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  1. GrahamS2
    I had the misfortune of choosing porcelain tiles for all 3 of the bathrooms in one of my homes. And having to drill and fit the wall hardware afterwards. Here's a few tricks I picked up along the way: 1. Use a concrete nail and small hammer to gently chip/scratch the tile in the spot you plan to drill. An old hacksaw blade also works. You just need to get through the surface glazing, nothing major. This helps the drill bit bite and not wander. 2. Use a proper tile bit as mentioned above. 3. Use soapy water as cutting fluid, it sticks to the tile better and also helps collect the dust. 4. Don't apply too much pressure or overheat the bit. Take your time.
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    Thought it was the cashew version, which is not half bad.
  3. GrahamS2
    So you prefer fermented nuts instead?
  4. GrahamS2
    One of only 2 Ferrari's I'd like to own. The other shares the same motor - 288GTO Had a passenger ride in a modded F40 many years ago, and it was exhilarating. One of the faster cars I've ever experienced.
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    There's the problem. What you think is reasonable and what the court calculated may be very different things. Personally, I think it's a battle best avoided. Something like this should be agreed upfront, before the holiday starts.
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    I had a 400 bottle rack built into my last Joburg house. Price was not terrible. I'll try dig out the guys number for you over the weekend. Similar style to this, but not components. With your room layout you should consider doing the main wall as a display unit, and the other 2 walls as storage/aging racks
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    Sounds to me like you've just been saved from years of issues and tissues.
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    I applied for a new SA passport at FNB Sandton last week Friday (7 Dec). Got the message this morning to say it's ready for collection. Not quite 10 hours, bit I was pretty impressed nonetheless. I was in the branch for exactly 12 minutes, and it was my passport and ID card, and my son's passport!
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    I had sprouts on my salad last night. And it was a meat free meal
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    Does not dishing out a PK every time a vegan spouts meat propaganda at me count?
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    Will not eating meat stop humans from breeding?
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    I still feel a properly balanced diet may yield better uptake in this instance, versus an 'extreme' diet which cuts out complete food types. But either option would be better than the current alternative. And I don't agree that the issue is specifically related to an increase in animal products. The issue is an increase in generally crap eating habits and consumption of salt, sugar, fat, and refined carbs that does most of the damage you mentioned.
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    I agree with you on most of that, but I think you may be looking at if from a developed country perspective. In the 3rd world, poor hungry people eat whatever they can lay their hands on. If it has to die, and how it dies, is of little consequence to them.
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    95% of the world eats meat for a reason. It's a cheap, easy protein source. Even something as basic as the synthetic B12 supplements one would need to take as a vegan are beyond the affordability of a large percentage of Africa's population. Or India's. Or China's...
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    Panga panga works really well with a thin copper inlay. I'll try dig up a pic of one of mine.
  16. GrahamS2
    Sure, but some of the farms where the vegetables you eat are grown may very well have similar poor working conditions and unhappy workers. Same applies to wine farms and most industries in fact. It's almost unavoidable. But using it as an argument purely against meat consumption is flawed.
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    Have you compared it to studies of employees in, for example, the steel industry? Or sugar industry? Or mining industry?My guess is that the results will not be all that different. My guess is also that no-one has done such in-depth studies on those industries because it doesn't support their argument... When you take the emotion out of it, it's just a hard place to work: messy, noisy, smelly, and very physical. There are many workplaces like this, and they will all have a negative psychological and physiological effect on certain employees. Particularly when they're being paid a pittance.
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    It's all about efficiency and maximum usable product. Clubbing a cow to death a) destroys the hide, b) damages a large amount of meat, and c) take a long time. That all equals lost revenue. Why would anyone do that when they are trying to achieve the opposite?
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    Then you would know that the video you posted has nothing to do with industrial meat harvesting. It's a video of some idiots abusing an animal.
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    If you're needing to bleed brakes so often there's something else wrong. Brakes don't just magically suck in air. If they did they would leak fluid when you used them. I've had XT's on my last 3 bikes, over 10 years. Never had to bleed them other than when trimming cables. But you have to be very specific when you bleed to remove all the trapped bubbles.
  21. GrahamS2
    Have you ever been to an abattoir?
  22. GrahamS2
    These arguments make me chuckle, same as the silly "but gorillas eat plants" argument. Hippos (and gorillas) have tiny brains in order to make room for enormous masseter muscles that they need to chew on vast quantities of raw plant matter. They also have humongous digestive systems to allow them to process all the food they spend 8+ hours a day consuming. Humans don't need either of those since we eat cooked foods and energy dense foods, like meat.
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    Say what?
  24. GrahamS2
    Didn't realise you needed a phd to pick up basic omissions and highlight cherry picked data from an epidemiology study, but ok. Chris Masterjohn (phd) had the exact same findings. The study, it should be mentioned, also doesn't appear to control for other causal or mitigating factors like exposure to carcinogens, exercise, family history, etc. As mentioned, there's a lack of proper clinical studies when it comes to nutritional science.
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    I would take the results of The China Study with a pinch of salt. There have been numerous critiques of the data interpretation and omissions in the findings. https://chriskresser.com/rest-in-peace-china-study/ , http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/China-Study.html and https://deniseminger.com/2010/07/07/the-china-study-fact-or-fallac/ are but a few of the dozens available. This is where it gets interesting, because there is similar evidence showing that a pure meat diet can help with auto immune diseases, among other things.
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