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I had the misfortune to work at an Austin Rover dealership in those days. We never sold a new Maxi, Allegro, Montego, Ambassadeur, Princess or Maestro. The only things we could shift were Metros, Minis, Rover SDIs and Triumph Acclaims. I once sold an Ital and the sales manager paid for a meal for my wife and myself. Every month or so the guy from the Honda dealers used to pop in for a chat and made a big deal of wiping up the oil that had leaked onto the showroom floor from brand new Austin Rover cars.
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One of our sergeants was a real prick. Fast tracked bscause he had an ology and his family and the Chief's family were close. He decided that we weren't clearing a barricade properly in a training exercise. So he went to show us how to do it. He woke up in hospital and never went on another PSU training exercise again. It happens at all levels. The lower ranks are equally capable of making decisions.
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There is a news report of a Russian General of the motorised corps being deliberately run over and killed by his own men.
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What he means by a bitter small minority are Labour voters ?
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Mussles. Millions of them. You won't go hungry.
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I don't get this buying bait specifically for crayfish. They will come for worms or food scraps like banana peel, or a bit of fishing bait like a halibut pellet.
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Trustees, THE FOX RESCUERS - 1198272, Register of Charities - The Charity Commission REGISTER-OF-CHARITIES.CHARITYCOMMISSION.GOV.UK Charity details for THE FOX RESCUERS - Charity 1198272 Recently set up so no financial records to view. But they are scousers so make your own mind up.
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Great post. I would think that an ammunition ship would be at its most vulnerable when it is being unloaded. The spark in a box of fireworks effect.
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Was it the same people who privatised OAP care, education, rubbish collections and laid the foundations to sell off the NHS?
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Air gun targets for the masses.
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He needs Roubles to pay the troops and workers as well as the imports of raw materials and food. Desperation tactics.
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This conflict will have redrawn the manual. Tanks will be confined to very few theatres of war like the cavalry were after machine guns became readily available. A few lightly armoured soldiers on quads and 4x4s with anti tank weapons can wreak havoc on a convoy.
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They had two types. One worked on the two buried wires bridging a circuit and the other involves a device that sits on top of the cleared mole hill and detonates when the sensor is lifted by the mole pushing the soil up. I haven't seen the first type for years now. The second type is sold as Detaupeur for arohnd €80. It only is effective in shallow tunnels as the charge is only a 9mm starting pistol blank. If moley is pushing the soil up from a foot down it won't be effective. Our former village handyman makes his own version out of rebar and wrought iron that uses an empty 12g cartridg
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There are also reports that the railways supplying the Russians have been sabotaged by Belarusian railway workers. This might explain why Russia is relying almost entirely on missile and air strikes.
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The strange thing is that often they are surrounded by mole hills. I reckon that worms are attracted to the devices and moles follow.
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Perforated ear drums are not unknown amongst those who have used them. When I first started up I used to get them offered to me by those who had tried and failed along with plastic Beagle traps,crappy Dufus traps and various sorts of useless scissor traps. But the biggest expenditure of the moling amateur were ultrasound devices. I was offered dozens of the useless things in my first couple of years. I think they were just trying to get rid of their embarassment.
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Lawyers can't assist clients to seek compensation for their great grandparents slavery in the Congo. They can only get money from them that have it.
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I can't rationalise it. It isn't the old, wise moles or long standing residents. I have disproved that theory. It can't be trap type or placement. In December 2020 I had a rogue mole going under trap sites that had caught regularly and were still catching whilst this one went under everyting including traps in established fence line tunnels that had never, ever been blocked before. Can't be weather or soil conditions as other moles are often trapped around the rogues. There are a few moles that for whatever reason avoid traps yet happily negotiate tree roots, stones and other obstructions. Tra
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The term 'trap shy' needs clarifying. Neophobic means the fear of anything new and that could explain why rats, moles, foxes and other animals avoid what we call traps even though they don't know that is what they are called. But why do they? Some moles are so determined to get through an un-natural obstruction to their tunnel that they rotate to be able to squeeze through a Duffus trigger loop just as they rotate through narrowings caused by roots or stones. Doesn't matter which way you set a Putange, the mole will make sure its shoulders are in line with the prongs. Well, 99.9% of the time.
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I don't understand your point. If you are saying that you don't believe moles become trap shy then why do you need to think outside the box? Luck or Judgement said that he had tried different traps and modus operandi and the mole avoided the traps. So if you believe the mole isn't trap shy how do you explain that? And it doesn't matter whether the job is at a country pile or an end terrace house. A customer is a customer and they all know what failure looks like. It looks very much like a molehill. And we don't get paid until there aren't any.
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Sometimes traps are back filled because the mole has to clean out the tunnel every time it passes through. These dirty tunnels are usually new ones in loose soil. The mole bulldozes the loose soil that has fallen in and that ball of soil is pushed into the trigger causing a blockage. So the mole goes under the blockage and fills the trap to create another tunnel. Those moles should in theory be caught using Talpex. But some don't want to be caught that way and dig under the trap. Same with some rats. No matter what bait or type of trap you use they avoid it. Some pheasants on a shoot will f
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Better mole trappers than me say moles don't trap shy. But over the years I have come across some moles that are very difficult to trap despite everything being the same as normal. Same traps, same methods, etc. If one has been chased around the garden by somebody else then you can understand the mole being wary. But that isn't always the case. Sometimes a new arrival in a garden I have kept clear for years takes the pi$$. But, why should moles be any different to dogs, horses and other animals that spook at things we don't understand?
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He robbed a bank in Egypt using an explosive tank track splitter to blow the safe, went AWOL with the money and served time in a quarry in Cyprus manually moving huge rocks every day. He emptied a bren gun into an AOKA in Nicosia town and buried dozens of crates of Royal Enfield parts and bikes instead of destroying them. He intended going back to liberate them, but the Turks invaded and the crates had been buried in the zone they occupied. Despite those indiscretions he got a Sergeant's pension. Couldn't have done that at the pit.
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We are from an area where there was little alternative other than heavy industry, coal and steel. He looked around at all the old men and realised that they were only 30 years older than him. He had qualified as an electrician at the colliery so he took his trade to the Army when he was 21. He had more life than his peers.
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My old mate's dad said to him during WW2: A rifles is a tool with a worker at both ends. He was 7 at the time and they were sat on the moors above Sheffield watching the Luftwaffe bomb the shit out of Sheffield. Didn't stop him serving in Oman, Suez and Cyprus though.
