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- Sat Mar 09, 2024 11:10 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: The post man's been ...
- Replies: 11450
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Re: The post man's been ...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:37 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you drinking now?
- Replies: 704
- Views: 71960
Re: What are you drinking now?
Only 3 months late. Or 9 months early.
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3975
- Views: 502204
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Nice. Just planted ten black poplars at the river this morning. Ultra rare these days. Tea and biscuit break.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 445
Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
This is already turning out to be my personal favourite thread of the year
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 445
Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
Especially the Clif Bar observation "After I managed to blast that turd out, I turned to see how big it surely was (*). To my surprise (and heartbreak), it was only the size of a quarter and looked precisely like the Clif bar I was eating (yes, eating while you poop does save time.)". X_X...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:03 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
- Replies: 10
- Views: 445
Re: Bikepacking race tips from a pro...
Yeah good article. "of all the things I sought... bikepacking... community prevails". :smile: Aww, sniff, <sheds a small tear>. 'Tis true. :-bd Some awe-inspiringly graphic details about "personal hygiene" :-bd Oh, can we get the swear filter to change "sto k ed" to &qu...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 1:24 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
grid battery As well as having England's largest wind turbine (soon to power an electric buses terminal as well as the town), we also have the UK's first grid-level battery storage facility just round the corner from our gaff (now where are those house-sized jump leads :wink: ): "The 6MW/10MWh...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:23 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3975
- Views: 502204
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Amen to that, it's fun to have a bit of shock-value . Looks a bit like a beetle or something out of Aliens.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3975
- Views: 502204
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
Mmm. Looks fun! But I have to say I'm not keen on the 'flowing' lines style-wise. Reminds me of the fashion for horrible formed S-shaped downtubes on MTBs, for example the nasty object below. Gimme nice straight lines every time. Eye of the beholder and all that of course :grin: https://live.staticf...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 11:02 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3975
- Views: 502204
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
I heard the longing for proper controls in cars like we used to have is... Knobstalgia :lol: :lol: Sign me up! I want a bumper sticker too! Well, I also prefer it when one has to, er, flick a stalk up and down to activate something, so can we have a sticker for that too please while we're at it? :g...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:18 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Yeah well his 'environmental credentials' are somewhat suspect so he's on my 'ignore list': "Vauxhall to unveil a lightweight, high-performance and genuinely sleek roadster with far more sharp edges than Toyota’s MR2 or Mazda’s MX5. Vauxhall had another surprise in store when comedian Griff Rhy...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 12:11 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
- Replies: 3975
- Views: 502204
Re: Yay, it's cheery Friday.
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/article-13153771/Car-makers-ditch-distracting-touchscreens.html?spot_im_scroll_to_comments=true&spot_im_highlight_immediate=true Car touchscreens totally out of hand now, agreed. Menus with about 20 levels. Not that I know what's going on though, Mrs P's...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
The problem with modular reactors from my perspective is that nimbys will object to a small reactor just as much as a large one and it's much easier to guard a few large stations than lots of small ones scattered about. Two good points there I don't know of anyone or community volunteering for the ...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
or better still: boththenorthwind wrote: ↑Mon Mar 04, 2024 6:44 pm pub at the end of the bike ride (or better still, in the middle)
Surveying and earwigging the whole room from a well-positioned barstool can frequently be illuminating tooeveryone is free to choose which table(s) to sit at though
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 5:13 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
I'm afraid the plants and animals will have to go How do you see that working out for your children and grandchildren? This has been taken out of context. If you read the whole paragraph it should be clear that I'm referring to the plants and animals that will be displaced by the wind farms not eve...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 4:27 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Re coal and its high calorific value for power generation and our own plentiful supplies - and I speak as someone who is very interested indeed in the mining thereof, and the social history of its communities - on the debit side we have: Aberfan, Senghenydd, Gresford, Oaks, Blantyre, Cilfynydd, emph...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 12:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
'Saving' one thing can be at the cost of 'losing' another. The view of what's 'saved' and what's 'lost' is frequently subjective, and even if there's an objective angle the facts surrounding it can be blurred. Speaking of facts, this has been a fairly interesting thread but it's also been fairly 'ha...
- Sat Mar 02, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 516
Re: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
Yes that's the stuff. I very boringly went with white . Also vaguely remember getting 4m x 1m.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:51 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
As for 220m turbines on-shore, it's bonkers, the civil engineering in the base is going to be huge I'm interested to learn more about that to increase my knowledge. At the moment we have the highest one in England just outside our town at 147m. Apparently it's also the most powerful, generating 4.1...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:06 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 3:36 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
The weights-in-mineshafts angle gets a lot of comment on mining forums that I frequent. Consensus seems to be you'd need hundreds of shafts (often waterfilled now) with weights the size of a battleship... My point about "supply must match consumption" wasn't disagreeing that the system wou...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:48 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
Living by the sea and witnessing day in day out the power of the tides that are ALWAYS flowing, unlike wind, I find it amazing that we've not properly invested in harnessing this free power that surely could be done in a much less obtrusive manner. Fair point Dave. Although read up about the Severn...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Routes
- Topic: Cycle Travel route planner for off road trails? Comments?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 242
Re: Cycle Travel route planner for off road trails? Comments?
Is that the one where R@pha-wearing yuppies from Chelsea roll up in their BMWs, hoik their electric gravelbikes off the roofrack, and want a ready-made obstruction-free route to the Michelin starred cafe for lunch?
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
- Replies: 101
- Views: 2831
Re: Proposed Wind Farm near Glaslyn
supply must equal consumption I'd say it's the opposite actually. It's like saying we should keep fishing our waters without regard to the future, or building miles of new motorways (or bypasses round bypasses round bypasses. "Why? - Arthur Dent. "You've got to build bypasses" - Mr P...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:18 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 516
Re: Tyvek groundsheet - how long do they last?
spinnaker tape Good to repair stuff in preference to new obviously, but how much spinnaker tape was there? If there was enough you could make a complete spinnaker groundsheet like my one :smile: . Much better than tyvek - waterproof, sheds water easily for packing etc. And you can get pretty colour...