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electric*mayhem*band · ‎16-08-2015

So, what gets up your hooter ? What makes your hackles rise, so much so that even just thinking about it, practically induces an apoplectic fit ? Could be anything, a news item, something you encounter in everyday life, drivers/driving, work/housework, public transport, politics/politician, a TV programme, teenagers, a certain commodity or product, a celebrity, mode of dress, a sport, social media sites, mobile phone users, advertising, tattoos, the weather, tin rattlers, technology, bad service, modern architecture, overuse of the word 'amazing', certain music, user manuals, call centres, a neighbour, anything at all that gets you all steamed up.

They say just letting vent on paper has a cathartic effect. Dusty Springfield, when something annoyed her, would buy a bag full of cheap crockery from Woollies, and smash it all individually up against the wall. Now I'm not advocating going to that extreme - anyway Woollies shops are no more - but unbutton your waistcoat, loosen your stays, and just put it all down in typeface on here. You'll feel much better for it. Honest.

Please Note. Be mindful of the Board rules and regulations. No foul language please.

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jd.linklater · ‎13-09-2015

@start-the-fire wrote:
interesting reading on plastics in general if not over exagerated

http://ecowatch.com/2014/04/07/22-facts-plastic-pollution-10-things-can-do-about-it/

One thing about plastic bags in tips is that they do not always stay there, just look at the fencing surrounding these tips, the wind takes many of these lighter plastics and rubbish and blowes them back into the enviroment.

Very interesting to see so many facts and figures in one place, it states emphatically what I've been saying about plastics for many years. Like I've said a thousand times before, this stuff never goes away and the situation won't change until people change their habits and manufacturers stop producing so much of it. I hope everyone takes notice but I won't hold my breath.

Thanks for posting all the same.

lambsy_uk · ‎14-09-2015

jd.linklater wrote:

A valid point indeed, I'm not trying to apportion all the blame on the supermarkets. I know it is the human race as a whole that is to blame for the world becoming a rubbish tip but there are lots of things that manufacturers could do to improve the situation and the first step is to make all the plastics we use recyclable. Just as an example, when was the last time you saw toothpaste, tomato ketchup, milk, margarine or worst offender of the lot bottled water in anything other than plastic containers? People generally never look at what type of plastic these containers are made of so they invariable get thrown in the dustbin and end up in landfill. In my view we shouldn't be sending anything to landfill, all our waste should be collected by recycling companies and dealt with in an appropriate manner.

At present in our village we have paper & cardboard, glass bottles & cans, garden waste, and kitchen waste all collected at the roadside and taken for recycling by different specialist firms. Just recently they have started collecting plastics too which has to be sorted and the non-recyclable stuff goes to enclosed inceinerators like the one you mentioned. This is way it should be countrywide, I can't remember the last time we sent anything to landfill, the only things left in our rubbish bag at the end of the week are a few pieces of kitchen towel and they go on our own compost heap. This is not rocket science, it's just common sense.

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I think Waste-To-Energy plants are great, but they do have a problem; NIMBYs. I recall a proposal a few years back to have another opened got quashed because of Not In My Back Yard!

Does my head in!

joamur_gosof · ‎14-09-2015

But the nimby folk don't want to end up dead so it's a fair point...When the waste to energy guys of science say toxins ? what toxins ,we are toxin free ..then you have a real point.

Like the anti frackers,I mean who cares if a few households tumble off a cliff or dissapear down a big hole ,if the most of us get cheap eleccy..always someone isn't it .

lambsy_uk · ‎15-09-2015

Yeh who cares?

Wast to energy plants have been doing a great job in the community for years so why not have more?

jd.linklater · ‎16-09-2015

This is about as efficient as waste disposal gets with current technology. Any dangerous gases and particles are removed, even the ash it produces is reused for road building. It doesn't get much safer and yet everywhere one is proposed there are objections. These installations can be almost entirely underground, the extracted soil used to create bunding around them which can be planted with quick growing trees to create screening. From a distance it just looks like a naturalistic green mound, but the nimbys always get them stopped on so called environmental grounds.

I think that's a very selfish and irresponsible attitude to take, at some time in the near future this is going to be the only way to deal with non-recyclables, there simply won't be any landfill space left to use.

http://hdallalzadeh.civil.iut.ac.ir/sites/civil.iut.ac.ir/files/image_res_proj/recovering-energy-fro...

joamur_gosof · ‎16-09-2015

Or very un selfish and reponsible of them,depending on your viewpoint.

You are right by the way that in the future it will be done,just not until the energy companies have run out of oil...even regardless if it turns out to be not a very good idea in the long term enviroment effect.

End of the day,if the case for was waterproof,no amount of complaining by nimby would stop them,its not at the moment so the No campaigners are right....you could always petition your area and council demanding to have one near you and see if you get the support the not near me crew get...then I assume you will get your ideal.

blackburn_stevie · ‎17-09-2015

Speaking as we were of things that get right up my hooter, what about the way that people are beginning to talk these days?

Things like starting each sentence with "Well" or "So".I know it isn't hard to block it out of your thimking but there's no need for it at all.

THESE THINGS TEND TO BE SAVED FOR THE CAMERA TOO. I WAS WATCHING A GIRL OF MAYBE 17 IR 18 BEING INTERVIEWED, (sorry for shouting) on some University subject and she said,Wonderful,or Obviouslyat the start o of every comment that she made.

I'd take them outside and shoot the lot of them.

lambsy_uk · ‎17-09-2015

It can be annoying but then many people just are not as articulate as others, delivering thoughts orally does not come easily to them.

A word I hear a lot and detest is Minging.

Usually delivered by someone who is!

jd.linklater · ‎17-09-2015

@blackburn_stevie wrote:
Speaking as we were of things that get right up my hooter, what about the way that people are beginning to talk these days?
Things like starting each sentence with "Well" or "So".I know it isn't hard to block it out of your thimking but there's no need for it at all.
THESE THINGS TEND TO BE SAVED FOR THE CAMERA TOO. I WAS WATCHING A GIRL OF MAYBE 17 IR 18 BEING INTERVIEWED, (sorry for shouting) on some University subject and she said,Wonderful,or Obviouslyat the start o of every comment that she made.

I'd take them outside and shoot the lot of them.

I know what you mean about 'So' Steve. You hear it on TV all the time eg on Pointless.

"Hello Dave and welcome to Pointless, tell us what you do for a living Dave"

"So I work for my local council" why do they say it? it's completely superfluous.

Something else that bugs me is the ridiculous questions you get asked in shops esp. supermarkets......"Are you all right packing?" Why the hell wouldn't I be? Do I look incapable of putting stuff in a bag?

Was happily browsing in W H Smiths the other day, an assistant approached and said "Are you alright there?" I said "Why, should I be standing somewhere else?" Why so pushy? Why don't they just b***** off and leave me alone?

lambsy_uk · ‎17-09-2015

@jd.linklater wrote:
@blackburn_stevie wrote:
Speaking as we were of things that get right up my hooter, what about the way that people are beginning to talk these days?
Things like starting each sentence with "Well" or "So".I know it isn't hard to block it out of your thimking but there's no need for it at all.
THESE THINGS TEND TO BE SAVED FOR THE CAMERA TOO. I WAS WATCHING A GIRL OF MAYBE 17 IR 18 BEING INTERVIEWED, (sorry for shouting) on some University subject and she said,Wonderful,or Obviouslyat the start o of every comment that she made.

I'd take them outside and shoot the lot of them.

Something else that bugs me is the ridiculous questions you get asked in shops esp. supermarkets......"Are you all right packing?" Why the hell wouldn't I be? Do I look incapable of putting stuff in a bag?

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They are only trying to be helpful!

jd.linklater · ‎17-09-2015

@lambsy_uk wrote:
@jd.linklater wrote:
@blackburn_stevie wrote:
Speaking as we were of things that get right up my hooter, what about the way that people are beginning to talk these days?
Things like starting each sentence with "Well" or "So".I know it isn't hard to block it out of your thimking but there's no need for it at all.
THESE THINGS TEND TO BE SAVED FOR THE CAMERA TOO. I WAS WATCHING A GIRL OF MAYBE 17 IR 18 BEING INTERVIEWED, (sorry for shouting) on some University subject and she said,Wonderful,or Obviouslyat the start o of every comment that she made.

I'd take them outside and shoot the lot of them.

Something else that bugs me is the ridiculous questions you get asked in shops esp. supermarkets......"Are you all right packing?" Why the hell wouldn't I be? Do I look incapable of putting stuff in a bag?

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They are only trying to be helpful!

They never used to say it when I was 20 years younger, do they think anyone who's getting on in years is infirm? It's not helpful, it's condescending.

lambsy_uk · ‎17-09-2015

@jd.linklater wrote:
@lambsy_uk wrote:
@jd.linklater wrote:
@blackburn_stevie wrote:
Speaking as we were of things that get right up my hooter, what about the way that people are beginning to talk these days?
Things like starting each sentence with "Well" or "So".I know it isn't hard to block it out of your thimking but there's no need for it at all.
THESE THINGS TEND TO BE SAVED FOR THE CAMERA TOO. I WAS WATCHING A GIRL OF MAYBE 17 IR 18 BEING INTERVIEWED, (sorry for shouting) on some University subject and she said,Wonderful,or Obviouslyat the start o of every comment that she made.

I'd take them outside and shoot the lot of them.

Something else that bugs me is the ridiculous questions you get asked in shops esp. supermarkets......"Are you all right packing?" Why the hell wouldn't I be? Do I look incapable of putting stuff in a bag?

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They are only trying to be helpful!
They never used to say it when I was 20 years younger, do they think anyone who's getting on in years is infirm? It's not helpful, it's condescending.

They ask everybody, it has nothing to do with age!

bookhunter2007 · ‎18-09-2015

The people at our local shop try to shove anything into a bag, no matter how little, and cheekily whack 5pm on at the end.

You literally have to say "no bag" please before they start ringing items through.

A few more rants:

1) Airports - It now appears compulsory to walk 'through' duty free, and emerge the other side smelling as if you've been rolling around in a brothel.

2) Donald Trump. Seriously? You know we've reached critical mass when you're looking at Jeb Bush as the "sensible option" for Republican candidate.

3) People who eat magic mushrooms and insist on letting off fireworks at 1.00am outside their head of sixth form's house.

4) The rain.

5) Finding a newly-listed "Buy It Now" bargain on eBay, and just as you go to pay for it, find out someone has got there first, or placed a bid on the auction price.