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1 hour ago, Scully said:
But the thing is, even after all you’ve claimed above, none of it stopped you coming to the UK in June, where, despite what you say above, we are also allowed out of our houses, and what’s more, I know where I’d rather be living. 🙂
Your posts increasingly come across as someone who is quite unhappy and embittered for some reason. Why is that?
Why is it always about me? First there's Rewulf with his snide personal comments about my current location and now it's my state of mind. But if it's not about me, it'll about Corbyn, or Starmer, or the Mayor of Worksop. What it will never, ever be about is this criminally incompetent and dishonest government. Anyway, as it seems to be the fashion to make things personal - here's a parting one for you.
"A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims but accomplices” - George Orwell
Perhaps that explains it.
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5 hours ago, Rewulf said:
Relax !
Sit back and enjoy your illegal alcohol , in your gated secure compound, in your monarchic feudal police state.
For a little light relief , switch the TV on and watch a beheading or something....At least I'm allowed out of my house! 😂 - because for all its faults the Saudi government has largely got on top of Covid. When I came to the UK in June both countries had roughly the same number of cases. And yet today Saudi registered 104 new ones and 9 deaths whereas after Boris's world-beating efforts - how many was it today? Oh look! Another record broken...a mere 60,916 new infections and 830 dead....
Face it, Boris and his government are worse than useless. Even a monarchic feudal police state like Saudi Arabia is running rings around Britain these days.
Don't you find that a bit humiliating? Because I do, even if you don't.
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2 hours ago, oowee said:
Absolutely right but i did buy a shed load of Xiaomi Corp today they make some great products.
If you got them before the US market opened it was a very well-timed purchase!
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Sorry, I didn't mean to stir up a row, but I really, genuinely, fear that this government is doing terrible damage to the British political system. It's not the policies (although I'm not too keen on them) it's the serial and brazen dishonesty and unaccountability, which is on a scale far surpassing even Blair's government (who probably started the rot). As for Starmer and Corbyn, well, they're not in government, but if they were I'd have exactly the same viewpoint if they and their ministers cynically lied to the extent that this government does. And that's the thing. If this serial dishonesty in political life is going to be crimped it will need ordinary people to call out their OWN side as well. When you give Johnson and Gove a free pass when they lie it's no different to an Argentinian supporter praising the 'hand of God'. But I don't know, maybe that's how people just are in Britain now. It's a dangerous road to go down though. Without a common, across the board standard of acceptable morality and behaviour we're straight into jungle law. And it's not such a big step.
As for Clarkson, he's funny. But he's slick too. Take this -
According to the internet, if you have anything at all, you should definitely get into your car and drive to Swindon, or Redcar, where recently trained civilians in white coats will tell you after a day, or two, or three, whether you must stay at home — or you should simply stay at home.
Instead, because I know everything on the internet and social media is always wrong, I used an actual doctor and an actual laboratory, ...
Fine, but perhaps more accurate would have been , 'because I'm rich and can afford it, I didn't have to drive around looking for some badly run test centre in the the middle of nowhere and then queue for ages like other poor s*ds have to do. Instead I could pay to see a real doctor straight away and get an instant fast-track test done'. But of course, the bare facts lack the humorous edge for which he gets paid very well. I've got about 3 of Clarkson's books on my bookshelf and I really enjoy his writing. But 'truth' isn't really what he's about.... Hmm...
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Interesting map. Outside of some urban areas and the odd hotspot, in most of the country you'd have to think there'd be more heart attacks that Covid deaths.
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1 minute ago, Rob85 said:
I wish people would stop bashing Boris, no matter what he does he will get bashed.
That's because he deserves to be bashed. IMHO the biggest threat to Britain isn't Brexit; it isn't Covid; it isn't immigration - it's the breakdown of trust between government and governed. That trust is what underpins a western democracy. It's not possible to have government by consent without it. Undermine it enough, and history shows that eventually there'll either be a breakdown of the institutions and functioning of the state, or else the state will morph into a police state (if people don't consent then they'll have to be forced).
And there can't be trust when the government can't be trusted to tell the truth. Everyone accepts that all governments are occasionally 'economical with the truth' but this government lies brazenly and openly as a matter of policy, so much so that it's got to the point that large swathes of the population don't believe a word they says on any topic at all. It wasn't always like that. At one time it wouldn't have been possible for newspapers to openly call the serving Prime Minister a bald-faced liar without grave risk of being sued out of court. Now anyone can do it without a care because everyone knows it's absolutely true.
This culture of dishonesty is very dangerous and corrosive to society. Just look at the Covid thing. Even when Hancock tells the truth, millions of people are so gun-shy of the constant fibs that they instead go hunting for information on the net, often from dubious sources. Then the algos do the rest and if's off the wacky races. Half the population believes a totally different set of 'facts' to the other half. How can society operate harmoniously like that? it's just not possible.
And the root of the problem is this culture of dishonesty and shamelessness. Lie, take a bribe, give contracts to your mates and connections...so what? At one time ministers would have been forced to resign, either by public opinion or by the leader of the government. Not any more. The whole government from the Prime Minister down think like crims. 'Wot you gonna do about it?' is their response to anything they're caught out at. And of course they're right. If you have a system that relies on an honour code to work it will break down when the people running it are devoid of honour themselves.
This isn't a left or right thing. It's about basic integrity and the necessity of integrity to maintain the very fabric of government and the machinery that society relies on to work. Because without it, the country is in danger of going right down the rabbit hole.
And that's why Boris deserves to be bashed.
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18 minutes ago, CaptC said:
I was at at a shoot lunch once when someone mentioned Pringles and disappeared to his car coming back with a tube of Pringles - "Watch this" he said taking a lighter from his pocket and lighting the corner of a Pringle. Within seconds it was alight giving of the most pungent acrid smoke. I have never eaten one since!
😅🤣😂
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12 hours ago, WalkedUp said:
My boys love them, you can buy low noise fireworks to avoid upsetting anyone and avoid e.g. rockets that litter fields. I always get amused that people complain about fireworks upsetting their dog, just highlights bad training! A proper dog will have a 12 bore firing off a salvo of 36grabs at a skien of geese, whilst sat a few feet away and not flinching.
I nearly lost a very valuable border collie once on account of a thunder storm (the dog I used to use as my avatar). The thunder scared him so much that he tore his chain out of the wooden wall of his kennel and just took off. As he was outside, I didn't know he'd gone until I went out of the house after the storm. Eventually, about 5 hours later, as I was driving around a large suburban village/ development about two miles from the farm in the landrover, whistling out of the window, a woman came out of her house and told me their neighbour had a strange dog trailing a chain in his back garden that was too shy to let anyone near him. And I got him back. But it was a very, very, worrying few hours.
And that dog was trained well enough. I had run him in the Scottish national championship.
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1 hour ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:
No, this time next year we will all be a year older!
Or dead.
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18 hours ago, 12gauge82 said:
As with all big changes there will be winners and loosers, fisherman were some of the biggest loosers when we joined for instance.
While that's not nice for those effected, it is only right that the largest democratic vote in this countrys history is upheld, or they should never have held it in the first place, but since they did, let's look forward to a bright future.
Happy New year 👍
Happy New Year to you too . ✌️
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9 hours ago, sam triple said:
I’m glad to see a proper sports person has been awarded an MBE in John Mc Guinness , for his services to motorcycling ie TT still lives here and pays his taxes
I'll second that.
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7 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:
I think if the value of our finely balanced eco system could be worked out as a monetary value, it would dawf any loss to that man's business or his employee's, that's not to say I don't empathise at their misfortune, but some things in life are bigger than the individual, take war for example.
I believe brexit has offered a fantastic opportunity to make vast changes to some of the ecological damage done by being an EU member. And as Boris said, "prosper mightily" while we're at it.
Like I said, "great news"
Since 2016 the Brexit arguments have all been philosophical and abstract. Tonight at 11:30 the country enters the realm of empirical Brexit science.
Let's see how the abstract theories hold out.
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2 minutes ago, 12gauge82 said:
Well it sounds like excellent news why wasn't it banned years ago, as sad as it is for the few who loose, a handful of businesses go bust, but it saves a species from the brink and all the ecological benefits that goes with it.
Looks like another sucess story of brexit to me!
Well, the Prime Minister did once famously say, "**** business!' Perhaps for once he's being true to his word. 😄 But the money that paid this chap's tax contributions and his workers incomes will now need to come from somewhere else. Rishi's magic money tree perhaps?
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23 minutes ago, Walker570 said:
Let's face it, businesses have all had four clear years to get their act in order.
No, they haven't. They have had no idea what to plan for. Until a week ago nobody even knew there was a trade deal forthcoming, let alone what it looked like. How can any business plan or budget for that?
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https://www.gov.uk/guidance/export-fish-to-the-eu-from-1-january-2021#eels
QuoteEels
You cannot:
export or move European Eels (Anguilla anguilla) from GB to the EU or NI
import or move European Eels from the EU or NI to GB
This is because they’re listed in annex B of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), and the EU has a ban on imports and a zero export quota because of its assessment that such trade is detrimental to the survival of the species.
For some specific trade in European Eel from GB and NI, the UK CITES Scientific Authority has determined that it has been demonstrated scientifically that this trade is non-detrimental to the wild population of European Eel but the evidence provided by the UK is still being considered by the relevant EU CITES body.
He can't export anything - at least not in the meantime. His business is dead in the water.
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If Evgeny Lebedev,can get a knighthood for hosting good parties, why not Lewis Hamilton for winning car races?
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And what make it even sadder is that he actually appeared in a Brexit campaign video.
It seems he trusted the wrong people....
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I'm pretty sure this is an old picture. The thing is though, in real life it is movement or lack of movement that's nearly always the giveaway. In a still picture that rather crucial element is missing so obviously it's much harder to pick.
I see by the link it is an old picture. And looking at that Daily Mail link, it's a swizz anyway. They weren't even there in the first picture!
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Is vigilante-delivered capital punishment justified for crimes that, taken through the proper channels under the law of any state in the world (even Saudi Arabia), are nowhere near capital offences? That's a poser, isn't it?
This lockdown is addling your minds....
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Just now, TIGHTCHOKE said:
Which is all well and good until you factor in the inability of the Police to do anything other than pick up the pieces.
They are now almost purely a reactive force and more and more people will take the law in to their own hands!
But that's a different issue. And having members of the public killing either each other or innocent 3rd parties (he could have killed anyone driving like that) isn't a solution. Sure, he was angry. But so is the bloke who discovers his best friend in bed with his wife and takes a hammer to them both. It might mitigate the sentence but anger should never absolve the crime.
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I don't feel the slightest bit sorry for him. The fact that his bike had been stolen is irrelevant here. He wasn't defending himself from an attacker - he was driving like a maniac, completely reckless as to who else he might have killed or maimed while trying to catch and do in the thieves of his bike. On which point- though it's perfectly valid to argue that it should be - twocing a bike is not yet a capital offence in the UK. And even if it were, it's not, never was, and never should be, up to Joe Public to assign to himself the roles of judge, jury, and executioner.
This bloke's very, very lucky he dodged the murder rap. He's obviously a complete lunatic.
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The OPs point was straightforward enough, but the rest of the thread seems to have gone down the rabbit hole somehow...:) A gentleman never expresses preferences about that sort of thing...take it all in your stride....
Here's my thoughts about the topic though. It's a global shift of power. When we (baby boomers) were growing up, the west reigned supreme. So we were privileged. These days, an awful lot of social and economic power has moved overseas, particularly to Asia. Go to Asia, and the younger generation has never had it so good. They see the future as bright. They've never had more disposable income, they've never been healthier, they've never had more social freedom, and they've never been richer or better educated.
It's a shift of power...
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Just for next time, unless he wants to clean the fretboard or make some kind of alterations it's probably better to change the strings out one by one, leaving the others tensioned as you fit each new one. That way the neck doesn't get completely de-tensioned and tensioned again. Even so, as others have mentioned, changing the string gauge will alter both the action (height of the strings) and the intonation (how true the notes play when fretted higher up the fretboard).
Televised Fox Hunting On The Evening News
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From the fox's perspective, it probably doesn't make a lot of difference at all. When a wild fox gets too old or sick to feed itself nobody is going to gather it up in a blanket and take it to the vet for a humane injection. Unless it's lucky enough to get killed on the road or shot it's going to die a slow and lingering death from disease of starvation anyway. That's just how it works. No happy endings...
Given that reality, if people were honest they'd acknowledge that the issues around hunting are in truth less issues about animal welfare than they are issues about the policing of morality.
But it's an emotive topic and there's a lot of smoke blown on both sides...