Time to make everyone mad again...
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Nice thread Bill,
JP3 hope that things dry out. Every news cast catches my attention. Have to say that your communities seem to be working together and are impressing the world and me. Hat tip sir.
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An area not mentioned is community and mental health. I have a built in advantage in the form of our Pyr and the need to walk her three + times a day. We know nearly everyone within a good half mile around our home and most have seen us walking. The children are hypnotized by a large friendly looking dog and folks are willing to say hello, wave, and hold some conversations. One of our neighbors B is in his 90’s and still walks the neighborhood every day. Most in the neighborhood do not like him as he used to have the habit of using his neighbor’s yard bird baths for an occasional ‘sit down’ waste disposal. He is a neighbor I would check out during situations, as he was a submariner in the Second World War and gets a pass for bad neighbor antics. L and K across the street are good folks and L is great with a chain saw and has a large pick up and boat. W the neighbor next to him is a good person and along with his wife are raising a bunch of youngsters. W my next-door neighbor in a jerk, but also a retired engineer, has a boat, small dog, and we get along well with his wife and can tolerate him LOL. The lady in the big red house behind me is in her 80’s and lives alone. She used to be harshly beaten but he passed ten or fifteen years ago and her life has been much easier, I would check on her during situations. About a year ago we had some drugged idiots trying to break into a couple of homes. Cops were dispatched and a few neighbors came out and checked on other neighbors and their homes. I could go on and on but the point is get to know your neighbors. What does getting to know your neighbors have to do with mental health, well, during an emergency a tried and true method for staying calm and healthy is to find someone worse off than yourself and then help them. The sense of trauma is markedly lower when there is a sense of circumstances not being helpless and finding meaning/mission greater than yourself. By helping others, you are also helping yourself. How cool is that? Don’t have a dog, get out and walk around the neighborhood and be friendly. Say hello, talk about the weather, the garden, their dog… Live in apt or condo get out and meet folks, attend building events or hold them.
JP3 hope that things dry out. Every news cast catches my attention. Have to say that your communities seem to be working together and are impressing the world and me. Hat tip sir.
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An area not mentioned is community and mental health. I have a built in advantage in the form of our Pyr and the need to walk her three + times a day. We know nearly everyone within a good half mile around our home and most have seen us walking. The children are hypnotized by a large friendly looking dog and folks are willing to say hello, wave, and hold some conversations. One of our neighbors B is in his 90’s and still walks the neighborhood every day. Most in the neighborhood do not like him as he used to have the habit of using his neighbor’s yard bird baths for an occasional ‘sit down’ waste disposal. He is a neighbor I would check out during situations, as he was a submariner in the Second World War and gets a pass for bad neighbor antics. L and K across the street are good folks and L is great with a chain saw and has a large pick up and boat. W the neighbor next to him is a good person and along with his wife are raising a bunch of youngsters. W my next-door neighbor in a jerk, but also a retired engineer, has a boat, small dog, and we get along well with his wife and can tolerate him LOL. The lady in the big red house behind me is in her 80’s and lives alone. She used to be harshly beaten but he passed ten or fifteen years ago and her life has been much easier, I would check on her during situations. About a year ago we had some drugged idiots trying to break into a couple of homes. Cops were dispatched and a few neighbors came out and checked on other neighbors and their homes. I could go on and on but the point is get to know your neighbors. What does getting to know your neighbors have to do with mental health, well, during an emergency a tried and true method for staying calm and healthy is to find someone worse off than yourself and then help them. The sense of trauma is markedly lower when there is a sense of circumstances not being helpless and finding meaning/mission greater than yourself. By helping others, you are also helping yourself. How cool is that? Don’t have a dog, get out and walk around the neighborhood and be friendly. Say hello, talk about the weather, the garden, their dog… Live in apt or condo get out and meet folks, attend building events or hold them.
OP
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Here's the 411 on the insurance most people don't have but should:
What is "Sewer Backup"?
What is "Sewer Backup"?
While floods are probably best known for causing extensive water damage to homes and businesses, they can also cause sewage from sanitary sewer lines to back up into houses through drain pipes. These backups not only cause damage that is difficult and expensive to repair, but also create health hazards.
Most homeowner and business insurance policies do not cover sewer backup unless specific sewer backup coverage is added to the policy, according to the Insurance Information Institute (I.I.I.). “Obtaining an insurance rider on a homeowners or business policy would cover such damage if it occurs,” said Loretta Worters, vice president, I.I.I.
“Sewer backup coverage is available from most insurers for a nominal cost, usually $40-$50 on an annual insurance policy,” she said.
I would do this in a heartbeat. No question about it.
Great point.
My ex self-defence school was focusing on a different point: health. Which is also an aspect of self-defence. Everything we do may affect our survival, or at least, our wellbeing. It was quite like "we are our first and biggest enemy, so don't bother only with mad men".
PS: Not many hurricanes or floodings there, fortunately.
My ex self-defence school was focusing on a different point: health. Which is also an aspect of self-defence. Everything we do may affect our survival, or at least, our wellbeing. It was quite like "we are our first and biggest enemy, so don't bother only with mad men".
PS: Not many hurricanes or floodings there, fortunately.
BuckerooBonzai
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BuckerooBonzai
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Sorry Tez3. Somehow my response appears in your quoted area of text above!
Not very tech savvy here!
Not very tech savvy here!
No worries, I'm the same! I'm bashing my head at the moment with a new website Girl Guiding has set up here to replace an old one, there's problems their end because so many are trying to get on but I seem to have more problems than most, I've phoned up, thought it was sorted but it's not, can't login in, it doesn't want me sob sob. And they said it would make our lives easier huh!
BuckerooBonzai
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No worries, I'm the same! I'm bashing my head at the moment with a new website Girl Guiding has set up here to replace an old one, there's problems their end because so many are trying to get on but I seem to have more problems than most, I've phoned up, thought it was sorted but it's not, can't login in, it doesn't want me sob sob. And they said it would make our lives easier huh!
Yes, someday these computery-things will make our lives easier, eh???
I probably would, too. Sometimes, I'm not very practical.
Yes, someday these computery-things will make our lives easier, eh???
This is us. Girlguiding | The Leading UK Charity for Girls & Young Women it's the internal part for leaders that's doolally at the moment not the main website.
I'm with you, bro. I would run into any fire to save a member of your family, or my dog, or your dog for that matter. Couldn't live with myself otherwise. Easy to say, sure, but I've been in fires. If it's too much, the fire just blows you back, not a damn thing you can do, no matter who you are. Period, end of story.
I'll do just about anything to save a dog. God, I hate to say, but maybe even more than a people.
OP
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And nothing against it. Just lost my boy two weeks ago, I'm gutted.
But it's not 'self-defense', speaking literally.
In the area I live in everyone knows everyone plus all their relatives and everything that has happened to them or they've done for the past 100 years (actually probably longer). Doors are still unlocked, strangers would be noticed within seconds and everyone helps everyone else. they'll still gossip about you mind!. it is like this except the police don't say 'hello' no one does, the universal greeting is 'Na then'.
Let's move to Wensleydale, North Yorkshire
Let's move to Wensleydale, North Yorkshire
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Sorry to hear that Bill, and to hear it still bothers you that way.
What more can be said.
Great thread Bill! Wish I could contribute more but unfortunately work only gives me a few minutes to post on here a day for a week or so more.
People shouldn't make the mistake though that where we live is a pushover lol, most of us have shotguns and dogs, we have large gardens for veggies and chickens. There's plenty of game up in the hills. We have sheep farmers as well as a couple of dairy ones. Most of us can knit ( many of us can spin wool too) and sew as well having 'do it yourself' skills ( Yorkshire people will never pay for anything they can do themselves) we have fresh water springs as well as the river. We have horses and ponies for transport. Nothing like a Dales pony, you can use them for riding and pulling a cart (and plough) they are such a handsome breed too with a good temperament. Often in winter we are cut off so we do stock up well.
By the way if anyone fancies coming up here and running a pub there's one for sale in Swaledale. The Tan Hill Inn, Britain's highest pub, is up for sale - BBC News
By the way if anyone fancies coming up here and running a pub there's one for sale in Swaledale. The Tan Hill Inn, Britain's highest pub, is up for sale - BBC News
I think the "legality" of self defense should be taught more. I teach knife personal protection and in my field I see way too many "knife instructors" teaching the "slash 'em up" method which will just get them arrested. The "he attacked me first so it was self defense" argument doesn't always work in the court of law.
lklawson
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The 4 Pillars of Justifiable Deadly Force are required whether it is a firearm, a knife, or a tire iron.
Peace favor your sword,
Kirk
