ToughButterCup

A colleague of mine has just had a visit from the BCO. My colleague was told that there might well be a problem if he intended to store suitcases next to a hot water pipe. They are not boxed in. BCO over-egging it?

Just to clarify: the vent isn't a vent, it's just a wall ornament.... is that what you are saying?

But the ducks move with you: and at 5am they nibble the greenery along the waterline. Soooooooo annoying when your ear is 100mm away.

Yes: one guess, and only one needed ......

They did - mostly - prevent it. It was my job in the 1980s Berlin to try to find a way of threading trade through a needle called COCOM. I almost always failed unless we (the company) broke the law. But that apart, the points you make are a perfect example of the need to qualify a sound bite. Its possible to interpret @joe90's quote in several ways - and so to contest it in as many. It can be seen as fallacious - and so unhelpful - or as ' the man in the street ' might interpret it. Arguably , the way the quote was intended. My point is that many people stop thinking when they can latch on to what appears to be an easy dopamine hit. Think Boris. He deals out dopamine in buckets, gets swallowed, and hey presto, the removal van calls.

At last .... Excellent. How is the word business to be understood: process or object? And does the distinction matter in the context of JHJ being quoted - or misquoted ? Arguably, it's the quotation or misquotation of the sound bite / key phrase that is the most important, Rephrasing the quotation to illustrate the sense referred to in your post @Ferdinand; The processes of business (trade) will succeed despite what politicians do. Can that be true? We were prevented from trading with the Eastern Bloc before the Wall came down in 1989. (COCOM) There have been many such interruptions to business processes since. I think that both business processes and business entities (objects) cannot always succeed [despite what politician do] . Because there is ample evidence of both business processes ( 'class' in programming terms) and entites failing regulalry.

Another beautifully simple fallacy promulgated by some who should have known better. Careless, sloppy thinking. Business has to succeed, otherwise it fails. And , failed, is not a business any more. For those of you who are interested in which fallacy it is ( affirmative conclusion from a negative premis) , it's here. With sincere apologies to you @joe90. It's just wrong. Not nasty wrong - just lazy thinking.

Ermmmmmmm, if his house is underground, why does he want walk-on glazing?

Pleased rather than depressed, despite your traumatic experience at the hands of a plumber - you seem to have suffered a similar fate - that you have taken sensible precautions .......... Is this where I depress you in return? My cash was not locked up in a wall anchor until a few minutes ago.

Google, Geberit and Amazon. Our plumber walked off site with the wall anchors for our DuoFix Sigma frame. Easy thing to do at the end of a hard day's asking me how this that and the other should be fitted - when, learning form last time - I'd put together in a single folder all the Geberit product instructions and diagrams - laminated and easy to access. And references to the key YT vidoes that they produce for the Sigma. I'd even loaded the important video onto my tablet and shown it to him, left it in the bathroom. All he had to do was tap the screen once to open the screen and once again to start the video. Ringing to get him back to give me the part (if he could even find it) would have taken longer than this ..... Geberituk website > services > spare parts > product catalogues > installation and flushing > duofix > frames > accessories > wall anchors > part number Copy, paste the part number into google : available in France, Germany, Netherlands and Amazon. Next day delivery (Saturday). As it happens, the plumber says he will be here on Monday of next week (really?) . Won't be an issue then because I will have fitted it. I don't want it lost again. Just for the Hell of it, I'll ask him where the wall anchor is ...........

This is our architect's site: the clarity about pricing was one reason we decided to use them ....

Lets hope your lad is a medical student then - or has worked his way up from frogs to rabbits, to foxes and sheep .... The job is not easy.

Or that his friend has done it before, or that an experienced person is giving advice?

Please tell me he's done it before... please!

thats why on survival exercises, I always tried to pair up with a trained butcher. And as for slaughtermen phhhhhhhhhh. Knife skills ?

Excellent idea to foster those skills at home.... You could start by showing her how to darn your socks like you used to in the war. ?

I am optimistic. Words matter. How they are used, when they are used and in which context matter even more. Look across the pond. As I see it a small shift in your position - an explanation to @jack to show how you think he was playing with words would be helpful. It is never pointless to make an effort: I suspect though that you are right - most won't make an effort unless there's a pay off. And since in this case the payoff takes place in someones head - unseen by anyone except the person who makes the effort. But I don't want a society where all anyone does is to compete for the visibility of their own ideas. Look across the pond again. That horror - visible on a daily basis - is where lack of mental effort gets us. I don't want it on this side of the pond.

Time for a bit of lateral thinking?

This thread is repleat with generalisation and logical fallacy. And hints of irritation, point scoring and sometimes offence given or taken. It might be a good idea to try our hands at summarising the arguments put by those arguing the case opposite to the one you favour. Yes, its hard work. But more useful than skim reading a post and reacting to the small bit of it that gives offence when none was intended.

Try getting .......... Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften .......... on a sign post (Tr. Legal defence insurance companies). Mind you Mr Trump needs one or two of them at the moment doesn't he? Oh, just thought : Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaftsfuehrer - there ya go, beat that.

And that accords with a widely promulgated German view of English attitudes. As ever, they coined a compound noun to encapsulate the idea: Inselmentalitaet (Tr. Island Mentality).

Anyone's expenditure is another's income. Not quite purpose-free, therefore.

Welcome. Eh, you don't scythe grass in fields with your shirt off , muscles rippling, waiting for some pretty maid to walk past casting shy glances at your sweating pecks are ya? No? Shame.

?You could be the founder Russ- BucketShopsRus