Recent content by SteveHants

Its fine - just feed them grass. See: https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/the-best-additive-to-reduce-methane-is-high-quality-grass/

I don't think those figures are right - we are a net exporter of sheepmeat, for example, by some margin.

In my experience, feeding staff costs very little, but generates a disproportionately large amount of goodwill.

It really isn't - at 27K your loan repayment is about a fiver a week (or at least mine was about 6 years ago).

It OK, its a cliche that people have been repeating for years, I wouldn't take any notice of it.

That is one of the theories about how white skin evolved in the first place - at more northerly latitudes, dark skinned people can't survive well because they can't make enough vit D.

I know you were - I wondered if you might have some insight I don't from a medical perspective. Essentially, I was agreeing with you. Much like lung cancer sufferers, people with stomas have to put up with some fantastical bulls**t at times, the major saving grace being, of course that nobody...

Mate of mine used to have a theory (which I quite like): Southern Europeans have a "table culture" because it is warm for most of the year, and sitting round a table is pleasant. Northern Europeans have a "hearth culture", where we mostly sat round the fire (because it's cold mostly) and told...

What has having a stoma or not got to do with anything? I have an ileostomy - as a result of ulcerative colitis, which is an autoimmune disease, which one is predisposed to and then is usually brought on my a bout of food poisoning or similar, has sweet FA to do with diet (other than the time...

Yes, and 16% on a 16k mortgage in the 80s (I think it was - they boughttheirfirsthouse late 70s) is nothing like as crippling 16% on an 160k mortgage would be today (although my mortgage is nothing like that much, would be a usual mortgage amount for a first time buyer outside of London). Take...

I have a mortgage and my house is worth more than that, thanks. The point is, that the house my parents bought actually cost just over 3 times my dad's salary whilst my mum also worked. When I bought my house, it cost 185K and I was earning 30k - do you see the discrepancy? The only reason I...

Yes, you can get unsecured borrowing of 100% of the value of some things.....

Its unsecured borrowing, mostly, unless you mean that the purchased asset depreciates rapidly.

It's interesting talking to my parents, who unlike many people of their age seem not to have developed selective amnesia and/or stay in touch with what young people are doing (mum was a teacher, is now a school governor). Back when they bought a house - you had a deposit, could get 3-3.5 x the...

I wonder if methane output is correlated to a sheep's ability to digest forage? No idea if there is any work on this, but to me more methane suggests more enteric bacteria (or harder working ones) which might suggest that the sheep can digest/convert rougher forage? Perhaps I should go and see...