JohnL

nothing from Maxwell ? She's not exactly singing like a canary.

diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Get one of these John... > https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/kettles/article/ho > t-water-dispensers-how-to-buy-the-best-aE1aB3z1bla > X#is-a-hot-water-dispenser-quicker-than-a-kettle-a > nd-does-it-use-more-electricity That would save me money

Kettles - yeah mine is always on for endless cups of coffee when WFH

womanofdulwich Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We will have to do lots of manual work in the > house to keep warm or go out .Can't we.make.those > static bikes generate electric somehow? I hardly turn on the gas - so its all for hot water. My gas bill is a quarter of my electric bill - thats WFH + Games + TV + Charging things. Considering pulling out plugs from the wall before going to bed like my parents did in the 1970s. I tend to leave lots in standby at the moment. And the Peloton - it does leave you hot - but bet its screen adds a bit too.

I don't really think Javid is suited to Health https://www.indy100.com/politics/sajid-javid-health-social-care-speech-b1933153 Does he mean we should eat well, drink less and exercise more, or does he mean something else entirely. It sounds like Health Insurance might be coming.

I'm fed up now of the taxis picking up and dropping outside my window LOL and everybody shouting whilst they wait - it's not a taxi rank. That's such a selfish reason though :).

Sky News saying there's hardly any fuel in South London - which is contradicted by above posts- but that's 24 hour news. If this was just panic buying it would have resolved now so there is a real issue.

Another quote from Boris doing the rounds (although they come back regularly) "You can't rule out the possibility that beneath the elaborately constructed veneer of a blithering idiot lurks a blithering idiot"

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Shoe Shops > > Dolcis (Gone) > Stead and Simpson (Gone) > Bata (Gone) > Stylo (Gone) > Timpsons (Gone) In the original "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy" book they talked about the shoe shop event horizon where shoe shops expanded uncontrollably to take over the world. I remember loads of shoe shops too - and we didn't think it was a good thing at the time, strange how things change.

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So, to live in a city you have to have > semi-deserted main roads that don't allow access > to public transport, shop owners who deposit > refuse (animal, vegetable) outside their > properties and never bother to clean their > frontages? I've watched the coffee shop and the undertakers and others paint and re-paint their shutters - and it's not people who live in Rye Lane putting graffiti all over it - the only time I actually saw someone do it he looked very middle class and was with his girlfriend who waited for him to finish with the spray can.

se22cat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Spectrum (micro computer shop) gone > > The firetrap cinema gone > > Zodiac Toys gone These are such 80s names (and Zodiac if you watch Netflix is only one thing unfortunately)

He was called Randy Andy - but the only girlfriend of his I remember is Koo Stark

or just hammer the ball 417 yards

I suppose it doesn't matter how they advertise if the right employment procedures are followed.

There is an argument that MPs pick the leader in parliament. Maybe there is also a case for a leader outside parliament but that causes issues when/if labour get into power. MPs are voted for by labour voters as representatives (not delegates) - these MPs then pick their leader on behalf of those who voted for them.

Long term I guess driverless trucks are the aim of the employers. Not heard much about that recently.

You can see violence in some men's eyes (and very very rarely in a womans) Jeremy Bamber series on TV just now - his eyes say guilty then and now - how he has a fan club I don't know.

Anyway evidence Life Expectancy graph for UK https://www.statista.com/statistics/1040159/life-expectancy-united-kingdom-all-time/ From 1900 to 1960 (60 years) it increased from about 45 to 70 From 1960 to 2020 (60 years) it increased from about 70 to 80 "the Atlantic" seems to have noted this before me and done some investigation https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/diminishing-returns-science/575665/ and WTF "Our graph stops at the end of the 1980s. The reason is that in recent years, the Nobel Committee has preferred to award prizes for work done in the 1980s and 1970s. In fact, just three discoveries made since 1990 have been awarded Nobel Prizes. This is too few to get a good quality estimate for the 1990s, and so we didn?t survey those prizes." My degree was in Physics so I would have noted the lack of attaining what we were excitedly promised at University in 1984.

Anyway Sky News talking about the long term future and they've forgotten the long term future is meant to be driverless trucks. But lets blame a leaking moaning remainer.

malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bizarre thing to say. Higgs Bosun anyone? Human > Genome? Developing, approving and manufacturing > vaccines within 18 months? Greater success in > cancer treatment. Growing human tissue and > organs?? > > Not sure where your idea of a fridge sized nuclear > power station came from but the cores in nuclear > subs are not so far off in size and small modular > reactors will be a thing in the future. Fusion in your kitchen, unlimited basically free energy - it was what we fully expected in the early 80s within 10-20 years (our teachers told us this). I have to say I was disappointed when 2000AD came around never mind 2020 - to me in 1980 that was the fantastic future where everything would be solved - surprised people my age aren't feeling the same. I even had a book as a child about Mars - we should have got there by 1990 - many advances just stopped at the end of the cold war. Was it just my school that made all these promises and me that read the books with all these predictions of the future that proved wildly inaccurate - I don't see it as bizarre by the way think a lot of people my age feel this - where is all the stuff I was promised - society has stalled on so many levels - that we could do things so destructive politically, scientifically, socially.

Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > More nuclear power plants would insulate us from > gas and coal price rises but the failure to > maintain and expand atomic energy is not a result > of the introduction of renewables - it's a total > failure of government to articulate a sensible > policy to the market. More renewable capacity > would also dampen the impact of global fuel prices > - but of course their output varies in this > country. Just like us 80s children believed in hoverboards we believed in fridge sized nuclear power. We seem to have have made no real advances in science - just engineering since the 80s - what happened.

We have no option but to pay - or they shred your credit rating. Companies use this as a first threat too not a last resort.

Surely Freedom of Movement meant a driver could do continental deliveries not a case of drivers from East Europe coming here for jobs..

heartblock Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It has definitely added, but weirdly the Council > has very few designated parking for tradesmen, > plumbers, electricians, builders and I know that > they drive around for hours looking fo a parking > space. Ocado has ?greener? slots so if you do have > deliveries then you can try and book one of those. > Riverford delivers very early and only once a week > in a green van, Waitrose, Sainsbury?s etc ?? > > Is it greener that one van delivers groceries to > many, or that individuals drive to do their big > weekly shop, are deliveries a sign of lower car > ownership? > > I think this is difficult to measure and are you > more likely to have delivery if you don?t have a > car. > I?m trying to have more delivered to a pickup such > as the Co-op but even then it needs to be > delivered there. > For the elderly and less mobile, delivery has been > an excellent and helpful service. > I don?t know what the answer is. Milk carts used to be battery powered and very slow - but they did their deliveries. Planning and Patience I guess

The best signal I saw for EE was inside the Great Exhibition pub (a few years ago as I don't check now but will again when I get my 5G phone).