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It's a great model if it stops the next lot arriving. That's what it's for.

There's no scientific evidence to prove God doesn't exist, either. It's a negative.

I gave up the nicotine gum and the sublingual nicotine pills (foul things) after five months when I had the notice that I would have to pay for them. I got the cold sweats and the skin on my palms peeled.

My sister's friend in NZ built his bungalow when he was 23. Every single thing in its construction was carried up ninety seven steps. Welcome, btw.

I saw a doctor. Still off the ****? No, I lasted about five months. Don't worry, you weren't ready. When you're ready, you'll stop. He was right. 16/4/04.

Likewise. :)

We also grew up in environments where things were repaired ot rebuilt - if someone in your family couldn't do it they probably knew a man in the village who could. Sheds full of tools weren't uncommon. Most young people now wouldn't know where to start even if they had the tools. (Having said...

Surely the Israelis could devise something interesting? :)

He's possibly still better that the other pathological liars?:)

Rather like Americans in Fowey or Looe asking why the streets weren't built wide enough for trucks and buses.

You can buy HSS round and flat bar on Amazon/Ebay cheaply enough and make your own scrapers and round skews. I remember club lathes had five tools each - a parting tool, a bowl gouge, a spindle gouge, a roughing gouge and a skew. They were deemed enough for 95% of turning.

I have both to come this saturday. I had a second shingles *** several weeks ago - my arm was sore for a week or more, more sore that it's ever been from a flu, covid or pneumonia ***.

My wife asked my sixteen year old daughter to make coffee for the scaffolders. How do I do that? she asked. No one in our house drank coffee, she'd never made it, not even instant. I was forty before I ever cooked rice.

Yes, I always glue the top back on.

Belgium appears to manage ok for a couple of years at a time without a government.

Thank you. I had covid, three days of a very mild cold. I passed it to him, he was 20, fit, didn't smoke, do any drugs or anything. Four days from being healthy to being dead. He wasn't vaccinated, the daft thing was that he wasn't anti vaccine, he just didn't get around to it. The...

My grandfather died of TB. My uncle had diphtheria. My father had polio. I had measles that very nearly killed me. My boy died of myocarditis caused by covid. I'll take the jabs, thank you very much.

She is leaving after a month in post and will take up a new role as the PM's envoy for nations and regions? What the hell is that?

I have seven or eight. Perfectly OK for our usage. Drill bits up to 14mm iirc only come in 1MT and save using a chuck on the tailstock.