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  1. JimJay

    How are you storing your tools?

    I like the idea of French cleats, but I prefer something a little more flexible, ie that I can use magnets on or hang a metal hook (or ten) from etc. That led me to do some experimenting and I came up with the idea of using the "Metod" suspension rails from Ikea, which are designed to hang...
  2. JimJay

    Joke Thread 4

    Or moderators who make silly changes - I guess we know who's "inked"... :cool:
  3. JimJay

    Joke Thread 4

    And don't like tats………
  4. JimJay

    A little truth for a change.

    Not a privilege? Not a society? Not democratic?
  5. JimJay

    A little truth for a change.

    By its very nature, Democracy is ALWAYS manipulated. Perhaps we should go back to first principles: only men (and only those men rich enough to have the spare time to attend debates and participate in voting) are franchised, while the slaves and women get on with whatever work is needed to keep...
  6. JimJay

    A little truth for a change.

    So presumably you also favour people being forced to pay a similar tax because the government they elected - (or perhaps simply supported in principle without voting?) - made a hash of the economy/infringed your "rights"/put up your taxes or injured/offended you in some other way? Do you...
  7. JimJay

    Joke Thread 4

    If it were 7F they wouldn't have even got wet - the river would have frozen solid. It was actually 49F/9C..
  8. JimJay

    Joke Thread 4

    That would be a good riposte - but only if "imponderable" meant what Mr Moore seemingly thought it did. An imponderable is something which is difficult/impossible to evaluate or assess; it has nothing to do with being able to say what the imponderable actually is or what is imponderable about...
  9. JimJay

    Joke Thread 4

    Why?
  10. JimJay

    A little truth for a change.

    As far as I'm concerned, we're all missing the Big Question: if the predicted "climate catastrophe" does indeed come about, would it actually be A Bad Thing? The world population of Homo "Sapiens" is manifestly too big, and as a species our behaviour is out of control and unsupportable, so...
  11. JimJay

    A little truth for a change.

    Some people will believe any old junk they happen to read on the internet; a case in point is fake quotations attributed to Aristotle.... :oops:
  12. JimJay

    Joke Thread 4

    @mc281 I hate to tell you this, but it clearly isn't all Latin to you either... :cool:
  13. JimJay

    Greetings from Romania

    Welcome, Brad - we're neighbours and I recognise much of what you describe - although to an even greater degree - here in Bulgaria. There are some wonderful woodworkers, and other craftsmen, here who produce miracles with kit that would be in a scrapyard in Western Europe - but sadly I am...
  14. JimJay

    Just to stir the pot, has anyone noticed...

    I'm sure that what you're saying makes perfect sense to you, but unfortunately it doesn't affect the reality of legal documents, or indeed of the English language. There have been countless court cases hinging on the ambiguity of unpunctuated documents, with the actual meaning being a matter of...
  15. JimJay

    Just to stir the pot, has anyone noticed...

    The myth is that they were REQUIRED to be, on the spurious grounds that lack of punctuation makes the intended meaning completely clear; the reality is entirely opposite - correct punctuation, and accurate drafting, are what remove all possibility of ambiguity and "interpretation"... :cool:
  16. JimJay

    Just to stir the pot, has anyone noticed...

    While you're rolling on the floor, you might want to brush up your reading skills. A property deed isn't a statute, unless you're Bonnie King Charlie in mufti. The fact that you've "never heard of that one" is down to ignorance, which is easily remedied once your mirth has subsided and you're...
  17. JimJay

    Joke Thread 4

    And that absolutely sums up the state of what passes for education nowadays.....:cry:
  18. JimJay

    Just to stir the pot, has anyone noticed...

    I'm afraid that you've been misinformed - although you're by no means alone. Legal documents are, and have always been, punctuated, albeit sparingly; the object, as in any piece of written English prior to the rise of our present-day generation of illiterati, has always been to clarify the...
  19. JimJay

    Royal Mail - complete ban on bladed items from 22nd April

    All the items listed above - with the exception of some of the more extreme Section 5 weapons - are freely available across the counter here in Bulgaria. However, most people of any age see no need to carry a weapon of any kind - apart from our local "ethnic minority members", who specialise in...
  20. JimJay

    Royal Mail - complete ban on bladed items from 22nd April

    Here in Bulgaria, the post - and courier services - won't take firearms. As a shooter, I find it amusing that they're quite happy to collect and deliver "musical instruments" from and to gunsmiths, gunshops etc.....the couriers will even wait while the "guitars" etc are wrapped up in front of...
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