Styumpie

this was the one that caused me to sproot a mootfull of coffey over the monitor http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/animals/animals-headlines/bbc-captures-rare-footage-of-fiona-bruce-having-a-turd-200811181404/

check this out http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/king-unveils-radical-plan-to-pootle-britain-into-middle-of-next-week-200903061625/

This guys been fairly accurate so far, bleak is an understatement, and we are in a much much worse state than the US thx to brown&co. http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/852-Whats-Dead-Short-Answer-All-Of-It.html

Well, I for one am not going to live by any more of these stupid rules, I wont be getting any small boats licence, and if they want to stop me, well.. god help them.

Just forfeit your citizenship by handing back/terminating your birth certificate, I read somewhere that it's quite easy and within your rights to do. Just dont go out hill walking, or go for a walk in the woods by yourself

Looks like either... the whole system is going into full meltdown, followed by collapse then into anarchy, ultimately leading to a new system, a fresh start after the dust settles, or.. we end up with crippling levels of tax for the next 20/30/40 years coupled with dire depression, high unemployment and all the nastiness that comes with that lot. Take your pick A price worth paying for years of rampant house price inflation? what goes up most come doon, come doon with a bloody big bang it will too

If you cant get a digi signal, then freesat is an excellent choice, with the Humax Foxsat HD box you can get bbc/ITV HD both for free http://www.freesat.co.uk/index.php?page=Home I prefer it to normal OTA digital

For anyone who is accused of cruelty to animals, its not only the courts/jail they have to face, its these guys http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_Front And they certainly dont mess about

I can understand folk who dont want to pay, The BBC is basically just a Labour propaganda machine. Many of the high flyers in the BBC are Labour or exLabour members, Joseph Goebbels would have been proud of the BBC.

Seals can be a real pain in the ass, the other night I was down at the shore with the wand, the sillocks were a plenty until the damned seals showed up as usual, so they ruined my supper that night Countless times this happens, but personally I would not decide to club them, but I can see and understand why some may hold a jihad against them. As for the seal numbers, I dont think for one second a few taken out on east linga will affect the numbers in any measurable way. Killer whales are the real reason why the numbers may be a little bit lower now, some of the boats spotted them feasting on seals around the isles, the sea reported to be blood red, a mass slaughter on a grand scale. Over the past 20 years of shore fishing I see no evidence of lower numbers, you cant seem to get away from them. If any of you animal welfare crusaders have ever eaten cheap meat, like cheap chicken/pork from the supermarkets, or the cheap battery eggs etc then you have absolutely NO right to criticize anyone else on animal cruelty, your a hypocrite, lack basic morals and are as guilty as hell. Those seals had a natural and free life up to the point of there quick demise, the animals most of you in turn knowingly albeit indirectly abuse reared in cramped abysmal conditions, rolling around in there own faeces live a most god awful life, the hight of utter cruelty.

There will be offices full of high paid, high flying bafflingly titled council staff, armed with secretaries to decide that they need a feasibility study of how to go about getting the feasibility study done, once it has been done, the relevant feasibility study carried out, a need to hire in a few consultants at £400 per hour to make sense of the said feasibility study will be established. Once having deciphered the reams of council speak language created by the consultants that us mear mortals cant even begin to understand, £3000000 later, a few thousand emails, a combined total of 100 years playing freecell on the computer and around a metric tonne of coffee & biscuits, 3 tonnes of paper now destined for the shredder, countless lavish expenses paid trips all over the globe gathering 'important' data and viola! we have a result!!, its not feasible after all.

It will only go on for so long until the local economy goes belly up, the gravy train goes off the rails in a spectacular ball of fire, Gordons magical miracle economy enters the deepest depths of great depression 2.0 Good to know we havent pished all the money away on vast swaths of overpaid non-jobs, consultants and glitzy over the top public buildings

peanut butter & jam http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3s53hcyo20&feature=related

One eyed? I agree with that Scottish? agree with that too Idiot? well, I'd say more a like a sociopathic moron, but idiot is not all that far of the mark Clarkson should be given a knighthood for this I say.

If it cant finance itself, and when the CT has been bled dry and the SIC finances are running on empty, It might be cheaper in the longer term to just send in a bulldozer.

I assume you think i'm a conservative voter well I would not vote, nor ever have voted for any of the current political UK parties, and Yes I would blame them had they been in power and had let the same circumstances occur. Do you think the Tories would have let the boom run on so long, leading to this same disaster we face now?

Read this and weep http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/3078296/the-true-extent-of-britains-debt.thtml Labour has well and truly led us up the stinkycreek

for 20K you could have one serious setup with weeks if not months of backup capacity, vastly more than youd ever need, but 50K?? with the economy of scale it should get cheaper!, NiFe is the way for me, back up generators should not be needed unless the supply is critical. But saying that you can get a 4Kva generator for around £1500, that combined with the battery bank should do for most houses. It can be done on a small scale easy for a good price.

20,000 per house, say av house uses around £2500 currently a year thats only eight years then you have progressively cheaper per year averages, this is very much a long term investment, that will pay off nicely, considering electric will continue to get more expensive during the next decade I have priced my own system at under £10,000, thats not including the 30% grant, so we'll see how it pans out

Thats why it is best having a whole range of sources, eggs in one basket comes to mind. Which ever is most cost effective, there is always an optimum for every scale. I know that this could work nicely on community schemes, But there will always be problems to overcome if we want to roll it out into something much larger. So a trial scheme would be a good idea first. I'm going to have my own shot at it anyway

Yes, tidal would suit this perfectly, and tidal has allot of potential here, if not more so than wind. I think we would be better with a fair margin more generating capacity than we need, and just dumping the extra, this would reduce the need for larger capacity batteries, where we could harness the excess power i'm not sure, say pumping water up to a loch which can be then generate some hydro power on calm days or the like, or if the tech ever becomes viable, make hydrogen, PURE might the ones to ask etc. We would need to re wire the grid for this, but it is something that would be certainly worth doing I think. also using a battery backup in each building it should lower the stress on the grid as it spreads the load out evenly and gradually. And the same goes for smaller groups of turbines spread out over the isles, Its usually more efficient if the generators are closer to the point of use.

it does not give you cheap electric! and it destroys our tourism, and sanity having to look at these things every day, so I hope you can see at least some potential in this

well, if we want something we have to spend on it and some things are just worth spending money on. This is not a profit seeking exercise, this is about having reliable, renewable energy for the foreseeable future, considering Mareel is a luxury and its going to cost into the teens of millions, that money could contribute to giving us all ultra cheap renewable power for many many years to come, I know what I would rather spend it on! the money we all save on our leccy bills will boost other areas of the economy.

I think we could even have tidal generators as a proportion of the generating capacity, on both sides of the islands to give a 24 hr un-interruptible supply and smaller turbine farms dotted around the isles, a bit like the ones at burradale. Obviously the more tidal generation we get, ultimately the more stable the system we get, but we could have very good success with wind only too, a mixture of both, and people with land could start there own small wind developments to feed into the system, so many possibilities once it was developed, it would be extremely cheap to run, and leave us with an extremely low carbon footprint, esp when electric cars become more mainstream. We would be about the greenest place on earth setting a great example. Much more attractive than carving up the islands with these huge turbines.

My vision of the way a battery backup system could work, it would give continuous power given flat calm conditions for a given time depending on how many cells you go for in parallel, for instance some people might feel entirely comfortable only having 2 days backup, some might want 1 week or more, with each house or building having it's own backup this gives the most cost effective, efficient, cheapest and least wasteful way to suit each persons needs, why have a vast centralised battery capacity for everyone and only ever using a fraction of it, that will be hugely wasteful not to mention expensive, as with most systems they tend to run much more smoothly and tend work far better if efficiency is a main priority in the design. I say the critical key is for each end user to have their own reservoir of backup power to suit there own personal needs. And if we had a network of turbines all over the isles, it is extremely rare that the wind falls calm everywhere at the same time, and how often is it calm for more than 3 days in a row everywhere? If we factor in tidal power too we could have a really stable system. I think that so long as hospitals etc buildings of critical importance along with a large battery bank, they could have a back up generator as an emergency supply, and if the extremely rare event that the wind falls calm for longer than we have planned for then declare it as a holiday, we go out and enjoy the fine calm day