Born Hunter
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Air Quality - wood stoves - vehicles - farming
Born Hunter replied to Born Hunter's topic in General Talk
I don't know the details of this subject intimately enough to be an authority on this. But I have seen enough to be left uncomfortable by it. Here's a quick google find on particulate pollution by the Telegraph. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/12175306/Is-my-wood-burning-stove-really-killing-me-What-happened-when-I-monitored-my-exposure-to-pollution.html Another with a bit more information. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/feb/01/pollutionwatch-wood-burning-worsening-uk-air-quality -
Air Quality - wood stoves - vehicles - farming
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That's okay mate but it's not just the particulates that are a health concern. The COx and NOx produced from stoves are also a pretty significant source of pollution from a public health perspective. I can see the public health argument will see wood burning stoves and open fires banned or very expensive emissions capture technology made mandatory in the future. I suppose regulations like this are inescapable in a growing modern society... -
Air Quality - wood stoves - vehicles - farming
Born Hunter replied to Born Hunter's topic in General Talk
I think it's all been initiated by EU policy. Every individual state is going about it in different ways I guess. -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44203396 Apparently not a ban on stoves, yet, but we're edging that way and my understanding is that the science backs it too. The Left's opinion on the Gov's clean air policy, I'm torn on this subject. I get that we want to make life healthier for everyone but at the same time I honestly think we pursue 'progress' blindly with no care for the sterilised world that the absolute form of that ideology will lead to. Our base desires and comforts are being replaced with 'healthier' ones and I ain't at all convinced th
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Had ITB syndrome before, coupled with bouts of bursitis and the necessary down time I f****d running off as a bad idea. lol I'd like to hit 5k a couple time a week but for me personally it spannered up any plans for lower body in the gym through niggling injury. I had absolutely no desire to run distance, just maintain a baseline aerobic fitness. It's demoralising and I figured I could live without. So I have a bit of sympathy for those going through the same.
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I'm not sure, I don't pay too much attention, lol. Sounds about right. All the tech they have added to make them 'healthier' only fucks them up and makes them worse anyway. They keep talking about banning them from half a dozen UK cities that fail air quality tests. My local, Nottingham, is one. At the moment I think it would harm the local economy too much.
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My understanding is a lot of garages have historically done the same and anyone that has done that is gonna get a shock come their next MOT. I can see this being one tool that pushes a lot of folks away from diesels. Not much good for folks driving and wanting 4x4s though.
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Wonder how many people that have had faulty DPFs removed are now gonna be landed a hefty bill. LOL Surely the stricter smoke testing on diesels is just encouragement to blank the EGR? I also heard that they were now much stricter on corrosion?
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I believe his solution, but not that the whole thing has been orchestrated. 'They' couldnt organise shit, never mind that sort of shit. I'd be deeply suspicious that ex KGB matey is nothing more than an astute defector playing on the West's commiephobia to give himself some value. The threat is real enough.
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There was a Mali x bullgrey on preloved or some such add sight a couple months back. IIRC it was about 6 month pup and looked real smart. God knows what use it’d be.
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FYI: 617 Sqn "The Dambusters" officially reformed yesterday in preparation for being the first operational British squadron to operate the F-35 Lightening II. The squadron and their Tonkas disbanded in 2014.
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Small pig dogs I assume? Any pictures you can share be appreciated mate.
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That one does make me laugh. Essentially terrorism trumps democracy. I'm sure every Republican considers that a terribly ignorant opinion mind but that's what it boils down to.
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LOL okay, no worries. I wondered if you might have known about it being 16AA. Anyway, was a great public relations thing while it lasted.
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Go on then @THE STIFFMEISTER why ya laughing? lol https://www.sleafordstandard.co.uk/news/arnhem-veterans-return-to-caythorpe-for-reunion-1-396353 It was 216 Parachute Signals Squadron I was thinking of. About 20 years ago they used to do an annual display/jump too but that got cancelled for some reason. A load of them static line along with a few landrovers too.
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Yeah, camped by a Loch near Fort William. Then spent a night at Loch Ryan in Galloway. Just went for a drive really, few stops etc. A thousand mile drive! LOL Next time I plan to do exactly that mate, see the lost valley and camp a few nights in the clouds. I'd love to find an estate that offers stalking in that sort of terrain too.
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Paras used to do a jump annually on Caythorpe hill years ago out of Herc's. It was great as a kid to see. I think airborne engineers or something were based at Caythorpe during the War and so it went back to that.
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I was up you way bank holiday weekend. f***ing amazing driving through Glencoe. No one has informed you lot it's spring though eh! haha
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You're in Linc's. Herc's, AWACS, Tornadoes awash. Probably waiting to land at Waddington which is the UKs ISTAR base.
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It was so obviously a flawed logic being reported I probably sounded like a socialist pointing it out. I just wasn't aware of the real reason. Thanks.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/15/trump-threatens-use-us-trade-talks-force-nhs-pay-drugs/ "freeloading", that's a bit rich. It's the free market! Foreign 'socialist' organisations are bigger customers and so have more leverage in business than the smaller private companies. Kinda an own goal for the Conservative movement too. "Socialism is terrible" and yet "The socialists get a better deal than us so we'll get them to subsidise our private system"...... eh? None of this story makes sense to me... I'd say there is more involved here but the populist line of nationalism
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I think Springers are probably slightly better value for money. Cockers are fetching mad price. I'm sure you'll be happy enough. They're real easy dogs to live with in whatever capacity generally, make a nice change to lurchers and terriers that are always trying to get you in bother on walks. ? Cocker, Springer, Sprocker whatever they're all spaniels that love to work and have strong working ancestry. I'd consider any of the above when after my next gundog, actively or opportunistically, such is their similarity really. Definitely got a preference to a strong Cocker type mind. Plen
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I think the M.E interests me from an archaeological perspective mostly, it'd be so cool to check out ruins/historical sites in Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Egypt etc. Also be cool to at least once experience an Arab market/town/port to see the culture first hand. Well, to see the culture where it belongs and not an export version in England. ?
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It appeals to me so f***ing much it's unreal, but so does much of the US West. Both for the same reasons really, amazing wilderness, very few people (specifically townies) and culturally similar. Have you been to the big cities of SE Asia? The Asian Tigers or whatever they're called, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan etc. For some reason they are mildly appealing to me. Similarly much of the Middle East does. If I was ever in the area I'd like to check them out. Maybe not the Middle East, LOL.
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Literally got this tab open in my browser right now, LOL. https://www.grandamericanadventures.com/pacific-northwest-tours/yellowstone-national-park?infinity=ict2~net~gaw~ar~253457944944~kw~trekking yellowstone national park~mt~e~cmp~2016 - NATIONAL PARKS~ag~2016 - NP - Yellowstone Hiking&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItKDEia6H2wIVRYXVCh30_gm8EAAYASAAEgKxW_D_BwE I'd just prefer to do it independently, not with an outfitter. Also west coast NZ. Different sort of stuff to what you're probably interested in. What about Cambodia?
