Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Quite possibly came from a dare so would have been planned in those circumstances.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.
#purespeculationThe above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
There'll be a video on a phone.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.0 -
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.
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They should just claim it is an artistic political statement. It should then be acceptable as appears to be the case with graffiti (especially when it leaves you with a wall worth millions).
I hope no-one gets inspiration and cuts down the lonely tree at Llyn Padarn before I get up there to photograph it next month.0 -
Didn't the one at Glastonbury also get burned down?0
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Can't help feeling that if it prompts some more active tree planting in a fairly treeless bit of Northumberland then that will be a net gain. The tree was picturesque but otherwise unremarkable.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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You could argue it was mainly picturesque as there were no other trees in the area. The images wouldn't have the same impact if there was a decent sized copse in the foreground let alone a forest.rjsterry said:Can't help feeling that if it prompts some more active tree planting in a fairly treeless bit of Northumberland then that will be a net gain. The tree was picturesque but otherwise unremarkable.
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It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
rjsterry said:
It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.
I must admit it seems very weird. The most likely people at that age to be very competent chainsaw operators are likely to be involved in farming or forestry, and I can't imagine someone from that sort of background would have disrespected an historic & famous tree in a location like that. Even the most boneheaded farmer mutilating the countryside would be doing it for some sort of perceived operational gain (see the river that was 'improved', for instance), rather than pure vandalism.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/21/farmer-jailed-for-damaging-river-lugg-herefordshire0 -
Man in his 60s now in custody. This is the biggest manhunt in Northumberland since Moat was on the loose.rjsterry said:
It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.
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mrb123 said:
Man in his 60s now in custody. This is the biggest manhunt in Northumberland since Moat was on the loose.rjsterry said:
It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.
They need to make a trunk call and call in the Special Branch.2 -
You're stretching my knowledge of farming teenagers.rjsterry said:
It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.0 -
If I didn’t know better I’d have thought the tree was affecting a planning application (although you then usually wait for a storm and pull it over so it looks like it got uprooted).rjsterry said:
It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.1 -
Man in 60s arrested in connection with felled tree.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
Ahem.TheBigBean said:
You're stretching my knowledge of farming teenagers.rjsterry said:
It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
The amount of people near me who have taken to paying a company to come and cut their lawns every week or two. The front lawns are about 25m2 or less and the back is maybe 40m2. It takes me longer to get the mower out and clean it afterwards than it does to actually cut the grass (which takes about 5 - 10 minutes). I'm lazy but even I would draw a line at paying for something I can do in less than half an hour total and that needs doing may once a fortnight at most.0
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Our 14 year old grandson started lawn cutting and weeding in the summer and coined it in. Now that is tapering off he has diversified to bin cleaning. Some people are simply lazy.Pross said:The amount of people near me who have taken to paying a company to come and cut their lawns every week or two. The front lawns are about 25m2 or less and the back is maybe 40m2. It takes me longer to get the mower out and clean it afterwards than it does to actually cut the grass (which takes about 5 - 10 minutes). I'm lazy but even I would draw a line at paying for something I can do in less than half an hour total and that needs doing may once a fortnight at most.
The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
I used to cut the grass for a church down the road when I was around that age. I was seriously exploited the amount I got paid. I worked an entire summer and at the end I had enough to buy a jacket I'd wanted, I remember slaving away hacking down weeds for a good few hours in the heat on the day of Live Aid trying to get it done in time to get home and watch.pblakeney said:
Our 14 year old grandson started lawn cutting and weeding in the summer and coined it in. Now that is tapering off he has diversified to bin cleaning. Some people are simply lazy.Pross said:The amount of people near me who have taken to paying a company to come and cut their lawns every week or two. The front lawns are about 25m2 or less and the back is maybe 40m2. It takes me longer to get the mower out and clean it afterwards than it does to actually cut the grass (which takes about 5 - 10 minutes). I'm lazy but even I would draw a line at paying for something I can do in less than half an hour total and that needs doing may once a fortnight at most.
I can understand paying a youngster to do it but an actual professional company turning up in their liveried vans can't be cheap and we're not talking country estates or even lawns big enough to need a sit on mower.0 -
Pross said:
I used to cut the grass for a church down the road when I was around that age. I was seriously exploited the amount I got paid. I worked an entire summer and at the end I had enough to buy a jacket I'd wanted, I remember slaving away hacking down weeds for a good few hours in the heat on the day of Live Aid trying to get it done in time to get home and watch.pblakeney said:
Our 14 year old grandson started lawn cutting and weeding in the summer and coined it in. Now that is tapering off he has diversified to bin cleaning. Some people are simply lazy.Pross said:The amount of people near me who have taken to paying a company to come and cut their lawns every week or two. The front lawns are about 25m2 or less and the back is maybe 40m2. It takes me longer to get the mower out and clean it afterwards than it does to actually cut the grass (which takes about 5 - 10 minutes). I'm lazy but even I would draw a line at paying for something I can do in less than half an hour total and that needs doing may once a fortnight at most.
I can understand paying a youngster to do it but an actual professional company turning up in their liveried vans can't be cheap and we're not talking country estates or even lawns big enough to need a sit on mower.
It probably says something about my brain that I had to Google for a 'shït-on mower'.
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This is a sign we are not in a recession surely?
If I can pay someone to do something that I don't really enjoy, count me in.
I quite enjoy mowing the lawn but the rest of gardening bores me.0 -
Perhaps the Tories are just riffing, then they will get their $h1t together come the election0
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Yeah it is not necessarily laziness, my garden looks terrible but it's because I prefer to pedal my bike for several hours rather than digging up weeds on my days off.kingstongraham said:This is a sign we are not in a recession surely?
If I can pay someone to do something that I don't really enjoy, count me in.
I quite enjoy mowing the lawn but the rest of gardening bores me.0 -
At this time of year, I'm quite tempted by the idea of having someone else mow the lawn. I don't mind doing it but it's too dark when I get home from work and if it rains at the weekend I don't have the opportunity to do it myself.
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I’m generally the same but for the sake of half an hour a fortnight? It hardly seems worth it. The number of people doing it is what surprised me the most, if they all used the same person I could understand it more but it is at least two companies doing 4 or 5 houses out of around 15.kingstongraham said:This is a sign we are not in a recession surely?
If I can pay someone to do something that I don't really enjoy, count me in.
I quite enjoy mowing the lawn but the rest of gardening bores me.0 -
Pross said:
I’m generally the same but for the sake of half an hour a fortnight? It hardly seems worth it. The number of people doing it is what surprised me the most, if they all used the same person I could understand it more but it is at least two companies doing 4 or 5 houses out of around 15.kingstongraham said:This is a sign we are not in a recession surely?
If I can pay someone to do something that I don't really enjoy, count me in.
I quite enjoy mowing the lawn but the rest of gardening bores me.
I must admit I have the same feeling about people who have dogs but more often than not pay people to walk them for them. At least a lawns haven't evolved to form emotional attachments to humans.0 -
Ironic given the flagrant dumping of sewerage from the main water companies.briantrumpet said:rjsterry said:
It's also an extremely competently executed felling for a 16 year old doing it for a dare. Something is up .TheBigBean said:
Ha! Quad bike or motorbike. Yes, yes, he's only 16. My niece could drive a car at 9.rjsterry said:
Think those tend to be opportunist. Would be odd to walk a couple of miles in a storm carrying a large chainsaw just to vandalise something.briantrumpet said:TheBigBean said:
That made me think he was practising, but still an odd thing to do with a chainsaw in the middle of the night.rjsterry said:
Very odd. Looked semi-professional - cut line marked out - but the police have arrested a 16-year-old.TheBigBean said:
Weird thing for someone to do. I know wood has value, but if that is the case then they needed to take the tree with them.rjsterry said:Granted it was in a film and was very photogenic, but the fuss about the Hadrian's Wall sycamore feels a bit overblown. It's a sycamore: it will very likely regrow from the stump if left.
Goes along with graffiti and smashing bus shelters. I think they enjoy the shock that their actions provoke... destruction of things people like is bound to get a reaction.
I must admit it seems very weird. The most likely people at that age to be very competent chainsaw operators are likely to be involved in farming or forestry, and I can't imagine someone from that sort of background would have disrespected an historic & famous tree in a location like that. Even the most boneheaded farmer mutilating the countryside would be doing it for some sort of perceived operational gain (see the river that was 'improved', for instance), rather than pure vandalism.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/21/farmer-jailed-for-damaging-river-lugg-herefordshireseanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
There’s actually an overlap there with my one neighbour. I guess if they’re in work all day getting someone to take the dog out makes some sense but I’ve actually seen them hand the dog over to a walker who then drives the dog off somewhere.briantrumpet said:Pross said:
I’m generally the same but for the sake of half an hour a fortnight? It hardly seems worth it. The number of people doing it is what surprised me the most, if they all used the same person I could understand it more but it is at least two companies doing 4 or 5 houses out of around 15.kingstongraham said:This is a sign we are not in a recession surely?
If I can pay someone to do something that I don't really enjoy, count me in.
I quite enjoy mowing the lawn but the rest of gardening bores me.
I must admit I have the same feeling about people who have dogs but more often than not pay people to walk them for them. At least a lawns haven't evolved to form emotional attachments to humans.0 -
But the other way around....you have no ideabriantrumpet said:Pross said:
I’m generally the same but for the sake of half an hour a fortnight? It hardly seems worth it. The number of people doing it is what surprised me the most, if they all used the same person I could understand it more but it is at least two companies doing 4 or 5 houses out of around 15.kingstongraham said:This is a sign we are not in a recession surely?
If I can pay someone to do something that I don't really enjoy, count me in.
I quite enjoy mowing the lawn but the rest of gardening bores me.
I must admit I have the same feeling about people who have dogs but more often than not pay people to walk them for them. At least a lawns haven't evolved to form emotional attachments to humans.1 -
Spotify have an audiobook section now and have made some recommendations.
I have little interest in the ones based on my book preferences but the ones selected based on my music preferences look pretty good0