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Building Regulations and Standards: Don't do as I do, do as I bloody well say!

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    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2011
     
    • CommentAuthorDarylP
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2011
     
    ... Tit....!!:bigsmile::bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2011
     
    As above but the 'i' replaced with a 'wa' :bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthorDarylP
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2011
     
    ...... lol !:bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile::bigsmile:
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2011
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: SteamyTea</cite>As above but the 'i' replaced with a 'wa'</blockquote>

    No, that would make him useful, at least for one thing.............
    • CommentAuthorTimber
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2011
     
    Classic!

    That brightened my day right up!
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 8th 2011
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: Timber</cite>Classic!

    That brightened my day right up!</blockquote>

    Believe me, it brightened my day even more, especially as one of the most dangerous people I know (who happens to be a somewhat disliked relative) is also an HS&E advisor.........
    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2011
     
    That ranks up there alongside this one...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7-jUxadAFQ
    • CommentAuthorowlman
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2011
     
    It's funny, but is it a put up job? It looks just a bit too clownish to be true, maybe he just had a bit too much Newkie Broon Ale.
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2011
     
    owlman, he's been suspended from his job! (No pun intended.) (Honest.) :bigsmile:
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2011
     
    Colin, that's even funnier! :shocked:
    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeNov 9th 2011 edited
     
    You should see how this American policeman teaches gun safety...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS9JiPSXwwc
    • CommentAuthorwookey
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011
     
    Anyone got a youtube link to the original video? The BBCs crappy flash doesn't work with free tools, so I can only see a black rectangle. I found various ladder falls, but none less than a year old so presumaby not the right one.
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      CommentAuthorbetterroof
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011 edited
     
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011
     
    I dislike shooting as much as I dislike fishing, but do love the engineering excellence involved in the equipment. If you want to catch a lot of fish from a river get a drag net rather than a carbon fibre rod and a smooth running reel, it is much better to get rid of your President/Prime Minister by financial means than by an Arab Spring, is quicker ans more decisive.

    But this makes me smile:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7iz1HTh9U&feature=related

    And this is just straight of of 'Jackie Brown':
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-VEzMcoVc0k
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: SteamyTea</cite>I dislike shooting as much as I dislike fishing, but do love the engineering excellence involved in the equipment. If you want to catch a lot of fish from a river get a drag net rather than a carbon fibre rod and a smooth running reel, it is much better to get rid of your President/Prime Minister by financial means than by an Arab Spring, is quicker ans more decisive.

    But this makes me smile:
    <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7iz1HTh9U&feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7iz1HTh9U&feature=related</a>

    And this is just straight of of 'Jackie Brown':
    <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-VEzMcoVc0k">http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=-VEzMcoVc0k</a></blockquote>

    I worked in the US a few times, once up in the Idaho back country. Whilst there I'd mentioned to my host that I wanted to get a cowboy hat from the big cowboy store we'd passed driving out from the airport at Boise. He took me there, it was like a B&Q warehouse, but with boxes of ammunition stacked in the aisles on special offer, with people loading up ammo into shopping trolleys and heading for the checkout. One whole wall (maybe around 100 ft long) was covered in guns of all types. At the time I had been working with Heckler and Koch in Oberndorf, Germany, on another project, so went over to see the "sporting" version of their assault rifles that were for sale (although quite how a fully automatic assault rifle can be deemed a "sporting" weapon is a bit beyond me). A helpful assistant wandered over and blithely told me I could take any gun they had there home with me today, all he needed was a credit card and to see my drivers licence............
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011 edited
     
    Posted By: JSHarrisOne whole wall (maybe around 100 ft long) was covered in guns of all types.


    Sounds a bit like the basement at the Falmouth Trago Mills, always makes me grin, especially if someone from Stithians is there :wink:

    Bugger, got the 'Duelling Banjos' tune in my head now :devil:
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: SteamyTea</cite>Bugger, got the 'Duelling Banjos' tune in my head now</blockquote>

    On the same trip I was taken out coyote hunting, by air. The guy I was with took the doors of the light aircraft he had, asked me if I was OK with an AR15 (essentially the civilian version of the M16 assault rifle used by US forces) and then we headed off out into the high desert, over towards the Snake River. The idea was to fly low over the scrub, flush out coyote and then shoot them out the door. The rangers paid a bounty for any shot, apparently. The guy I was with used a pistol the size of a small cannon. Every time he fired the thing in the cockpit it was deafening. When we landed (after not hitting a thing) I found out the gun he had was one of the biggest hand guns made, an Israeli Desert Eagle, although "only" the baby version that fires a .357 magnum round (the big version fires a 0.50 round....).
    • CommentAuthorCav8andrew
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011
     
    Reminds me of looking in the catalogue of the French equivalent of Halfords. In amongst the bikes and camping gear there were page after page of what to me looked like assault rifles and soft nosed ammunition that looked like it would stop a Rhino (if you could still find one to shot). This was in the Pyrenees where they hunt wild boar for fun, it was truly horrifying. There was also pages of camouflage gear for every conceivable item of clothing, inc. underwear I suspect (oak leaf being the favoured motif of choice). However, the most sobering items were the massive range of incredibly high visibility clothing (inc. headgear looking something like a fluorescent traffic cone) to try and lessen the possibility of being shot.
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011 edited
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: Cav8andrew</cite>Reminds me of looking in the catalogue of the French equivalent of Halfords. In amongst the bikes and camping gear there were page after page of what to me looked like assault rifles and soft nosed ammunition that looked like it would stop a Rhino (if you could still find one to shot). This was in the Pyrenees where they hunt wild boar for fun, it was truly horrifying. There was also pages of camouflage gear for every conceivable item of clothing, inc. underwear I suspect (oak leaf being the favoured motif of choice). However, the most sobering items were the massive range of incredibly high visibility clothing (inc. headgear looking something like a fluorescent traffic cone) to try and lessen the possibility of being shot.</blockquote>

    I'm always amazed at the things the French sell in everyday shops. I always stock up on stuff like ethanol and hydrochloric acid whenever I happen to be in a French DIY store, and am amazed at the lethal range of stuff you can buy there. A friend who lives in a big mansion of a place in the Loire had a problem with moles on his lawn. He popped down to the local Bricomarche (pretty much like B&Q here) and bought some mole killers that were essentially electric detonators with a hefty explosive charge. These could be hooked up to a battery powered trigger switch so that the poor old mole blew himself up. I just cannot imagine electrically fired explosives being allowed to be on open sale here.
    • CommentAuthorCav8andrew
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011
     
    He must have had some pretty impressive craters !
    Re. the hunting there were definitely periods of the year when you didn't go for a leisurely stroll in the french countryside.
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011 edited
     
    Posted By: JSHarrispoor old mole blew himself up


    Is it on YouTube :wink:

    How do the French deal with Badgers? (other than with shallots and cheap red wine)
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 12th 2011 edited
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: SteamyTea</cite><blockquote><cite>Posted By: JSHarris</cite>poor old mole blew himself up</blockquote>

    Is it on YouTube?

    How do the French deal with Badgers? (other than with shallots and cheap red wine)</blockquote>

    It's probably on there somewhere. The kit is called "DeTaupeur" I believe, and used to be sold by places like Bricomarche. The charges are about the size of a fat banger, with two wires that connect to a plunger switch. The charge is placed well down the mole hole, with the wires led to the surface. The plunger switch is attached to a stake on the surface and position so that the cup on the end is just poking into the hole. Once everything is in place the wires are hooked up to the battery pack in the switch housing. For those obsessed with dealing with a mole problem I am assured that the loud bang that wakes them up in the middle of the night is most satisfying. Personally, I find the idea of blowing the arse off a poor, unsuspecting, mole with an explosive charge slightly distasteful, but there again I also have a morbid dread of neat lawns.............

    My guess is that the French just shoot badgers, pretty much as they do anything else that moves. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find that they have a few recipes that involve badger, either.

    I've tracked down a diagram of the device (after a quick Google).
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011
     
    Posted By: JSHarrisI find the idea of blowing the arse off a poor, unsuspecting, mole

    The word is 'Rectum'
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: SteamyTea</cite>The word is 'Rectum'</blockquote>

    Oh, I'm quite sure it did that. Probably totally destroyed 'em, in fact............
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011
     
    Cyanide capsules. Although the person administering them has to be licenced. Our son did it. They're dropped into the run through a tube. Sorted ours out, both lawns having got to look like the trench systems at Paschendale.

    Ours arrived two years ago, having migrated off the neighbouring country park, which likewise didn't have a problem until about four years ago. Until then, not a single mole hill, but then the place took on the appearance of a pox victim. The badgers have sorted them, we think, because each morning a whole section of mole hills would have been dug out by the badgers in the nearby setts.

    Writing this, about killing moles, makes me feel incredibly guilty because it brings home the hypocrisy of my campaigning against badger culls. OK, as long as they stay off my patch, but wander on and do what comes naturally to them and they're dead. :devil:
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      CommentAuthorSteamyTea
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011 edited
     
    The smaller the creature (and less fur generally) the less we think it is important. I have never seen a bluebottle on a ecology poster.

    Then again, I have never seen a cookbook that has bluebottles as the main dish in it.
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      CommentAuthorJSHarris
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011 edited
     
    <blockquote><cite>Posted By: SteamyTea</cite>The smaller the creature (and less fur generally) the less we think it is important. I have never seen a bluebottle on a, ecology poster.

    Then again, I have never seen a cookbook that has bluebottles as the main dish in it.</blockquote>

    Flies can be useful. One can have ours of fun turning them into model aircraft engines:

    http://www.vincentchow.net/709/build-a-fly-powered-model-aeroplane
    • CommentAuthorJoiner
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011
     
    Sure there's an EU regulation against that kind of exploitation somewhere! :devil:
    • CommentAuthorCWatters
    • CommentTimeNov 13th 2011 edited
     
    The record for a remote controlled model plane is sub half a gram. Might be possible to make that fly powered plane remote controlled soon....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnNWz7amCwE&feature=related

    http://www.flyrc.com/050822

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