Simon Templar

@void_post @uncledoomer "Last guess, this is in South Africa"- Nope, we don't have basements. We dig the foundation where the outer and inner walls are, and pour concrete. Then build it all up level with clay bricks. Fill the space between up level and pour a slab. Put down damp course and build walls.

@uncledoomer Ok, is this AI, did an earthquake just hit or are you hiring the worst migrants in the world? What is going on with that house back there? Last guess, this is in South Africa.

just finished this foundation for a client. tacked on some extra to the invoice too because he said it was his dream home and he was willing to pay for the best

@DailyMail Predator drones would be better at stopping them. They'll soon return to where they came from, or actually where the NGO's brought them from

Facial recognition drones to be deployed in the Channel to catch migrant smugglers steering small boats trib.al/o6I7pJl

@AmpersZA @Lolita721611021 @Trotse_pa_no2 The text is an excerpt from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book, The Great Boer War.

@Lolita721611021 @Trotse_pa_no2 What was the name of the English man who said that? Totally forgotten.

Who are the Boers.... The word Boer is Dutch Afrikaans for farmer. The Boers are a mixture of French Huguenot, Dutch, German and Flemish. These are the people who left the Cape to get away from the British, and trekked into the vast wilderness of South Africa with just their wagons, bibles and guns. They are the proud people who built South Africa into what it was - and the people who defended the country from those who wanted to harm it, be it the British or the Russians. And to think that these peaceful God-fearing people today live in fear of their lives in the same country that they established.... The world has a lot to answer for and people like traitor FW de Klerk will meet his judgement one day. Revenge is a dish best served cold......and karma is a bitch.

@Scotian82 Pinky: "What are we going to do today Brain?" Brain: "Stay out of the sun"

I will never forget to cover my skin while fishing in the tropics again ☀️🇨🇴🔥 My Celtic Blooded Gringo Ass Can’t Handle That Heat 🤯🥵😫

@jcarlos2001 I once used it to pull out a thorn from my hand, it was in very deep and I couldn't get it. Soap mixed with sugar overnight, pulled it out enough to get it with a tweezer

@jcarlos2001 In South Africa it's Sunlight green bar soap

EL JABÓN LAGARTO El jabón Lagarto no es un jabón. El jabón Lagarto es una autoridad. Es una presencia. Es el único producto de limpieza que no compras… lo heredas. Tú no vas al súper y dices: “Voy a probar el jabón Lagarto”. No. El jabón Lagarto aparece en tu vida como aparecen los traumas y las recetas de tu abuela: sin pedir permiso. Porque vamos a hablar claro: el jabón Lagarto no limpia, humilla la suciedad. Tú manchas una camiseta con tomate y el Lagarto no la lava… la somete. Le dice a la mancha: “Aquí se acabó tu carrera, artista”. Ese jabón ha quitado más grasa que muchos entrenadores personales. Y luego está el olor. Ese olor no es perfume, eso es disciplina. Eso huele a patio, a barreño, a una señora con bata que te mira y te deja temblando solo con decir: “Eso con Lagarto sale”. Y salía. Salía la mancha, salía la mugre, salía la tontería y, si te descuidabas, salías tú también restregado. El jabón Lagarto sirve para todo. Para la ropa, para el suelo, para la cocina, para una llanta, para una persiana y, en algunas casas, sospecho que hasta para bautizar niños. Hay gente que tiene un botiquín en casa; nuestras madres tenían una pastilla de Lagarto y una fe ciega. “¿Te has caído?” Lagarto. “¿Hay grasa en la campana?” Lagarto. “¿Tu padre ha venido con una mancha rara en la camisa?” Lagarto… y luego interrogatorio. A mí me hace gracia porque ahora todo viene con nombre de laboratorio suizo: “detergente ultra bio active sensitive no sé qué”. Cállate ya. Antes había una pastilla verde-marrón con nombre de reptil y eso limpiaba más que tu vida después de bloquear a tu ex. Nada de marketing, nada de influencers. El jabón Lagarto no necesita anuncio. Su publicidad era una abuela levantando una sábana blanca como si hubiera ganado una guerra. Y ojo, que el Lagarto tiene pinta de producto sencillo, pero impone respeto. Tú lo ves ahí, cuadrado, serio, sin florcitas, sin colores pastel, sin “aroma a nube de verano”. No. El Lagarto viene a trabajar, no a seducirte. Es el funcionario de la limpieza: no sonríe, no promete, pero cumple. Y mejor que muchos. De hecho, si el jabón Lagarto fuera una persona, sería ese tío seco del pueblo que no habla mucho, pero te arregla una lavadora, te poda un olivo y te da una lección de vida sin moverse del banco. Duro, eficaz y con pinta de haber sobrevivido a tres crisis, dos riadas y una boda gitana. En resumen: el jabón Lagarto no es vintage, es inmortal. Es el Chuck Norris de la limpieza. Es el producto que ha pasado de generación en generación como si fuera una reliquia sagrada. Y mientras nosotros vamos por la vida pagando botes modernos con tapa ergonómica, el Lagarto sigue ahí, tranquilo, pensando: “Cuando queráis limpiar de verdad, ya sabéis dónde estoy”.

@CondeRenata @jcarlos2001 It can be whatever your heart desire

@BuckBles @jcarlos2001 Cómo que pasta dental? 🥹

No wonder everyone has gluten allergies

@amuse Because he's a WEF puppet and they told him to do it. If he doesn't, his "wife" is going to beat him again

WAR: Is Macron working with the Iranian regime?

WAR: Could it be possible that Iran negotiated secret deals with France, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Spain to close their airspace to US air traffic in exchange for safe passage of their ships through the Strait of Hormuz? I'm doubtful they would betray the US so brazenly, but that's what Mr. Bridgen is claiming.

@woOdTroll12 @algolpoker @FoodProfessor You can buy French cheese and Irish butter in the US without the excessive duties the Canadian Dairy Commission slaps on it. Consumers have a choice, if you sell a good product at a reasonable price it will sell. If you want better butter you just buy it, unlike here

@BuckBles @algolpoker @FoodProfessor So in Canada, dairy is high priced for stability for farmers, in the US it’s cheaper, but taxpayers pay to bail out the farmers. The result is the same. My only problem is the waste of milk on our way of doing it.

Won’t be writing for La Presse for a while. But one thing’s certain: dairy farmers in Quebec are celebrating right now. (Picture taken from dairy farmers' Facebook page)

@timtim177 @Captaingpa @1Nicdar You can order it from Amazon

@Captaingpa @1Nicdar They could make a fortune selling bags of 10 10 mm sockets . Put 5 regular size and 5 deep in a bag

My son was showing me his new 300 piece toolset, so I stole his 10mm socket to teach him a valuable life lesson. 😬

@woOdTroll12 @algolpoker @FoodProfessor Take away supply management and the quota system preventing new farmers from joining the dairy industry. Allow free competition and dairy from other countries and choice for consumers. Minimally subsidize the remaining dairy farmers, and stop dumping milk to keep prices high

Getting old is hard

@woOdTroll12 @algolpoker @FoodProfessor If a country wants to subsidize farming to secure a stable, CHEAP, food supply it's fine. But to be forced to buy from only source and pay high prices, is not right.

@BuckBles @algolpoker @FoodProfessor Yeah they don’t do that in the states though.

@albion_of94308 @SamaHoole "just let people who really know about it get on with it." - That's exactly what they want you to do, believe the "people who really know". bbc.com/future/article…

@BuckBles @SamaHoole We can all agree it's better to just let people who really know about it get on with it. Nothing any politician has to say is worth listening to. Managed land is essential to preserve and foster as many species as possible. Have a lovely Easter weekend.

Let's check in on Freya, who is ruining Denbighshire. Freya is a four-year-old European bison at Rhug Estate in north Wales. She weighs approximately 450 kilograms. Her ancestors grazed Britain until six thousand years ago. The fossil record is clear, the bones are in the cave deposits, the bison were here: then they retreated eastward as the forest shrank and the hunting intensified, and by 1927 they were gone from the wild entirely. Twelve individuals in captivity. One century of careful breeding. Freya is the result. 6:45am - Freya is at the woodland boundary. She stands with her head up and her nose working. The estate manager times this every morning. Four minutes and twelve seconds. Then she moves. The estate manager follows her route two hours later. This morning: elder scrub cleared from fifteen metres of the south margin. Two ash saplings browsed back. A section of bracken disturbed at the root: nothing else on this estate is heavy enough to push bracken rhizomes out of the ground with its face. Freya does it by walking through. 8:30am - The wallow. The wet depression at the base of the east slope has been deepening for eight months. It holds water after rain now. Marsh marigold in April. Water mint in June. Eleven dragonfly species in August, none in the survey from six years ago, before the bison, before the wallow, before the pool. Freya made the dragonflies. Freya was having a roll. 10:00am - Bark work on the ash section. Bison strip bark with their lower incisors: one side of the bole, the cambium heals over. What remains is rough exposed wood: habitat for bark beetles, mosses, lichens. The woodpecker has been using this section since October. Three consecutive surveys now. The woodpecker doesn't know about Freya. The woodpecker knows there is good bark. 12:00pm - Freya grazed the grassland section. She pushes through rather than crops, disturbing the surface, opening the sward. The seed bank under British permanent grassland contains species that haven't germinated in decades, waiting for exactly the kind of disturbance a 450-kilogram animal at pace provides. Wild garlic this month on the disturbed sections. Wood anemone at the margin. Neither recorded on this estate before. They were in the soil. They needed Freya to let them out. 4:30pm - Boundary assessment. North field. Four minutes, unhurried. The estate manager is on the track with binoculars. He can see dense hawthorn encroaching on the north ride. A rank area of coarse grass untouched for two seasons. He writes: "Tomorrow." Freya walks into the trees. The Wisent is back in Wales. She has been waiting six thousand years to get back to work. She is not in a hurry. She has the whole field.

@woOdTroll12 @algolpoker @FoodProfessor Free market, let the market determine the price and supply, and the customer decides what he/she wants to buy.

@BuckBles @algolpoker @FoodProfessor What are you suggesting? The US version? Both versions are subsidized. The end result is the same.

@FoodProfessor Great news, it just shows you can't keep a good man down.

Must say, after announcing that my column at La Presse was suspended, I couldn’t believe the number of emails and messages of support I’ve received—it’s been truly incredible. I’m very grateful to see our work being recognized in this way. I’ve also received three offers to become a columnist with different outlets, which is very flattering. All the media I’ve interacted with over the past few days have been respectful of my views and supportive—which I truly appreciate—with the exception of La Presse, of course. That said, I’ll take a few weeks to digest everything before committing to anything new. Happy weekend.

@mario4thenorth @DonnaLy88824770 "The Governor General never learned French either." - It's surprising that even in these woke times, think BC and UNDRIP, that French and Quebec still override everything, even Indigenous people.

🚨 BREAKING The Governor General’s husband just announced they’re “planning their exit.” Why? CARNEY DOES NOT LIKE BEING EMBARRASSED. He forced the Air Canada CEO out for a condolence video in English. The Governor General never learned French either. She’s represented the entire country, including Quebec, for years without speaking French. One got summoned to Parliament. The other got a mansion and a $300K+ salary. The same standard But different treatment. Carney is pissed cause it made him look like a hypocrite. What about his staff at his constituency office, who only had his answering service in English, but quickly changed it once they were exposed 🤔

@vexentine @IzzyDew @giveashitnature Till you kill a Snouted cobra in the garage by the back door. Or a Puff adder gets through the chain link fence, and kills one of your dogs.

@IzzyDew @giveashitnature “What’s wrong with snakes bro. Just let them hang out near your 3 year old toddler.”

Fences are out. Dead hedges are in. A dead hedge is exactly what it sounds like: branches, prunings, and woody cuttings stacked between upright stakes to form a boundary. It looks rustic. It costs nothing. And unlike a fence, it's alive with wildlife. Birds nest in it. Hedgehogs shelter in it. Beetles, bees, and spiders colonize the rotting wood. As it breaks down it feeds the soil and you just keep adding to it. Medieval farmers used dead hedges for centuries. We replaced them with vinyl fencing. Time to go back.