is on a global scale.
Not so convinced it is entirely down to fossil fuel use but definitely can see big changes in this country since coal went out of fashion. Don't really think anyone can realistically argue with that one.
The race for net zero in this country makes net zero of sense. How is bankrupting ourselves going to save the planet? Planting trees on good farmland to offset carbon footprints is pretty much criminal. Planting a tree so you can carry on as you were doesn't solve anything.
Any net zero in this country is hypocritical if all you do is shift your pollution to elsewhere. No heavy industry is not a win if you just rely on heavy industry in China for your goods and then add shipping pollution to the equation.
Get your methane cycle worked out properly. Cows are not the issue, they are part of the cycle they are not the cause. Banning cows while keeping jets, ships and cars is just dumb. If cows are the problem how come the vast herds of buffalo, bison weren't?
Most of it is a massive con for the rich to get richer and the poor to get poorer and iit is astonishing more don't see this. I'm not some socialist bemoaning the rich but the con is obvious isn't it?
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Todays pork roast in Dutch oven over fire. The liquid is homemade cider.
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38 minutes ago, JohnfromUK said:
I read one person was stopped with a trolley of 100 cucumbers!
The article said she bought that many every week and had done for some time. More to do with her smoothie making than panic buying.
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Biggest reason for the current shortage is an unusual cold snap in the European producing areas has spoiled the crop.
This shortage has lead to a rise in prices that the supermarkets refuse to pay so the growers tell them to jog on. That's why the indipendant greengrocers still have stock but at a higher price.
There is reduced production due to energy prices too but the cold weather is the biggest player in the current situation.
Extreme weather events are principal cause of industry’s chronic supply shortages and sky-high spot prices, according to Tim O’Malley of Nationwide Produce
Erratic and unusual growing conditions, not inflation, are the main cause of the chronic supply shortages and astronomical spot prices seen across a number of fresh produce categories in Britain.
This was the emphatic message from group managing director of Nationwide Produce, Tim O’Malley, who stressed that “Mother Nature” is “the biggest issue we now have as an industry”.
The weather, rather than inflation, was the “the talk of the show” at Fruit Logistica, he said. And volatile growing conditions linked to climate change have seen spot prices shoot up and remain high across a number of different fruit and vegetables.
“There’s no greater barometer of supply and demand for produce than the spot price,” said O’Malley, “and I can honestly say that in the 40 years I’ve been in this trade, I’ve never seen such high spot prices across such a broad range of products for such a prolonged period of time.”
He gave the following examples in a market update written on 14 February:
Product Current spot price per box delivered Approx. normal spot price at this time of year Yellow peppers £22 £8-£9 Red peppers £21 £8-£9 Green peppers £13 £7-£8 Round tomatoes £14 £6-£8 Cherry tomatoes £17 £5-£6 Aubergines £18 £6-£8 Courgettes £12 £5-£7 Cucumbers £16 £5-£7 Iceberg £19 £6-£8 Cos £15 £7-£8 Gem £18 £10-£12 Broccoli £20 £8-£10 Cauliflower £14 (was £24 last week) £6-£8 Red cabbage x25kg net £15 £7-£9 Dutch onions x4kg net £700/tonne £250-£280/t “The spot job is running at 100-200 per cent above the norm. Depending on the crop, inflation would account for around 20-40 per cent of that,” he said.
“The biggest issue we now have as an industry is not inflation, it’s Mother Nature. She’s wiping the floor with inflation.
“So, what does this mean? For the retailers: empty shelves. We’re already seeing it. The retailers are locked in a price war and reluctant to move on price, so I’m afraid they will continue to suffer from major shortages. We’re seeing empty shelves now and I can only see it getting worse over the next few weeks and months.
“With regards to foodservice and wholesale, poor availability will continue – although hopefully we’ll start to see a reduction in the exceptionally high prices we are experiencing now.
“That said, I very much doubt spot prices will drop back to normal levels for the rest of this season. I expect prices to remain relatively high. It’s yet another increased cost burden that the hospitality industry needs like a hole in the head.”
Era of cheap produce ‘must end’
The Nationwide Produce boss complained that despite all the pressures on growers and suppliers, demand for cheap food at retail was driving down domestic fruit and vegetable production and increasing the need for imports.
“Growers are being asked to carry the risk of battling against Mother Nature in return for a low-price contract that customers see as the norm,” he said.
“With ever-increasing extreme weather patterns, the risk-to-reward ratio for growers is becoming unbearable. The era of cheap fresh produce needs to come to an end.”
Weather woes
According to O’Malley, the current production problems began with Europe’s summer heatwave and drought, which was followed by a “very mild autumn” and a winter “deep freeze” that saw temperatures drop to -15°C in Catalonia.
“Spain is our main source of fresh produce in winter by far,” he said. “And they’ve pretty much gone straight from a red-hot summer to a freezing cold winter with no autumn in between.
“All crops will suffer, even protected crops, when you experience such a sharp drop in temperature. All this has led to a major reduction in yields, a reduction in size, quality issues, viruses, thrips, botrytis etc.”
Spain isn’t the only country to suffer with adverse weather of course. O’Malley also pointed to prolonged periods of sub-zero temperature in Morocco, another major source of fresh produce for Britain in the winter, and major problems for UK vegetable growers.
“We have a proper storm brewing on a range of vegetable crops,” he said. “After the warmest summer on record, Britain suffered a cold snap in December that saw temperatures countrywide dip as low as -8°C for a prolonged period.
“This caused frost damage to various crops such as carrots, parsnips, cabbage and over-wintered cauliflower, resulting in many fields being written off. We are about to see serious shortages and price hikes on these lines in the coming weeks and months.”
Spanish shortfalls
Looking at Spanish production in greater detail, Nationwide’s technical team in Almeria reported the following crop shortfalls due to cold weather in January:- Tomatoes -35 per cent
- Cucumbers -50 per cent
- Aubergines -35 per cent
- Courgettes -40 per cent
- Peppers -40 per cent
In cucumbers, Nationwide reported a significant decrease in the production and availability in Almeria and Granada, with adverse growing conditions contributing to an increase in viruses. These conditions continue to seriously affect crops, resulting in general crop failures and product shortages.
Meanwhile, in peppers the season has been “tremendously complicated”, the supplier said, due to erratic temperatures, poor fruit set, and the appearance of tobacco thrips – a virus previously associated with ornamental plants. These factors have combined to cause a significant drop in volumes.
In addition, aubergine production has been “severely reduced” due to climatic changes. The fruit suffers more than other products from extreme temperature differences and sudden drops in temperature affect fattening. Twenty-degree swings between day and night have severely reduced production.
Tomatoes, however, are the most affected product in terms of yield, with the appearance of devastating disease ToBRV causing the collapse of some crops -
I've always found them exceptionally quick.
Nothing but praise from me.
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They didn't seem to do much at all to keep Mum alive this time last year. They didn't do much full stop tbh. It left me very bitter about the NHS in general.
12 months later and they do seem to be trying very hard to keep me alive. It has changed my opinion of them.
Luck of the draw?
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Same happened with my Navara, still took it in so they could see what it was.
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Didn't they suffer similar across the channel at the same time.
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6 hours ago, Tancho said:
My son volunteers with a local litter picking group, The Aylesbury Wombles. They find hundreds of the large canisters monthly (401 last October) , along with disposable vapes, they are becoming a real problem.
Good for him.
I find it completely staggering just how much litter is out there, motorway verges etc are an absolute disgrace in this country.
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Why do the BBC always put silly factoids at the end of their articles.
"The telescopic urinal is close to the Palace Theatre, home to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
.22lr is now obsolete for me
in General Shooting Matters
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How much lead is in a rabbit shot with a 22LR anyway?
Is there any?