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Me: hello, AAA? I'd like roadside assistance please?
AAA: Where did your car break down?
Me: The car's fine, it's me who is having a breakdown. Please come and get me now, thanks.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Maybe you had better called the AA 
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If you have never had one of those days, then you are simply not trying life hard enough!
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I'm about half serious and half crazy. I'm inclined.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Actually no.
But I'm married to one.
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I do exactly what the voices in Herself's head tell me to do...
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yes, but I'm on foot mostly...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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I wonder ... 
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The internet is an endless source of wisdom
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RickZeeland wrote: The internet is an endless source of wisdom
Looking at youtube... same could be said about idiocy 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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To quote Wordsworth:
Quote: Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar
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idiocy runs a surplus round here 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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Was trimming the hedge and I "found" a wasps nest in it.
Seems to be roughly the size of a football.
What would be your next step?
I'm contemplating burning the hedge, it has become a bit tall anyway.
<edit>No, I'm not seriously considering burning the hedge down. For the exact reasons already stated in some answers</edit>
modified 22-Sep-19 9:42am.
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I would ask the help of a professional. My neighbor tried it one time by himself and finally recognized it was European hornet - Wikipedia[^]
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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No, they are normal wasps, but that nest is with a good margin the biggest I've seen.
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Something that big should be handled by a professional. If you try to get rid of it yourself, you'll just end up getting hurt, or in the case of burning the bush, maybe burning down your house in the process.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I actually expected a different answer from you.
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burning the hedge sounds drastic. I'm guessing if the wasps are there it's relatively dry/hot.
I'm picturing a situation where a fire may go out of control. (Embers, or even enough heat jumping to nearby places to start new fires up.)
I'm sure you've heard the stories of a ciggie tossed from a car during a dry spell even though it lands in a ditch or kerb flotsam the embers from that being enough to shift out on even the lightest breeze and go on to destroy forests and neighbourhoods.
Also if still contemplating that FIRST check on your local council / constituency or whatever fire regs are currently in place, these too vary depending on season / current conditions etc.
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This is the sensible answer. 
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Pay a kid you don't like £25 to move it.
Video the outcome, and post to YouTube.
That'll pay for the experts to tackle it properly.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'd probably have to move afterwards.
But it might be worth it though.
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I had the same situation, and just left them. In my case it was a Bald-faced hornet - Wikipedia nest, I think, that ended up about 30 across and 50 cm high. I think it was late August when I discovered the nest, and decided to leave it alone because a) it had got that big and hadn't caused me or my neighbors any problems, and b) wasps and hornets are little carnivores, eating mosquitoes, so let them have at it!
When winter killed them off, I harvested the nest, providing me with a conversation piece. If you were really into it, you could get some colored construction paper and leave it out where the wasps might find it, and see if the incorporate it into the nest: When Given Colored Construction Paper, Wasps Build Rainbow Colored Nests | Colossal
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That link... 
I don't really have any sort of aversion to wasps...but I think I've just discovered that wasps should probably never be made to look so big in pictures.
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This is what I'll do.
They don't seem to be very active at all, and the summer is over in any case.
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