hoopy frood

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace. Thomas Paine

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@phildefo @NaturallyFTW For BCC and SCC, the sap of a common weed (petty spurge) is crazily effective. There are papers available which demonstrate this. I can personally attest to its effectiveness, after trying everything else.

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@Booksey Lol. Good luck with that.

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@DickDelingpole He certainly seems to lose friends easily, that Paul...

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@ClareCraigPath And no paid employment for X years after leaving office...?

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@Positively4thS You don't have to be very intelligent to understand it if the evidence is properly presented in the trial.

Juries work and are essential!

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@SaulBroc Exactly this happened to a close relative of mine.

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@ShalamarCa46870 So Scotland is more enslaved by pharma than England?

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@salltweets This is bad. However, thinking constructively I'm sure that they could simply agree between themselves to call in sick on competition days unless rosters were free of men?

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@ScionCar Those must all be part of one theory, surely?

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@let35828674 @Telegraph One imagines that there were manual over-rides. Albeit with control layers. That's certainly how it works on 20m boats with lifting keels.

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@WineRiaan @jamesmcconachi1 Possibly mistakes

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@_sarahdavies Wrong direction, though. No? The more fat I eat, the more my wife is on my case for getting too skinny...

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@BwanaLawFirm @BrockFins Btw I haven't seen a reliable-sounding account of the breaking mast. You see a christmas tree on the water, then it disappears; you might imagine it broke off. And as you suggest, broken mast after the knock down is possible but not very relevant.

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@BwanaLawFirm @BrockFins If you buy a smaller vessel with a lifting keel (my experience is with 12-20m), the documentation suggests some maker paranoia about liability. There are warnings everywhere. I'd expect the lifting mechanism on a boat Bayesian that to have layers of controls

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@BwanaLawFirm @BrockFins This all generally makes sense, but I think you're understating the importance of the keel dynamics.

https://t.co/Rn4MHjsVCx

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@Angel2EU @JaceMcHard if the captain had the keel raised in those conditions then he was highly negligent or had ill intent

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@BwanaLawFirm @BrockFins Deck is a good place to go if you're expecting sinking and rescue (and hero billing later).

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@BwanaLawFirm @BrockFins Could a motivated individual with knowledge and system access reliably cause sinking at night in a predicted storm? Or would more robust and later detectable methods be required? I'd assume that lifting keel could work, given decent storm.

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@markkimba74 @NomenNullus @therealmissjo Have you ever read the warnings on the systems such boats have for raising the keel for (fair weather) shallow ports?

One of these convenience vs risk of disaster tradeoffs which may have paid off badly here.

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@ledredman @BrexitPirates 3rd option - keel raised + heavy squals hitting high mast