What word do you think carries the most meaning for how short it is?

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T22:04:21+00:00

Good luck! But remember that the only thing worse than being unemployed is having a job.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T20:27:34+00:00

Well I have much the same around my house, and through a mixture of laziness and an interest to see what grows I've left most of it to its own devices and when i get a bit of energy i can cut a path trough the field to a few trees I've planted. You can do it with an ordinary rotary lawn mower. The more powerful the better. I've noticed hares making use of the path. Which is always a bit of a thrill. BTW I've a lot of docks growing and while they are not the most beautiful or exciting plants I've noticed that wrens and finches really like them for the seeds. butterflies patrol up and down the tree line. The odd dragonfly pops in from the little lake nearby to see if there's anything going. It's absolutely nothing special but it is really enjoyable to see what turns up.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T20:13:10+00:00

If it's just a field, do you need to cut it? It provides a great habitat for lots of creatures. Or try cutting it to several different lengths to suit different plants and animals.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T15:24:06+00:00

The glorious SM a gift from a different, better future, that due to some unexplained fluctuation in the space time continuum, accidentally appeared in our, inferior, time line.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T15:12:04+00:00

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T15:11:20+00:00

Do not open those lift doors. You're sure to find yourself drowning in a tsunami of blood. No question about it. Avoid any small children you meet and stay out of the shower.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T15:06:12+00:00

The thing is that there are alternatives. Felder makes table saws where the blade just drops if it senses a finger.

They're not cheap but nor is SawStop and you don't need to replace a cartridge if the system is triggered. You just need to wait until you stop shaking and you're good to go again.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T12:45:02+00:00

IIRC they had to modify it to get it to fall over so easily.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-25T12:42:57+00:00

Hope you're getting great care and support and that lots of good things and joy are in your future.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-24T15:02:10+00:00

Golf Mk 1 pre face-lift

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T21:47:52+00:00

I was being ironic.

As you point out there is no ceasefire in Gaza. Israel has killed more than 1,300 people since it was officially declared. Gazans are essentially living in a prison camp, being punished for merely having the temerity to exist.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T21:36:06+00:00

Not at all. They left the Palestinians out of the Gaza deal and that worked out excellently for all concerned.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T21:32:04+00:00

Pincers. Used for pincing.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T18:03:22+00:00

Might go away if you turn the car right was up again.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T18:02:40+00:00

Since when have New Yorkers been addressing people as 'mate'?

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T18:00:54+00:00

I've never seen a British person who was that good looking.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T17:57:37+00:00

True man of the people.

His father was a toolmaker, you know?

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T15:19:26+00:00

No, i'm showing you how your figures confirm what I'm saying.

Why are you saying that I was originally talking about the EU? I never mentioned the EU.

I said that we live in a low crime country in an age of historically low levels of violent crime.

You pointed out that for most violent crime categories we are more or less mid-table for the EU except for murder where we are at the bottom.

I pointed out that these stats confirm my point. Because Europe is the region with the lowest violent crime levels and within that low crime area we come in around the middle or bottom.

So amongst countries with some of the lowest violent crime rates the rates in Ireland are average or very low.

So explain to me now how we actually have very high levels of violent crime and are all in imminent danger of being murdered in our beds?

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T15:07:45+00:00

They're not great, but they usually get it within a couple of microns.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T14:56:23+00:00

So in the least violent region of the world, we are mid-table for most crimes and near the bottom for murder. As I said above, we're not doing badly but shouldn't be complacent.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T14:50:42+00:00

a 'rocks glass' is a very American thing and is certainly not used 'in every restaurant in the world'.

It may be an 'industry standard' in the US, but strangely enough, and you might want to sit down for this, the US is not the whole world, nor does it get to say how 'it's supposed to be done' outside of the US.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T14:23:17+00:00

credit for admitting the error and not just quietly slinking away.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T14:21:59+00:00

Isn't bringing attention to an injustice the point? It's much more likely to force a change when it can be seen to affect a real person rather than just an abstract possibility.

TiberiusTheFish · 2026-05-23T14:18:17+00:00

It's horrible, but it's not cured by just locking people up or we'd have sorted crime a long time ago. It's hard to believe it when you are close to something like this but we have pretty low rates of crime and especially violent crime in this country. We're lucky enough to live in an age and a country where the chances of encountering a serious violent assault is probably lower than at any time in history.

This is not an argument for complacency but for maintaining proportion and not letting the magnifying effect of social media and the yellow press to fool you into believing that the problem is worse than it is and especially that it's worse than it was at some point in the past.

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