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spadefoot

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  1. Saw a few last summer. Only at night though.
  2. So let me get this right; righteousness at the top of the list, self-righteousness at the very bottom. And do I really lose so many righteousness points when I sticks me Captain's hat on? Seems a bit unfair.
  3. As I moored up the other evening, I stopped to watch an otter swimming & diving. He was not at all bothered by my being there 15ft away. K&A but I'm not saying where. Must have seen hundreds of kingfishers in the last 2 or 3 yrs. In the middle of towns & more rural places. Water-voles seem more common on river sections.
  4. You must have a much larger power usage than me, or a much smaller alternator. My engine gets a couple of hours every other day, and 5 or 6 hours once a week or so. Fridge, water pump, a few led lights. 240amp alternator. cheap batteries. Washing gets done and things get charged whilst engine is running.
  5. Maybe the sticker on the back should have said 'power consumption variable, depending on how loud you play your music'. Unless as WotEver says, it's a class A, then the power consumption is closely related to the output power, but of course the output power is constantly changing. Therefore the power consumption is constantly changing.
  6. Audio power consumption really doesn't work like that. A 150w amplifier doesn't run flat out all the time. Average power use would be maybe 15w.
  7. I agree, that sounds like a very reasonable argument, as long as you ignore modern social problems, and the appalling housing (accommodation) situation in parts of the country. Making a reasonable argument is very easy as long as you only consider factors which make the argument reasonable.
  8. Or maybe your "wants" fell neatly within the existing rules.
  9. A variation on this often crops up, usually when the argument is lost. As I read it, it seems to mean, "don't stand up for a minority, in case things become worse for all of us" or " shut up & keep your heads down, or we'll all cop for it". So find someone who thinks it acceptable, and ask them.
  10. But do these figures help the discussion? We don't know how many of the 5000 or so boats are lived on. So we don't know how many of the 2240 boats are lived on, etc, etc. So we don't know how many of these cases involve families with children. All we know is the number of boats.
  11. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. So know you're suggesting that the overwhelming majority of the population, listens to what Guardian readers tell it. And that these same Guardian readers, are the establishment. Hmmm.
  12. I can assure you that it is very common to most towns around the south-east at least Athy. There, you can take my word for it so you don't have to look.
  13. Your doing it again. I don't want moorings available wherever etc. That's what some members of NBTA appear to want. That's what is being discussed. About your privilege; If you have worked hard & achieved at least some of your desires, it can be easy to forget that some have worked equally as hard, yet not achieved, possibly through no fault of their own. You ask why "that simple truth" should be any different for a boat dweller. I don't think it is or should be. I don't imagine that living aboard gives people any more entitlement about location. But just as I don't imagine there are any NBTA members lobbying Dorset County Council, I don't suppose there are that many members of the National Bedsit-Dwellers Assoc lobbying CRT about providing accommodation for it's members. If you only want to come up with reasons as to why something shouldn't be done, rather than put your mind to how things could be done, that's up to you.
  14. So who is implying that it is? it is just one of the factors, of which there may be many, which should or could influence a person's choices as to which part of the country they would like to live.
  15. There is thread drift, and there is derailing. One of them is done utterly on purpose. Ahhh, if only life were that funny.
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