skidmarks

evelknievel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The bus. The sparkly new, comfortable-seated, less > environmentally damaging, piss-riddled bus. Arf. I prefer the term scum-shovel myself

solstice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > environmentally > friendly. I always have trouble with term ?environmentally friendly? would ?less environmentally damaging? be more accurate term as the former seem to imply that they are improving the environment. I?ll never make it in marketing!

Yes the interest you pay is ridiculous. I got our annual mortgage statement in January since we had the house we paid off around 2000 of capital but made around 18000 of mortgage payments. I think it works out for every 1 pound of capital you pay 3 pounds of interest over the term?. now with all the other fees taken into account, would it have been better to rent over the same period and save what you could? What I have found is that I certainly have more disposal income since I started renting again?and the best thing is that I haven?t been down wickes to buy bricks for months!

I agree with indie. I am a home owner but have just started renting again. People would say it is a backwards step but I actually quite like it. I can move on when I want (unlike my house which if sold wouldn?t pay off the mortgage). The wiring in my flat blew last night, it took one call to the landlord and an electrician is coming around tonight to sort it at their expense ? lovely, no financial worries for me there. I just have to pay the rent. I only have contents insurance at under ?20 month unlike my house with all the life and building insurances adding up to a significant amount. My landlord is currently getting mugged by the freeholder of the flats for maintenance fees and alike ? sod that. Renting is not that bad, especially in current financial climate. At least if I get made redundant I can move on to place where the jobs are a bit more readily.

> > Mikecg Wrote: > > Dark alleys > > Unlit areas > > Quiet, out of the way streets late at night > > More as and when I get it Anywhere where dogging takes place then?

Craig David ? rewind. Actually anything from the UK garage era makes me want to reach for a rusty ice pick and hit myself repeatedly in the ears.

Mikecg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > surrounded by some > very un savoury places Well that is London. You can turn from a seemingly nice area into a place where the German?s could do us a favour by carpet bombing it again. I?m new to this area; are there any places where one would be best to avoid at all times.

I am saying that the tax payer funded a station for a private venture. If the dome wasn?t there it would have made more sense to have a station down near Woolwich Road. Can you remember when the dome shut that station was a ghost town for years.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Public Transport Link in Paid for by taxpayer > SHOCKER!!!!!!! > > A lot of happy citizens in that part of the world > thanks to the tube extension there Yeah, but that station only really serves the dome and it?s a bit bigger than what would be required if the dome wasn?t there.

I went, it was ok. We spent more time looking at the Thames Water rainwater collection system from the roof and the reverse osmosis system for cleaning the (brown!) ground water for use in the toilets and washrooms. It was quite ahead of its time really.

Don?t forget the cost of the Jubilee line extension station which was paid for by the tax payer. The cost of the line was 1 billion over budget at 3.5 billion which works on average at 318 million pounds per station.

Why don't you tell us the details and we can all ring up about the same flat to piss them off? I think I'll be a turkey blower when asked. Yes I'm bored

Yes, I have worked in both sectors as well?I think Sean has hit the nail on the head. You can?t trust this species to run something so potentially dangerous. Weren?t the banks under regulated?

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > skidmarks Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > You could say the same for nationalised > > industries, they?re not exactly known for > > splashing out. > > Really? I'd say nationalised industries, whilst > having certain failings, were certainly not cost > cutters. If anything the lack of strict budget and > timescale leads to project failings when run by > the state, not penny-pinching > A nationalised industry can cover things up as in effect they are run by the government just like the situation with the ministry of defence is getting away with the leaks in Scotland. Would you trust the local council to run a nuclear power plant? Nationalised industries to me say inefficiency, laziness, jobs-worths, strikes, budget cuts, could-do-better, over-spends? At least with a private firm they can be regulated. How do you regulate the government?

Mature?that is not the word, I would say retired. We do not have the skill base in the UK anymore. We will probably have to rely on the French to design our new plants. My company is chomping at the bit to get in there, which will probably mean that the work will go out to the States. It?s a shame. I was never against nuclear as an option. I still think wind turbines are a good cheap option to remove energy from the atmosphere even on a small scale such as connected to a charging point for an electric car. There has been lots of debate about the proposed tidal barrage in the Severn in my trade magazine. I just can?t see this getting the go ahead. It will take more than one government term in office to design and construct and its not proven technology so I cannot imagine a politician committing billions to it. There will be lots of studies into it though!

njc97 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > skidmarks - bossman wines on LL does it. Thank you

I always thought you should talk to your neighbour from the front garden as the back is your private place.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I guess one of the things that worries me about > nuclear power is that, and as a military man > mamoraman you should recognize this, is that the > power stations will be built by a a corporation > who put in the lowest bid in order to win. Now, is > it just me, or does a company looking to cut costs > to be competitive not make a particularly pleasant > bed-fellow for nuclear power. You could say the same for nationalised industries, they?re not exactly known for splashing out.

Dyslexic man walks into a bra?.

I just wish the Sainsburys on Dog Kennel Hill stocked my favourite Banana Bread Beer as did the branch where I moved from. Anyone know of a local off-licence stocking it? I?m having to drink Tribute at home until there is a time I can replenish my supply.

I just discovered that the UK does have a substantial supply of uranium ore in the Orkney Isles but this has not been mined due to environmental impact as its very volume intensive mining owing to the low concentration of the metal in the ground. Environmental damage aside, if we could tap into this and not import uranium I would be more confident of the nuclear option as a sustainable option.

I know how you feel PB it is so annoying and spineless of them. Someone did something very similar to my car when trying to parallel park recently. They hit my car so hard to knocked the radiator off but they drove off anyway. It is an old car and in reality a right off. I have had to bodge the radiator back on with a few tie wraps but the most annoying problem is now the bonnet won?t stay locked and I always worried some prick will steal the battery or generally vandalise the engine. The worrying thing is that there are people out there driving who can cause this much damage when only trying to park?I wouldn?t like to meet them on a road at 60mph. Anyway?. what goes around comes around

If you?re looking at England the North Norfolk coast is worth a look. Choose somewhere between Sheringham and Brancaster. Take a stop at Holkham beach. If you?re into films, you could walk over Stiffkey Marsh and take in the place where the ?Get some? scene from Full Metal Jacket was filmed.

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Investing in nuclear energy now would give us a 30 > year + respite to develop "free" energy as long as > we ignore inefficient landscape destructive wind > farms. MM. Are you a politician? You seem to keep avoiding the issue of security of supply. You made a list of questions for us to answer. Uranium is a commodity on the open market and prices go up as well as down and be diverted to the highest bidder. We?ll end up with the same problems as we did when Russia turned the gas off to Europe. Also have you seen the damage open cast uranium mining does to the landscape or does that not matter as its in another country?

Marmora Man Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > OK - to put the question more clearly to anti > nuclear team: > > What are your concerns? > > 1. Likelihood of a reactor turning into a bomb? > > 2. Likelihood of a major disaster creating major > nuclear fallout? > > 3. Likelihood of it becoming a terrorist target - > with effect of 1 or 2 above? > > 4. Long term "pollution" of storing nuclear > waste? > > 5. Something else entirely? > > Once the questions are posed rationally then > brational answers can be providedd. 5. Security of supply. We do not have our own source of uranium so we can be held to ransom as with Russian gas. Especially when the world shifts to nuclear power as an easy fix for reducing CO2 the price will go through the roof. We need to invest in ?free? energy Other than that I have no problem with nuclear, I?m an engineer and I trust other engineers to be capable?.I don?t trust politicians and career managers though not to meddle.