Frank Hovis
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A real shame to read that.
The SNP are horrible little bullies who keep peddling the big lies that anybody who is against them is unpatriotic (if Scots) or hates Scotland (if English).
As North Sea oil runs out so will their last shreds of credibility, all that decent people have to do is wait.
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I know how much you all love hearing about how wonderful Scotland and the SNP are so I thought I would start a thread to spread the joy!
OK, I'll pitch in.
Yes, I do really like Scotland and have enjoyed my visits there and am happy to hear all about it.
But I can't stand the SNP: single issue bullies.
They were always going to do extremely well this time as everybody who voted for separation was going to turn out to vote for them to make up for losing.
This is however the high water mark, they will deliver nothing, the scandals and corruption will bubble to the surface, and the flash in the pan will be gone.
Enjoy your four years of dreaming.
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That's better.
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And who could forget 'Bruno'?
He certainly had a 'single issue'...
(Younger viewers may not recall this poster. He was a rather troubled individual who had a penchant for doing things with his umbrella you definitely shouldn't do, and I don't mean opening it indoors. He disappeared after he made death threats to an HPC meeting, and received a police caution as a result).
Nicely summed up here.
http://www.propertyinvestmentproject.co.uk/blog/house-price-crash-is-cancelled-screams-the-psycho/
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Stench of Landlord style superiority from some of you off-topic superior-regulars.
Perhaps you want to charge some of us rent for posting in your Off Topic sub-forum.
My posts are focussed on HPC subjects, because it's the HPC forum. I'm a member of 30+ other forums.
You win.
Unless anybody out there can beat that number?
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Well, thanks for ruining off-topic Frank.........
Don't blame me, blame Cyber Nat aka Ronald MacDonald.
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Absolutely not true. I've never advocated that anyone else buy large quantities of gold, or rush into anything. Everyone should make their own choice, and stand (or fall) by it. The only thing I have said, is that most people should have up to 5% in precious metals - but this is just what most financial advisors would say anyway.
Also, I'm not a single issue poster. I post on numerous topics.
I should add, that I don't actually post that much if you look at the statistics. I'm not a prolific poster.
Ok, I don't venture much outside OT these days Errol but when I did your posts were generally along the lines of linking to any kind of gold ramping story that implied it was getting scarce or that the Indians / Chinese were secretly buying vast amounts of it so buy some before it all disappears to Asia whereupon they will use it in some unspecified way to destroy our economy.
I have cited you before as the one goldbug (unless you also object to that?) who would actually enter into a reasoned debate on it rather than post a trite response or just not reply.
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Funny thing is, some are actually fairly interesting, if only they just posted in moderation...
There's a few on the Ukraine thread as well.
Indeed, happy to have alternative viewpoints but the recent blanket-bombing by Cyber Nat reminded me how they can wreck a forum if left unchecked. The wost one I've encountered wasn't on here but on a football forum. One girl had an obsession with one of our strikers to the point of ending up literally stalking him. She hijacked any thread that even mentioned our strikers (it was football, most would do this) and turned it into a banner-wave for her striker whilst other people took the piss. She was regularly banned for short periods (she wasn't offensive) but it made no difference, she always came back the same. We only lost her when the striker went to another club whereupon she did the same to their forum.
I maybe notice them more as I rarely venture away from Off Topic; the main reason being that I reluctantly bought a house and do not wish to be reminded on a daily basis that they're going to crash (although I'm sure they are, with the only question being "When?").
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I was going to put trolls but that's not correct, some of them could be ok and they (can) post reasoned stuff but only ever on one issue and from one viewpoint. I've seen them on other forums but we seem to have a steady run of them here.
Off the top of my head, apologies for any names I get wrong and feel free to add:
- Scottish Independence - Cyber Nat - the most recent that had me reaching for my ignore button
- Global warming (it's real - panic!) - snowflux & fulffy666
- Iran is really good you know - Asheron
- Muslims are all peaceful really and it's all the west's fault - Leroast
- Look at all the pretty coloured fonts and symbolism of names - Erranta
- Buy gold, sell your granny and buy gold, buy it now - Errol, DiggerUK
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Labour are not left wing at all. That is one of the big reasons why they were destroyed in Scotland. Scotland tends to value left wing ideals. Labour dominated in Scotland for years when they still held those left wing ideals. The Scottish people saw that Labour are more or less a different shade of right wing Tory now and that the SNP still had most of the old values the Labour party used to offer. Hence the near extinction event of right wing political parties in Scotland.
As for me telling you who's behind that website, why don't you do your own research?
The SNP, who the referendum showed are not Scotland, just wants a big freebie and don't care whether it's provided by England or the EU.
Don't blame them, if I thought I could vote myself into a situation where I received loads of free money then I would do the same. Responsibility is over-rated.
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The left have a mistaken belief that they're nice; which entitles them to describe anybody who disagrees with them as scum.
Cue Alanis Morrisette.
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I never used to understand the dislike of the Conservatives and actively supported them (well, voted for them) through the Thatcher & Major years but I find Cameron & Osborne to be ridiculous stereotypes.
Over the last week alone their continued pumping of the housing bubble (cash to allow people to have the rent deposit to rent a BTL, whack up the inheritance tax threshold so massive unearned gains on property can be retained) and now the frankly mental Right to Buy being extended (and yes I know that was originally Maggie's, nobody's perfect) even further.
I would actually agree with RTB if it applied to all renters including private sector, but no, that particular lottery win is reserved for social housing renters.
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We had a development in our local village in Cornwall, they built a load of home at ridiculous prices, 1/2 sold on shared ownership to the locals, the other 1/2, full price went to BTL. The locals can't afford the BTL rent so they have moved in a load of council tenants from London because of the cheaper rents. Two rapes later and a spate of burglary's and this area is just a shit as the centre of Plymouth.
Thank you, oh great inner city dwellers. It's just what we needed down here. Just send all your old, sick, perverted, thieving wasters down here....
FFS!
Heard the same about Bude but this was chavscum from Manchester on ths occasion.
Lovely people, not. Fights in the town centre every weekend now and it used to be a nice quiet place.
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the yanks didn't start it-like i said before there are embeds in the US political system(and the british) from foreign shores..charged with getting us into a war of attrition and also using disproportionate force as a reaction to the embed-imported terrorists ,to make us the enemy/pariah states.
they are known about, and in time their deeds will be exposed..and the people behind them.
the likes of isis is "in yer face" so they aren't the real threat...the main operators like others doing their work by proxy, so look for who is covertly funding and politically backing them
we are up against enemies(plural) that think in the same dogmatic terms that made many from northern europe flee the old world for the new.
and their agenda IS world domination.
Do you mean Qatar for covertly funding islamist terrorists whilst being friendly to the west?
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Something
in medicinewhere the government pays your salary.Lets say GP, surgeon, nurse, dentist, etc. Plus you are cashing in on the population getting older. Ka-ching.and your pension.There we go.
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fallacy of composition is at play on both sides here. Lots of people look at those at the bottom and say 'if you bothered studying, had a better attitude etc, you could be a doctor/engineer/lawyer'. Which is true for the maybe 20% who have the innate ability to progress in these areas. But if everyone did, competition would increase, salaries for these areas would come down and you'd get more people with the 'status anxiety' outlined in the OP.
In some ways we'd be better with a more rigid class system, 10-15% doing academic degrees at good unis, another 10-15% on practical vocational courses, whether at uni or whilst in work, many of the remaining 70% perfectly happy to be a worker ant 9-5 provided they have security and reasonable living standard
But now we have X Factor society, where everyone can make it. And if you don't it's either due to your own defects or 'society' rather than being an inevitable part of any system.
In pretty much all ways tbh! Though we need to lose the outdated snobbery and have more of a German model where the engineer or the brewer is as respected as any other occupation.
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I'm about to pass judgement on some 'woodwork' also known as 'resistant materials'. I can't blame the students for their output, indeed some have done well against the odds but the teacher clearly knows little about quality of workmanship or how to teach it.
On a higher level, two of the last three staff I've recruited were liberated from crap minimum wage jobs. Both are now indispensable stars in my team. One has a masters in network security but could not get a job so worked in a shop that paid minimum wage and insisted staff wear the shop's expensive clothes bought out of their own wages as 'uniform' to bolster the image of the shop. I've also tried for the last 18 months to recruit a specialist with one disastrous interview with an older person. I'm not allowed to ask for youngsters but I'm more of the opinion that I should just rescue more bright kids shoved into skid row after they find that the ******** they got taught at school is worthless in the labour market. Having been to work in hell they are so pleased to be given a real job at fair wages that they will do anything for me. Train them up and they don't leave because they love the work.
I remember a PhD graduate who worked for a summer in a burger bar. When a customer got rude and called him by the name read from his badge, he would pause, fix the customer with a stare and say, "that is Dr R***lins to you matey". That tended to pull up the average burger bar client short especially when they re-read the badge and saw it indeed did say Dr.
The point is we cannot know what job to train people for, my C&G in arable farming isn't a lot of use now.
At one big co. I worked at we had an unofficial policy of looking out for university drop-outs. They were usually cheap to hire, worked well as they were grateful of being given the chance, and had shown marked intelligence and drive by packing in useless degrees before they got further into debt.
Generally they did very well and it was an excellent policy.
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The problem is that being a graduate used to be a guarantee of a high level of intelligence which meant that certain jobs, particularly the professions, would take a graduate in any discipline because they knew they would be up to it if they could cope with the workload.
What has happened is that the word "graduate" has been so devalued by having half the school leavers get a degree that it no longer carries this weight.
You have to be a graduate of a good university or a second tier university with a good degree in a decent subject.
Other degrees are a waste of time and money (in strict career terms) as employers will look no more favourably on you for having that than for having good A levels.
As G&S said (or rather G) when everybody's somebody then no-ones anybody.
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I've heard that mentioned. Have you tried brewing sugar instead? Cheaper, and it's on offer at Wilkos : http://www.wilko.com/homebrew-accessories+equipment/wilko-brewing-sugar-1kg/
That's not bad at all. I thought it would be pricier hence my ignoring their advice.
Wilko Brewing Sugar 1kg now £1.50 was £2.50 save £1.00I can go there Tuesday so will see if they have any (big big store so it's likely)
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Yeah, sediment and lots of washing up are why I tried to avoid bottling, but of course, the perfect pint is the goal!
I swill the bottles afterwards and then put them in (with other things) into the dishwasher on intensive, 70 degree wash. That will take off all traces.
Then prior to bottling all the bottles go into the bath (I don't use it for anything else so it's always clean) with Camden tablets for about eight hours whilst the tablets dissolve, then swill with fresh water.
Bottling I mostly use a jug and pour carefully, siphon for the last few inches.
It's not anywhere near as arduous as I thought it would be, hence I'm going for the full 40 pints next.
This is the half malt, half sugar single can one. I was going to use normal sugar despite the warning of a cidery taste. Should I be warned?
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I shall continue then!
Thanks for the reply. I tried a keg brew (cheapo plastic keg from Wilkos), but it didn't hold the pressure so it was flat. That's a lot of beer to waste. I greased the ring as well(!). Any tips?
I have the Hambleton-Bard injector btw. Would love to have another go, but don't want to risk another kit on failure, so was intending to get some bottles.
Holy Thread Hijack Batman!
I am, on my second 20 pints of a Wilkos all malt 40 pint kit. The first one was lovely as long as I didn't let the yeast mix into it.
I use bottles with a Wilkos crown corker, didn't really look at a keg.
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I'm finding now that on the odd google search when I click on the HPC link I'm taken to theurl4short.info this appears to be intermittant so can't say search for this and get taken there. The only way I can get around going to the .info link is to click on the google cache link instead.
Snap.
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An interesting idea.
Were you an English teacher Sarah? That was what I got told when I wildly misinterpreted a poem, they can't say you're actually wrong, it's a poem and about perosnal interpretation, but I soon realised "interesting" meant "wrong".
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I was in a pub back in england in 2013 and was in my old village - was talking to a blow in from London who had bought a loverly place. Very nice bloke, but was a bit shocked when I explained the reason his garden had had a strong flintstone wall all the way round was that was to stop the floods that come up the valley every 15-30 years or so when there is a storm surge. I could see he wished he hadn't knocked it down and replaced it with a trendy hedge shortly after moving in
Luvverly! This one had water about two foot up a three foot wall around the garden but the house was set down again so two and a half foot of water would just slosh in without it. Right next to a nice stream which is usually about twelve feet below the height of the wall.
What Is Your Definition Of "a Hate Crime"
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I don't really see the point, an attack is an attack, but the definition seems to be that you are attacked for fitting a certain category rather than for something personal to you.
So Lee Rigby's killing was a hate crime IMO because he was attacked because he was identifiable as a British soldier. If he was beheaded by somebody with a personal grudge against him in particular then it wouldn't be a hate crime.
As per my opening statement, what's the point of it?