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Loudest recorded noise until Metallica came along was a Who album, can’t remember which one. In the early 80’s there was a competition sponsored by WH Smith, Memorex cassette tape and local Radio stations. I entered via Radio Trent from Nottingham, filled in the form, answered all the 10 questions, tried to think of a slogan encompassing all 3 sponsors. Went to Nottingham Palais and a couple of clubs with the lads in a minibus, got home at daft o’clock absolutely hammered. Picked up the form, wrote something down, posted it next day. I won with the slogan and the Who answer. Invited to Radio Trent and was asked live on air about the slogan.
StupidHonest Bob said “Can’t remember, I was legless when I wrote it.” Live, on air.Sudden silence, with the Memorex rep making chopping motions to the Trent interviewer, WHS guy had his head in his hands. Interviewer p***ing himself. I won £1,500 in WHS vouchers. After a long story and some fast till work by the local Mansfield WHS manager, I put it all into a holiday in BC Canada for two. Motel vouchers, hire car, had a great time.
But now it’s Metallica the loudest recorded noise:
Although some of the Stones, Quo and John Fogerty concerts I attended, were bloody painful to the lugs.
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I'm out.Are you sure he never said he was moving to the South Korea head office? 😉
Wayne (the Motability dealer) is a Lincolnshire lad born and bred, Steve. He has trouble speaking English outside Lincs. Korean would explode his head.
isdarit: ” got To be easier part exing your Judy mate😂😂🤦🏻♂️ ”
That market crashed a long time ago mate.😆😋
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I'm out.I have made several posts (including a couple of edits) and a new Topic, also including an edit. The only (tiny) problem I noted was that the post/topic ends right above the signature. So I recommend that everyone knocks the line down one row at the end of the post, which worked for me. Otherwise, everything works fine Lee.
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I'm out.January 11, 2020 at 2:50 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #39608Iran adopts a squirming, mealy-mouthed ‘explanation’ but still manages to blame the “flying posture and altitude of an enemy target” meaning that it was partly the flight crew’s fault I suppose, for flying a civil airliner full of civilians including their own countrymen, as if it was on an attack run.
Then Iran states that a no-fly request had been made and rejected, blaming the Ukrainians.
Finally it was again the US bogeyman : “Human error at a time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to [this] disaster ” according to the Foreign Minister. Beeb report:
It wasn’t us wot did it Boss, it was several others.
OK then, it was us, but we are only partly to blame. Trump must be laughing his ass off.
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I'm out.I have been looking at EV’s and Hybrids through Motability. The one that appears to fit our needs is the Kia Niro PHEV petrol auto, a medium SUV which claims its MPG as 100 plus. I am also looking at EDF, my energy supplier, who have set up a section of their website dedicated to customers interested in a charging socket fitted to the house. There is an “interest” online form to request details of energy cost for full EV’s and hybrids, using the “ask a question” box.
There is a tariff dedicated to EV owners, with off-peak electricity. I am very interested in this, although I have over a year left on my lease I would really like to check it out. The Kia Niro sounds good and my former Hyundai Motability dealer has moved to the Louth Kia office on the Grimsby Road, from Grimsby Hyundai, making it about 15 miles closer to home. This is the Niro, taken from the EV Database, not the manufacturer’s specs:
That database uses WLTP ratings, which came into force in September 2018 and is the more representative and more accurate way to give true consumption data, divorced from manufacturer statistics for obvious reasons. When some hotshot dealer rep starts quoting MPG figures at you, close his mouth by asking what the WLTP data figures are. Watch his brain implode. WLTP:
Why the Niro and not a hatchback or saloon? – Because we need the ease of entry and exit that a medium SUV gives us.
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I'm out.L for Loud, Dan. Or FL for – no, probably not!
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I'm out.January 10, 2020 at 9:29 pm in reply to: Read First if flying on a Boeing 737 Max–or maybe not! #39575It begins to look as if the ‘missile attack’ scenario is gaining credence. I am now waiting for conspiracy theorists to suggest that the USA launched a missile in order to blame Iran and make the rest of the world believe that Iran should be ostracised even more.
What a mess nations make of their relations with each other.
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I'm out.After a lot of adverse situations, the news regarding your daughter is good, Richard. I remember having BF issues with my daughter (30+ years ago). It took until her mid-thirties before she found the Prince, with a few Frogs along the way. Sadly, one of the Frogs was eventually divorced, after leaving her in a freezing 200 year old cottage with a toddler (now 26) and in lots of debt. I removed the next Frog from the scene and sent him back to the bottom of the pond he crawled from. Too many bad choices, but I have liked her current man from the start, they have made a home and a family together. Probably because he is a man and not an excuse for a male human. He works hard and has worked with her to build the cottage into a large 3 bed home, at the end of a long drive and in beautiful Lincolnshire countryside. The value of their home has tripled and they should be proud.
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I'm out.Lee, I’m getting very fed up with every post I make being moderated, and going into a wild blue yonder. If you want me to move to a different forum please say so!
I picture a Bradford lad with steam issuing from his ears…
Probably why Lee has not responded yet. I have to agree with Richard though Ed, you could have been a little more diplomatic. A simple request to investigate the issue would have been more in keeping with the Ed we know.
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I'm out.Richard I completely understand your wife’s feeling of loss. Although I only experienced 7 months of chemo* myself, I also became attached to the people I met there. My theory is that I and my fellow ‘victims’ had entered the same “all in the same boat scenario” that I also experienced on active service. It’s exactly the same feeling that Blitz victims, WWI soldiers in the trenches, and other groups of people affected together by one set of pressures, face. It’s ‘Us against Them’ and it does cause a sense of loss when those people part and go their separate ways. I was lost for over 6 months when I came out of the Army and I still wonder how my fellow chemo and radio therapy companions are.
*Still having scans, still visiting consultants. Waiting for an appointment at Castle Hill, Hull after the last batch of scans, blood and urine samples. Trying not to speculate.
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I'm out.I just slipped a new PSU and Slim top fan into my son’s desktop. The PSU he had was supplied by his lad, I said when I took it from 7 to 10 that he should have a new PSU, but no. Then he gets an intermittent fault, I test the (generic) PSU and find the 12v CPU rail is bugga’d. Got him a Corsair CX 550, but noticed that the top fan was touching the memory and the 12v rail: my bad. Bought a slim 120mm top fan, he picked it up today after work. I would like him to have an SSD, but he has a brand new 1TB spinner and is not fussed about speed. I will get him one soon. I showed him the bootup on mine, with the 480GB Sandisk: BAM!
Still not impressed. Oh well.
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I'm out.Great news Graham, glad you’re out. Just remember, no running marathons for a while.
Blimey, your meds cupboard is about as full as mine.
Good luck, keep on truckin!
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I'm out.A hybrid will be my next Motability choice, if I can find one with the same interior access and entry as my Hyundai iX20. I need a high roofline and low sills/seats, to cater for the spinal, hip and knee problems. It’s the best compromise we found after touring dealers all round the East Midlands. If I can get something like an iX2o Hybrid, that would be ideal. Can’t have a plugin, everything we need is a drive from our village and there will be the usual catch-up: our part of Lincolnshire will get charging stations 20 years after everyone else. By then I should be feeding bugs, under a tree in a Green Burial Ground.
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I'm out.These are being built in the North Sea now, some for the Humber as stated here, but also later in the Wash. They say off the Yorkshire coast, but half the Doggerland ones are off Lincolnshire.
Orsted are the Danish company building all this:
The turbines are now being built at the same time as the infrastructure to take the energy into the Grid, but that has not always been the case. It was a struggle because Lincolnshire County Council wanted no pylons, instead worked with previous governments to lay cables underground. That is why our roads and paths are a mess, but I would rather have that than any more ugly pylons marching across our beautiful county.
Richard, I have had two different, solar powered hanging bird wind chimes outside my front door over the last 7 years. The first one was a Christmas gift which began to grow dim, it lasted just two summers before the cells died. The second we bought to replace it was a much more expensive item, well designed and made. It is still there and still works, shining a weird and ghostly change of coloured lights through the front door panels. (Helps me find the toilet during my twice nightly visits 🙄😣😀) It is still giving light at dawn, whilst the previous one lasted about 3 hours of darkness. Our bungalow frontage faces almost due South, which means the solar panels make the most of any sunlight there may be. During the last few cold but clear, sunlit days, it has continued to shine and recharge consistently. Proving two points: to get the right quality costs, plus the solar panels and batteries have improved over time.
As you say, humans always find a way to solve problems. I just wish someone would solve the nuclear fusion problem, that would be a huge boon to the human race and the health of the planet. It might also spell the end of the oil industry and (hopefully) Putin and his oligarch pals.
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I'm out.On Lincolnshire beaches we see the effects of bunker scraping all the time. In a deeper sea with a lot more space between adjoining landmasses, this would be mostly absorbed and unseen. However, the shallow North Sea deposits the black scrapings as tides come in. One would think that satellite resources could be dedicated to spotting the offenders. The problem is caused by ships, usually older vessels which have served many owners, discharging oil from almost empty bunkers. This oil is at the bottom of the tanks and contains a toxic sludge composed of old oil, paint and tiny metal fragments. This is carried out either before bunkering at sea from a fuel tanker, or as the vessel is almost at the port where it is to take on more fuel. This extensive PDF gives a long story, but scroll to Page 5 for the meat:
file:///C:/Users/Bob/Downloads/EN_Oil%20Discharge%20Manual.pdf
There is a great deal of anger about this, especially as all our beaches are now Blue Flag beaches, and great for tourism.
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I'm out.Just to let you know she ordered the HP one same model as above but without the camera(the other sold). At least she will be able to delete them spam emails about recording her watching porn etc in confidence that’s if she gets any. Thanks again Mark
I had one last week Mark, threatening to expose me masturbating if I don’t let him into my system and pay him. (or her?) My gson asked me to type a message for this pond life person, then transmitted it (don’t ask me how) without giving his location or source in any way. Message read:
“Thank you very much for your interesting message. I would be interested to know your reaction on seeing a disabled man in his 70’s, with a very damaged and decidedly out of shape body, trying to resuscitate a dead object. I wish you well, but as you received this in person and are unable to determine the sender’s location, you should know that the sender has some large young relatives who are aware of your own location. Good luck and have an unhappy new year.”
Grandson said he was struggling to type that while laughing.
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I'm out.Just recovering from a power cut, coincidentally. There is a Met Office yellow warning here for tomorrow, 0300 to 1800. High winds and possible additional power cuts. I will bring the wheelie bins close to the house wall and weight them down. More later.
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I'm out.EDIT my last:
Prince Harry is on the ball:
I will donate and then post these links on FB if no one else has.
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I'm out.Actually there are US firefighters already in Oz:
I feel for the friends I have out there. In NSW there is the family of my oldest mate, who passed away 3 years ago with cancer. In the Melbourne area there is the lad (now in his 40’s) who was the best apprentice I ever had as a workshop foreman. He turned to two wheels and now runs a Harley dealership, is married to a Vietnamese lady and has 3 children. He has been an Australian citizen for the past two years.
I have not heard from any of them but I assume they are very busy in one way or another. What is annoying, is that there will be an appeal in this country for places the world over when disaster strikes, but I have heard of no such appeal for Australia.
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I'm out.Ed wrote:
“(Imo they are not really practical today as when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun is behind clouds – green energy has to be 100% backed by good old gas.)” *
Living where I do Ed, I see a lot of the East Coast wind farms. I can stand on the Coastal Path at Sutton on Sea and see both the Humber estuary and the Wash farms, unless the visibility is not clear. They are continually growing in size and number, year upon year. I drive the coast roads often from North to South Lincs and I can tell you that the transmission of power from the Wash is not yet complete. A huge operation is underway atm to channel the power from the Tritton Knoll farm: I drive past it every time I go south.
You are correct about the wind being inconsistent of course, but what you are not aware of is the way the turbines work. Even a breath of wind will start these finely-balanced, very light (for their blade area) blades turning. They are all geared to take advantage of very low and very high wind forces and will still produce power from low wind forces: admittedly, this is variable. Last year, over the whole year, the total energy produced was 15% of the UK requirement. In March, that became 25%, for a very windy month. [My birth month: ‘comes in like a lamb, goes out like a lion’]. That’s 25% of UK energy requirements during one of the coldest months. 25% that did not use gas or other fossil fuel.
Solar power on an industrial scale will soon begin to be seen in Lincolnshire fields: there are a few now, with more on the way. Industrial solar panels are considerably more efficient than the ones we see upon domestic buildings. They produce a certain amount of energy even on a cloudy day. In fact one of my great friends down the next street, has a large array on his south facing roof and he states that it is still producing a trickle on the cloudiest of days. He gets few energy bills, but does get a rebate, because he saved and paid for the installation upfront.
So it is really down to an economy of scale, as the wind farms become more numerous and the actual turbines much bigger, more energy is possible. It just needs all that energy production storing in a more efficient, longer lasting medium. Same goes for solar energy of course. Therefore the Renewable industry really needs the batteries you link to.
After all, unless there is a really dramatic, catastrophic planetary disaster, the sun will still shine and the wind will still blow. In varying amounts, anyway. And we need renewables, what we don’t need is energy from fossil fuels, for reasons made glaringly obvious to the whole world but ignored by the USA, China, India and several other nations. Including Germany, still making Climate Change pronouncements to others, but still burning Lignite (brown coal).
*Not 100% Ed, that’s an exaggeration.
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