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  1. The politicians (thieves, liers, crooks and general Good for nothing types don't have the want to sort it out. And that is to remove all of the chief constables and disband the county force structure. Have a proper professional structure and not an old boys network heavily allied to the masons. The country doesn't have county armies, airforce or navies. So why should there be county organisations of any sort. Modern communications and computer systems should have meant that we aren't policed like back in the days of Morse.
  2. Not very good is it. The police in general are a complete shambles. They've never been honest. Back when I was a kid the family along with most of the population used to go to bonfire night. The plod had been confiscating fireworks from lads who had been throwing bangers into the crowd ( fair play) but Father knew some plod and they gave father quite a lot of these confiscated fireworks. (Wrong). Ever since I was a kid I've never seen any valid reason why plod should be given respect of any sort. You only have to see the amount of fiddles, serious crimes and serious lies that they are found to be guilty of. Look at the hundreds of officers that have been sacked and are subject to disciplinary action. The met recon that it will take two years to sack the sackable ones. I think that is a rate of about two a day. There's plod that have criminal convictions, some with serious things as long as your arm. Only the other day two were sacked for arresting those two athletes for no reason. Three others should have been sacked but got disciplinaries. And that took three years to get sorted. Other plods have crowd funded and I think that over £60,000 has been raised from the ranks. And this is for basically breaking the law. How can the general public have confidence in the police. I know that they have a very difficult job dealing with the sludge of humanity but they really don't help their cause.
  3. Some winchokes are the same except the key flutes are a bit different. Smaller flute
  4. Haha. Sulphur,, haha... One year the wasps decided to make a massive and aggressive nest behind an air brick at ground level in mothers house. I couldn't see any effective way to deal with the problem. Then DING,,,, I had a plan. I had found a few sticks of sulphur (something to do with drying hops years ago) and there were a few planks about 8ft long left over from a job. So I used 3 planks to form a tunnel to the air brick. At the other end I made a small fire of sticks and grated some of the sulphur stick onto the fire. I fanned the fire up to full chat with a bit of ply. Vast amounts of thick toxic yellow smoke went into the air brick and as wasps came back trying to get anywhere near the air brick they just fell out of the air onto the ground ,,, dead, stone dead. After a couple of minutes I took the planks away and put the fire out. The Wasp problem was eradicated but so was the grass on the lawn,! The sulphur had turned the grass bright yellow stripe. Mother was not best pleased by the yellow stripe from the fire scorched site of the fire to the air brick and the stink of sulphur in the house. I opened all of the house windows, got a spade and dug the yellow landing strip out, got the garden hose and blasted the soil, found some spare turf and replaced this to make good. Mother said that the cure was worse than the problem. Still needs must when the devil drives. The wasps were no more, Mother survived the sulphur, the lawn recovered. = result.
  5. Years ago Father bought some.... carbide.?? (Calcium carbide.) A white powder. He used this to kill wasp nests. He hated wasps and would watch their flight lines as they went back home to the nest. When He found the nest he would Mark it with a long stick. Later after dark he would go armed with a torch. A teaspoon tied onto a garden cane and a pot of the powder. A teaspoon of the powder did for the nest. This powder when in contact with moisture / water produced acetylene gas which is very explosive. I found that if a small amount of water was put into a 25ltr plastic drum and a teaspoon of powder created a pretty powerful explosion. It was all for fun. There was no evil intent to do damage or hurt anyone. Except wasps. Mother had a virulent wasp nest at the end of the raspberry canes and I used the carbide trick on the nest. A out 7pm when the wasps were back in the nest I found a long bean pole and tied a bit of rag soaked in paraffin onto the end I lit it and put it over the hole expecting a bang, but nothing happened. I removed the pole and noticed a small candle like flame. As I walked away there was a big bang. Next day there were only a few wasps around the hole. A few days later there were none. I dug the nest out and where the nest had been there was a hole the size of a football which had been wallpapered with wasps.
  6. 😃😃😁🤣🤠 I was always experimenting with stuff. Weed killer powder mixed with sugar and filled into glass Shiphams paste pots, loads of white candy floss smoke and brilliant white flame which melted the glass pot. Taking the coloured star bits out of rockets and loading them along with black powder into a small cast iron cannon... badly burnt mums new lino in the kitchen. That experiment didn't go down very well. To ... I had seen a submarine war film where they were depth charging a sub..... .Around the back of our house there was a heavy duty steel barrel that collected rainwater from the gutter which father used to water the runner beans etc. I thought that I could use this as my own depth charge experiment testing tank. So I tied a banger to a metal meat skewer and a lenth of string for retrieval. , lit the blue touch paper and as soon as the fuse started to fizz I dropped it into the tank. There was a muffled thud and it had a sort of Barnes Wallace effect on the barrel. It split the seam open and the barrel resembled what it was like on the inside of one of those subs when they got hit by a depth charge and the Hull seems sprung and water jetted everywhere. I quickly retrieved the string, the spent firework and the skewer and made off. No one ever suspected my naval bombing experiment and they sourced another steel barrel from somewhere. It's a wonder that I wasn’t maimed for life with some of the things that we did. A other one was making airfix ship models and putting a shotgun cartridge on or in the Hull and then shooting at the Primer with my Original 35 22 air rifle which blew the model boat to bits. Putting 6 Inch nails onto the rails at the level crossing to make knife blades which were flogged at school to other prototype terrorists and lunatics. The list is long.
  7. Isn't it a case that a lot of money was generated in public donations but this was never given out and still sits In a bank account somewhere.
  8. Great minds Or lunatics think alike. When I was about 12..13 I came up with this great idea of fireing firework rockets ĺaunched from a bazooka. I was very creative when it came to creating stuff when it came to blowing anything up etc? I got a section of plastic downpipe and attached à pistol grip and a flailed extention. I took my invention to the local town bonfire and got my brother to put a rocket into the pipe and light the blue touch paperback. The rocket did launch but I and the people around me got covered in back blast. Luckily I wasn't hurt by this luncy and the homemade bazooka experiment was discarded. Several people thought that it was a good idea though. Luckily no one got hurt.
  9. Some very sweeping statements here. If 100 thousand people decided to get off their rears and travel up to London to protest and march in the rain ... AND as you state very none Palistine looking then HOW do you know who or what their motives were. It was hideous what hamas has done but is it right what the israelis are doing by basically carpet bombing areas which are civilian areas. Everyone has an opinion and at least 100 thousand bothered to show themselves. Hamas were really stupid to attack soft civilian targets and not fight the military. What did they think they were going to achieve by slaughtering innocent civilians. What do the Israelis think that 5hey are going to achieve by killing innocent civilians. Joe Biden might have jumped on the bandwagon to get the American Jewish vote next year but all it does is to perpetuate the global hostility. At the end of the story innocents suffer. Ps.. years ago now I travelled up to London to march against the Hunting ban.. does that make the tens of thousand people who bothered to put their hands in their pockets and go do it, a load of spongers....feckless....burger noshing...unemployed...english people..?
  10. Roll up, roll up .... if you don't, it'll be gone,, panic, panic ,, if I don't get on it someone else will have bought it..? OR ..... that no guns are selling anywhere and they want to create the illusion that there are customers out there. On here if you look at the guns for sale section a lot of views but very very few comments and even fewer sales. Guns = dead market. How many times on here do you see. Free guns and got to make space in the cabinet. Its all a smokescreen and mirrors to create an illusion.
  11. The wife and I had both flu and covid jabs several weeks ago at the local quacks. They had a Saturday and Sunday open walk in. No fuss at all. One in one arm one in the other. Didn't feel a thing and didn't have any reaction at all. Apparently a couple who live just down 5he Road had covid recently and were pretty ill with ìt. But a lot of deaths with the fluè. Get the jabs.
  12. To qualify what I previously wrote, I have an example of possible issues that are potential risks. ... some years ago one of my daughters was on her way out to her friends and she returned to tell me, "Dad I think that someone has been sick on your bonnet"! "How pleasant I replied ". I went straight out there and instantly realised that it wasn't sick and that it was probably Nitro moors. I grabbed the garden hose and started washing the slop off of the bonnet...l the roof and the front wing. The articles was parked off road on my ground. I then noticed that two of my neighbours cars had been treated in the same way as mine. None of us had any idea as to why. All of us were middle aged family blokes who don't owe. Money or have kids that are at home. Now two of the cars weren't anything special but one was a very clean nice Alfa a couple of years old. So no known culprit, no obvious motive, 3 badly damaged vehicles. Eventually plod showed up, one said" that's not nice.!... we'll give you a crime number.!! My patience was wearing thin at this point and I let my annoyance be known to him:;:. I said don't be so stupid. The insurance companies will write two of these off without question. Its stupid brainless comments like this by plod that don't help. We never did find out who or why but I had my suspicions that the fact that it could have been tied up with a neighbour and drug dealing. SO be careful about how the actions of third parties an seriously affect you, your property and your life. Some of these low life antis wouldn’t think twice about setting fire to your shed or vehicles and you'd never know who or why.
  13. Two people on my cul de sac know/knew that I shoot or in the past shot but Overall no one knows what I do and what I've got. I don't advertise the fact in any way. I park my vehicles on my ground so I don't have to go out on the road. When I load up I check to. See if people are going past. The same when I return. As far as I am concerned ...what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over. The fact that people know about you means that potentially you are open to all sorts of accusations and events such as damage to vehicles and property. If someone alleges that you've been waving a gun about true or not plod won't hesitate to take away your guns for an undetermined time. There is no advantage to advertising that you go out shooting. Most of my neighbours would be horrified. The days of old boys having a shotgun in a sack tied to the crossbar of a bike and carrying a bat of rabbits through the village to the pub have long gone.
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    Sycamore Gap

    ...belonged to everyone in this country of ours... but who's land is it.? Who's does the tree belong to.? If someone actually owns the land and the tree, have they broken any laws by cutting their tree down..? Sad,unnecessary and objectionable it may be. There are many videos on YouTube of cowboy treefellers cutting perfectly good trees down. Ps. Has anyone actually been CHARGED WITH ANYTHING YET.. This is the sort of nonsense in a major national reg..... Walkers noticed how part of the tree appeared to have been marked with white paint, indicating someone may have felled it with a chainsaw. Look up, Sherlock is on the trail. The saw that cut that down was a big saw with a BIG LONG BAR. it looks as if it was cut through in one pass. A PRO SAW. Not something that was bought in Tesco or pound land.
  15. Minky

    Sycamore Gap

    It's a shame. They say that the lad is helping the plod with their enquires... "now tell me sonny which make of saw did you feel would give you the best result.?? Husvarna or Stihl.? And did you consider which size chain to use a 3/8 or a 325.? Whats that you say sonny,?. You used a battery saw with a 12" bar fitted with 1/4 pitch chain and bio chain oil to be eco friendly.!! Oh, well thats not so bad then.." Who does // did the tree belong to.?. Whoever cut it down knows how to use a saw. Who owns the land on which it stood and on now where it is laying. I saw some bloke on the news saying that it mIght be possible to coppice it and grow a new tree out of the base. I would have thought that it would be better to grub it right out. Excavate the base and replant a replacement tree. But I don't expect anyone has got the means or the ability to get heavy enough gear up there and to be able to get a tree up there without wrecking it.
  16. Better than that, one of the son in laws was in supermarket at the meat department and two blokes arrive with a BIG trolley. They start LOADING it up.... they haven't got any other groceries in the trolley, its empty and they aren't even looking at the labels; they're just stacking it right up to overload..... not a word between them, They just walk out through the doors,....... ..( I notice that the store now has sort of one way auto gate barriers so walking out with trollies wouldn’t be possible.) Anŵay going back to the loading up bit, son in law has noticed and is sort of wondering why. Its too much for a BBQ and if it was for a business then surely they wouldn't go to Tesco, they'd go to a wholesalers. So he keeps an eye on them and when they just walk out he alerts a woman on a checkout,,,,, she presses a button to alert the security. Now the security guy is flapping about and sil points the blokes out who are out at their motor in the car park. When three of the store staff.... not the security were heading to the motor the blokes abandon the trolly and meat, get in their motor and drive off at high speed. The staff retrieved the trolley and put the meat back in the chiller. Near one.
  17. I've just read that article. It seems that the police are totally unnecessary. My older sister had xyz get over the garden fence and break in to her garden shed and take stuff. She rang plod and she was told to make a list of stuff taken and to claim on the insurance on crime report number xyz.. ! The next time it happened the perps were in the shed..... eventually she managed to get through and was told that officers were on the way. An hour later she could hear sirens in the distance . The perps left the property.! Plod said there wasn't anyone there.! SHERLOCK STRIKES AGAIN. A total waste of ratepayers money.
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    Bee sting

    The description sounds like a hornet and if so there will be LOT MORE OF THEM. So be careful. If I was there I would be out hunting them even though I am a bit touchy with being stung. Hunting wàp nests is good sport.... even thought it can be a bit dodgy. Got to have a plan with method. K8ll them all...take no prisoners!
  19. NO.. not somewhere else. ... IN THE UK. A few years ago they burst in on a bloke in Hastings who was naked in bed and shot him dead,!! The reason was they THOUGHT that he was armed. There was the bloke who had a chair leg tied to his crossbar... shot dead. Then there wasthe Brazilian bloke who was an electrician that they shot repeatedly in the head on the underground. Total armatures. The police aren't fit for purpose full stop and this is born out by the thousands that are going to be sacked by the metropolitan police. The vast majority of the public have no confidence in the police at and they've been warned to get it sorted or the whole organisation will be disbanded. A recent discussion with an feo revealed to me that everything was a complete shambles.
  20. Totally agree. The PERSON who was shot was boxed in by marked and unmarked police cars and he was shot in the head through the windscreen. No guns or weapons were found in the vehicle and thats why the officer has been charged with MURDER. There's been far too many people shot and killed by the police and no one gets held responsible. All this they deserved what they got is not good enough and it would be more apparent if it was your son or daughter that had been shot.
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    Heat pumps

    I watched a program about this a week or two ago and it was being sold as .....This WILL be the future. The way it came across to me was about the same as electric vehicles. All over hyped and unrealistic. I'm not saying it doesn't work but considering the fact that you'd have to a major engineering rebuild of your house with complete replacement of pipes, radiators, storage I can't see many people having the spare cash to afford it. How can you have a situation of houses/ families on the bread line using food banks and being penalised by ulez zones suddenly deciding to go into hock for the rest of your life with a mortgage and pcp on vehicles. Still a friend of mine has a new Hyundi hybrid for which he traded in a car for £20,000 and he pays £280 a month. When he's had the car 3 years he has options. He can pay a lump of £23,000 and the car is his or start a new deal. It's cheap when you say it quick. To me it looks like it's all being hyped up by salesmen. It's another case of people who can't or won't get a job. Suddenly they become an online influencer not that they have any practical experience to influence anyone about anything other than air heads.
  22. Everything is in a bad way. The council at Camber sands whopped car parking up to £30 !!!!. It was on TV the other day that the local businesses are all up in arms about it because no one is coming there anymore. They say that they are all being forced out of business. The upshot of this is like the high streets are like ghost towns. ANYWAY its a case of here I sit broken hearted, I spent a penny........
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    Hornets

    I don't care about what people say but every time I find or see any wasp or hornet nest I actively take steps to distroy it. They may take loads of bugs but they are bloody dangerous. Yes generally you don't threaten them they leave you alone BUT how many times have people walked into a nest. I've known two people who have died because of being stung. The other year we had two in our garden and the Mrs encountered both of them and when she was out with the spaniel they encountered another nest. And amount attacked the spaniel and were trying to burrow into the dogs fur. Luckily the Mrs rapidly moved on and beat the wasps out of the dogs fur. Neither got stung. Now enough was enough and that was enough. I knew where the ones in the garden were and as dusk approached I went to where the Mrs and dog had been attacked. It didn't take a couple of minutes watching flight lines to find the nest and I marked the hole with a long stick. I had already filled a valve spout bottle with two stroke and went back with a torch. The stick guided me and the splash of 2T did its work. Next day there were only about six hovering around the nests. One year we had six around the house and in total I took 14 nests within 100. Mts. Thats far to many to live in peace with.
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