Forthcoming catapult ban?
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Funny when you talkabout catapults; this is a catapult in my language:
And this I call a slingshot.
This is what I call aspirational life goal...
I have a load of spare 6x2 stored for a decking job that wasn't required.
Guess I may have ago at making a ickle flat pack Treb!!
It's back door ID for adults
Dressed up as protecting children... surely, education in school and parental control and vigilance, plus your child feeling safe enough to trust you to deal with things that seem off is the answer.
We are being legislated out of existence.
Adults cannot be trusted with hobbies that could hurt someone
Thing is, banning something never seems to stop anything.
people still smoke, shoot each other, stab and grape.
I can't say more as I'd end up closing this thread down and being banned from the only social media of any kind I use....
I think this catapult thing won't go anywhere. Someone is on the edge, and will topple soon.
They have bigger fish to fry, and we will soon be "restored" to normality.
Stay posative folk and don't let this sort of Michael extraction get at you.
Perhaps we should all get stoned, have a good stretch and pull back from this, and let it go......
(And don't forget to aim high so that people stay safe.)
Ya get me bro!
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Most adults already have age related ID and give away huge amounts of information. Electoral register, credit files, bank accounts, mortgages, rental agreements, credit cards, driving licences, social media, mobile phone contracts, car registration, passports, supermarket loyalty cards, internet providers, utility companies etc.
The social media ban seems to me to be a bit of a sledge hammer to break the wrong nut.
We may have many forms of id but many aren't accepted, such as a FAC for voter id, or companies want a different id to what you have. My mobile phone wanted an extra id even though it was bought and topped up with a credit card. There has also been many cases with age checks on adult sites leaking personal data everywhere. I also think many people are rightfully worried to about being tracked too much and incorrect details being associated with them.
As for any likely catapult ban, they are used in a lot of crime, not just criminal damage but also killing and maiming wildlife. Seeing previous supportive comments about a crossbow ban here I wouldn't find it surprising if some catapult controls were brought in, especially if there's a death or serious incident involving one.
As ever, my opinion is it's not the inanimate object that's the problem but the person using it.
We may have many forms of id but many aren't accepted, such as a FAC for voter id, or companies want a different id to what you have. My mobile phone wanted an extra id even though it was bought and topped up with a credit card. There has also been many cases with age checks on adult sites leaking personal data everywhere. I also think many people are rightfully worried to about being tracked too much and incorrect details being associated with them.
As for any likely catapult ban, they are used in a lot of crime, not just criminal damage but also killing and maiming wildlife. Seeing previous supportive comments about a crossbow ban here I wouldn't find it surprising if some catapult controls were brought in, especially if there's a death or serious incident involving one.
As ever, my opinion is it's not the inanimate object that's the problem but the person using it.
I am pro catapult. But, I remember a story in Chicago. Neighbours, friends, who had known each other for years got into a long running quarrel over a parking space. One day it blew-up again and, this time, one party went into their house, got a gun and shot the other ... who promptly died. People don't know what they are doing when they get angry and it is possibly better that such tiffs get left to be settled by fisticuffs (with all the immediate reasons not to fight that the prospect of a proper punch-up brings). Blaming the inanimate objects is silly, obvs, but they should be regarded more like amplifiers of action rather than the sources of action itself. Unarmed, these two may have come to blows - maybe not - but one would have fallen over in the first sally, and that would have been that ... apart from a likely court case.
"ickle flat pack Treb!!" Yay! Coming to IKEAA soon!
I must admit I've been having problems satisfying ID checks for lack of a photocard driving licence or in-date passport. My bus pass is legally sufficient to allow me to vote but is not acceptable to banks and virtually everything else. Ditto not having or passing over a mobile phone number.
I've had several threatening letters from banks and investments that I've held and dealt with for 15 plus years, to no avail.
I must admit I've been having problems satisfying ID checks for lack of a photocard driving licence or in-date passport. My bus pass is legally sufficient to allow me to vote but is not acceptable to banks and virtually everything else. Ditto not having or passing over a mobile phone number.
I've had several threatening letters from banks and investments that I've held and dealt with for 15 plus years, to no avail.
There isn't a forthcoming ban, the title is totally misleading. It's a 'what if, let's have a silly debate' thread.
@CLEM above seems to have read it the wrong way, as did I. Pointless.
Fair comment from Nice, it wasn't meant to be a debate. It was more me reading the runes and wondering if others have seen/interpreted the media the same way. I'd be happy to be wrong,/corrected.
No point in debating as there is nowt we could do about it, and as someone said, stirring it up now might make things worse.
No point in debating as there is nowt we could do about it, and as someone said, stirring it up now might make things worse.
what if we stay away from that subject, plenty of other forums love that stuff
Well, I'm more concerned about underfloor heating and heated towel rail ban.
How does that even make sense?
Can you think of anything more stupid? They want us on heat pumps and all electric heating, and then try to ban heated towel rails which cost pennies to run.(I know as I have one, which both warms my bathroom and dries my damp towels. )
I'm confudilicated.
What is this madness?
Can anyone tell me what is going on??????
How does that even make sense?
Can you think of anything more stupid? They want us on heat pumps and all electric heating, and then try to ban heated towel rails which cost pennies to run.(I know as I have one, which both warms my bathroom and dries my damp towels. )
I'm confudilicated.
What is this madness?
Can anyone tell me what is going on??????
Well first It’s a proposal. I think he’s just testing the water. I can’t find the science.
Anyway, if you’ve got it you keep it. They could only ever ban new sales.
When they banned sales of 2KW vacuum cleaners just as we needed a new one, we bought one from Australia.
(New thread?)
Anyway, if you’ve got it you keep it. They could only ever ban new sales.
When they banned sales of 2KW vacuum cleaners just as we needed a new one, we bought one from Australia.
(New thread?)
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I'd not heard.of the latest proposals but a quick look suggests an aim of making new items more efficient. Sounds reasonable but it'll likely mean much more complicated, so expensive, items that from personal experience may not last as long as a basic item.
Realy? How so? Mine, as I said costs pennies to run, efficiently warms my bathroom, and dries damp towels.
It's basically a radiator. If I had one of the heat pump ones in there, it would be big, bulky and I would have damp towels. It's a tiny room, a small bath and a sink wide.
Take out 8 inches for a radiator and I can't get to the sink without fetching up against the radiator, and having to stand at an angle to the sink. Totaly impractical. I've just measured it. Litteraly, I'd have only 2 feet of space to walk between the bath and radiator. With the towel rail I have 2' 6" doesn't sound a lot more, but 6" of space is enough to be a difference between usable and awkward to the point of barely usable.
I had a towel rail fitted when I went over to heat pump as even the fitter said it was not viable. So there are times when a rail is the only solution.
BTW, mine costs 2p ph to run.
I don't use it all the time, just when I want a shower, to warm the bathroom, and I use it for about 2-3 hrs at a time.
Residual heat dries the towels. So that's a total cost of about 6p max.
I don't use it at all in the summer.
You just need to understand how to use them efficiently.
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