SPAM random annoying things

[Raven]

Marketing bollocks-speak.

Just seen some dick head wanting to "explore weed prevention" on the village facebook page.

 

[Deebs]

Marketing bollocks-speak.

Just seen some dick head wanting to "explore weed prevention" on the village facebook page.

The what? Explore how to prevent weeds? Is he the village idiot?

 

[Scouse]

The what? Explore how to prevent weeds? Is he the village idiot?

Actually, "explore how to prevent weeds" can be a really interesting subject. There's loads of strategies - from mulching, no-dig, companion cover cropping, yadda yadda yadda.

I prepare my beds with a layer of cardboard (with all the labels and sellotape taken off) in November, cover with a layer of compost (made from our chicken manure and straw and shit and all our food waste which we compost down), then when it comes to planting time we dib holes in through the cardboard (which rots down) and plant our stuff into those holes.

It surpresses most of the weeds long enough for the veggies to get a head-start early in the season, then a light hoeing keeps the new weed growth from overtaking them.


Well. That's the theory. I'm a lazy fuck who gets the timing wrong, doesn't hoe enough, doesn't do composting very assiduously and ends up with a massive weedy nightmare - and the birds try to eat my veggie.

I've just kicked the cat off my leeks.

 

[DaGaffer]

Actually, "explore how to prevent weeds" can be a really interesting subject. There's loads of strategies - from mulching, no-dig, companion cover cropping, yadda yadda yadda.

I prepare my beds with a layer of cardboard (with all the labels and sellotape taken off) in November, cover with a layer of compost (made from our chicken manure and straw and shit and all our food waste which we compost down), then when it comes to planting time we dib holes in through the cardboard (which rots down) and plant our stuff into those holes.

It surpresses most of the weeds long enough for the veggies to get a head-start early in the season, then a light hoeing keeps the new weed growth from overtaking them.


Well. That's the theory. I'm a lazy fuck who gets the timing wrong, doesn't hoe enough, doesn't do composting very assiduously and ends up with a massive weedy nightmare - and the birds try to eat my veggie.

I've just kicked the cat off my leeks.

I'm going out to kill the weeds on my driveway with fire in the morning. I've tried every other fucking thing.

 

[caLLous]

I'm going out to kill the weeds on my driveway with fire in the morning. I've tried every other fucking thing.

That's all that works for me (assuming you mean one of those proper blowtorch things). Modern, "environmentally friendly" weedkillers are worse than useless in my experience, you might as well water the weeds for all the good those products do.

 

[DaGaffer]

That's all that works for me (assuming you mean one of those proper blowtorch things). Modern, "environmentally friendly" weedkillers are worse than useless in my experience, you might as well water the weeds for all the good those products do.

Yep. I have a brick driveway and I live next a bloody great field that dumps every kind of weed spore on the planet down every crack. The blowtorch is slow but it doesn't fend the fuckers off for a while. I'm going to replace the whole driveway with something impervious eventually

 

[Jupitus]

Yep. I have a brick driveway and I live next a bloody great field that dumps every kind of weed spore on the planet down every crack. The blowtorch is slow but it doesn't fend the fuckers off for a while. I'm going to replace the whole driveway with something impervious eventually

'EVERY' crack ?

 

[Scouse]

Yep. I have a brick driveway and I live next a bloody great field that dumps every kind of weed spore on the planet down every crack. The blowtorch is slow but it doesn't fend the fuckers off for a while. I'm going to replace the whole driveway with something impervious eventually

Plant Scarlett Pimpernel in your cracks. At least your driveway will be pretty.

Here, I found an irish cunt to describe them, in infuriating detail:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArczjhvhcZM

 

[Scouse]

*Actually. Now I've found said Irish Cunt, I'm amazed how many video's he's done but for a handful of views. And I think I'm going to enjoy the content.

God. I'm old.

 

[Embattle]

Yep. I have a brick driveway and I live next a bloody great field that dumps every kind of weed spore on the planet down every crack. The blowtorch is slow but it doesn't fend the fuckers off for a while. I'm going to replace the whole driveway with something impervious eventually

We have one of those driveways, it is now common in new builds and called permeable paving and is designed to reduce the amount of rain water reaching drains.

Every so often I use our Ryobi patio cleaner to clear out the moss and weeds.

 

[Deebs]

Funny you mention that I borrowed a blow torch from my brother, the length (ok shaft) is around 1m in length and is designed to burn shit without reaching or bending over. I also have a block paver weed remover with a wire brush that spins.

 

[Embattle]

Fuel prices are bound to increase tomorrow.

 

[Gwadien]

I think the terrorist attacks are going to be far more annoying.

 

[Scouse]

I think the terrorist attacks are going to be far more annoying.

I don't know. The US is our ally, why would they violate the UN Charter to bomb us?

 

[DaGaffer]

Funny you mention that I borrowed a blow torch from my brother, the length (ok shaft) is around 1m in length and is designed to burn shit without reaching or bending over. I also have a block paver weed remover with a wire brush that spins.

I have rotary weed removers, electric burners, power hoses, weed killer sprays, the lot. A good power hosing does work but only the industrial strength couple-of-knackers-with-a-van kind. (cost about €300 a pop)

The blowtorch is the only one that works that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Serves me right for living near green stuff. Fucking nature.

 

[Embattle]

I have rotary weed removers, electric burners, power hoses, weed killer sprays, the lot. A good power hosing does work but only the industrial strength couple-of-knackers-with-a-van kind. (cost about €300 a pop)

The blowtorch is the only one that works that doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Serves me right for living near green stuff. Fucking nature.

I don't obsess too much over the weeds, moss, etc., and I'll do it every year at most.

At least the white render looks much better than the multi-materials mashup, although like the white render on ours, it'll show stuff over time

 

[Gwadien]

Weeds are good anyway, fuck monoculture, especially grass.

Here's @Scouse for your Ted talk

 

[Embattle]

Footballers/commentators trying to normalise cheating by calling it the dark arts.

 

[Scouse]

Footballers/commentators trying to normalise cheating by calling it the dark arts.

Trying to gain unfair advantage has been part of football since football was invented. It is normal.

We referee subjectively and the games rules are interpreted differently by different humans in complex contexts. (It's also why VAR is a joke - trying to force objectivity into inherently subjective decision making is why it continues to fail).

The dark arts are pushing and bending the rules as far as you can without falling foul of censure. It's part of why football is compelling viewing.

 

[Scouse]

This is how fast natural selection can work:

Overfishing has caused cod to halve in body size since 1990s, study finds

Evolutionary change driven by intensive fishing led cod to ‘shrink’ from average 40cm length in 1996 to 20cm in 2019

www.theguardian.com

Between 1996 and 2019, the median length of a mature cod in the dataset fell from 40cm to 20cm. The median weight in 2019 (272 grams) was just a fifth of the median weight of a mature cod caught in 1996 (1,356 grams)

Someone really needs to start sinking trawler fishing boats.

 

[Jupitus]

Cancer. Not me, my lady.

 

[Scouse]

Fuck. Really sorry to hear that Jup.

Have they given you a plan of attack? What do you guys need to do?

 

[Jupitus]

Fuck. Really sorry to hear that Jup.

Have they given you a plan of attack? What do you guys need to do?

Thanks all. I didn't actually say anything before, but this is after previous treatment and a relapse when we thought the worst was past. I don't think the prognosis will be good but she's getting the best care possible.

 

[Raven]

Thanks all. I didn't actually say anything before, but this is after previous treatment and a relapse when we thought the worst was past. I don't think the prognosis will be good but she's getting the best care possible.

Never really know what to say in situations like this, no real reference, not sure many people have. But if it is bad news, all you can do is stay strong, for her, look after her, and deal with yourself after.

 

[Jupitus]

Never really know what to say in situations like this, no real reference, not sure many people have. But if it is bad news, all you can do is stay strong, for her, look after her, and deal with yourself after.

Yep, and I totally understand fella. I just had to put something out there at the time. One day at a time, right now

 

[Deebs]

Cancer. Not me, my lady.

J, wishing you and the boss all the best.

 

[BloodOmen]

Oasis

am I the only one who thinks they're shit? and that they only had a few good hits, in a time where they had very little competition in music


And to think they once compared themselves to the Beatles... smug twats.

 

[caLLous]

No you're not the only one who thinks they're shit. There are probably loads of people who think they're shit. But there are loads more people who think they're not shit and loads of people who think they're great. Welcome to "having an opinion", you don't have to dress it up as some edgy contrarian statement.

And "a few good hits" is underselling it slightly, every single one of their albums is multi-platinum, they won every music award there is to win, a lot of them several times. And "very little competition"? What are you talking about? The 90s was a fantastic decade for British music - Ocean Colour Scene, Pulp, Blur, Suede, The Manics, Supergrass, Stereophonics, Kula Shaker, The Lightning Seeds, Reef, Radiohead... and I've probably forgotten loads of others...

 

[Scouse]

Yeah, I'm not a big fan but I'm not offended by their songs. I don't actively play them on spotify but I don't dislike it if other people whack 'em on and will happily tap along to most of 'em. (my o/h hates 'em tho).

They are totally up their own asses tho - but then they did a thing, and I never did, so who am I to argue.

Despite trying, and outright stealing of some songs, they never came even close to laying a glove on the Beatles tho.

 

[Tom]

Normal keyboard has gone faulty so I bought a replacement in the interim. A Logitech K650.

Fuck me, what have they done. The function keys are now app keys (you have to change it back in software). The insert key opens a language box. All the prt scr num lock etc do weird things I don't want. And I can't get inverted commas from the 2 key, no matter what the language options in Windows. And yes it's a UK keyboard.

Fucking thing is going straight back to Amazon.