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My understanding is that the storage issues are tricky (but no more impractical than batteries), the calorific value rather low compared to traditional fuels (so you need to transport a huge amount of it), and it takes a vast amount of electricity to make useful amounts of hydrogen. As such, given you have to come up with the energy in electricity first for most situations why not just use said electricity. Biofuels will be where we end up though I reckon, if we get control of the worlds overpopulation issues in time.

Absolutely not, one has to do a thorough cost analysis of it first. If the results suggest it genuinely comes out cost effective then I will fall on my penchant for evidence based policy and begrudgingly support it. I suspect however that society puts a reasonably high value on personal choice to eat warm soup with a fork, but a reasonably low value on pointy knives. Has anyone managed to find whatever analysis of the economics behind the knife proposal has been done?

True, though that would be massively impractical with huge economic fall out. If the evidence is that saying 'all kitchen knives over Xcm length sold from 2021 must have rounded ends to be sold in the uk' would reduce stabbings by even a relatively small number, with little to no cost then I am all for it. I remember a design touted a few years back with a small functional point below a rounded end that looked like it should be perfectly workable.

This is exactly my understanding of the issue also. Additionally I struggle to recall a time I have needed the tip of one of my kitchen knives that wasn't related to the rest of the knife needing sharpening. I'm not at all convinced this is a bad idea.

There is a 6x6 disco on ebay which has been desperately tempting me.

The killer example for shooting purposes would be your mother/neighbour/village idiot etc phoning the gp and saying they were worried about your mental health, drinking, etc... potentially decades ago. The information cannot be released to you if doing so threatens the confidentiality of the reporter but ultimately means you can have information in your notes on which concerns have been raised but you cannot be informed about. Obviously this is a big problem which will probably need a test case to sort it out from a shooting perspective, and is also a nightmare for your gp as every set of notes released have to be checked. You can consent for a full version of your notes to be released to a third party, that is still chargeable though.

Note that is is not necessarily your full record you have free access to. It has to be vetted for third party information or information they feel you should not see first. The lst dealing I had with a solicitor was £1 a page for printing.

Never been on one and struggle to see the appeal. That said a mate did ten years working on cruise ships and rated it very highly. Excellent money, no tax, but difficult to avoid getting very very fat.

Interesting question, how much are cartridges there and can you get a truck load sent over? One would assume lead prices are pretty global, as presumably would be powder wads and cases. There should be some aspect that could be done more cheaply there though.

Try lots of things and buy whatever you shoot best with. I spent ages trying to find a left handed berretta to try and ended up getting a cheap Turkish thing as it seems to point where I look and does the job. One day I would like to try a berretta but it would have to feel very nice to make me buy one now. If you tend tend to chop and change things a lot resale may be worth considering, if you keep things till they are beyond any hope of repair it's a moot point. I would be tempted to spend £300 on a used gun, £300 on lessons, then £300 on a fitting.

3m do a mirror cleaning cloth which gets amazing results on glasses and motorcycle helmet visors.

The landlord just rang saying they want to sell as they have been offered the chance to buy the place they rent if they can be quick. We arent interested in buying this place. For reference we are in Northern Ireland. Sooner or later this means a completely unvetted selection of people wandering in and out for viewings and a good chance they will spot the gun cabinets and all manner of shooting related things. I dont have anywhere else I can legitimately secure the cabinets or store stuff. As far as I can tell I could cross my fingers nobody too untoward gets shown round, or play hard ball with the landlord and aim for a significant payment to make things dissappear or else aim to refuse/make unappealing viewings (lodging the guns and removing the cabinets would be expensive and inconvienient). We seem to be in a strong negotiating position with the landlord due to her three month notice period in the contract (apparently illegal here), deposit not protected (in theory grounds for an £1900 fine if we take it to small claims), and the house is not on the rented property registration scheme (£500 minimum fine). I dont particularly want to be a knob though and would rather try and come to an amicable agreement. What would other people do in my position?

My moustache was accepted before it's most recent pruning (it was getting silly).

A bit like provincial bank notes if they arent commonly seen a fake wont be picked up. Most shops will virtually never see a fan or sgc and have no practical means of verifying it. On the same note it drives me round the twist trying to get english notes before trips home as the notes issued by the northern irish and scottish banks are almost unusable, but if I had a buisness at home I sure as hell wouldnt take provincial notes. Equally valid yes, equally secure definitely not because of lack of familiarity.

When on the mainland I used to buy 3000 a time at a minimum. Over here we are limited to 2000 so I tend to buy 1000-1500 at a time. Most people have a 1000 limit and i don't think I have seen anyone else buy more than 250 a time. There is no official price for over 250 in my local rfd but he often knocks a good chunk off. That said cartridges are cheaper on the mainland.

Definitely not, until recently my commute involved a frequently foggy section where if anything they seemed beneficial if used far more liberally than at a strict 100m visibility threshold. Where fog was often very patchy one got far better advance warning seeing cars ahead go from two tail lights to one fog then disappear, making it clear fog was ahead not a turn in the road. Rear fogs are probably not used enough around here at least, front fogs on the other hand are horrible dazzling things which seem to be used far too often. That said I have followed a few cars with rear fogs mounted very low that seem to produce a similar effect. At the current threshold of being supposed to put tears fogs on at 100m visibility in theory one can still stop from 70mph in the area one can see to be clear. A 10mph threshold would be crazily low in my opinion.

Good call. The Aldi gin isnt bad at all, it is the base for my sloe gin (though Gordons was even cheaper last time I made a large batch).

Eyewatering taxation on tobacco does however seem to have had some effect has it not? First it reduced use then pushed a good chunk of the remaining smokers to the electronic jobbies. In the process a generation or two of smokers more than paid for the consequences of their decisions in higher taxation, and the problem was dramatically reduced. Also, how much drinkable booze that normal people without drinking problems consume is under 50p a unit anyway? The only stuff I could find that cheap in my house is the home brew, everything we buy is already over 50p a unit bar the cooking wine.

Mine is on general grabbers and has yet to get stuck, but all it ever does is wet grass with a few ton on a trailer. I cant comment on noise as the straight through pipe is loud enough to drown pretty much everything else out.

I'm not keen on a second vote at this stage, I fear we would end up with a slight swing to remain and an opportunity lost. I would however strongly favour a second referendum when the dust settles and people have seen whatever Brexit brings. Hopefully it will be increased prosperity and quality of life for most/all, in which case a second referendum to cement it as the informed democratic choice should keep the very pro Europe chaps at bay for a generation. If on the other hand Brexit is felt to have worsened the lot of the bulk of people a second referendum to reconsider seems fair. At a rough guess a second referendum in five years seems about right. For me leaving the EU seems rather like leaving a steady job to go self employed, you need to be prepared for a rocky few years at first whilst exploring if it works out worthwhile, but one keeps the option to apply for jobs. I wouldn't view myself as particularly pro Brexit, but I fall more towards Brexit than against. I do however have the safety blanket of qualifications and a job I can reasonably easily emigrate with if things go bad, and a better half with dual nationality and an EU passport. Many other people without such luxuries plus kids and a mortgage may have to be less risk averse and I can understand why they would want to support the status quo.

I voted leave also but am not sure I would again (at the time I was pretty 50:50 on it). My understanding of the argument for leaving was that it would give us more flexibility to compete both intercontinentally and to an extent across Europe if we could get an appropriate deal for access to the EU markets. In essence rather than watching tax get poached by Ireland we would be in a better position to keep it at home and poach from surrounding countries, plus hopefully get better access to some wider markets for our service industry. Our cost of labour would have to come down substantially before the industrial sector would be likely to see any benefit though as I understand it. Ireland could of course follow us out of the free trade area and we could go back to our own smaller version, but they get more from Europe than from us. They know which side their bread is buttered and will be very keen to stay in Europe. If after two years of negotiations, and a period of separation of another few years there is no significant improvement in our situation I would absolutely support a second referendum if the EU would accept us back on similar terms to those from which we left. We do need to give leaving the EU a proper go but without decent access to the EU markets or another new and large market (and fast) I suspect the economic price may be higher than the electorate will tolerate.

We have 'taken back control' and unfortunately that seems to translate as telling the European free trade area and the associated benefits and obligations to get stuffed as we don't want them any more in any way shape or form no matter what the cost.

A firearms certificate with my shotguns on it (as per local rules). It looks like my main address will be in Northern Ireland and I will be going back and forth a lot so I suspect I will be advised to keep my FAC there and essentially be visiting the mainland. We shall see what the feo local to this job says if I can sort the new storage problem out.

Over here they don't really do trail hunting and she knows it. Not here, who would have thought Northern Ireland would be the last outpost of civilisation in the British isles.

Are clubs likely to be remotely approachable if I won't be in the country till August? A major spanner has been thrown in the works as making this job work financially is based on living with local family during the week who have said no firearms in the house. There are alternatives available but the cost difference over a twelve month contract before very likely moving again are too large to be worthwhile. At the moment I am based in Northern Ireland, from August I will probably be based in Wiltshire, twelve months later I could be going anywhere. Many thanks for the offer though, it is greatly appreciated.