Monkeys Fist

Wahey! What do you call a Chinese lady with a Kenwood chef on her head? Blenda. *sorry Noelie

Hobbiton is New Zealand, no?

Wykiki reading that

A goat, a wrestler, and a snake fell off a cliff… Baa doom ssss…

Just finished my first self-build house, but the builder hadn’t charged me for the roofing. He said, “ It’s on the house “

Ukraine war: Putin allows former criminals to be conscripted https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63517680 Straight out of the Hitler playbook this mind.

Imagine being French and your parents call you Jean-Kevin. “ Wtf Maman? Jean-Paul, Jean- Michel, Jean Claude, aye- but Jean-Kevin???? Est tu havin a fucking rire?”

Mint isn’t it? I don’t have the stats to hand because I don’t wear a Matrix style leather overcoat, (looking at you Daaave!), but I reckon that beats or equals the total nominations under Ashley’s entire regime.

Whoa! Haad on … so is Gandaft actually buying Coventry? With Ashley as his landlord? This is going to be spec-fucking-tacular

Is this Pornhub?

By the way, fucking hell ! I suppose it’s easy to get distracted with Hendrix doing his thing, but it makes perfect sense that he’d need a solid rhythm section to anchor his guitar mentals to.

Put your phone away Gloomy ffs! How rude!

While it’s defined as winds moving in an anti-clockwise ( northern hemisphere) direction, the effect of having an anticyclone over you is light to minimal surface wind, so in the context of this discussion Renton is quite correct to cite them as something that would reduce wind power. But, they are also generally characterised by bright, clear conditions, so solar power the fuck out of them. We need multiple options. Tidal and wave power seems a no-brainer to me. Regular, dependable, and abundant.

Disappointed tbh- I was expecting D&B, but with mad Brazilian samba drums. 5/7.

Always makes me chuckle when CT mixes up his logins for here and Mumsnet.

Put a light on next to it

Or a small vertical axis wind turbine. If everyone had both, we’d pretty much be covered. When the large turbines we have now are due to be replaced, we should be putting these in their place- they’re more efficient, you can place way more of them in the same acreage that we are currently using for onshore farms, and can be operated in higher wind speeds than our present ones.

I said we could if a fraction of the money spent by oil and gas firms on wasteful, pointless or just outright fraudulent stuff, every day, was put in to renewables. The two year time frame to improve the efficiency of renewables isn’t the cloud cuckoo part, it’s the laughable idea that the oil and gas industry will make anything more than the absolute minimum required effort to change.

Aye, and there’s plenty of sea- tidal power, wave power, offshore wind… the tech will only improve with increased usage and funded research. ( That’s also not to mention that we can all probably reduce our consumption by making small changes.) If a tiny fraction of the money that is almost literally pissed away in the UK oil and gas industry each day was spent on renewable development, we’d be producing sustainable power with a saleable surplus within a couple of years.

I’ve said for years- we’re a relatively small island, surrounded by sea, wind, with a half decent amount of sun. If we can’t power ourselves from renewables, it’s because we aren’t trying.