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I'll still stick with my old French, diesel tractor. Okay it's £300+ a year in tax, but it'll do 800 mile+ to a tank and requires so few consumable materials to keep going. Nobody should be penalised for maintaining an older car, so long as it is safe and roadworthy.

Smells like the bitterness of not getting onto a plumbing course to me, old duffer.

Oh come on... a male parent has for eons been known as a father, a female parent a mother. I bottle fed my son, but it didn't make me a mother, it made me a father doing my bit! I'd still be a father if my wife left me. Is the use of standard English this "outdated model" you refer to? If the...

Christ. Needs a 2023 update to include men who have converted to woman, but who don't have a cervix but want to feel 'inclusive' by going through the screening process.

No they don't have one -- their demand is to be made to feel more inclusive by going through a screening test. I don't know how representative it is of that 'community'. Agree there are stupid people all over!

Really really! It came from a house-bound patient my wife's surgery have on their books (she's a district nurse). Don't know the man/woman but that's what she's complained about to the trust.

There are calls from male transgenders (now female) to be invited to cervical screening tests. Some have said the NHS is not being inclusive by recognising a need for transgender men to have their cervix checked...

Go along with it! We have to use them in our work signatures on our e-mails, so (for the internal responses...) I go with "it". It's all just a game corporations play to make people think they're doing something for 'wellbeing' (not that wellbeing isn't important!)

We encourage certain types of behaviour, yes. I'm not sure what behaviour has to do with challenging biology, though. A man can be a father, yes. He could be a mother if you were not familiar with the rules of English, but he couldn't be one in practice, as he lacks the ability to breast feed...

Get the hosepipe out, discharge water onto the patio nearest the lawn and watch what it does -- that'll tell you what will happen in the rain. Mine slopes away from the house and goes onto the lawn and borders, but if it sloped towards the house I'd have it run into a drainage channel which...

I mean this with the greatest of respect, but I worry about the future my children will grow up in -- this confusing destruction of biological fact, which is leaving so many youngsters' minds in states of identity crises. I recently heard a man talking with another man, where man A was asked to...

That could be financial security for your son. I told my Dad to spend and enjoy all his money (he worked for over 50 years). He's leaving my brother and I the house -- it's a lot of comfort for the future.

You'd love it round our way. We're off a road with speed bumps, which are the standard ones going the width of the road. The amount of cars I've heard and seen smack their sump on the road is unreal, all because they go over one particular bump too fast. There are gorge marks in the tarmac...

Thanks a lot of that @foxhole, sounds like it will do exactly what I need. I figured I'd need a copy of the OS (as a .dmg) to mount onto a drive and install from, but this option seems to install a fresh copy, presumably from online? As long as everything is formatted and installed fresh I'm happy.

There is a history of corruption in Ukraine (as there is in any country I suppose), but the war with Russia seems to have brushed lots of it under the carpet and the current psyche/mood forbids any discussion on Ukraine deemed negative. There were tens of billions of USD provided as loans to...

Thanks for all the pointers all. Think I'll need to boot up into a mode where I can erase the drive (think it might be via Utilities), as per @richw 's suggestion. The latest OS supported by this Mac is Monterey (Ventura is supported on 2017 models and above). It runs well enough so I'll...

For a laugh I thought I'd check the system preferences panel, and I can see an 'erase all content and settings' feature. I wanted to completely reformat the drive and wonder if they erase function would just erase personal data rather than the actual system files.

Can anybody tell me how to reformat a MacBook (early 2015) and install a fresh copy of Mac OS on it? We've had it from new and it still does everything we need from it, but it's started to slow down. I replaced the screen on it only three years ago so would rather it keep going for as long as...

My wife uses Polaroid, but I find them too small and too poor a quality for anything other than little snaps to keep in a box. I use a 1950s Praktica camera and mess about with expired film to get interesting shots. I captured our whole house move on film 7 years ago.

I remember swearing at my Dad aged 5 (think I called him a sh*t head as I'd heard the phrase said on TV). He leapt up from his chair, chased me around the house and washed my mouth out with soap and water. I never swore at him again (well, not in my childhood or teenage years...). I'm a strong...