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Kept my olive tree in the garden room throughout the winter to shelter it from the cold. The garden room doesn’t get much light in the winter (glass predominantly faces westwards). Made sure the tree still got a little water.
When I took the plant out a few weeks ago I notice some yellowing to the tips of some leaves. I re-potted it into a larger pot but the yellowing of the leaves appear to be getting worse.
Any ideas what is wrong?
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My oldest football related piece of clothing would be this T-shirt I had in primary school.
I’ve still got quite a lot of Armani, Paul Smith clothing from the late 80s / early 90s. Had a lot more but sold quite a bit of it on Vinted recently.
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31 minutes ago, coprolite said:
I can read between the lines. Are you suggesting that the state should expropriate 30% of the value of all owned property to pay down the debt? Radical, bit worth considering.
I’m merely giving stats. It’s many, many years since I studied economics so I wouldn’t presume to know a feasible way to try to balance the books.
If truth be told I’m not convinced top economists do either.
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4 minutes ago, Ludo*1 said:
Alas not. They've been given the same allocation they always get, unfortunately. We just sometimes sell a portion of them ourselves to ensure Celtic fans aren't trying to purchase tickets in the Dundee end. We've did this a few times when Celtic are in more, shall we say, 'jubliant' moods.
Does that not just mean Celtic fans would have to travel from Glasgow to buy those tickets from the shop?………….
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16 minutes ago, coprolite said:
So you're saying that we need to do better with inheritance tax. Lower threshholds, residence basis, increased progressive rates and start culling elderly aristocrats? I agree, well done.
I’m not saying anything. I just took the figures from an article released today regarding inheritance tax.
Another interesting fact (at least to me) is the total value of UK homes is almost £9 trillion.
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Figures out today show that £7.5 billion was raised from inheritance tax last financial year. To give some sort of context in the same period benefits payments increased £39.6 billion to £291.4 billion and the Treasury borrowed £120.7 billion.
There were no figures in the report detailing current government debt but last figures I saw stated it is north of £2.5 trillion.
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5 hours ago, Glen Scotia said:
In my experience it's Dundee fans that mention United in the 80s. Trying to turn it into something that is meaningless.
We can chat about the 90s if you want? How about oh...94? How about something more up to date say...2010?
You lads needs to STOP bringing United up. Let's chat about Dundee and their cup wins. I'm a middle aged man so I wasn't born to speak about it anyone else remember it?
Are you still posting about United on this thread?
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3 minutes ago, Newbornbairn said:
I don’t know about the 40s but I think he likes to talk about the late 70s / early 80s quite a bit…….
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10 hours ago, scottsdad said:
One from today.
The wife and I went to The Range in Falkirk. Parked the car, we were walking to the shop. An old couple came out of the shop heading our way. The wife of the old couple had a walking stick but the guy seemed spry.
The old woman saw a 5p piece on the ground. She looked at us, looked at it, then put the base of her walking stick right on it. She then shouted her husband, who was a couple of steps ahead, to cone back and pick it up for her.I
Now, my wife has some form here. Discretion was not present. Walking last them, well within earshot of them, she started.
"Five pence! Five fucking pence! She put her stick on five fucking pence! She thought we were going to dive down for five fucking pence!" And so on.
Normally I would be embarrassed. But I just burst out laughing. I couldn't believe what I saw myself.
I’ve noticed some older folk loose track of the value of money and kind on regress back to their childhood with regards to what value they place on money / items that were once of value. I wonder how much 5p was the equivalent of back in the 40s?
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49 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
The "DMZ" was in Syria, at its border with Israel. It's still recognised by the International community as Syrian land but two thirds is currently (illegally according to the UN) occupied by Israel.
Israel refuse to leave and Syria have accepted nobody will force them so they defend their zone in the hope Israel doesn't expand any further.
Israel renamed an area within that zone, close the Syrian side, after Donald Trump while he was US President, presumably hoping Syria would realise if they attacked back and destroyed it then Israel could use it to bring the US directly in to that conflict too.
You'll be surprised to hear that a lot of the initial dispute over that area of land was due to Israel trying to force Palestinians out of the area (which they succeeded in doing.
Excellent RG. That is much clearer and makes much more sense to me. Thank you.
I had assumed any DMZ would be half in Syria’s land and half in Israel’s land, thereby creating a buffer zone in both countries where the military didn’t enter. A show of goodwill if you like from both sides.
From reading the replies to my post I read it that the part of the DMZ that the tractors were in was on the Israel side of the DMZ.
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9 minutes ago, beefybake said:
The tractors weren't in Israel.
Suggest you troll elsewhere.
I can assure you I am not trolling. Sorry, I thought what was said meant they were.
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34 minutes ago, Dee Bliss said:
Be the 80’s like everything else
It’s quite funny how some United fans discuss the 80s like it was only a few years ago. For the younger posters on here this was the cutting edge of electric vehicles in those days.
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10 hours ago, Aaron_stampler said:
my recently retired work colleague used to say:
"he who dies with the most debt is the winner"
A mate from work used to say something similar. He’d often say “I came into this world with nothing. If I leave it £1/4 million in debt it sounds like I’d be quids in.”
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37 minutes ago, RandomGuy. said:
94/95 the last time Dundee United played a European tie that wasn't a "qualifier".
90/91 the last time Dundee United progressed through a round that wasn't a "qualifier".
Appreciate that RG. Thank you.
32 minutes ago, Glen Scotia said:Nothing to be suspicious about, it's not a secret. I dont want to be talking about United on a Dundee page.
To be fair if I was a United fan I wouldn’t want to discuss United’s European campaigns over the last 30 odd years either - regardless of what thread it was on.
To keep it football related, I think raising the issue of recent European football was an own goal for yourself but to remain neighbourly I will help you out and give you a red card for this thread.
ETA - Apologies. Where are my manners? Thank you for your contribution to this thread.
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1 hour ago, Glen Scotia said:
Agh c'mon guys, this is the all things Dundee page. Don't bring it back to United
I’m now suspicious of why you haven’t answered my question. Was it a long time ago? I’m now going to have to ask RandomGuy. @RandomGuy. have you any idea?
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1 hour ago, Glen Scotia said:
21yrs since a European tie? Ya fucker
21 years is indeed a long time, although I’m not sure United have exactly been a leading light on the European scene in recent years. I genuinely don’t know the answer so it may be quite recently but when did United last reach the first round proper of any European cup?
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4 hours ago, beefybake said:
Definition of a demilitarized zone is where warring parties parties agree to cease open military warfare, pending a diplomatic solution. The dispute concerns territory. The border prior to the 1967 war is internationally recognised. Israel did not, and does, accept this border. The words of Moshe Dayan are an admission that Israel deliberately provoked further open military conflict, to expand the territories under its control, whilst giving the impression of being the victim.
Demilitarized zones are usually tense, fragile affairs. If you don't want conflict you don't send your tractors in, 'innocently' assuming it's OK.
3 hours ago, coprolite said:I think the point isn’t that Syria were in the right but that Israel wasn’t being as defensive as they pretended to be.
A tractor isn’t some neutral harmless thing if your opponent has a history of just taking land for farming. It’s not exactly a tank but it’s a pretty clear statement.
I see what you are both saying now. I genuinely do appreciate your patience with me. Having said that I’m still a bit surprised that Syria wouldn’t have seen the potential problems of striking whilst the tractors were still in Israel (albeit a demilitarised area). I would have thought they would have been better ignoring this for what is was and only considering action if the tractors entered Syria.
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21 hours ago, beefybake said:
"..... It is an article of faith among Israelis that the Golan Heights were seized in the 1967 Middle East war to stop Syria from shelling the Israeli settlements down below. The future of the Golan Heights is central to the search for peace in the Middle East, and much of the case against giving the Golan Heights back to Syria rests on the fear of reviving that threat.
But like many another of Israel's founding legends, this one has come under question lately, and from a most surprising quarter: Moshe Dayan, the celebrated commander who, as Defense Minister in 1967, gave the order to conquer the Golan.
General Dayan died in 1981. But in conversations with a young reporter five years earlier, he said he regretted not having stuck to his initial opposition to storming the Golan Heights. There really was no pressing reason to do so, he said, because many of the firefights with the Syrians were deliberately provoked by Israel, and the kibbutz residents who pressed the Government to take the Golan Heights did so less for security than for the farmland.
General Dayan did not mean the conversations as an interview, and the reporter, Rami Tal, kept his notes secret for 21 years -- until he was persuaded by a friend to make them public. They were authenticated by historians and by General Dayan's daughter Yael Dayan, a member of Parliament, and published two weeks ago in the weekend magazine of the newspaper Yediot Ahronot.
Historians have already begun to debate whether General Dayan was giving an accurate account of the situation in 1967 or whether his version of what happened was colored by his disgrace after the 1973 Middle East war, when he was forced to resign as Defense Minister over the failure to anticipate the Arab attack.
But on a more immediate level, the general's 21-year-old comments play directly into the current dispute over whether the Golan Heights should be returned to Syria in exchange for peace. The Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is firmly opposed to returning the Golan, contending that the high ground is vital for Israel's security.
''Look, it's possible to talk in terms of 'the Syrians are b*****ds, you have to get them, and this is the right time,' and other such talk, but that is not policy,'' General Dayan told Mr. Tal in 1976. ''You don't strike at the enemy because he is a b*****d, but because he threatens you. And the Syrians, on the fourth day of the war, were not a threat to us.''
According to the published notes, Mr. Tal began to remonstrate, ''But they were sitting on the Golan Heights, and . . . ''
General Dayan interrupted: ''Never mind that. After all, I know how at least 80 percent of the clashes there started. In my opinion, more than 80 percent, but let's talk about 80 percent. It went this way: We would send a tractor to plow some area where it wasn't possible to do anything, in the demilitarized area, and knew in advance that the Syrians would start to shoot. If they didn't shoot, we would tell the tractor to advance farther, until in the end the Syrians would get annoyed and shoot. And then we would use artillery and later the air force also, and that's how it was.''
Very much appreciate you taking the time to explain this in detail, although I’m more depressed than ever about any possible solution. I just can’t see there being a solution in our lifetimes.
One thing I still can’t understand though. Is the demilitarised area in Israel or Syria? If it is in Israel why would Syria fire on tractors ploughing land in Israel? Would it not simply be better ignored?
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40 minutes ago, Der Panzer said:
Sorry for double quote - in a timely fashion the SPFL have released a Luke McCowan compilation on socials - if you squint your eyes it really could be a Greg Stewart reel. Less of the showboaty stuff (which I unashamedly loved) but just as effective imo.
This may not be popular with a lot of Dundee fans but I believe McCowan’s overall contribution this season to the team has been better that’s that of Greig Stewart when he was at Dens. That’s not in a criticism of Stewart.
I genuinely wouldn’t swap McCowan for Cantwell, Dessers, Dowell or Silva and that’s not just based on last night’s performances. I have no idea how much those four players cost.
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11 hours ago, beefybake said:
Earlier in this thread, there were excerpts from letters by former Israeli leader, Moshe Dayan, in referring to the real reasons for the 1967 war.
He admitted that the real reason was not the threat from Syria, it was simply about territory. Israeli farmers would send their tractors into the approaches towards the Syrians, deliberate goading to force a response, and to make it look like Israel was the victim.
So here we are again, Israel attacks an Iranian consulate, Iran responds, and the West et al, go along with this sick joke that Israel is again the victim.
Watching that slime face Cameron talking his crap would almost make you want to puke. The utter moral bankruptcy of it all.
Sorry, I’m not understanding the bit on bold. Why would Syria respond to farmers in tractors being near their border. I’m assuming I’m misunderstanding?
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55 minutes ago, Sortmeout said:
Hope the Dundee fans aren’t too rough today after a whole night celebrating the “draw with Rangers” cup win.
Tinpot.
I honestly don’t think there are many posters on P&B that would wake up the morning after Rangers dropping points in the title race and think “I want to discuss the manner in which Dundee fans celebrated.”
Each to their own though.
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Clement concentrated way too much on the Dundee pitch. I presume that’s why he picked so many players that simply swan around.
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49 minutes ago, RossBFaeDundee said:
What was all the worry about, eh?
Beautiful. The sun always shines on Dundee.
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1 hour ago, Pens_Dark said:
Mental but entirely not surprising.
I always thought that we would get a suspended fine, like Motherwell and that would be the end of it. Terrible precedent to be set here if they try and hound us for money because of postponements. Especially when they fixture can be played.
SPFL thinking: Lets charge clubs an insane amount for sub-standard technology that sub-standard referees continue to make mistakes with every weekend, lets make sure the big two get the most amount of money whilst the rest fight for scraps balancing the need to maintain their facilities whilst also putting a semi-competitive team on the pitch. Then, just then, we'll make sure that when a fixture is postponed and the big team along with the tv companies stamp their feet we will just go after the club in question.
Did Rangers even get fined for their pyro nonsense earlier in the season and for the disruption that had on the game? Did they f**k.
Good point well made. Also, how many fans have Rangers identified and banned?
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Gardening Thread
in The General Nonsense Forum
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Very much appreciate your advice on that one. I’ve probably underestimated how cold it gets and the winds were horrendous a wee while back.
Can be a bit heavy moving it but I’ll certainly give it a try.