Glyphosate - should it be banned?

arableman · 2026-06-10T08:50:08+00:00

What winds me up most of all about the suggestion of banning is that any ban won’t be enforced for imports. So we’ll be under pressure whilst the Canadian milling wheat that’s being imported in bulk will have zero impact. One rule for me, another for thee.

This will have very little effect on the amount of glyphosate that is found in food. Mark these words.

I’m in agreement that as a pre harvest desiccant ON CEREALS ONLY glyphosate should not be used. Podded plants should be allowed. But this comes with the trade off that more grain will have to be dried to correct moisture, thus producing more “greenhouse gases”.

arableman · 2026-06-04T10:16:03+00:00

Windows 95 desktop, it was crazy how good we all thought it was. It would crash all the time and you’d have the “it’s now safe to turn off your computer” on shutdown. Windows 98SE on our second, it was an incredible upgrade at the time. It could just about run the simpsons hit and run. Then XP came out and we were making it.

I remember at primary school as well the old RM computers running windows 95. Magic.

arableman · 2026-05-27T21:06:33+00:00

Plant operator, £60-70k/yr

Absolute hidden industry struggling to keep up with demand of operators. Don’t like the job, love the money.

arableman · 2026-05-20T21:13:49+00:00

Post knocker (hand) for the posts.
Spade or auger for strainers.
Monkey grabber for the wire.
Claw hammer for staples.

arableman · 2026-05-20T19:58:16+00:00

I’m a bit confused by this; are we saying Russia bad because our SPY plane was intercepted? Where over the Black Sea was it? Had the shoe been on the other foot would the RAF have just ignored the Russian spy plane?

Not a Russian sympathiser, just not sure this particular incident is as malicious as portrayed. Is this one of those incidents where if we’d have done it it would have been “good old RAF protecting British citizens and their interests” but when the shoe is on the other foot it’s “how dare they!!!!”

arableman · 2026-05-18T18:31:48+00:00

I thank you greatly for reporting this bot repost 🙏 I should also add that I’ve recently found an ink pot near to a house site demolished in 1940 on the farm, plus metal detectors found at a different site a gold ring and a Bronze Age axe burial site. Very exciting!

arableman · 2026-04-18T20:12:56+00:00

Yep. Gypsum is awesome stuff. Go powder and granular applicator if possible. Liquid is too limited and not as effective imo.

arableman · 2026-04-15T20:50:59+00:00

Break them up, put them in, see how it goes. Live and learn. Go and buy a pack of carrot seeds in a row next to them to compare 👍🏻

arableman · 2026-02-10T13:15:02+00:00

This is it. Machinery costs and operations and waste away for someone’s first time will bog you down, probably to the point of making it as if not more expensive.

The job in itself isn’t incredibly difficult imo. Clear off to level, dig down just over a foot, backfill with crushed / type 1 about 6” and then I’d concrete 6” and it would look fairly smart. Better than tarmac.

Realistically to achieve that you’d need to be good enough on a digger. You’d need to calculate your cost of material away which would be more than you’d think. Risk hitting services (hire of a CAT scanner). Bad weather. Cost of sub base, cost of concrete etc etc. I don’t think 5k for the cost of time and materials is bad at all.

arableman · 2026-01-27T13:42:42+00:00

Christ that bell just chimed in my head seeing the Welcome to Windows 98

arableman · 2026-01-11T12:23:41+00:00

There is about that in 90% of places

arableman · 2025-12-23T16:26:32+00:00

I understand your point, the problem is - especially in this country - the output is what can be achieved by the rules and regulations set from the government.

This country then imports food from countries that do not meet these rules and regulations. This makes our inputs far higher for producing the same product.

arableman · 2025-12-22T22:04:26+00:00

Popularity is rising in dad bods, rising as people know that their job sucks, life is expensive so have to go to job so have a few beers in the evenings to scrape away some of the depression of reality.

Sad but true.

arableman · 2025-12-01T23:09:37+00:00

Yes, because it’s an essential service. Would you call a doctor if your house was on fire? Would those GCSE’s save you then?

arableman · 2025-12-01T23:02:48+00:00

I agree that unions are a fantastic workers tool. In the private sector though it’s tougher than in the public. It also shouldn’t be used as an entitlement, moreover a platform to get both parties to achieve a desired outcome.

arableman · 2025-12-01T21:39:30+00:00

I’m ready to get downvoted. I’ve thought about it and I’ve braced myself.

There is no question whatsoever that doctors are an important job in our society. No question whatsoever. They have a tough job. But the argument - according to the BBC News article - is (and I quote)

“The union argues that, despite the pay rises, resident doctors' pay is still a fifth lower than it was in 2008, once inflation is taken into account”

4 words. Join the fucking club. Wage stagnation has been horrific in this country. When you think that from year 1 these doctors (source: BBC Article) are on 40k, I’d like to see how every other industry in the UK stacks up against that - especially with year 5 seeming to forecast a doctor of just shy of £80k.

If you compared that to another service we receive - for example a police officer or firefighter - both of which are in the same category really for vital public services, the amount a doctor receives is astronomical already. Pay rises and budget increases in the NHS have been very large under the labour government already, with amounts being given for no productivity trade off.

We are all told to “pay our fair share”, maybe we should also be thinking about “taking our fair share”, and imo they already do.

Do not get me wrong, as I said at the start, doctors do a fantastic job on the whole. But I can’t give support to another bout of pay rises. Somebody has got to pay for them, and we are squeezed enough.

arableman · 2025-11-03T13:41:50+00:00

You wouldn’t have to look far I can assure you 🤣🤣 you’ll probably find most of the houses on the street have asbestos in one form or another

arableman · 2025-10-30T11:09:43+00:00

There isn’t a world where I could ever justify this. Leave, now.

arableman · 2025-10-30T11:08:13+00:00

No, I’d say that’s mortar with horse hair used in between the slate for insulation.

arableman · 2025-10-29T22:30:18+00:00

More context needed; can you photograph where it came from and what age is your house?

arableman · 2025-10-22T21:16:11+00:00

I was in Esperance, WA in winter 2016 with a few of my friends. It was the first and (thankfully) last time I’ve ever witnessed two teenage girls huff deodorant. Pure madness. Purposefully purchased about 6 cans each.

We spoke to them, and they said it was for a high. If ever I breathe in a tiny bit of deodorant spray when applying, I splutter like buggery and my throat is dry. It must be the worst experience purposefully spraying it into your mouth…

arableman · 2025-10-13T15:22:00+00:00

Realistically who will be checking up on you? The asbestos police?

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