Tammychoink

While I disagree with most of what BigMouth has to say, I applaud him for saying it. For too long an incessant deluge of sanctimonious pseudo-feminist claptrap has been furiously tapped into keyboards, completely unchecked.  I love it when folk like BigMouth retort with equal bluster, refusing to be cowed by the shrill and the self-righteous. 
 
Yes, some of his points are, to my mind, highly subjective. However, I think his eloquent diatribe is a refreshing foil to the shrill babblings from the ranks of the humourless and boring who would have us all be gender-free automatons in a sterile brave new world  - and it makes for entertaining reading!

While I disagree with most of what BigMouth has to say, I applaud him for saying it. For too long an incessant deluge of sanctimonious pseudo-feminist claptrap has been furiously tapped into keyboards, completely unchecked.  I love it when folk like BigMouth retort with equal bluster, refusing to be cowed by the shrill and the self-righteous. 
 
Yes, some of his points are, to my mind, highly subjective. However, I think his eloquent diatribe is a refreshing foil to the shrill babblings from the ranks of the humourless and boring who would have us all be gender-free automatons in a sterile brave new world  - and it makes for entertaining reading!

While I disagree with most of what BigMouth has to say, I applaud him for saying it. For too long an incessant deluge of sanctimonious pseudo-feminist claptrap has been furiously tapped into keyboards, completely unchecked.  I love it when folk like BigMouth retort with equal bluster, refusing to be cowed by the shrill and the self-righteous. 
 
Yes, some of his points are, to my mind, highly subjective. However, I think his eloquent diatribe is a refreshing foil to the shrill babblings from the ranks of the humourless and boring who would have us all be gender-free automatons in a sterile brave new world  - and it makes for entertaining reading!

While I disagree with most of what BigMouth has to say, I applaud him for saying it. For too long an incessant deluge of sanctimonious pseudo-feminist claptrap has been furiously tapped into keyboards, completely unchecked.  I love it when folk like BigMouth retort with equal bluster, refusing to be cowed by the shrill and the self-righteous. 
 
Yes, some of his points are, to my mind, highly subjective. However, I think his eloquent diatribe is a refreshing foil to the shrill babblings from the ranks of the humourless and boring who would have us all be gender-free automatons in a sterile brave new world  - and it makes for entertaining reading!

There are three types of internal heater, units to fix high up on a wall, low down units (radiator type), and ceiling mounted unit. We have ceiling units, three in total (dining room, living room and hallway) with nowt in the bedrooms. We have an electric towel rail in the bathroom (left on continually).

Good Points
1. Much cheaper than the oil heating in previous property. Electric cost for a year was about £1400 (£1000 standard rate of 17.55p and £400 off peak at 10.82p) which includes heating, lighting, washing machine etc but not hob / oven cooking which is gas.
2. Installation cost was less than quote for oil or bottled gas heating.
3. Installation was quick (less than two days) and clean.
4. Ceiling units take up no space so positioning furniture is not compromised.
5. Maintenance is minimal, filter cleaning only (and even this is easy with minimal dust).
6. Each unit has it's own timer.

Bad Points
1. The fans can be slightly intrusive when watching a quiet TV programme.
2. In really bad weather some back-up may be needed. We have a gas fire in the living room which was used about 10 times last winter and has yet to be used this winter.
3. A dry form of heating, keep having to top up the dog's water bowl!
4. Has to be reset after a power cut. Easy to do, but annoying if you are out of the house.
5. Even with the fans the heat distribution is not always perfect.
 
 
 
Hope this helps.
 
Mal.

Men are stronger than women? Wrong. Some men are stronger than some women. When a woman needs to summon strength she can, but when there is something to lift at work, a table to move, I notice the women take a step back. As in most things, women choose not to. Most of what we do these days has some level of automation or mechanical assistance. Strength is less of a reason to be a barrier to a woman taking on a physical role, but mostly they choose not to. There is one woman working on the essy kerts in Shetland, the rest are men. It is unlikely that there will be many bags of rubbish that will exceed 25 kilos, judging by what I throw away. Working in this environment needs stamina and a robust spirit more than it needs strength, but with the alternative of working in a nice warm office, rather than being rained on and having the juice of rubbish bags running down your overalls and the risk of broken glass cutting you, and the hideous pong, I can see why women flock in droves to office jobs.
 
Women are better at bringing up kids. Wrong. There is no reason why a man can't bring up children. Boys particularly thrive when they have good male role models. I spoke to a single mum with three boys to look after. She worked full time to support them, but she said that they didn't see a man from one week to the next. They were dropped off at school, where they were solely taught by female staff, were child-minded after school by a woman, and some evenings would do after school activities, including Cubs (or perhaps it was Scouts?), which was completely run by women. There was no boyfriend on the scene. I have no doubt that she was an excellent mum, but her greatest desire was that her boys had some male influence, she didn't necessarily want to be in a relationship, but could see the benefits and balance that men could bring.
 
Only men discriminate. Wrong. I was in a meeting not that long ago where a female department head proudly announced that she had got rid of all the men from her department. This took place in front of a dozen women and two men. If it had been a man saying that about women I am sure that man would have been having an interview without coffee with the personnel department. Different rules depending on your sex.
 
Domestic abuse is always caused by men. Wrong. As someone who has been on the end of domestic violence many years ago from a woman, I know that this is not the case. Women have a well funded support mechanism in Shetland along with places of safety. Guess what men have? Nothing. They go to Aberdeen if they are lucky. It's more likely that the man will say nothing about it, because he will be ashamed. Being a man on the end of domestic violence is not the norm. Society expects men to be strong in the same way that it expects women to be motherly.
 
Men have no say in the life of the unborn child. All too commonly women will decide to have a discretionary abortion, a lifestyle choice. The man has no say. The woman decides to dispose of that child and gets away with it. If a man was to murder that unborn child he would go to prison for it.
 
Women suffer the indignity of breast screening and cervical smears. Men suffer the indignity of prostate cancer. Somehow science can produce reliable screening tests for women, but when it comes to men's prostates - nothing.
 
Men's sperm is a valuable commodity, so much so that men who have donated that sperm to a sperm bank have been taken to court for maintenance for a child brought about by an altruistic act. Men's sperm has been stolen from used condoms by women who wanted to impregnate themselves, when the man was unwilling to have children. This is a good reason why men need more contraceptive choices. Women can have the pill or implants, or a variety of other devices, but for men? Nothing readily but the condom. Society does not want men to have sexual freedom. To which the answer will be that men sleep around. To which the obvious response is that if they are heterosexual, then surely they are sleeping around with women?
 
A man's career, his whole life can be ruined by an accusation of rape. Only recently a man was spared a court case at the final hour when the prosecution released evidence that showed that he was innocent. The accuser had made the rape up. If a woman can destroy a man's life so easily then the legal system should be putting the false accuser in prison. Desperate are the days when men are having to use their smartphones to record asking for permission to engage in sex with a woman.
 
I recently asked a woman if she could explain why for every one hundred patients GP surgeries saw, sixty were women and only forty were men. Her explanation was that women's bodies are more complicated. Could the reality be that services are skewed towards women to the disadvantage of men?
 
Political representation. I noticed that the SNP had officers for certain interest groups including: students, artists, women, disabled, etc., etc. It was odd that about the only group that did not have representation was men. I looked at the other parties and the same was true of them too. No representation for men, roughly 50% of the population are male.
 
Women have long retired at 60, whereas men worked on, usually in less comfortable jobs until they were 65, if they didn't die first of some hideous industrial illness. This was despite women usually living eight years longer on average and usually in better health, and this has been true for many decades. That gap has stayed much the same The retirement age is now somewhere between 65 and 67 for the majority of both sexes, which brings us somewhere closer to equality, but to reach parity in the number of likely years in retirement, men should retire at 67 and women should retire at 75. There is a campaign - WASPI - Women Against State Pension (age) Increase. It's a group of women that have been most affected by the fact that the pension age for the sexes has been aligned. They thought they were going to slope out of their nice warm offices at 60, then swan about at home in retirement for 26 years on average, but equality struck and they are now going to be retiring at 66, and they don't like it one bit. The problem is that when women get real equality they're not so keen on it. If we went back to the days of conscription, (not hard to imagine in the current situation that the military are finding it so hard to recruit, despite being a force that is reducing in size), in a truly equal society they would be calling up young women as well as young men to fight and die in our wars of choice around the world. It won't happen though because society finds the idea of fit young men dying in some god-forsaken hellhole so much more palatable than a young woman having to die in the same situation. Men's lives are worth less.
 
And when it comes to work look at the advantages given to women - one of their favourites is women only shortlists. That just a way of saying, we have men that are better, but the only way that any of you will get this job is by us not interviewing the better candidates. We are willing to accept second best. Men are yet again discriminated against. The trend has become more worrying when the BBC recently advertised a job where only applicants from black and minority ethnic backgrounds can apply. You're discriminated against if you are white.
 
Surely male and female genitals are of equal worth? Nope. If someone takes a scalpel to your genitals where there is no medical need then it's called genital mutilation, but only if you are female. If you are male then not even the World Health Organisation will recognise that your genitals are being mutilated, but if you are a woman they will organise a worldwide campaign - Female Genital Mutilation awareness week. Of course there are those of us that like to ask questions, raise awkward truths, so we contact the WHO and ask when is the Male Genital Mutilation awareness week? Unsurprisingly there was no response.
 
Why do married men die before their wives? Studies record the most common reason is because they wanted to!
 
Guys, women don't want equality. What they want is advantage. They will say that men have had it for long enough. Well girls, if it's not right for us, it's not right for you either is it? If you want the good stuff then take an equal amount of the crap us men have been taking for years. Don't be telling me that your granny was down the mines digging nutty slack with a babe at her breast. Tell me what you are doing now, the suffering of loading that washing machine, tumble dryer, dishwasher, that long drive to the shops or the wait in for that Tesco delivery van. I want to know everything. Tell me about having to walk over to the other side of the living room to get the remote for the TV/Sky box or whatever. Putting the cup under that bean to cup coffee maker or having to ring up for a hair appointment, and they probably won't have the magazine that you like. The cost of lipstick, having to tweezer your eyebrows to death so you look like an escapee from the circus, piercings and tattoos. Highlights, lowlights, botoxed lips, diets, central heating, car boots that close themselves, no quinoa on the shelves, panty liners, tottering around on heels that make you look afflicted, offices that despite being overheated are still not warm enough for you, men in your department (doing the heavy lifting usually). Girls - you've got so it hard. I don't know how you do it!

Get in touch with Shetland Heatwise, there's government money available to provide, not just insulation but
possibly a new heating system.
Phone them now 01595 6508 Scheme may finish at the end of March

Of course if you have the chance to cut peats then they still offer the cheapest solution of all........peats and maybe driftwood.
 
Storage heaters have got better over the years and if a power cut happens when they are warm you still have heat for a good while. 
 
Talking of power cuts remember that other heating systems often need electricity to provide ignition for the boiler and to pump hot water to the radiators.
 
Heat pumps?........I fear I know nothing about them except that they can save money.

Air 2 air is certainly a good option. However to work efficiently the house really needs to be insulated
to modern standards. This may not be possible, for a variety of reasons, on an old building.

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2014/03/12/young-locals-blamed-for-town-speeding/
 
 
"Councillors have moved closer to introducing a 20mph speed limit in parts of Lerwick to help improve road safety and combat speeding drivers.
Elected members have opted to consult on whether the reduced limit should rolled out from the North Ness roundabout to the top of Church Road.
The agreement came after one member described the problem of speeding drivers as a “festering soreâ€.
Jonathan Wills said he had witnessed young drivers using their cars as “a form of mating displayâ€.
He said visitors, as well as locals, were at risk from motorists reaching speeds of up to 50mph or beyond – an estimation roads engineer Colin Gair said was not unreasonable.
Dr Wills told fellow members: “It is a notorious fact there is excessive speeding and extremely bad driving daily in this town centre.â€
He blamed young, local men for being the perpatrators behind the behaviour.
The cost of introducing the scheme is estimated to be between £100,000 and £150,000."
 
So folk are speeding at 50, even though the limit is 30. What exactly is the point in making it 20?  
 
Perhaps if the police would just enforce the 30 in the evenings then this wouldn't be an issue. Perhaps I lack patience, but the thought of driving around at 20mph does not appeal one bit. Daft, nanny-state nonsense. 

just advice to some folks. the ex owner is back in hospital mainly down to comments about them. its sometimes best to do the good deed and leave it at that. i wish some times that the speed of news through our community was not so good. please folks remember that humans need love to. 

Just like the drinking ban, more rubbish "just because they can".
 
More of a policing problem than one of inconveniencing the large majority of law abiding drivers.
 
Where are the police when all this reckless driving and speeding is going on?
 
If there is a problem then, they should be onto it by now.

Brilliant, some common sense at last. You have hit the nail on the head Tammy. Noo wee need folk lik de in da cooncil
 
It seems that one of the main reasons for introducing this is because a minority of idiots are speeding at 50 in ower da toon. Now if this is a problem why are the police not addressing this. As you say, just changing it to 20 will not solve this problem.
 
The proposals are to cost between £100 - 150k and we will end up with narrower roads and speed bumps, which are great challenges for the boy racers.
 
I could understand this if there were a worrying number of accidents, but have there been any more in ower, than say at Bolts. Doubt it somehow.
 
It seemed the argument with traffic lights didn't swing this, so they have thrown in the 50 mph speeding. Did these speeders suddenly slow down when they reached the Home Furnishing ?
 
It just seems to me that someone is he'll bent on getting this 20mph limit, but unfortunately this is not being thought through.
 
As for our councillors, they really need to get a grip and stop having the wool pulled over their eyes.

They want the speed limit down to twenty so they can change the crossings to zebras.
 
This will save money but will certainly compromise safety.
 
As for speeding,the area is well covered by CCTV and the speeding culprits could soon be identified and the necessary measures taken to slow them down,by heavy fines and penalty points.
 
Most of us have driven in this area for many years with no problems.
 
This is just another stupid idea some of our councilors have though up to save money,when the real problem is overstaffing in some departments.
 
Turkeys do not vote for xmas.  

Agreed, but there in lies the problem. They will no doubt spend £150k putting in signage, humps and Zebra crossings, then after they realise that there are now more accidents at the zebra crossings, they will put them back to pelican at another £100k and true to form having done a complete circle and spent twice the money. Simples
 
Mind you Urabug I could try doing 50mph through the town da morns night given all these people are aware of all this speeding and that nothing seems to be done about it, but da ald jalopy would overheat if I went over 30

Yes, sadly it's just another example of needless interference and "Big Brother".  If there was a genuine need for it then fine, but there isn't.
 
It reminds me of the "improvements" to Harrison Square and the bollards at the Clydesdale Bank.  Both "initiatives" have proven to be a disaster for Da Street and reading between the lines if Councillor Allan Wishart's comments on Radio Shetland the other night are anything to go by those "changes" that were implemented might eventually be torn up and reinstated..... 
 
Another fine mess.....

Mr Wills is a bit late in the day with this observation, its been going on for decades and to be fair to todays kids, they are driving cars that are a lot safer and a lot less powerful than people my age were driving when we were young. The first due to technology and the second due to insurance going through the roof.
 
How many bad accidents have there been in the town caused by young people who were sober? I can't think of anything that leaps out recently and it sounds like a waste of money. I also think that it goes on far less, I can't remember seeing many wheelspins when I've been in town and its pretty hard to do handbrake turns in todays front wheel drive cars anyway.
 
As to Zebra crossings, visit Tesco and see how many people are morons who have no clue what stripes on the road mean - and its not the youngsters who are guilty, bus drivers routinely park on the crossing outside the door which is selfish and stupid when you consider the parking for folk with kids is just next to the crossing now.
 
I recall a few years ago, when my own children were small (I had one in each hand) almost being mowed down on the crossing outside Muddy Bay by a woman who looked about 50 driving a 4x4 - you just can't regulate for idiots and blaming young folk is a pretty ignorant stance.

There's a difference between an experienced sailor having bad luck and an idiot who should never have left the harbour.

I agree.  How can anyone be so dimwitted to make a statement like that?  It's easy for some to sit here on Shetlink and snipe at people in a cowardly fashion from thousands of miles away while at the same time hiding behind a pseudonym. 
I doubt that Sukibind him/herself has the ability to find his/her way out of a harbour, let alone get half way around the planet....Solo.

There's been a few fekin stupid things said on here through the ages but, that really is at the top.
 
Thread closed as it's a pointless dirge.
 
Anyone got any issues with that email oohbutiliktaetrütle@shetlink.com and it'll be promptly ignored.

I know a single young lady who loves going for walks on deserted beaches, I'l give her a shout for you if that's OK.
 
Just bring a ball for her to chase and you'll get on fine.....

Joost git more speed bumps. Turn da whole of Lerwick into the world's least exciting roller-coaster and be done with it. Mibbie throw in a few more multi-thousand pound round-abouts dat nobody kens how to use, and finally introduce a one way system all the way from the Town Hall to Sumburgh airport. Well, now that I've done the Roads & Transport blue-print for 2014, I'll have to go and fry up some saucermeat afore I get stuck into my report aboot closing the AHS and relocating the students to Skeld. 

Never been aware of them myself but, in this time of cutbacks to various services, does anyone think that it might just be a few people trying to do something 'visible' in order to protect their 'jobs'?  After all if, as the article claims, the organisation has been in existence for 10 years, isn't it about time that they were seen to be doing something?
 
Personally, I would rather have more Public Toilets, a Bus Waiting Room and, the reinstatement of The Freefield Centre and, I would happily share all these facilities with youngsters.

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2014/01/18/young-people-asked-for-their-views-on-future-of-the-isles/
 
Ok, this may prove somewhat controversial, but what's the point in this?
 
Why should the arbitrary 12-25 demographic's opinions be of any more interest or value than that of anyone else?
 
I really couldna  give twa pillticks what some shrill 12 year old swot has to say about the future of shetland. You've had your skate park and your massive pickter hoose, now begone until you're old enough to vote, by which time you'll have hopefully realised that your 'views' are utterly inconsequential.
 
*confiscates football from garden*

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2014/01/18/young-people-asked-for-their-views-on-future-of-the-isles/
 
Ok, this may prove somewhat controversial, but what's the point in this?
 
Why should the arbitrary 12-25 demographic's opinions be of any more interest or value than that of anyone else?
 
I really couldna  give twa pillticks what some shrill 12 year old swot has to say about the future of shetland. You've had your skate park and your massive pickter hoose, now begone until you're old enough to vote, by which time you'll have hopefully realised that your 'views' are utterly inconsequential.
 
*confiscates football from garden*