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Machpoint005
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17 hours ago, Iain_S said:
Despite what it says on the pdf, it's not just aimed at the hard of hearing or those who have difficulty with speech. It also will work when the mobile signal is so poor as to be practically non existent.
BUMP!
Well done Iain, excellent post.
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You've never come across a female welder, obviously.
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6 minutes ago, The Welsh Cruiser said:
Dismissing the notion that different groups of people exhibit different tendencies of behaviour is dismissing the very notion of culture.
So, do you accept that culture exists (beyond buildings, dress, arts and food) or not?
I did not dismiss that notion, I rejected your over-generalised use of the term. You were not talking about cultures, you were talking about lazy stereotypes.
So, again, where did I say culture "doesn't exist"?
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21 hours ago, The Welsh Cruiser said:
That's OK, you're free to believe that culture doesn't exist.
Where did I ever say culture doesn't exist?
Don't bother looking, I didn't, so why make this comment?
You really should brush up on your "fallacious argument" techniques. You have used most of them several times.
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Plugged in but switched off!
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If a position is presented factually, rationally and logically it's easy for it to be persuasive. If it isn't presented in that way, why should anyone bother to consider it seriously?
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Not the way I read it. "Conserve" can also be construed as "Cause to be conserved".
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13 hours ago, Allan(nb Albert) said:
CRT is required to "conserve and protect" just like some of its navigational assets.
It is difficult to see how they can do this by flogging them off to the highest bidder.It depends what the buyer does with them. If new uses are found for old buildings, instead of just letting them rot away, it makes very little difference who owns them.
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Thermometer calibration???
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10 hours ago, frangar said:
Then I hope you would appreciate that things used to be a lot better than they are now…
Since it was you that wanted to start this dick-measuring contest, my first two canal trips were in 1964 and 1967.
Things weren't better back then.
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Perhaps we should tell those folk who are currently meeting in Glasgow?
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I haven't done the calculations but it seems to me that if you are seeking to use energy from the sun to heat the boat, it's unnecessarily wasteful to convert it into electricity and then back into thermal energy.
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5 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
You'd have thought so, but the Ofo scheme involved just leaving the bike wherever you got to when you finished hiring it. GPS tracking, so they knew where it was. Once the hire was over and the bike lock automagically engaged, there is nothing to stop someone else picking it up and chucking it in the cut, or shielding the GPS and take it away to destroy, or disable the GPS lock and communications electronics. The last hirer is just going to say "Wasn't me".
Sounds as if there may well have been systematic flaws there, but I'm not party to all the details.
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20 hours ago, David Mack said:
Will also include the cost of 17 Beryl staff running round redistributing bikes over the 5 year contract.
Say £25,000 times 17 times 5: that accounts for well over two million quid.
The £17,000 per bike represents capital and operating costs per bike for five years, and I would think thefts and losses have been factored in.
2 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:Hire bikes are like supermarket trolleys. Irresistably drawn to throw themselves in the cut. A lot of the yellow Ofo bikes from a few years ago ended up in the Sheffield and Tinsley canal.
Depends on whether the hirers are easily traceable, does it not?
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SFW?
19 hours ago, john.k said:Dont forget 10 million quid for consultants.......cant have anything now without consultants and reports!......might be a waste of public money!
If you don't engage expert help you are likely to waste far more public money. The necessary expertise does not exist in Metropolitan Borough Councils.
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A replacement Morso Squirrel multi-fuel stove with back boiler (like-for-like swap) cost me £1300 fully fitted last year. Morso is an expensive make, but many boaters would say it was worth it. Don't forget that the cost of anti-freeze for a heating system -- even just one radiator -- is not zero.
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1 hour ago, Tony1 said:
Two spare cassettes are already part of my plan, as explained above.
What I'm wondering is whether there are further tricks or tips that could be employed to make the cassettes last longer.
If you are prepared to carry several poo suitcases around with you, fine. We prefer to store the stuff out kf site, out of mind and dispose of it in one go every not all that often.
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Or just buy shares in a water company?
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Forgive me if I've missed it, but nobody seems to have mentioned in words of one or two syllables that the first thing the OP needs is an energy audit.
How much energy is needed, and where is it coming from. Do the calculations first. The rest is merely detail.
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Far more bakers, hairdressers and nailer are needed* than caravan or boat gas fitters.
I agree about the parlous state of engineering education, but the lack of gas fitters is a tiny part of the problem.
*ie there is aconsumer market to be serviced
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All good advice. I'm a Beta owner and I've had, if not all of the above, certainly most of the above.
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You were never one for cod(d)ling...
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No need to be sharkastic.
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Is your boat INSURED?
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Better than elephants ...
Isn't Mastercard what used to be Unreasonable Access, decades ago?
It spoiled quite a good joke when the name changed.