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A quick review from the Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... FTxWgfdCms

Farming crisis update: Yobbos on e-scooters to blame

Back in 2013 when I was working in Warwickshire, it was thieves on quad bikes. This is just shoehorning in new technology to make the story seem 'with it'.

I'd like to see anyone ride an e-scooter across a field.

Its just an insurance company press release (NFU Mutual). They’ve also been discussing a story of thousands of racing pigeons disappearing. It appeared in the papers three weeks ago but GBNews has its finger on the Red Wall pulse so couldn’t let that one pass.

"Eeeeh, you know those scooters the kiddies are all riding around on these days, Ada?"

"Yes, Dolly, I don't like 'em."

"What, the scooters?"

"No, the kiddies. They're all glued to their phones and not listening to me about the good old days when that lot knew their place."

"Oh yes, Ada. Anyway, it turns out that the kiddies have started using them to pinch stuff off the farms."

"Well, that's the kiddies - especially those ones - for you. They should bring back the birch. Or hanging."

Someone enlighten me, please. Why does a farmer need a GPS system?

It's not as if their fields are going anywhere. And, if they did, I would imagine that it would be fairly easy to spot fifteen acres under barley that weren't there yesterday.

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:52 pm Someone enlighten me, please. Why does a farmer need a GPS system?

To help guide combine harvesters working after nightfall amongst other uses.

https://www.gps.gov/applications/agriculture/ (US link, but you get the picture).

https://www.britannica.com/video/179609 ... ms-farming

As harvest time approaches chez Boiler, I've often wondered how the prairie-like Fenland fields are worked after nightfall, when you need torches to get about at night and you can hear the combines working.

Boiler wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 5:05 pm

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 4:52 pm Someone enlighten me, please. Why does a farmer need a GPS system?

To help guide combine harvesters working after nightfall amongst other uses.

https://www.gps.gov/applications/agriculture/ (US link, but you get the picture).

https://www.britannica.com/video/179609 ... ms-farming

As harvest time approaches chez Boiler, I've often wondered how the prairie-like Fenland fields are worked after nightfall, when you need torches to get about at night and you can hear the combines working.

Jolly clever, these Americans.

The limited range and offroad ability of an e-scooter makes if an unlikely choice for getaway vehicle.
Perhaps slightly better than a spacehopper.

I remember when proper geezers would use a Transit for regular blags, and a Landrover for the rural stuff.

... essential GPS systems from farms, worth up to £10,000 ...

That's one hellava phone you got there, farmer Giles.

Yeah, my fucking hole.

Where's the average scrote going to fence that, exactly? Can't imagine it'll fetch much from Crap Converters or CEX, and drug dealers aren't really into heavy agricultural equipment to pay off the tick. You wouldn't need to be Columbo to figure out that it's most likely *other fucking farmers* at that shit.

Also "up to" is pretty much hack/cop speak for "nowhere remotely close to". See also "Street value"

More likely they'll end up being "exported" to Eastern Europe.

MisterMuncher wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 2:33 am Yeah, my fucking hole.

Where's the average scrote going to fence that, exactly? Can't imagine it'll fetch much from Crap Converters or CEX, and drug dealers aren't really into heavy agricultural equipment to pay off the tick. You wouldn't need to be Columbo to figure out that it's most likely *other fucking farmers* at that shit.

Also "up to" is pretty much hack/cop speak for "nowhere remotely close to". See also "Street value"

Don’t forget these are claims made by an insurance company whose interest its in to hype up an existing problem. Like NASA and Brexiters, agribusiness can make any old wild claim knowing the media won’t check them.

Youngian wrote: ↑Tue Aug 03, 2021 12:49 pm Farming crisis update: Yobbos on e-scooters to blame

Call me a cynic, but funny that the brexit-loving GB news would go with this blatantly obvious bullshit arse-covering story for an imminent insurance rise for farmers that conveniently gives an excuse other than lack of largely immigrant seasonal workers from the EU for crops going to waste.

Crabcakes wrote: ↑Wed Aug 04, 2021 3:08 pm Call me a cynic, but funny that the brexit-loving GB news would go with this blatantly obvious bullshit arse-covering story for an imminent insurance rise for farmers that conveniently gives an excuse other than lack of largely immigrant seasonal workers from the EU for crops going to waste.

A commercial press release in the inbox is their best shot. Sometimes forget (due to five long years head banging about this fiasco) Brexit only got done seven months ago. England deserves everything coming to it.

Now Sainsbury’s faces the full force of Brillo’s War on Woke.

Don't advertise with them in the first place. No backlash from "woke lefties" or Brillo.

No commitment not to advertise with GB News in future, though. The official line is that Sainsbury's had a campaign to run, which has now ended.

As you say, they don't seem to want to deal with the backlash from Brillo.

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