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Previously on "Damned if you do, damned if you don't"
Why not leave your trees growing and just burn a few branches when you are a bit nippy.
If you want a big telly or a nice holiday, why not do without stuff until you have accumulated enough.
I recall a similar episode. The way to get rid of the stuff was to get a [i]really hot[i] coal fire going first. Fortunately it wasn't a smoke free zone so I could get hold of "proper" coal.
I removed my fireplace and chimney. Waste of space. It's a blank wall now. I was down to my last tree anyway.
I lost two to dutch elm, another blew down in the wind, and a large silver birch had to go for safety reasons.
My dad did something similar with some old electricity poles that were chopped down on his land...
20 years worth of creosote...
I recall a similar episode. The way to get rid of the stuff was to get a [i]really hot[i] coal fire going first. Fortunately it wasn't a smoke free zone so I could get hold of "proper" coal.
Time we got back to the fundamental relationships. Consumption cannot exceed production. We need a world based on effort put in=reward gained and the natural human instinct of protecting our own.
Killing all socialists would sort most of our problems.
"The news marks a stark contrast from early 2008 when statistics showed that, for the first time, British families were having to borrow in order to fund their everyday lives – something which contributed to the subsequent recession.
However, economists said that the consequence of families saving more is that it would constrain high street sales and could help prolong the economic downturn."
(emphasis mine) How does that work? Borrowing contributes to the recession, saving prolongs it? What to do?
Imagine chopping all the trees down in your garden to burn and heat your house. When you run out of trees, you have nothing left to burn. The house cools down.
Next door don't cut any of their trees down, they are all still standing there, growing bigger. The house doesn't warm up.
What to do? I suppose the message is for people to do something in the middle. Warm the house up, but only enough to be comfortable. A furkin great roaring fire 24/7 is unnecessary.
Chavs with 52-inch flatscreens, holidays in the West Indies and new Ford Focuses (Focii?) mostly on credit take note.
Last edited by Doggy Styles; 23 December 2009, 10:21.
I was very disappointed at the DT printing that, front page too. FFS, it was borrowing way too much and producing way too little that got us into this sh!te state in the first place.
The news marks a stark contrast from early 2008 when statistics showed that, for the first time, British families were having to borrow in order to fund their everyday lives – something which contributed to the subsequent recession.
However, economists said that the consequence of families saving more is that it would constrain high street sales and could help prolong the economic downturn.
(emphasis mine) How does that work? Borrowing contributes to the recession, saving prolongs it? What to do?
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