Zeezeebaba

I grew up in a village but as a child I was allergic to pet hair and pollen! After a misspent youth indulging in smoking illegal substances it all went away. Even after all these years of clean living it's not returned. I may have just grown out of it but exposure to smoking back then may have helped who knows.Good luck in your quest for a cure and I'm not condoning smoking just throwing it out there that exposure to pollen in a diluted form may help your body find a resistance.

I heard somewhere (I think it was on the radio) that there is an upcoming leap in the efficiency of solar tech. The program was about the use of carbon based elements integrated with silicon in solar panels (something like boron but don't quote me on that) that maximises the energy received from the sun as currently loads is wasted.

Surely with regards trickle charging during the day a super efficient solar roof panel would assist this?

I have to say, I am happy for Corbyn - as I said before, fair play for sticking to his guns. Love him or hate him, he's a man of principle, and I think there's something to be said for that.

Man of principle? Couldn't be further from the truth. Hates the EU but campaigned Remain, hates nuclear weapons but suddenly now supports them, spent years arguing against his own leaders until became one and now just picks the popular things to promise to the world. He's as bad as any two-faced politician (and there's a few of them).

 

He's smarmy as hell, but it plays better to the cameras than TM's aloofness.

The above traits apply to every MP that's ever lived

One is no better than the other and the phrases "U turn" and "Back track" are regularly used by political commentators.

In my teens I could sleep all day, in my 20s and early 30s 7 hours average. In my 40s 5 hours average.

One constituency ran at 2 votes difference matching the all time record!

Oh dear, lots of Brexit issues ahead. I voted labour but a majority government whatever party would have been preferable to a minority one!

Always pleased to see Caroline Lucas retain her green seat. TM has been rumbled and I wouldn't be surprised to see us going back to the polls within 2 years.

I think it's now been proven that social media has caught up with and one could argue overtaken mainstream tabloid press. Defiantly an influence on the younger voter.

Affordability range and charge times within a few minutes. Crack that and EVs will fly out of dealerships.

I also like the look of the X in black

Well I'm off to cast my vote. It will be a complete waste as my area is as blue as the sky! First past the post sucks!

Certainly not rare, some estimates from geological surveys including under sea nodules state 1400 years worth

Current active mines on land have at least 100 years worth at present demand.

Like I said a pretty good commodity to invest in moving forward as demand increases.

I would send it back too.

Asteroid mining, plenty of raw materials up there

Global supplies of Cobalt it would seem are currently unable to meet demand. Cobalt is used with other substances like Lithium to produce the batteries needed for EVs. It constitutes up to 35% of the battery production in such brands as Tesla. The main supplier globally is the DRC and questions have been asked on how it's mined and the conditions and young age of the individuals used to mine it.

Demand is outstripping supply, Tesla now have a facility for battery production that when operational will more than double the current demand.

A great commodity to invest in it would seem.

Avoid E46 M3s! Can be expensive to maintain. Mine was!

Would it seek out corruption and expose those exploiting others.

Yep, 1995 is about right for all of this. Kingston was serious business back then, couple of yardies making a lot of trouble, stabbing guys and one guy got his ears cut off I remember. Ah happy hunting grounds.

 

Yes, we always had the met if we got in trouble in Kingston, cos it's borough of Richmond I think. Esher, Walton, Molesey, it was the Surrey force for Elmbridge (right?)

I know after I left Surrey re-aquired some Met districts. I was a Western division officer in the main covering everything west of Guildford to the Hampshire and Sussex border to the south.

I was going to Surrey College for a short time, a tiny little crammer college. I lived in Molesey, Surbiton and Kingston in those years, I wouldn't be surprised if you knew a few of my old mates

Haha I doubt it mate I started out at Farnham then the Frensham rural office followed by Haslemere. Back then I think the Met had Kingston, I don't recall ever going there aside from when I was on area traffic duties A3 and M25. Would have been circa 1995

I use Autosol and a damp kitchen sponge which needs to be continually rinsed whilst doing the job. Interesting reading about different ideas for sealing the finish though.

I've been threatened with a knife twice!

 

First time, 16 years old in guildford station wheeling my Haro bmx, my pride and joy, a colored dude comes up to me, shows me a knife and says 'Give me the bike', I was like, yeh sure, here ya go.

 

Then 4 years later I was threatened with a knife while working as in-store (uniformed) security for an independent security firm. Was patrolling the floor at Woolworths in Farnborough, and turned into the CD aisle to find this guy wearing military gear (bought, not issued) taking the magnetic strips off the CDs with a stanley blade and putting them in his bag, about 2 metres in front of me. He looks me right in the eye, didn't even flinch, pulls out a commando knife from his pocket, the classic shape from the cover of the old comic books, I'll never forget how it looked, brandishes it at me, makes a slow stabbing motion in my general direction, then puts it back in his pocket and carries on what he was doing, didn't even wait for my reaction. I just walked backwards slowly until I was out of sight, then called the popo.

 

As said, preservation first, leave heroism to the heroes (those who choose to face it professionally day in day out, thanks Zee, our other services and our military).

Guildford? My home town maybe we've met

I did some of my probation modules at Mounte Brown HQ. I left the job many years ago and went into the private security sector. I failed the Surrey fire and rescue physical at Wray Park so went for the police instead. Most of my colleagues were ex military, many had served in Ireland and saw service during the Falklands and to be fair had much bigger balls than I did. Top blokes and women every last one of them and I entrusted my life to them on a daily basis, not once did they let me down, not once.

It's fair to say I was bricking it on both occasions

The first firearm incident involved a call from the neighbour of a gent who had seen the guy next door walking about his garden with a shotgun.

The area in question was a very well to do part of the area and the houses were large.

The caller knew his neighbour well and had told the call handler he had not seen his neighbours wife for a few days and was concerned about him walking around his property with a firearm. He knew he owned several firearms and one of our local beat officers had recently visited and checked the guys storage cabinet with all being in order. The guy was a well respected local who had participated in local events for years and wasn't considered a threat.

I arrived in my little Escort and was confronted with a big five bar wooden gate with a sign warning me to beware of the dog. The drive was about 200 yards long with foliage on either side, I opened the gate and waited for our FST to arrive.

There was no way I was going in solo!

After sitting there eyes peeled for what seemed like 30 seconds the guy appeared from about 150 yards away to my right.

In almost slow motion he levelled the weapon at me, and fired!

The windscreen instantly peppered and crazed but never went through. I absolutely bricked it ducked down and threw it in reverse using my offside mirror only.

Once about 500 yards away I checked and the guy wasn't about. Again shouting down the radio for assistance.

The FST arrived within seconds it seemed and barrelled in to the property. The guy was detained accordingly. Two things of note here, firstly I was lucky it was a shotgun at distance as the shot spreads out a loses velocity quickly hence a peppered but not broken screen (although he did break my little blue light to bits). Secondly the gents missus a young pretty thing had been having an affair and this had sent him into a suicidal train of thought. It was discovered he was attempting to jerry rig his own suicide but I turned up and spoiled the party.

His young wife had left the property several days before and was located safe and well.

My governor turned up just after and told me to take the rest of the shift off!

I was so pumped with adrenaline I felt sick! Bloody awful day at work that was!

Distance is safety. Unless your weapon (no pun intended) is twice the length of theirs then get the hell out of there. Chairs are pretty good for knife attacks in deflecting but again the chances are you will still get cut somewhere.

In this case they were wearing what "looked like" explosive vests, totally different scenario again and running for cover is the sane option.

I have with a previous employer been threatened with a knife twice and shot at twice, by the grace of good fortune I got away without a scratch.

The first time I was in danger from a knife attack happened because the guy concerned had not taken his schizophrenia medication. His parents had been to a west end show and had returned home to find the house in darkness. Their son had removed all the light bulbs in the house. He had then hidden in the cupboard under the stairs where the circuit board was. His parents returned home and his father opened the cupboard to see if the board had tripped out. His son who was only 19 jumped out and stabbed him in the shoulder.

The boy then ran off to another part of the house and his folks escaped outside where they called us.

Me and my old mate Justin were the first car to arrive shortly before the ambulance.

We waited for the dog man and another unit before entering the house.

The lad was sitting at the kitchen table with an assortment of kitchen knives laid out in front of him. He had been cutting his own arms up and there was claret everywhere!

We went in enmasse using two three quarter length riot shields and asps.

The lad was taken to hospital in restraints, about an hour or so after he had been administered his medication he communicated in a normal fashion as if nothing had happened!

He was detained in place of safety and we then took him to a facility called Brookwood for assessment where he remained for a considerable time. His dad's wounds were superficial luckily and he didn't press charges.

The second time I was solo on foot late afternoon alongside a sports centre in Farnham. The building had recesses and as I went past one a chap was on the floor belt round his upper arm just about to inject. He saw me jumped up and pulled a small blade from his pocket and made threats. I firstly shouted our distress code of red one on the radio and my location then attempted dialogue with the guy. I said I would overlook what I had seen and would walk the opposite direction allowing him to go. Hand poised on my asp he decided the better option was as suggested to run the opposite way.

By the time he had reached the end of the building the other lads had arrived and the guy realised he was outnumbered and threw in the towel.

Last of the summer wine chap.

Oh yes!!!

The security forces will be pretty stretched this week as we will have plenty of soft targets in the form of polling stations on election day. A strike at infidel democracy would be a major victory for them.

The ideological cancer is already present.At present we are treating the disease we can see. But an ideology spreads among the disillusioned and disaffected and spreads to the lowest denominator. When these people link up and discuss their viewpoints some will inevitably go on to formulate under the radar of the resources at hand to us.

These people identify with the ideology and want to be part of something in their view that's justified.

For some the lack of empathy for others is justified by radical interpretation of Islam and or current and past atrocities committed abroad against Islamic people in their particular sect.

Some are mentally incompetent some are not.

The crux for us is maintaining the liberty to which we are accustomed and avoiding totalitarian actions which could escalate the problem or drive it deeper underground.

ISIS as a military force is dwindling abroad, it's highly unlikely the home grown attacks are ordered but the ideological message continues to be a strong catalyst for those who feel justified in what they do.

There is no cure for this cancer aside from educating the younger generation and gaining the right amount of support from the communities knowingly or not that are harbouring such individuals.

I always use the other half's little Note with the seats down, just as good as a van.