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buctootim

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  On 30/03/2024 at 08:42, badgerx16 said:

Perhaps not wave power, but tidal generation is used in several countries.

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Only a few countries and not at any great scale. Lots of projects talked about for decades but not built. By contrast there are thousands of hydro electric schemes (dams) some far larger than any fossil fuel plant and have been for over 100 years.

The fact hydro is so widely utilised and has been for so long hints at some of the problems of tidal. One of them, I think ( I havent read about it for years) is that hydro is effectively on demand  - you can generate electricity when you need it at peak times, like mornings and early evening. Tidal kicks in according to moon cycles and you dont necessarily need a surge of power at 3am or 3pm on a Sunday .     

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Weston Super Saint

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Swansea was supposed to be building a tidal lake to give power on demand.

Tides are always moving, either coming in or going out, so there is always tidal movement to be harnessed....

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Whitey Grandad

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  On 30/03/2024 at 10:45, buctootim said:

Only a few countries and not at any great scale. Lots of projects talked about for decades but not built. By contrast there are thousands of hydro electric schemes (dams) some far larger than any fossil fuel plant and have been for over 100 years.

The fact hydro is so widely utilised and has been for so long hints at some of the problems of tidal. One of them, I think ( I havent read about it for years) is that hydro is effectively on demand  - you can generate electricity when you need it at peak times, like mornings and early evening. Tidal kicks in according to moon cycles and you dont necessarily need a surge of power at 3am or 3pm on a Sunday .     

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  On 30/03/2024 at 11:09, Weston Super Saint said:

Swansea was supposed to be building a tidal lake to give power on demand.

Tides are always moving, either coming in or going out, so there is always tidal movement to be harnessed....

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It can be arranged with tidal ponds that power is always available but the environmentalists have bigger power.

trousers

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Flicking through the channels this evening and found myself watching 'celebrity' Weakest Link. Has there ever been a thicker bunch of individuals on the same TV show? Are these imbeciles genuinely ignorant of how embarrassing their lack of basic intellect is? Thick. As. Mince.

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  On 30/03/2024 at 20:33, trousers said:

Flicking through the channels this evening and found myself watching 'celebrity' Weakest Link. Has there ever been a thicker bunch of individuals on the same TV show? Are these imbeciles genuinely ignorant of how embarrassing their lack of basic intellect is? Thick. As. Mince.

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F*** me... Just switched over to the 1% Club and it gets even worse. How do these amoeba manage to work out how to wipe their own arse, let alone fill out an application form to make a twat of themselves on national television...?

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Whitey Grandad

Whitey Grandad

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  On 30/03/2024 at 20:33, trousers said:

Flicking through the channels this evening and found myself watching 'celebrity' Weakest Link. Has there ever been a thicker bunch of individuals on the same TV show? Are these imbeciles genuinely ignorant of how embarrassing their lack of basic intellect is? Thick. As. Mince.

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And they seem to be proud about it.

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Lighthouse

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I vaguely recall our very own Lucy Pinder being on WL years back on a models special, back in the Anne Robinson days. The questions were... let's just say calibrated towards those specific contestants. I seem to remember Lucy not getting a single one wrong and immediately getting voted off by the other girls for not being denser than a neutron star. Sadly this was in the days before you could pause live TV, so Lucy was gone before I could erm...

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Dr Who?

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  On 30/03/2024 at 20:46, trousers said:

F*** me... Just switched over to the 1% Club and it gets even worse. How do these amoeba manage to work out how to wipe their own arse, let alone fill out an application form to make a twat of themselves on national television...?

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They have agents and ‘people’ to do the paperwork. They also seem to think that by acting thick it will be good for their career? 

Lee On Solent Saint

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  On 06/04/2024 at 11:22, whelk said:

It is easy city to get round. Lots of straight roads! Would never think about driving though. 

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You must be a better map reader than me, even Google maps sent us in the wrong direction twice. You'd think it would be easy to spot the fuckin Collusuem. Take your point about driving though, zebra crossings etc are a waste of time, they even park on them.

whelk

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  On 06/04/2024 at 11:27, Lee On Solent Saint said:

even Google maps sent us in the wrong direction twice

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Not being aware of your orienteering talents but might be be your map reading skills. Personally I am shit and that blue fucking dot is always going the wrong way that I think it should be going. Fantastic city Rome

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Lee On Solent Saint

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  On 06/04/2024 at 11:30, whelk said:

Not being aware of your orienteering talents but might be be your map reading skills. Personally I am shit and that blue fucking dot is always going the wrong way that I think it should be going. Fantastic city Rome

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Blue dot was always behind us for some reason. Great place to visit though, the history of the place is amazing.

whelk

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Media making out everyone’s main concern about the Grand National is horse’s welfare.  Wait til they find out about the daily throughput at abattoirs. We love animals though

Lighthouse

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  On 13/04/2024 at 07:41, whelk said:

Media making out everyone’s main concern about the Grand National is horse’s welfare.  Wait til they find out about the daily throughput at abattoirs. We love animals though

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A bit of a difference between slaughtering animals bred for food and doing it for sport. I love a good prawn cocktails but I don't tend to go out hare coursing if Saints aren't playing on Saturday.

badgerx16

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  On 15/04/2024 at 16:43, trousers said:

"What dairy food...."

"Pass"

FFS.... Just name a f**king dairy food you absolute goon. 

#thechase

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If you must watch such programs you have to accept the imbecility of the contestants. They are specifically selected because of it, as it engages the audience, who sit there thinking they are smarter than those they are watching. ( An admittedly low bar ).

Gloucester Saint

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  On 15/04/2024 at 17:04, badgerx16 said:

If you must watch such programs you have to accept the imbecility of the contestants. They are specifically selected because of it, as it engages the audience, who sit there thinking they are smarter than those they are watching. ( An admittedly low bar ).

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Private Eye reported that on Radio Exe the presenter asked a question on a morning quiz segment - ‘If it’s your birthday today, 8 March, your star sign is a fish. Name that sign’

Caller: ‘Tuna’

ITV Tipping Point - Ben Shephard ‘How many sides does an isosceles triangle have?’

Contestant: ‘Five’

badgerx16

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  On 15/04/2024 at 18:27, Gloucester Saint said:

Private Eye reported that on Radio Exe the presenter asked a question on a morning quiz segment - ‘If it’s your birthday today, 8 March, your star sign is a fish. Name that sign’

Caller: ‘Tuna’

ITV Tipping Point - Ben Shephard ‘How many sides does an isosceles triangle have?’

Contestant: ‘Five’

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I rest my case.

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Lighthouse

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  On 15/04/2024 at 18:27, Gloucester Saint said:

Private Eye reported that on Radio Exe the presenter asked a question on a morning quiz segment - ‘If it’s your birthday today, 8 March, your star sign is a fish. Name that sign’

Caller: ‘Tuna’

ITV Tipping Point - Ben Shephard ‘How many sides does an isosceles triangle have?’

Contestant: ‘Five’

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TBH I wouldn’t criticise anybody for being completely ignorant of astrology. It’s absolute horse sh*t, there is no need for anybody to be ‘educated’ about it any more than than Game of Thrones houses or Sri Lankan cricketers.

revolution saint

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  On 15/04/2024 at 22:50, Lighthouse said:

TBH I wouldn’t criticise anybody for being completely ignorant of astrology. It’s absolute horse sh*t, there is no need for anybody to be ‘educated’ about it any more than than Game of Thrones houses or Sri Lankan cricketers.

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Spoken like a true Libran.

Interestingly (or not), all these "professional" personality tests like Myers Briggs work in exactly the same way as astrology - take a broad, vague and generally positive statement and tell people it applies to them.  I still can't get my head around how supposedly intelligent people fall for that crap.

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whelk

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  On 16/04/2024 at 09:06, revolution saint said:

Spoken like a true Libran.

Interestingly (or not), all these "professional" personality tests like Myers Briggs work in exactly the same way as astrology - take a broad, vague and generally positive statement and tell people it applies to them.  I still can't get my head around how supposedly intelligent people fall for that crap.

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Apparently I don’t like to be openly criticised in meetings. And hate having a fork stuck in my leg. Unlike those bastards that focus on detail

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revolution saint

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  On 16/04/2024 at 11:12, whelk said:

Apparently I don’t like to be openly criticised in meetings. And hate having a fork stuck in my leg. Unlike those bastards that focus on detail

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That's always a problem with meetings in prison canteens.  All those personality tests are bullshit - at one place we did one where we got assigned colours instead of the four letters - when we got our results everyone compared and it was like some bizarre corporate version of reservoir dogs.

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whelk

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  On 16/04/2024 at 11:39, revolution saint said:

That's always a problem with meetings in prison canteens.  All those personality tests are bullshit - at one place we did one where we got assigned colours instead of the four letters - when we got our results everyone compared and it was like some bizarre corporate version of reservoir dogs.

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Given to me by my peers on one of these exercises a while back. Actually quite true -I am less of a cunt at work

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Sheaf Saint

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  On 16/04/2024 at 15:01, whelk said:

Given to me by my peers on one of these exercises a while back. Actually quite true -I am less of a cunt at workIMG_0186.thumb.png.2c58f16a5117ffc494a4b08c0f480bac.png

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Ah, so you're dominant red, huh?

We did this a while back and I actually found it more relevant and useful than many of the other ones I've been asked to do in the past.

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Raging Bull

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X’s algorithm. I saw a couple of pompey tweets - “interacted” with them, now I’m being fed the thoughts of every inbred from the wrong side of Hampshire on a daily basis 😩

Now of all times. 

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badgerx16

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  On 02/05/2024 at 07:56, Fan The Flames said:

Yes they are still kids and birthdays mean something to them. Maybe 25 then, I don't know, we need a commission to arrive at the correct age.

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What about ages 5 to 18 taking the day off school ? Obviously those born in August have an advantage.

trousers

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Pretentious restaurant menus that just use a whole number, rather than proper currency notation, to denote the price of each dish 

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rallyboy

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  On 02/05/2024 at 10:18, trousers said:

Pretentious restaurant menus that just use a whole number, rather than proper currency notation, to denote the price of each dish 

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Yeah, 9 for a dessert makes no sense on any level.

We are better off only eating in places that have big pictures of the food on the wall, then we can point and know what we're getting - you can even choose which can you want in the posher places.

whelk

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The OPTA super computer constantly being referred to tell us Man City will win the league. Fascinating as it is, bookies have been doing similar for years. 

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  On 02/05/2024 at 07:25, Fan The Flames said:

Anyone over 30 taking a day off for their birthday.

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I always take my birthday off. Have done every year since I've been working. It's just nice to spend a day doing fuck all sometimes, or meet a mate and do some daytime drinking when the pubs are empty.

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