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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.

https://newcastle-online.org/topic/37260-sunderland/?do=findComment&comment=7337234 At least he hasn’t died.

My life is complete.

Alreet @Kevin Carr's Gloves, stopping in tonight again?

Gemmill would’ve been over the cliff in seconds- “ He’s got string for legs and is ginger” “ Say no more Howmanidas!”

I like turtles.

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I was going to watch this, but I had the same thought- “ don’t fanny on with it, you don’t have to” Cheers for the heads up 👍

I don’t approve of cocktails

I can’t believe we all had this conversation and no one asked ewerk if his “lass” had a stiff upper lip?

If you like FZ, it’s a must watch tbh. And he was Bill.

Alex Winter’s* Zappa documentary is on bbc iplayer at the moment. Obviously I’m fairly biased as a fan of his, but it’s pretty good as music documentaries go. It’s not out to convert anyone- the pieces of his that are used tend to be some of his more “out there” stuff, and it doesn’t pretend that he was some blissed out love freak- if anything, he comes across as a very single-minded, not particularly likeable bloke… a bit of a cunt, really But it’s absolutely honest, and does a great job of showing the changes, and constants, in his career over his lifetime. Using “Watermelon in Easter Hay” for the end credits was a lovely touch by the director- it was written by Zappa for his son, Dweezil, and he considered it to be his best and favourite guitar piece. It’s also the last guitar solo that the protagonist of the albums it’s from, Joe’s Garage, gets to play, so was a particularly good choice to wrap up with. ( Zappa requested that no one play it live after he died until Dweezil had, which took him until 2013 to perfect it, and be able to play it without breaking down. The first time he did was in London and it was filmed here.) * yes, that Alex Winter, from Bill and Ted