RockySpears
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Plenty of knowledgeable people here so .... Is using timber off-cuts ok for a logburner? The wood is obviously kiln dried, but is there anything else about it that makes it unsuitable? Local timber merchant is selling rubble sacks of off-cuts as fuel, so wondered about its suitability. I have some felled trees drying out, but not yet dry enough, some is even green when split,
Thank you,
RS
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8 hours ago, Deker said:
Probably because they know the real numbers
Ah yes, the modellers ....
and I kind of get this;
If the model has 5 different scenarios; very good, good, neutral, bad, very bad.
Top three do not require any action from the Gov. so can be ignored. BUT, if either of the bottom two are correct, then they require the govenment to take action Now!
What do you do as a government? Hope one of the top three is the actual result, but if not , get caught with pants round ankles?
Take the actions required "in case" one of the bottom two are the real result?
RS
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On 18/12/2021 at 22:10, ordnance said:
do you know the difference between 10,000 and 5,000 ?
Only one day if you believe the doubling hypehype,
RS
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4 hours ago, ordnance said:
missed that, where did he claim that ?
Well I can get a big figure for January, but if it doubles daily then ....: "Professor Neil Ferguson and his team at Imperial College London predict there could be around 3,000 daily Omicron deaths a day in January without further restrictions."
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horrifying-prediction-5000-omicron-deaths-25729883
Duck Duck Go is your friend,
RS
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1 hour ago, ordnance said:
More rubbish going around the net, some people will believe anything.
Who said "dictionary"? Try the CDC definition of vaccine, not a dictionary definition of immunity,
Yours,
RS
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16 hours ago, Wymondley said:
But if your level of sickness impacts the treatment of others and is avoidable?
So let us not treat the fat, the drunk, the overdosed, the sportsmen and women with broken bones, cluttering hospitals each Saturday and Sunday, the car crash victims, the smokers etc etc etc. All of these are caused by the reckless, voluntary action of an individual.
Why pick on the unvaccinated when there are so many more doing stuff that ends in hospitalisations?
16 hours ago, ordnance said:I see we also have PW experts that know more than doctors treating Covid patients
There are many many doctors who do NOT agree with the current vaccination regime. Hell, even Government doctors do not agree with universal vaccination:
"The assessment by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) is that the health benefits from vaccination are marginally greater than the potential known harms. However, the margin of benefit is considered too small to support universal vaccination of healthy 12 to 15 year olds at this time."
The current regime is NOT medically lead, it is Politically lead
9 hours ago, Smokersmith said:Unfortunately the only anit-vaxxers
Please don't call me that, I have probably been vaccinated with more vaccines than most due to foreign travel, ad hominem attacks are really not warranted.
The current covid "vaccines" did not even warrant that description, so much so that the CDC had to change the definition of a vaccine in September 2021, so the new "treatments" could then be called vaccines.
"Before the change, the definition for “vaccination” read, “the act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce immunity to a specific disease.” Now, the word “immunity” has been switched to “protection.” "
You no longer get "immunity" from a vaccine, only some level of "protection".
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15 minutes ago, Wymondley said:
Many people have suffered or died of other conditions whilst waiting for treatment because the hospitals were full of covid patients.
Nope. No real change: "Between Q1 2010/11 and Q4 2019/20, the total number of NHS hospital beds decreased by 11% from 144,455 to 128,943. But the number of occupied beds only decreased by 9%, from 122,551 to 111,321. Therefore, the bed occupancy rate increased slightly from 85% in Q1 2010/11 to 86% in Q4 2019/20"
https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/hospital-bed-occupancy#background
"By Q4 2020/21 (January to March 2021), the bed occupancy rate had increased to 81%. The number of available and occupied beds also increased, but remained lower than in previous years. "
So easy to find the answers you do not want,
RS
3 minutes ago, Stonepark said:In 5 Years eveyone who has been 'jabbed' will be: -
Dead
Dying from VIAID's
Suffering from acute onset Myocarditus or
Recovered and Healthy
We could add " Did not partake of government propaganda and are doing fine",
RS
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4 minutes ago, Wymondley said:
Anyone know the current % of people hospitalised with covid who are unvaccinated, I can't find it?
Why not look at the % of hospitalised that ARE vaccinated?
5 minutes ago, Wymondley said:because the hospitals were full of covid patients.
No they are not. I have had 2 hospital appointmemts in the last month, both with only 6 weeks waiting. Nothing life threatening,
I have experienced no problems, nor my mother in law's knee ops or father in law's cataracts or aunties lung op,
RS
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8 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:
Does that mean you feel we should be locked down under more restrictions?
Absolutely not. What I am looking for is is the admission that the vaccines are not helping the population at large or the spread of covid, only the individual, thereby makig the choice to get vaccinated is just that, a choice. A choice that does not affect others,
RS
7 hours ago, Mice! said:Well I was off colour for 4/5 days, headache, tired, sore after being double jabbed, compare that with what some others on here suffered like @mel b3 and I'll take that with a smile.
Again, how sick I might be is my choice, I think I will be OK. I might suffer more, but that is my choice,
RS
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4 hours ago, clangerman said:
why? easy ARROGANCE!
Arrogance does not explain putting your family in harms way,
RS
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Reading some of the threads here, some are saying that because they broke the rules, we can. Others say the rules help keep us safe and we should follow them to protect ourselves and the NHS etc etc.
Having a think about this, why do they flout the laws/rules? Do you think they "just are because they want to"? Are the laws/rules their way of showing power over us? Maybe.
Maybe they flout the rules because they are meaningless, they make no difference. They are not worried about the virus because, for the most part, it is harmless. Yes it can kill; the old, the infirm, the compromised and on very very rare occasions a "seemingly" healthy individual. I do not believe that they break the rules just because. I think the genuinely know that the virus is, as Ford Prefect would say, "Mostly harmless".
Please don't have a go at me with the Conspiracy Theorist moniker or such, this is just me thinking.
They lay out rules, even complain about those not following them, then ignore them. Why? They are not ALL stupid, most have families, elderly parent etc etc so do you not think that they would be just as concerned for their loved ones as we?
They call each other out over masks: https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1515959/labour-zarah-sultana-masks-commons-covid-julia-hartley-brewer-bbc-politics-vn
and then Ms Sultana goes to the MOBO Awards and doesn't give a toss: https://order-order.com/2021/12/06/brave-zarah-sultana-conquers-fear-of-maskless-crowds/
So they have NO fear of catching Covid, even the more at risk BAMES.
They have no Fear.
Why?
Cheers,
RS
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"High COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in populations by reducing the number of possible sources for transmission and thereby to reduce the burden of COVID-19 disease. Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasinging. In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was simi-similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25%for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated)"
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/lancet-scolds-those-claiming-pandemic-unvaccinated
Once Boris had made the admission that those who were vaccinated could catch and pass on the virus, things like Covid Passports actually became Licences to Spread the Infection. Passport holders are likely to have fewer symptoms, the whole point of the vaccine, therefore by allowing them to attend events and parties was always going to mean greater transmission from vaccinated individuals to other, vaccinated individuals. This has the result that vaccinated people are probably more likely to catch covid from another, vaccinated person. Unvaccinated individuals would have more serious symptoms and would more likely absent themselves from events and offices, like all of us used to when we had a cold or flu in the olden days pre-2020.
Yours,
RS
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12 hours ago, Weihrauch17 said:
Anyone remember Boris's 60% infection for Herd Immunity, we must be way past that with everyone who has had it or been jabbed or both.
Officially we passed 95% +, a month ago:
"An estimated 95.3% of the adult population in England, 93.9% in Wales, 91.6% in Northern Ireland and 95.0% in Scotland tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies in the week beginning 15 November 2021."
So says the ONS
Yours,
RS
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Monzo is one of the "New" banks that millennials use, so it is aimed at scamming them really,
Yours,
RS
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39 minutes ago, old man said:
Sorry Rocky, being a pest does not make Muntjac vermin.
OK. No worries. Just curious as to how things are "defined". Pest and vermin seemed to be applicable to any animal that was a pest or behaved in a vermin-like manner. Couldn't find a specific list for either,
Cheers,
RS
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16 hours ago, old man said:
Definitely not Rocky, Muntjac are Deer according to the BDS and legislated as such.
Can they not be both? Vermin is not a particular animal and can presumable be any unwanted animal in any place.
The legal definition appears to be:
Meaning of Vermin
Noxious, mischievous, or mean animals or insects such as flys, leaches, bed bugs and fleas and various animals such as rats, mice, weasels, etc. See British Mercantile Ins. Co. v Mercer, 84 S.E.570, 211 Ga. 161.
From: https://legaldictionary.lawin.org/vermin/
Is there a difference between "pest species" and vermin? Would Muntjac be considered a pest in certain situations? Being able to shoot them all year around certainly indicates they are "less valued" as deer than say Roe.
Thank you,
RS
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On 19/11/2021 at 17:11, old man said:
One is vermin the other a deer.
Define "vermin". Is it not any animal that is in the wrong place at the wrong time? Invasive species would seem to always be vermin, but not all vermin are invasives.
Muntjac are vermin if there are 200 of them munching their way through your crops, no?
RS
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On 24/11/2021 at 07:47, TIGHTCHOKE said:
A 1 out of 360 degree fail rate
Not really, much lower chance. They are working in 3D, not 2D. Well actually it is 4D because the thing is moving, so you have to hit it at the right time too or it has not got there or is already past the 3D point you shot at.
RS
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14 minutes ago, Scully said:
but it can’t be James Bond
He has a daughter, she could be a Bond? He seems kind of dead. Bionic man scenario? Bigger better faster more James?
RS
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On 10/11/2021 at 16:47, henry d said:
never seen a military plane come in to Newcastle before.
I think actually it was a training flight. It was going round and round Teesside Airport, "Touch and goes" is my guess. It was a very slow vehicle though, just seemed to hang in the sky.
RS
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1 hour ago, yates said:
people’s symptoms are significantly less severe than they would have been without people being double vaccinated.
Correct, absolutely.
So why seperate vaxxed and un vaxxed when either is capable of transmitting the virus? The people "in" your care home are better protected, BUT they are no better protected if their carers are vaxxed or not. It is THEIRr outcome that the vax makes better, once they get the virus.
What I am getting at is that seperating vaxxed and unvaxxed is of no help, and given the division this is causing, let us just leave it up to individual choice as it makes no difference,
43 minutes ago, Smokersmith said:t’s keeping more people alive …
Good enough for me …
Yes, so let them stay alive and let us not stigmatise others for their choice not to be vaxxed, it affects the vaxxed not at all,
RS
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Wll who'd have thought it?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59077036
So the vaccinated still transmit the diisease to OTHER vaccinated. So what are passports for then?
Is a passport a licence to infect?
RS
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Broad band to the pole and uppermost.
Unlike many flags, the Union Jack is not symmetrical. The broader white band on the diagonal tells you how to fly it.
I have seen innumerous flags either upside down (most common as even the manufacturers get the pole loops on the correct side) or flipped vertically (even ones already mounted on a pole/stick).
I might get around to doing this, doing lots in the garden hopefully so should plan a flagpole in,
Thank you,
RS
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Just to complete the circle:
Tapped all round with mallet as per suggestion, popped off nicely.
However no one in retail has one so it is down to the interweb to source a new one.
Thank you all,
RS
Off-cuts as log burner fuel
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Cheers all, it kind of made sense, but wanted to hear it from the collective horses mouth.
Do people use a moisture meter for their logs, especially ones you collect yourself? Or is it "two years and it's done",
Cheers,
RS