cant shoot within so many metres of a public highway, think its around 15. which means you are snookered

Since when?

Since the firearms act

From a table of weapon offences and current penalties

"Firing air weapon within 15m/50ft of a road of street – maximum penalty £1000"

>The 'point' is that all kids should be taught how to shoot stuff……. <

"Selling or hiring air weapon or ammunition to a person under 17 – 6 months and/or £5000"
"Making a gift of air weapon or ammunition to person under 14 – £1000 fine"

Just how 'making a gift' is defined I'm not sure.

Not information I'd like to have at my fingertips but my gf's family are having bother with an elderly neighbour taking potshots at seaguls in their garden.

I mean what she going to be able to do when she's………30!'

Start modelling for Tena Lady, and other brands of 'mattress protectors'

Its a BMW, it was probably parked straddling two disabled bays in Asda. 🙂

El-bent – Member
Religion has played a large part in the cultural and political history of our country and our legal and moral framework is a result of that, so understanding that is important
+1. It should only be taught in schools within this context. Nothing else.

No. I'd only say thats a +1/2
It should only be taught in schools within this context. Nothing necessarily anything else

Understanding religion is important, understanding science is important, believing in either, neither or both is a personal preference. A school, whether religious or secular, can't make you believe in anything.

As a card carrying atheist I think learning about religion is a vital part of children's education. Learning about religion isn't the same as indoctrination. Religion is a cultural / political thing, faith is something else. Religion has played a large part in the cultural and political history of our country and our legal and moral framework is a result of that, so understanding that is important

However, even as a fan of genetics and evolution, in my day to day life and work its totally irrelevant, as would be a believe in intelligent design. Science is much the same as religion in this respect – you don't need to believe in it in order to understand how it works. For anyone other than evolutionary biologists and theological students its only interesting but nothing more important than interesting.

Just watching on the +1. Kicks of with the shock-doc love of stats and tells us that 1 in 3 schools in the UK are faith schools, then a few minutes later flashes up the finding of their specially commissioned survey that 59% of people want schools to be open people of any or no faith. Now setting aside the limp journalism of telling us the result of a survey without telling us what the question was or the available answers, lets say 59% is roughly 2/3rds.

So two thirds of people would like schools to be non/all/any faith and one third of schools are single faith.

Everybody's happy then

As an unbaptised and unchristned atheist I find his proselytising pretty embarrassing.

A friend of mine went to uni in Hull, he and everyone on his course were out-of-towners so not always totally abreast of local lingo.

On his way to college he'd pass a line of boarded up terraced houses covered in grafitti, including frequent use of the phrase 'Yeb off'. Thinking it was local slang he'd tell people on his course to yeb off, and soon they were all telling each other to yeb off.

Then one day as passed the boarded up houses he say a guy come out one of the buildings, nail the door shut, write 'Y.E.B. Off' on it and get into a Yorkshire Electricity Board van.

its steel so if it ever was weakened by the rust I don't think its going to snap, it'll just bend. If its of a fair old vintage the metal's not going to be particularly thin metal either.

Any reasonable person would expect a TV to last longer than 14 months.

Really? – It was once quite reasonable to expect a decade or so out of a telly, a friend of mine dropped a trinitron three stories and it kept working. I wouldn't hold out those kinds of hopes for an LCD telly though. I used a batch of 4 of them for an exhibition I built a couple of years ago, One had packed up in the first month, after 14 months we'd swap out dead TVs six times. I then had a contract another show that had two LCD tvs in it, over 12 months they both had to be replaced.

Wouldn't spend my own money on one.

Not as a challenge but I was invited to some artsy do in Leicester Square that a friend was organising, understanding that it would be catered I didn't bother eating before I went. However the catering consisted of large bowls of nibbles scattered around the room on the basis that people would be mingling and snacking. However far few people turned up than expected so instead of mingling we we're all sat around one big sofa chatting. Only one bowl of nibbles was in reach for me – just behind me was a large bowl containing a catering tin worth of artichoke hearts. For lack of anything else I'd reach back and grab one every now and then, until at the end of the night I reached back to find the bowl empty. Noone else could reach them so I must have eaten the lot.

I don't think our guts are designed for that much celulose, its only went I had my abdomen inflated with gas as part of a surgical procedure recently that I've felt anything quite like it.

There are still a few branches out there that offer table service with crockery and cutlery. Proper civilised british fast food.
Pah. WTF wants to piss about waiting for a meal to be delivered to your table when it's just a flippin burger. The reason you put up with crap burgers is that you get them straight away and can walk off eating them.

Aye you can walk around with a burger, but you need to be sitting down for a brown derby

or a banana longboat, or a knickerbocker glory

I think Subway were underfire for the nasty trans fats hidden in their breads, although I think they've been shamed into removing them now. The notion that by being a sandwich they are somehow a 'healthier' option is a bit of an illusion, partly promoted by making a show of baking their strange two-part-expanding-polyurathane-foam bread infront of you. Burgers are freshly prepared salad sandwiches too.

Ninjas

Ninjas? Spend all day in the their jimjams and slippers? Lazy sods. Invisible? Phoned in sick more like.

The Helly Hensen ones smell bad when they're fresh on.

Anyway, back on subject…. Deerstalking keeps you pretty fit, similar to golf its a good walk spoiled. But in this case spoiled by having to drag a 1/4 ton stag back home with you.

how are RSI and migraines urban myths? guessing you've never had a migraine or known anyone have to give up a career due to RSI?

maybe he heard a story from some guy at work who's cousin in Yorkshire swears he got RSI from having too many Migraines, and as a consequence locked an angry turkish dwarf in a shed.

Wimpy by a country mile, – brown rolls and thousand island dressing. Impossible to eat a 1/2 pounder without smearing the dressing all over your face. There are still a few branches out there that offer table service with crockery and cutlery. Proper civilised british fast food.

Can you manage a double? Two lookylikeys in the one picture?

As long as the wood close to where you are welding isn't too thin I'd doubt its too big a problem – the wood might get scorched but it shouldn't erupt into a flaming death ball unless its very thin, plastics or plastic coatings on the wood would be more or a concern. I'd expect the floor to be reasonably thick, but the walls and any insulation would be more vulnerable. There are various heat proof pads that can be used to protect anything vulnerable, but the welder should know better than to weld if harm is likely to be done.

If you really can't weld directly without doing harm could the struts can be welded onto a plate then bolted to the chassis?

The Big Bang Bollocks?

Sadly, I left the train before I was able to witness the handing-over of the note,

it was you he wanted to give the note to.

as they mark them up heavily in their shop after a wire brush and quick paint with aredite paint…. investing in and holding large amounts of stock and building the customer base that you don't have.

Bloody hell is this the Jeremy Vine Show,

Always.

I took my bike off the roof rack of my car once to find it adorned with a lovely (but lifeless) bat shaped headtube badge

does everyone's dad come from Yorkshire ??
All of mine did

That must have been one hell of a night!

The Third Policeman

Just need more room in the flat.

Are we all overlooking the obvious here? My brother is a bit of an expert in compact living, having a wife and two children and living in a one room studio flat.

If the CD collection is taking up space, but they haven't been made redundant – ie you haven't already ripped them all into itunes and stopped playing the discs – then just throw away the cases and keep the discs and inlay card in one of those polypocket CD albums. Same goes for your DVD collection.

I'm not sure you'd be able to buy or serve brain/central nervous system since the whole BSE thing.

What you've probably got, anatomically speaking is either:

A- Shatners Bassoon
B- The Islets of Langerhans
C- Fart Strings

OK i will keep to my soul glow gel perm

I know someone who can help you out with the perm 🙂

I used to have foot long dreadlocks (for the OP if you are starting off with short hair it'll take about 3 – 4 years for them to reach about a foot), because its effectively felt your dreads will be roughly half the length they would be if your hair was undreaded.

One night in a pub a young woman sidled up to me and asked
"is that a french perm?"
"no they're dreadlocks"
"are you sure its not like a really tight french perm?"
"yes I'm sure"
"Oh well you see I'm a trainee hair dresser and today I gave a woman a french perm and it turned out looking like your hair"
"was she happy about that?"
"no….but it'll just brush out, right?"

🙂

I've been very happy with the camera but would like to start taking better photos.

How do you think the camera you have is limiting you, which of your pictures are you looking at and thinking that another camera would have yielded a better result? If you are hitting a particular barrier because of a limitation in the equipment you use then that helps define how upgrading would move you forward. If you're not sure where the limitation is then buying something else might not address that other than sometimes allowing you to make better pictures by accident.

Basically you need to define for yourself what 'better' is before you can move towards it.

Interestingly supermarkets push the 'creating local jobs' angle very hard when they are trying to push through planning permission (and preparing to decimate local wealth creating businesses), so if you go to a newly built one you won't see any self service tills.

The NHS might have had good clinical reasons for not operating. Although he'd like to go private for an op theres no reason to believe that a private hospital will offer one or that it would be successful (but so long as his money is good I'm sure they'll have a stab at it whether its in his best interest or not). Regardless, his declared fitness for work, or not, would come from his doctor not from the benefits agency.

I'm sure there will be plenty of cheap nails out there – the scrappage scheme only worked for owners of old cheap cars that were in a position to buy brand new ones (with a small incentive), thats not the typical position of an owner of an old cheap car. It won't have hoovered up all, or most, or even a lot of the old cars out there.

What I mean though is that the scrapage scheme hasn't resulted in more new cars being bought, not any more than normal, it just eleviated the fall in new car sales a bit. People weren't buying diesels because of the scheme they were buying diesels because more commonly than in the past people buying cars like to buy diesels (and there are more diesels on sale to buy). Car sales have kicked up again recently but thats reckoned to be the result of fleet buyers having a splurge after having held off on procurement for a while.

Old cars might have been taken off the market because of the scheme but I reckon (totally spuriously) that old cars don't matter that much in the greater scheme of things. With or without a scrapage scheme you see don't see that many old cars on the road, not because they don't exist but because, broadly, the owners of old cars don't drive an awful lot. Sitting in the rush hour (which I'd suggest is the time when cars that get driven a lot get driven) in my 9 year old, 270,000 mile van I rarely see a car around me that is much more than 5 years old.

Its the hire co that does the ringing, not you. The DVLA will just require the driver to be in the branch as the DVLA will want to ask the driver some questions directly (they won't want the questions asked via the hire co staff as its a data protection thing) that simply confirm you are who you say you are – mothers maiden name, DOB etc. Then you just hand the phone back to the hire co staff and they take it from there.

If you think you'll be picking up out of hours it should be possible to do the license checking thing at another branch in advance, depending on how the hire co's system is set up.

Aye, so long as the license holder is present they can call the DVLA.

The DVLA will need to ask her some security questions to confirm that she is who she says she is and bobs your uncle.

Only caveat is that the DVLA office needs to be open for you to speak to them, I've had drivers on my hire account caught out when collecting cars after hours, on bank holidays, etc.

The energy consumed producing new cars and getting them to the point of sale is vastly more than the possible additional pollution that these older cars might have produced over their modern counterparts.

I've heard that so many times but never in reference to any facts, it was blurted out in the same article on TG. What actual information is based on?

Essentially taking a load of older petrol cars off the road and replacing them with a substantial fraction more diesel cars. This is a particularly mad idea from the angle I work on, Air Quality,

But thats something that would have happened in the next year or two anyway, as Diesel cars are in vogue at the moment, with or without scrapage