This is surely the way of the world which we live in....
In France, in UK and all over the world....
This is surely the way of the world which we live in....
In France, in UK and all over the world....
Bit of a minor problem. They are self-builders who come every holiday they have to work on the house. They bought the tractor from another neighbour, put it under their platform/base for the house with a could of chains through the wheels and round their big oak support beams. Apart from that, we don't have the ignition key. Although we are good friends and generally look after the site, they looked at me oddly when I suggested looking after the tractor and locking it in one of our buildings. They smelled the obvious rat. So they declined. It is within 100m of two large tree trunks that must be moved, I am frustrated as hell. But OK, I have found the whip!
Can't you just "borrow" the neighbours tractor? Oh No, of course not! Too many levers on tractor ;-) If I was closer I'd shift it with my beastie tractor & charger no probs.
I was using a bl**dy great lever and going for the greatest hits of Archi method. However, in ancient Greece they obvious did not have tree trunks settling into waterlogged fields so that the lever squelches deeeperrrrr and the log resists. My complaint to the Athenian authorities about Archi's miscalculations will be off LRAR first post on Monday.
Neighbours are coming at the end of July, so the missus - now where is that drover's whip ;-)
How moving.....
Brian. I'd have thought a man of your intelligence would have taken some advice from your mate Archimedes, got yourself a lever & shifted it easily.
On the other hand a tractor &/or the missus sounds infinitely easier :-)
Bloomin' rotten tree that came down during a storm and is attracting lots of vermin. OH took the chainsaw to it, cut it into two metre lengths and believed we could roll it bit by bit to get it out of the way. Muggins decided to try rolling one section. When our neighbours turn up again I'll ask them to help us with their tractor or else 'she' gets the job!
Your story could be interesting....If you are willing to tell.
How about a book based on true life survival stories as told
by members of SF?
Edited by the creators of SF and assisted by.....
Many of us on SF have our own survival kit.
Most of us have a story or 2 to tell and some of
us have survived through some pretty stormy times.
That must be some huge fireplace Brian. Still need a fire at this time of year? ;-)
I guess there is a point. Two years ago I was really not well, that went horribly along to the point where I had my heart attack 13 months ago and the first stents implanted inside 36 hours. Now I am sitting here soaked with perspiration from moving a log that must weigh between 80 and 100kg. I refused to give up or go down, yet I never thought of it as survival.
Ditto, the fact we had an economically rock bottom period that we are not entirely out of. We fought but never thought of it as survival. On reflection and considering your second sentence, I suppose that is all survival.
As for the fittest, good question but I am not the one to try to answer that, but I don't think I am in there...
Lost me there, are there not several men with that name who are known? The gay rights campaigner in London, the metadata and networked information one in the USA, etc.
Your last paragraph....
I agree that silver spoons in one's s mouth is often a greater asset than
a plum.
But try hard enough to be strong and you often win.
Example Stuart Sutton....
He was a great survivor.
Haha, I always have fun with the Darwinist 'slogan' survival of the fittest having had his grandson as my neighbour for just under 30 years and forever hearing jokes around that theme. Humour sticks. The expression itself is anything but true anyway because post-Darwin anthropologists began to notice that the fittest usually former the 'warrior class' in most societies, broadly speaking they became the soldiers, wrestlers, boxers and even less 'violent' games such as football and cricket symbolically consist of armies that we call sides. If you wish to know more, then look at Trobriand cricket. It is a totally unique version of cricket played only by Trobriand Islanders.They were introduced to cricket by Christian missionaries who believed it would discourage war among the natives. However, the game modified itself to fit Trobriand culture by increasing the number of players, adding dances and chants and modifying the bats and balls. Because war between groups on the island was banned by the British colonial administration, cricket began to include numerous traditional practices that were part of war among the Trobriand people. To be a Trobriand cricketer players need to be tried and tested to see who is fit enough to withstand the game, the same as warriors were before. Ultimately, innings and being 'bowled out ' are to do with being fit. The rules are complex: Firstly, only men play;the two teams must be equal but there is no fixed number per team; they are clad in war dress; bowlers throw in a spear hurling style; there are runners, not batsmen, who score 1-6 runs per hit; Out is by being caught, bowled out, run out; there are dances to enter and leave the field that symbolise a side's theme; dances and chants celebrate every dismissal; their war magic was adapted to the cricket; the games happen because of political ambitions of leaders; exchanges of valuable foodstuffs follow a game and reciprocate everyone for services to the event.
Moreover, a game takes a whole day; umpires behave like the former war magicians, therefore act for and control their own sides; the games occur during 'seasons', which to say that a number of visiting teams play against one host during the host group/tribe's harvest; there are both formal and informal victory conventions. Ultimately the host group is advantaged by having control over the food they have harvested, mainly yams, and are theoretically therefore the fittest. By attempting to defeat all-comers they have the task of proving they are the fittest, which is to say the best fed and durable but because they often have many teams as opponents survival is the objective of the series of games to prove they are the fittest.
Malinowski took Darwinian theory apart and in my time as a student Edmund Leach used this game to prove what evidencing fitness means culturally and ritually and therefore the political importance of it, which is also economic (have or have-not) and social (status and lack-of/lower-status).
So, back to the original question and another level of question as to whether the fittest do survive? Evidence suggests that is a proposition and an assumption but evidence shows that it is little more than that. In fact chance, call it luck if you wish, often intervenes and determines who survives. The exception is where people start out with an advantage and their chances are therefore higher than others, however there is no hard and fast rule as we all know. The great and powerful can fall from grace and 'little' people climb to the top. The secret may be endeavour. Who sets out to survive may do so whereas another will fail. That is pure chance.
No like .....get wise....get with it before someone or something else gets you.
Yeah man, gas... It's a gas
fitter.
Like fit up?
Fit like ? ;-)
Or get in a fitter!
Get fitter ;-)
So how can we survive?