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c'mon, no trip to Japan is complete without trying Fugu 🤢 https://www.finedininglovers.com/article/japans-poison-puffer-fish-fugu

The power demand of the boiler and pump is, I think, fairly low and could be run off a small generator, or even for a while from a 12v battery and inverter. I'm sure people would start coming up with all sorts of innovative solutions if power cuts became a regular thing. Can't see that working with a heat pump... I wouldn't mind seeing the return of the paraffin heaters we had when I was a child - lovely warm smelling fumes in the bathroom on bath night 🥴 Ah wait, paraffin is evil dinosaur juice too - won't be allowed that either.

Um, Michelle Obama 🤣

Nice offer, kudos to you 👍 I have the same gun in the same choke so thanks for explaining why I can't hit anything far away - thought it was me and it was the gun all along 😁 Still doesn't explain all the close-ups though...

nah, Trump will get ~163 million votes, but spaghetti-brained Biden or whoever they put forward in his place (Big Mike?) will get 196 million. Only a few hardened conspiracy theorists will notice a slight problem with the arithmetic there.

If he's jailed, his experience of the American penal system might turn out like Jeffrey Epstein's.

Well, that was pretty emphatic...

I think I know where this is going to end up... 😁

You may also want to look into Inversion Therapy. https://www.healthcentral.com/condition/back-pain/low-back-pain/turning-back-pain-sciatica-upside-down

In a sane world this would be political suicide. I wonder what plans they have to upgrade the energy infrastructure to support all these heat-pumps along with millions of EVs. https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/patrick-harvie-planning-penalise-millions-30532167

Predictions for this one? 2 unbeaten pound-for-pound contenders go head to head this weekend. Should be a cracker!

Better I think to buy a genuine Win10 key and then you can rebuild your system on a quality SSD, and reinstall later if required. Type "windows 10 key" in Google and select "Shopping". Most of the cheap keys will be OEM so tied to the one computer, and likely sourced from countries where Microsoft supply them for a few pounds each to try to capture developing markets (global markets don't always suck 🙂).

Must admit I've never noticed any effect of (CBD Bros - blue) cbd oil on pain, though I know others swear by it. (And it stopped my daughter's very severe and frequent epilepsy seizures in their tracks - now 5 years seizure free, married and mom to a 1 year old, something we thought we'd never see - expected her to be dead by now) You may also want to look into the role of excitotoxins in pain management. https://dogtorj.com/main-coursepain-management-and-dietpain-pain-go-away/

Anyone know the secret to growing big healthy rhubarb plants that want to take over the garden? Been buying nice healthy starter plants from garden centres for years, they usually endure an anorexic existence for a season or two before giving up the ghost. Tried all sorts of compost and fertilizers. I even tried to talk my wife into buying a house because it had a massive cluster of rhubarb in the back garden. Probably just as well she said no - the decline would have set in the day the missives were signed 😥. Maybe we should raise a petition to have rhubarb designated a weed, we grow all sorts of those no problem 😁

I was at Cluny yesterday and noticed right away there was something different about the reports coming from the skeet range. It turned out MLAGB were visiting for one of their competition days. I'd never seen muzzle loaders actually being shot before and hung around for 30mins or so just watching. They were a friendly bunch and a couple of them chatted to me and showed me their guns - most of them from the 1850s. One of the shooters was a lady called Claire and she invited myself and a young lad about 13 yo to come over and gave us a demonstration of the loading process. She also offered me a few shots once the competition was finished but unfortunately I couldn't hang around that long. I'm glad I happened to be there at the same time as them - it was great to see and hear these old guns in action.

The farms I've been around, the cattle sheds are always open to the outside air so there wouldn't be a build up of methane gas to the critical density required for an explosion. And 18,000 cattle is quite a lot to keep in a totally enclosed environment. Maybe something to do with how the slurry was (mis)handled?

Do you manage to kill 18,000 cows in one fire?! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65258108

And it won't end there. Section 21 was abolished in Scotland ~2017. It was replaced with 18 valid grounds for eviction, 8 of which were mandatory and the other 10 discretionary. Recent legislation has removed one of the grounds and made the other 17 discretionary - you now have to convince a tribunal that a tenant not paying rent is sufficient grounds to end their tenancy (i.e. their not paying the rent is more of a problem to you than their having to would be to them) On top of that, as a response to the cost of living crisis, rent increases are frozen at 3% (but only for private landlords, not the social sector who have rising costs to cope with, don't you know...). There is currently a moratorium on evictions, likely running into 2024, so you could wait a year with no rent coming in before a tribunal even hears your case.

This is my last word on the subject...

Or maybe ending up with a Stranded Asset https://thewanderinginvestor.com/private-list-update/a-very-important-trend-all-real-estate-investors-should-know-about/

elaborate please 🙂

True, and how many of those "seeking to live in the UK" would actually want to "work and become economically active" when they seem to be entitled to the same benefits regime (or better) as the locals?

A workmate was in a swanky London hotel with his wife. For some unknown reason the bathroom wall was a huge liquid crystal display, with a control on the outside... Now you see it, now you don't - apparently the wife was not amused.

My mate's big brother had one of these back in the day. He decided to take it apart and when putting it back together he was struggling to screw the barrel end on against the spring pressure when the whole thing jumped out of his hands and the spring flew out and hit him in the face. That's probably about the hardest one of these things ever hit anything 😁