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    Faux Gras

    Personally I clicked on the thread wondering what alternative use you were finding for Astroturf.
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    What’s on your keyring (and do you use it?)

    I have a bottle opener on the keyring with my housekeys (not my vankeys though, that sends the wrong message) thats been there for about 30 years. Apart from the obvious usage, it's also good for opening paint tins but it opens a lot more bottles than tins. i don't think Ive ever actually had...
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    Banned dogs - thoughts

    What you doing under that bridge, get out before the big billygoat gruff comes along.
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    Petition seeks to have serial numbers on all knives sold

    Put serial numbers on the face of their hammers (reversed obviously though) so every strike leaves the numbers on the blades. They'll need non numered hammers for making other stuff or the Metropolitan police might get confuddled and do people for having a fixed blade shovel in the back of their...
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    Petition seeks to have serial numbers on all knives sold

    Yeahbut just think of the kittens we might save? Do they have serial numbers for each knife model, each manufacturer or do we have to have longer blades so we can fit all the numbers for all the knives sold in the UK?
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    Shops gone after years of business

    Jeez, editing. Bah.
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    Shops gone after years of business

    Used to be fairly simple for sma businezses to se wjthin the EU, then around 2016 some changes started that made that less viable. You might have heard of it?
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    How to make an earth clamp

    No welding content?
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    DeWalt battery chainsaw

    IIRC the chainsaw strides work by clogging the chain and the saw stalls just before top dead centre. Having constant torque, electric chainsaws can carry on a bit longer. Worth bearing in mind.
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    EDC money and cards?

    I just have a wallet, think I bought it TK Max. Holds a couple of bank cards and qualification cards that I need when I rock up on a new site. I've thought about making one but they only cost about a tenner or so and last for five or more years anyway. I'm not buying or selling secondhand...
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    What is the point off fly fishing just use bait

    One of my older brothers (who worked with explosives down a mine) once used gelagnite in a river. Said he would never do it again as it killed everything and he felt bad about it.
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    Orange is the New Black

    On my corded tools the chuck key, or grinder spanner gets ziptied to the plug end of the cable, means I don't lose it and also ensures that anyone swapping bits or discs over has to pull the plug out to use the key/spanner. To be fair, I don't go nuts tightening grinder discs up and can usually...
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    Orange is the New Black

    Secateurs, a very underrated tool. Feeding bits of dead gorse bush into a Kelly Kettle or just clearing a path of bramble twigs. Yeah, sometimes a knife does ok but especially the gorse covered in thorns is simpler and faster to pick up, cut and just nicer to use secateurs. I have some old CK...
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    Banned dogs - thoughts

    Naah, be reet. Just lightweight ones, maybe some chubby guide dogs. Obviously they get their BMI checked by a vet every year and if they're a bit buff its a shot of immobilon and no revivon offered. I wonder if they'll use the flotation test to measure displacement? Bit like testing for...
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    Where to buy decent meths ?

    I've bought a few 205 litre drums of methanol (maybe just three drums, I can't remember for sure) then stored em at mine to be picked up by a mate who lived in the hinterlands. I considered using some for a camp stove but he pointed out that its genuinely nasty stuff and methalated spirits is...
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    Banned dogs - thoughts

    Yeah, but what about the dogs?
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    Banned dogs - thoughts

    Are we there yet?
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    Banned dogs - thoughts

    So the proposals changed from being a simple idea thats easy to establish to needing a more nuanced method of checking in the space of a few days. Thats kind of what I'm getting at and is an example of how something like Zombie Knife bans on blades with more than one hole in em affects cheese...
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    Shaggy Ink Caps

    Ahh... Err.. Well. That's embarrassing... obviously I really meant to say Common Inkcaps. Ahem.
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    Shaggy Ink Caps

    Don't drink alcohol from 24 hours before to 24 hours after eating them. The stuff they give alcoholics to stop em drinking is based on the active ingredient in Shaggy Inkcaps and will make you bad fettle.