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tommytalldog
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Date Posted:02/09/2018 08:11:26Copy HTML

 A couple of our haughty members constantly rail about how unsafe the U.S. is & the amount of firearms present. Here are some stats that will clear things up.......some.

The U.S. is ranked 3rd in the world for murders.


If you take out the cities of Chicago, Detroit, D.C., St. Louis, & New Orleans, the U.S. is ranked 189 our of 193.


It is no coincidence that these cities are ruled by Democrats for decades, have the strictiest gun laws in the U.S. & are populated by mud people.

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Re:MURDER CAPITAL

Date Posted:02/09/2018 09:41:33Copy HTML

 A couple of our haughty members constantly rail about how unsafe the U.S. is & the amount of firearms present. Here are some stats that will clear things up.......some.

The U.S. is ranked 3rd in the world for murders.


If you take out the cities of Chicago, Detroit, D.C., St. Louis, & New Orleans, the U.S. is ranked 189 our of 193.


It is no coincidence that these cities are ruled by Democrats for decades, have the strictiest gun laws in the U.S. & are populated by mud people.


You must have felt good finding out Central and South America which are considered lawless areas run by drug cartels have higher rates that you.

Then you start taking out cities in the States as if they aren't part of the country to try and fudge your numbers down. 

You forgot to mention countries with high murder rates are using American made guns to do the murders with. It you stopped selling them guns then their murder rate would drop below yours. So in other words if you don't have the highest murder rate then you have to take blame for causing them.


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Date Posted:03/09/2018 11:42:54Copy HTML

Let me re-phrase the point(s) for you Pete. Violence, Democrats, Strict gun laws, Mud people.
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Date Posted:03/09/2018 07:07:34Copy HTML

Let me re-phrase the point(s) for you Pete. Violence, Democrats, Strict gun laws, Mud people. Let me help you out again Tommy, Violence seems to be coming right now from the Republicans side, (people running protesters over with cars, or planning to go in to a news station and kill all the news people because Trump says they are enemies of the country)  Strict gun laws that aren't strict enough and mud people that have been forced to live in the mud after American has refused to educate them still thinking they are living in the age of salvery. Any farmer will tell you, that you can only reap what you sow. Actually apply that to Violence,gun laws and mud people and you are expecting something different to grow when it can't until you all change your evil ways and vote Democrat next time. Thank you for this opportunity to help you out Tommy. lol PS you still haven't mentioned how the wood situation at the lodge is coming along.

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Date Posted:04/09/2018 12:23:57Copy HTML

Trees down, need to be chunked, split & stacked yet.
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Date Posted:04/09/2018 07:30:47Copy HTML

I bought a log burner last year. Bloody expensive but they are a piece of furniture here, part of the furnishings, so to speak. We bought it because this house is so cold, unnaturally sometimes and friends say.... I'm sure this house is haunted. It is, but it daren't show its face as I have a picture of Trump on the wall. In this very hot summer, people walk into my house and say.... have you got aircon? Another thing is the damp, which can cause mold very easily. It's all part and parcel of living in a Victorian home. Anyway, we got the wood stove and it's done the trick, it's another expense but it's worth it. Besides, there's something in our DNA which attracts us to fire. People come in and I find them sitting and starring at the fire and then they always hold out their hands, warm them up and rub them together. It's a natural ritual which people don't know they're doing. Strange how nobody's seen a real fire in a house before, unless they're my age.

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Date Posted:05/09/2018 04:42:19Copy HTML

I use to like the leaves all off the trees before I started cutting. It made it much easier but it meant that you were into fall weather and and were always rushing to try and beat the snow. The air tight stoves of today are a big improvement over the old parour ones. Way more efficent and hold their heat longer. Here now insurance companys are getting picky on them and demand that they and the chimmley are installed by professionals and that you have a contract to get your chimmley cleaned once a year. It lowers our house insurance if you do. Have the kids and neighbours over for a weenie roast and that should cover the hailing and stacking. If there is any beer involved make sure you give it to them only after the stacking.

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Date Posted:05/09/2018 05:13:18Copy HTML

I bought a log burner last year. Bloody expensive but they are a piece of furniture here, part of the furnishings, so to speak. We bought it because this house is so cold, unnaturally sometimes and friends say.... I'm sure this house is haunted. It is, but it daren't show its face as I have a picture of Trump on the wall. In this very hot summer, people walk into my house and say.... have you got aircon? Another thing is the damp, which can cause mold very easily. It's all part and parcel of living in a Victorian home. Anyway, we got the wood stove and it's done the trick, it's another expense but it's worth it. Besides, there's something in our DNA which attracts us to fire. People come in and I find them sitting and starring at the fire and then they always hold out their hands, warm them up and rub them together. It's a natural ritual which people don't know they're doing. Strange how nobody's seen a real fire in a house before, unless they're my age.


Not quite sure what you mean by log burner. Sent a picture if you can. You mentioned your home being cold and also damp feeling. With the age of your place it's most definetly an insulation problem. You can cure both by up grading the R-values in the whole house. It can be a bit expensive to have done but if your handy like I know you are I would do it myself. The older windows and doors are bad for heat loss also. Do you still have the lath and plaster on the walls? If you do and take it out you should have room to put in insulation and cover it with a vapor barrier and then cover over in gyprock. Does it have an attic space to stick more insulation in?

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Date Posted:05/09/2018 07:38:57Copy HTML

There may be restrictions on what you can do to an old house if it's a listed property.
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Date Posted:05/09/2018 07:53:26Copy HTML

It's all been done Pete, but the house is built straight onto the ground (no footing) and has solid, brick walls, no cavity, so there you go. When we paid it off a few years ago, we got the deeds to the place, which cover its history. I took a quick gander but the missus then put them away and I forgot about them. Only a week ago I came across them and took another look. I found out that there was a Methodist church, built of wood, about 50 yards away from me, which owned this land. I can't find anything on the church itself but they did pull it down and later build a brick one in the village as more houses were built. All the legal documents pertaining to the history of the place are hand written and really beautiful writing. The church decided to sell the land due to the lack of attendance and it was because, and this is how it was written..... "so few people live in G..........." The land was sold for 78 pound to the Cheshire Railway Company who built two houses and kept the rest for themselves. The village expanded when the rail company decided to build a large shunting yard across from the back of me, which has gone now, without a trace. The lane just past my home rises to two bridges over the railway and this road was built using fill dug out from the Manchester Ship Canal, which was being built at the same time, all delivered by horse and cart. And talking of the Manchester Ship Canal, we took a boat trip down it last Sunday, from Manchester Docks to Liverpool Pier Head. The feats of engineering involved in this are breathtaking and it beggers the mind to think they dug the whole thing mostly by hand and have four road bridges that turn sideways as the ships go though and even the Bridgewater Canal. It gets shut off at both ends, capturing the water, and the whole thing, 800 tons of it, simply twists sideways to let the ships through and that feat is done in just a few minutes, with much of the original hydraulics still working. The canal drops 60ft from Manchester to Liverpool via five locks and when you exit the last gate, there you are in the river Mersey estuary. I tell ya, they didn't mess about those Victorians and all this was done in just six years. They couldn't get past the planning stage in six years today.

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Would you lose much space on the interior floor plain if you let's say built out from the exsisting walls by 5 inches all round? If not then the only thing maybe is to do the 5 inches on the outside and add heated floors. Everyone here wanted the old Victorian style homes which offered a bigger house and lot with lots of charm but when the reno's ended most people felt that they could have torn it down and rebuilt one the same cheaper. To ungrade the heating and electrical services was the worst because standards or building codes today are much higher. Theses places are in Lunenburg Nova Scotia and what these people first bought them for compared to what they probably paid to have them done over would be crazy.



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Date Posted:06/09/2018 06:06:36Copy HTML

Yeh Pete, I could have the outside clad but it would cost upward of fifteen grand and at my age, you can buy an awful lot of gas for that.

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Date Posted:06/09/2018 07:41:14Copy HTML

There may be restrictions on what you can do to an old house if it's a listed property. You are right Mark and the same applies here. I imagine you might besides the price to have the work done Major, run into the problem that Mark mentioned. If the so called heritage society in your area steps in and says that your place is historical in anyway then trying to do even simple up grades can get expensive. We never had the protection of a group like that when I first moved into the area and a lot of the Heritage homes and farms built here in the early 1800's were torn down fast and gone forever before a heritage group was formed. It's seems to even get skilled contractors to do good work anymore here is a crap shoot. A normal 3 week reno seems to take them a year or plus to complete. My place needs a  complete reno and when the houses were up in value to drop 200k to have it done was not beyond reason for me because I would have still been well below the price I had paid for the house even after paying for the reno's that the house would sell for. But in the last year, house prices have dropped and even though my house is still higher that when purchased and doing the reno's that todays market I have been hesitant because I would still pretty well have to vacate the place and put all our belongings in storage for at least a year until the renos were finished. To me now that's just too big of an inconvinence to go through for the boss and I. Much easier to sell the house with a few cosmedics done and buy a different one with the work all done.

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