Working at a Citizen's Advice, I've learned that this goes on everywhere. I often wonder if people have anything better to do with themselves!
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Working at a Citizen's Advice, I've learned that this goes on everywhere. I often wonder if people have anything better to do with themselves!
At work I'm very much, go in, do my job, don't get involved in the drama. I take exception at him trying to involve me in it..
Realising that first Concorde, and now Vulcan - two great icons of our post-war engineering prowess will no longer be able to fly. If I had a ridiculous amount of money and I needed a project, I would set up an infrastructure company sufficient to train personnel good enough to keep the CAA happy and allow these old birds to keep flying. Maybe Concorde would be a bit much but hey it would be worth a shot!
OK, we can build complicated submarines and some clever computer programs but where is the new innovation? Where are the big leaps? Perhaps it is Graphene?
It just makes me sad that we seem to be going backwards in technology.
OK, we can build complicated submarines and some clever computer programs but where is the new innovation? Where are the big leaps? Perhaps it is Graphene?
It just makes me sad that we seem to be going backwards in technology.
I feel like we've peaked a bit - like there's not much left.
What new can we do? Go faster? Higher? It's all been done, it's just fine tuning now.
We could fly across the Atlantic in half the time it take now,45 years ago!
So there's a project.
We have thousands of bloody windmills that can produce electricity when it's windy, but because we can't store electricity in bulk, the capacity goes to waste if it is windy when we don't need it. \Then when we do need it (say on a very cold still day) we can't produce enough. So, electricity storage- there's another.
We produce millions of tons of human waste every year - all of which is potentially fuel.
Why can't we harvest it?
So there is lots to do. Granted a sh*t recovery scheme isn't as sexy as Concorde but it is more important long-term.
So there's a project.
We have thousands of bloody windmills that can produce electricity when it's windy, but because we can't store electricity in bulk, the capacity goes to waste if it is windy when we don't need it. \Then when we do need it (say on a very cold still day) we can't produce enough. So, electricity storage- there's another.
We produce millions of tons of human waste every year - all of which is potentially fuel.
Why can't we harvest it?
So there is lots to do. Granted a sh*t recovery scheme isn't as sexy as Concorde but it is more important long-term.
haha very true!
When I went to Wales, I learned about this awesome dam that can produce more electricity than a power station in a fraction of the time. It was incredible the engineering.
It was buried deep undergruond with roads leading into it like some sort of secret test site. Amazing stuff.
Trawsfynydd I think?
Do the Welsh play scrabble? Maybe there's a special version with no vowels and twice the amount of "L"s
Do the Welsh play scrabble? Maybe there's a special version with no vowels and twice the amount of "L"s
Yes.
Interesting that you think there are no vowels in Welsh - there are seven vowels: a e i o u y w
L and LL are two different letters, so 4xL gets replaced by 3xL plus 1xLL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions#Welsh
Welsh-language Scrabble sets use these 105 tiles:
2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points)
1 point: A ×10, E ×8, N ×8, I ×7, R ×7, Y ×7, D ×6, O ×6, W ×5, DD ×4
2 points: F ×3, G ×3, L ×3, U ×3
3 points: S ×3, B ×2, M ×2, T ×2
4 points: C ×2, FF ×2, H ×2, TH ×2
5 points: CH ×1, LL ×1, P ×1
8 points: J ×1
10 points: NG ×1, RH ×1
Since there are specific tiles for the digraphs that are considered to be separate letters in Welsh orthography (such as DD), it is not permissible to use the individual letters to spell these out. Diacritics on letters are ignored.
The digraph PH exists in Welsh, but is omitted because it is used almost exclusively in mutated words, which the rules disallow. K, Q, V, X and Z also do not exist in Welsh. Arguably J does not exist in Welsh either, but it is included as it is sometimes used for borrowed words.
# ... waits for someone to point out that Jones (with a J) is the most common surname in Wales !
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Looking up the mot history of my old mk2b and finding out what state it's ended up in since I sold it last year. I don't think it has long left for this world.
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Just had to refund someone for an FTO part they bought over a month ago because I was at work it was sent on the cheapest tariff instead of one with a tracking number. It can not be traced and has come out of my Panda Y10 parts fund. :bang:
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1 word: WOMEN!!!!!
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Mixin' with the wrong women then.
Lol! This girl I know has been dumped by her bf for the 4th time in 6 months. Going by the things she's said about him, he's a complete and utter ar53hole, who treats her like a doormat, yet she keeps running back to him!
She'd be better off without him in her life at all, yet she messages me saying how distraught she is that they're not a couple anymore! Women really don't make any sense at all, lol! :banghead:
Lol! This girl I know has been dumped by her bf for the 4th time in 6 months. Going by the things she's said about him, he's a complete and utter ar53hole, who treats her like a doormat, yet she keeps running back to him!
Women really don't make any sense at all, lol! :banghead:
I've been around women all my life - my whole friend group are female, etc, so let me throw my two cents into the pot.
She probably still despite everything has feelings for him, has low self esteem/confidence, and isn't brave enough or strong enough to soldier on and just fight through it. It's easier to just roll over and let him walk all over her because sometimes he might not treat her like dirt. Almost makes the rest of the time worth it if you catch my drift. She'll just convince herself he can change, and he's more worthwhile, when actually he's a ****.
That's my take anyway! Heard all this before.
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I've been around women all my life - my whole friend group are female, etc, so let me throw my two cents into the pot.
She probably still despite everything has feelings for him, has low self esteem/confidence, and isn't brave enough or strong enough to soldier on and just fight through it. It's easier to just roll over and let him walk all over her because sometimes he might not treat her like dirt. Almost makes the rest of the time worth it if you catch my drift. She'll just convince herself he can change, and he's more worthwhile, when actually he's a ****.
That's my take anyway! Heard all this before.
I do try giving her encouragement, and reassure her that she'll find someone far better. I'm even trying to give her advice on how to get over him! I think the best word to describe her is desperate!
