RANT CORNER

[ShaunWhite]

If you cut one in half while digging or removing dirt from the patio grooves it feels the humane thing to do.

If they're cut behind the saddle bit ("clitellum", thanks google) the head end survives. I've been listening to a lot of GQT in the shed lately

[Derek27]

Why do you feel the need to kill them?
Slugs? Yes.
But worms are nature's excavators. Pick 'em up and plonk 'em in some soil. Happy days.

If you cut one in half while digging or removing dirt from the patio grooves it feels the humane thing to do.

Yes Derek leave those poor earthworms alone!

You should hunt down these evil fu*kers instead

https://www.wired.com/2014/09/absurd-cr ... isco-worm/

Show that to someone who says (CS for example ), God created all creatures - it couldn't have happened by accident.

[Derek27]

If you cut one in half while digging or removing dirt from the patio grooves it feels the humane thing to do.

If they're cut behind the saddle bit ("clitellum", thanks google) the head end survives. I've been listening to a lot of GQT in the shed lately

Still can't be much fun losing half your body!

[Derek27]

If you cut one in half while digging or removing dirt from the patio grooves it feels the humane thing to do.

If they're cut behind the saddle bit ("clitellum", thanks google) the head end survives. I've been listening to a lot of GQT in the shed lately

If you cut in front of the saddle, does the tail end survive? And what if you cut into three pieces, does the middle survive?

[firlandsfarm]

Surely the sensible thing would have been to have the metal barrier at the top to stop people getting in, not getting out of, the tube. They should sue

and have people climb up the inside of the slide from the bottom! It's simple, if you want to behave like an idiot expect to have an idiotic accident!

[Derek27]

Can't think of a more stupid invention than a folding smartphone, other than the watering can with a torch sellotaped to the spout for people who water their gardens at night time. It's not as if it doesn't fit easily in your pocket.

[jamesg46]

Can't think of a more stupid invention than a folding smartphone, other than the watering can with a torch sellotaped to the spout for people who water their gardens at night time. It's not as if it doesn't fit easily in your pocket.

Finally switched back from Samsung to IPhone last week & while I prefer IPhone by miles I’m not so sure it’s a good design to have the camera protruding…. I never gave it much thought at the time but I fear scratching the lens every time I put the thing down on the side… also when I sent a mate a happy birthday msg Siri asked me if I’d like to save the date to my calendar, talk about intrusive.

[Derek27]

Can't think of a more stupid invention than a folding smartphone, other than the watering can with a torch sellotaped to the spout for people who water their gardens at night time. It's not as if it doesn't fit easily in your pocket.

Finally switched back from Samsung to IPhone last week & while I prefer IPhone by miles I’m not so sure it’s a good design to have the camera protruding…. I never gave it much thought at the time but I fear scratching the lens every time I put the thing down on the side… also when I sent a mate a happy birthday msg Siri asked me if I’d like to save the date to my calendar, talk about intrusive.

I've heard iPhone apps are more stable and crash less but what puts me right off them is that the home screen isn't very customisable, from what I've read.

[jamesg46]

Can't think of a more stupid invention than a folding smartphone, other than the watering can with a torch sellotaped to the spout for people who water their gardens at night time. It's not as if it doesn't fit easily in your pocket.

Finally switched back from Samsung to IPhone last week & while I prefer IPhone by miles I’m not so sure it’s a good design to have the camera protruding…. I never gave it much thought at the time but I fear scratching the lens every time I put the thing down on the side… also when I sent a mate a happy birthday msg Siri asked me if I’d like to save the date to my calendar, talk about intrusive.

I've heard iPhone apps are more stable and crash less but what puts me right off them is that the home screen isn't very customisable, from what I've read.

I think that’s probably fair… not much on the home screen has changed since my last iPhone. What was good about android was the depth you could go to with 3rd party apps like streaming sports etc. iPhone seems to be a little more difficult.

[greenmark]

Slaughtering 100,000 healthy animals to landfill is a national disgrace.
Forget lack of labour, leave 'em in the field until they can be used.
I simply don't believe this is a sensible solution. I realise pigs are a commodity from an industry with low margins, but the idea of throwing them in the bin is appalling.
Of all domesticated animals, pigs are the top. We use everything but the oink.

[Derek27]

When I was little I was told to wash my hands after wiping my arse. When I was old enough to cook I was told to wash my hands after handling raw meat. Now we're told to wash our hands after touching anything at all.

Yet you can still buy a ready-to-cook meal with fresh chicken breast in it, with the sauce sachet dumped in with the raw chicken and the instructions simply say, "put the sauce sachet aside".

You need to wash your hands anyway because the flipping sauce sachet is covered in sauce and wet vegetables!

[Derek27]

Slaughtering 100,000 healthy animals to landfill is a national disgrace.
Forget lack of labour, leave 'em in the field until they can be used.
I simply don't believe this is a sensible solution. I realise pigs are a commodity from an industry with low margins, but the idea of throwing them in the bin is appalling.
Of all domesticated animals, pigs are the top. We use everything but the oink.

You needn't worry about them. While the 100,000 pigs are being slaughtered, the government is engaged in talks to see what can be done.

Apparently, an overgrown pig produces chops so large they won't fit into the standard size package tray! I would have thought a larger tray would have been the solution but I'm probably missing something.

[Derek27]

The Queen's been pictured using a walking stick! She's only 95 years ols!

[firlandsfarm]

Slaughtering 100,000 healthy animals to landfill is a national disgrace.
Forget lack of labour, leave 'em in the field until they can be used.
I simply don't believe this is a sensible solution. I realise pigs are a commodity from an industry with low margins, but the idea of throwing them in the bin is appalling.
Of all domesticated animals, pigs are the top. We use everything but the oink.

Pigs are not like cattle/sheep, you can't just put them in a field ... they don't graze! You have to feed them bought food. Meat production is a conveyor belt, every week more mature for market. You can't just switch the process off. And it's not just the current ones ... it applies to those due to markets next week all the way to those not yet born.

[Derek27]

FFS, what's this "island of Ireland" all about? It's been called Ireland for decades. Nobody ever confused it with the Scilly or Shetland islands. Nobody's ever said "What island" when you mention Ireland!!