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Photos from Port Mulgrave. Site of an old alum mine, then a port before the breakwater was dynamited to prevent it being used for invasion in WW2. Now really good for fossils and home to some interesting beach shacks.  
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Pablo Bluth posted:Just scored petrol with zero wait. I suspect I was slightly lucky (wet Saturday evening, a road closure cutting down on the usual passing traffic, word not having got out it was re-open, more cars having their filler on the right and people not wanting to lift the hose around) . I'd been at the supermarket is a few minutes before and the sight of a tanker refilling the place was causing a build-up of waiting cars in the car park. A less capable writer would struggle to convincingly portray such a grateful character inhabiting this bleak, almost Ballardian view of the future. Your use of the first person here is breath-taking in the way it imprisons the reader within the narrator's own optimism. 11/10
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Oct 2, 2021 21:44
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22 mil for tennis courts? What about the boat house, that's what I'm asking! A knackered tennis court is a reasonably good place to contain a small game of footy and various other team games. Restoring them so that only a few people can play only tennis on them is a total waste of money. It makes them a far less useful space and they'll fall into disrepair rapidly. The council where I grew up spent a load of money renovating their old tennis court into... a skatepark. More than two people can use it at once and it facilitates an activity the local kids are interested in.
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Oct 3, 2021 14:38
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happyhippy posted:"I don't care, its not affecting me" vibe from the Bullshitter. NotJustANumber99 posted:A football pitch would have 22 players on the same area. Tennis is more space efficient and socialist than football. You can have a very high energy game of football on a council tennis pitch with as many players as you have friends. The thread sound tonight is that rattling noise of a ball being hoofed at a loose chainlink fence.
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Oct 3, 2021 17:46
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Lady Demelza posted:Does the age of the animal matter? I'm veggie and not really up on different cuts of meat, but if sheep need to be killed at certain age to qualify as lamb, then does pork change textue or flavour if it's older? That and UK agriculture has changed massively since the halcyon days. Alongside crop development and climate change, lots of dairy farmers were collateral damage in the supermarket price wars. So now, instead of a daily pint of milk you can expect an annual bushel of oilseed. Delicious!
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Oct 3, 2021 20:25
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I'm giving final meter readings to my recently deceased energy supplier. My new supplier deal will be at the price cap but probably more expensive than the old, so hypothetically it would be in my interest to inflate the meter readings a bit wouldn't it?
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Oct 15, 2021 23:00
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Totally pathetic. The block I live in is a 60s era court of about 30 maisonettes and flats. Plenty of people here are council tenants. The only signs that give the 'street' name are a good 3m off the ground. You could just about reach one of them, if you lie face down on an upstairs balcony and reach blindly over the edge.
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Oct 17, 2021 23:20
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-58941729quote:Southend city bid would be a 'fitting tribute' to stabbed MP. Councils in Bournemouth, Reading and Middlesbrough reported to be "seriously considering their options".
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Oct 17, 2021 23:38
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NotJustANumber99 posted:thats an odd bit of york, city screen is quite posh, but like either side is i dunno vodka revs or whatever. There used to be a sign fixed to the railings in memory of a vodka revs bartender who celebrated finishing his final shift by trying to swim across the river.
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Oct 24, 2021 21:39
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Yeah I guess it still has an effect on the currents upstream. Also I'm mostly going off something I was told in a pub by a fireman (I think) who had experience of trying to rescue people out of rivers in York. It's mainly that the river ouse is in a giant concrete lined channel with a fast current and few places to get out. The foss has negligible flow except for christmas 2015 when it turned into the thames.
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Oct 24, 2021 23:20
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This sewage thing, has there been a recent change in volumes discharged or is this a weird tipping point when people overnight become deeply opposed to something that's been happening since humans built houses. Mild legislation in the Environment Bill causing the public to demand much more stringent legislation on something they previously hadn't bothered about.
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Oct 27, 2021 18:05
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RDevz posted:Combined Sewer Overflows Well yeah, this is the funny thing. In the UK we've been doing a shitload of work on reducing CSOs since the Sustainable Drainage came along in about 2004 and started being really enforced about 10 years ago. Then the nasty EU forced us to eliminate a load of nearshore outfalls with the Water Framework Directive in about 2015. Your chances of floating past a turd at Scarborough have never been smaller. My theory is that water pollution is easy to get a revolting photo of. Everyone in the UK has at least one treasured memory of the seaside and having looked at those photos is now feeling like they want a really long shower. It's right that people are angry about sewage dumping but when does that revulsion/outrage kick in? It worked to turn people against animal testing for example. Not pheasant hunting though.
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Oct 27, 2021 23:41
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We've had people setting off fireworks round here to gently caress with each other. Petty, mean drama like someone finally deciding their mate should gently caress off and find somewhere else to sleep other than the sofa. So the ex-mate takes it really well and sets off one of those 50-in-1 firework barrages outside their door.
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Oct 28, 2021 23:26
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Interesting point. Anywhere on the canal network (including Chelsea Harbour) no, you can't under any circumstances discharge sewage. However at Wapping Stairs, because it's on the Thames, you *can* dump raw sewage into it as long as you have a license where you specifically promise not to do so. If you don't have that license you can't. Up here the working rule is that you can dump your sewage into the water because we're within one lock of the sea. The moorings community is split on those that do, and those that use a "composting toilet". Which is a nice way of saying a big bucket and some sawdust to keep the smell down. Which you empty onto a heap at the end of the moorings, then it gets washed away the next flood. Either way, the river consumes it. Bulb better not loving go under. They cancelled our last meter installation because the microchip shortage means nobody has any smart meters in stock. We'd asked them to put a traditional clockwork one on and they've ghosted us since.
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Oct 29, 2021 19:27
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"Faith and courage will see you through the toughest times" Excerpt from the diary of Robert Falcon Scott, 28th March 1912
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Oct 29, 2021 20:29
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Bobstar posted:We all love heat pump chat, so this article (Electric boilers: a green alternative to heat pumps that no one is talking about) set off my UKMT-sense. I have an electric boiler in my house. It's called the kettle. Many people with large houses also have another type as well. They call them the immersion heater. Anyone who's tried to have a quick shower using either will tell you it's impractical.
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Oct 30, 2021 18:25
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NotJustANumber99 posted:
For better thermal efficiency you should ask your plumber to use molten sodium in the primary circuit.
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Oct 30, 2021 19:38
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RDevz posted:I'll try again, then. Thanks for the effortpost. It sounds like this is vulnerable to a bit of enroning? If I own a wind farm that breaks even at 10p/kWh and an idle gas turbine that would break even at 30p, what's to stop me taking a bit of windfarm capacity offline "for maintenance" until the grid instructs me to switch the gas turbine on and raises wholesale prices to pay for it? Wouldn't it be more cost effective for the national grid to have nominated reserve generators who it pays through a separate mechanism to the wholesale market so that they have no effect on that market rate? Overheard this very middle class story today: ...they were ignoring the poison so I put down a glue trap and that worked. You can only use them once which is a bit wasteful. I wasn't really prepared for the mouse to still be alive though. So I put the whole trap in a plastic bag alongside a ramekin full of bleach and vinegar. Hopefully it'll be dead from the chlorine gas when I get back.
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Mebh posted:Speaking of sausages. What do you all like to eat on bonfire night? I was thinking of having some friends over to wave sparklers about in our back garden, celebrate nearly blowing up parliament etc. I then realised short of bonfire toffee and mulled wine I've no memory of the food as a kid. Slice a whole banana open lengthways like it's Mel Gibson in Braveheart. Cram chocolate buttons into the wound. Wrap in foil and hurl in flames. Eat when patience evaporates.
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