Random Irritations

Indulging in too much free drink at last night’s Xmas bash. (The actual one at Christmas never happened because the person responsible forgot to book the venue🤣). First hangover I’ve had for a very long time. Feeling like 💩
 
Nail in new tyre causing puncture on motorway 3 hours from home!😵‍💫

On the upside... RAC were quick and efficient. Why don't cars have spares any more ?🤔
You can often find space save tyres for sale on ebay.

One of the first thing I notice when looking a t another car (same make and model) was there was no space saver in the boot.

I had a hire car last year and it did not even have a jack or wheel brace.
 
Nail in new tyre causing puncture on motorway 3 hours from home!😵‍💫

On the upside... RAC were quick and efficient. Why don't cars have spares any more ?🤔
Had a puncture few weeks back. No pump in my new car surprisingly. Missus has petrol variant of my old car which had a pump and tyre weld. Thought I’d get the pump out of hers. It had a spare! Absolutely fuming!
 
Well you made the post and it’s behind a paywall. I’m guessing the article doesn’t actually provide that information…rather crucial if we are talking ‘natural’ as opposed to commercial forest. Certainly vast swathes of the southern uplands were covered in commercial forestry planted during the 70s and 80s - much of which 40+ yrs later having reached its commercial maturity has been, and continues to be, felled - to be the perfect location for, and replaced by, wind farms. Just thought the article would give that differentiation, it’s rather important. If it’s all or mostly commercial then I’d suggest there’s not a lot to be worried about.

This old arcticle https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/18270734.14m-trees-cut-scotland-make-way-wind-farms/ talks of 14 million trees and points out they were a commercial crop. Not sure if they are the same trees as journalists are not very good about presenting the complete and relevant facts.
 
Also, what's the time scale?
A month, a year, 25 years?
Dunno…what was the timescale the article was talking about? It‘ll be that one. But as it’s behind a paywall I can’t answer that.

However post #39,780 seems to provide an highly probable answer to the the question. Much commercial forestry has been felled, and in its place wind farms have been established. An excellent use of the deforested land if you ask me and something to celebrate.
 
Dunno…what was the timescale the article was talking about? It‘ll be that one. But as it’s behind a paywall I can’t answer that.

However post #39,780 seems to provide an highly probable answer to the the question. Much commercial forestry has been felled, and in its place wind farms have been established. An excellent use of the deforested land if you ask me and something to celebrate.

I'm not disagreeing with you as 90% of my current employment is in the construction of new wind farms so I'm massively in favour of them as they pay my mortgage, but surely an important question is, what was the wood from the commercial forestry used for and what is now replacing that wood? If the answer is that wood use has declined and we no longer need to use the land for that purpose then that's great, but if it was being burnt to generate electricity and we're now having to burn coal instead then it's not so great.
 
I'm not disagreeing with you as 90% of my current employment is in the construction of new wind farms so I'm massively in favour of them as they pay my mortgage, but surely an important question is, what was the wood from the commercial forestry used for and what is now replacing that wood? If the answer is that wood use has declined and we no longer need to use the land for that purpose then that's great, but if it was being burnt to generate electricity and we're now having to burn coal instead then it's not so great.

That's the problem I have with these anti green articles is they play into the agendas of people who want to think everything we been doing for years is fine and the world will be fine.

Take solar farms "its s disgusting use of our land, a waste" yet if you look into them you still get use out of the land whilst getting green energy. They can still be used to keep for example sheep

 
Conspiracy theorists.

We have one at work

So far today we have had

(Someone's going to America, trump came up) thing is those riots weren't by trump supports just made to look like

Thing is about this heat wave is they saying it's 42 degree is actually 37 and the fires were started by people (true but the fact it's dry it goes mental)

Trans has been created to control people (I've switched off now to hear why the hell that one works)

I mean this guy used to be fully sensible yet COVID lock down he went full on tin foil hat 🤯
 
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