Climate Change, thats a fucking oxymoron, a climate is variable by definition.
We have seasons, spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Of course the climate changes!
I suppose that have to call it climate change now, because global warming has been dis-proven.
We have seasons, spring, summer, autumn, winter.
Of course the climate changes!
I suppose that have to call it climate change now, because global warming has been dis-proven.
But hey, bring in carbon taxes to save the planet….lol
Nominated by: Boaby
Wind farms are a good example of their climate change stupidity. They claim the generate “free electricity”, but they don’t just pop up like mushrooms, they need a concrete base and steel it’s construction, which takes a lot of chemicals and electricity to make. Do they take more resources to build than they generate in their operational lifespan ?
Same for electric cars, last time I looked a battery was full of a lot of nasty chemicals…
Nominated by: Andy C
Electric car parking spaces drive me mad, you think you’ve found a parking spot only to see its got a little charger at the side, park in it and you’ll incur a fine even after paying parking charge, they’re always empty, and why, because no bugger except pc lentil munchers drive the bloody things. There’s no such thing as climate change, its called the weather.
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Genuine Environmentalists have my support and sympathy, but so much of this Climate/Carbon etc business is simply aimed at flogging new products. Got an old car/bike/domestic appliance? Scrap it even if it’s still usable and buy this new one with an ECO badge on it in the guise of “saving the Earth” Add to that the endless raft of rules, regulations and Social Control measures that can be justified by keeping us in a permanent state of emergency. Also blame it all on the motorist or biker in order to further the ultimate EU/Socialist cause of banning all privately owned transport, rather than Bono’s private jet (the cunt) or all the military vehicles rumbling all over the globe desperately trying to sort out the trouble caused by our Lords and Master’s endless Foreign Policy fuckups. The Chinese think it’s all bollocks and they aren’t stupid…
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Quite right. We are keeping our AEG Hoover now out of pure spite, the fucking thing uses billions of watts and even heats the room up as one does the chores.
Besides, I wonder how much latent wasted heat the offices of these tossers generate with row upon row of heat gobbling computer fans and servers. If it’s that bloody important then why does every device you get these days get so fucking hot, from wall warts to any charger ever made. But you can’t have a hair dryer that emits more than 0.000001 watts.
I’m keeping my 1980s transistor amps, old skool heaters and actively sourcing ye olde worlde light bulbs that actually illuminate the room.
Low energy bulbs – fuck ’em, useless bloody waste of time, it’s the next sodding day by the time they’ve kicked in.
Anyone got an old valve wireless going? I’ll adopt it gladly.
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My old Honda motorbike is 40 years old, I’m rebuilding a moped from the early 1960s for the Mrs to use and, when my 20 year old Volvo finally kicks the bucket from old age and extreme mileage, it will probably be replaced by a well looked after Triumph Herald, Morris Minor or similar. To me, modern cars and to some extent bikes are so ugly that they are unpleasant to look at and when they go wrong the slightest repair costs a fucking fortune. Old tech is more “fixable”… and nothing sounds nicer than a well sorted valve radio or amplifier.
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You can’t beat that valve glow, even looks nice. I’m waiting for the day they come and fit a smart arse leccy meter, so I can hot wire the fucker into a massive diesel generator.
Or the day they come up with smart water meters – just imagine that after an 8 Pinter/vindaloo night out – ‘you’ve just used fourth gallons on your last bowel movement’. Yeah, next one will be thru your smart arse letter box.
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I got into hobby electronics as a schoolboy and salvaged a 405 line black and white Marconi TV from the dump, overhauled it and had it in my room. BBC1 and ITV only but it had about eight valves in it and doubled up as a room heater in winter.
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More proof that this new tax is a huge cash grab by the powers to be. It doesn’t make any sense , it’s just abunch of greedy bellends who already have too much money . Are they gonna introduce a shoelace tax next bloody hell. Reminds me of that beatles song Taxman https://youtu.be/y8OgkjcW0g4 The pink floyd song vegetable man borrows the riff from taxman too I think
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I am not sure about climate change, I know us Humans are more in number now than ever before apparently so we must be causing more environmental damage. I drive a BMW 7 series (3.0 litre V8) and the things drinks petrol but since I love the car and its just gone through another MOT why get rid of it? I know its not the most environmentally friendly car but there are too many fucking cars on the roads now anyways. They make billions out of all the new cars and tax, Insurance and if everyone stopped driving they would be fucked. How much environmental damage does London cause? It failed its yearly air pollution limit after the first week of the year.
What a piece of cunt.
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The newer BMW 7 series are shit, E38 all the way.
http://www.fubu.jawnet.pl/zaw2.JPG
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You can use a car every day for 20 years and not cause a fraction of the environmental impact of banging out a new one. Both the manufacturers and the “ECO” brigade would prefer that you didn’t know that…
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My car is 20 years old this year, Uncle bought it new. got it on 50k + its now done 106k seriously considering keeping it until it becomes a classic (25 years?) then I aint got to pay any tax. That will be nice.
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Pah! Chickenfeed!…
My wife’s Honda Civic is 21 years old and has 60,000 on the clock. My grandson can have it in another 9 years. It’ll still be going strong!
My MX5 has 53,000 on the clock after 16 years.
We don’t need two cars and talked about going down to one but can’t get the suitcases in the back of the Mazda for airport runs and do like to tour in it in the summer in the UK. Neither of them does 3,000 a year as we live in the town centre. We thought about it when the Honda’s clutch went four years ago but thought if we got another three years out of it, then the interest we lost on the capital used to buy a new car would have paid for it. The bugger’s still going strong!
Anyhow, all the new one’s we’ve looked at are shite…
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I purchased the Volvo for the princely sum of 600 quid expecting it to last a couple of years and six years later it’s still going strong with 160000 on the clock. Very impressed with the “Swedish Housebrick” Apparently Volvos are the preferred transport of the “middle class Liberal Elite” and I’m glad to have completely fucked that particular stereotype.
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Nice! is it a mk2? I have an 18/19 yr old mk1, would love a tvr griff 5 litre or a tamora though too.
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TVR are reportedly starting production again. Wonder if Health & Safety will allow them to still be bonkers…..
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Environmental ‘damage’ thats the problem right there. Substitute environmental ‘change’ and its a different perspective. Learn to deal with ‘change’ and problem solved.
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The cunts will never tax me out of my 15 year old 2.0 litre golf! I don’t give a fuck about how much petrol I use because the stuffs so cheap. It makes far more environmental sense to make a car last, rather than scrap it and get a new one. I’m winning out if I pay £250 a year road tax, rather than buy a new “eco friendly” hippy cunt car like a micra, and pay 20% vat on it! A tax is a fucking tax, there’s no environmental taxes, solely designed to save the world, it’s all just ways for the government to rinse us!
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PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
All manufacturers do it, they build EVERYTHING to fail within 2-5 years (electronics).
This is why you only ever get a 1 years guarantee, unless you buy the 3 year extended warranty (more expense).
Why would a company build a TV like they did in the 60’s that was built to last, then you never replace it.
example:
10 million people buy a TV, it is built to last = 10 million sales in 60 years
Build them to fail within 5 years and the average person will buy around 8 in their lifetimes
10 million people buy a TV, it fails in 5 years = 80 million sales in 60 years
Same with mobile phones, they are at the point now where they have enough cpu/ram and storage but now, every 18 -24 months the plebs upgrade them to the iPhone 6000 because it has 3 more pixels.
They have the technology to create batteries that could last for weeks, but no, they package them with shit lithium-ion batteries that last (you’ve guessed it) about 18-24 months, just in time for contract renewal.
TV is the same, it was once analogue, all you needed was a cathode ray tube, an aerial and a tuner in the TV.
In the last 20 years we have had LCD screens, digital TV, (requiring either new set-top box or TV with digital tuner, then HD, new set-top box or TV with HD tuner, now we are going to 4K (you guessed it, more hardware upgrades needed) then will be 8K, 16K etc etc
PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE
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I took a load of junk to the local dump, sorry “recycling centre” the other day and in the section for scrap electronic appliances there were about 20 flat screen TV’s that had turned their toes up already. None of them looked more than a couple of years old and it wasn’t all cheap supermarket brand stuff either but Sony Toshiba Samsung etc. Oh and recycling centre staff, with their HiViz jackets clipboards and snotty dismissive attitudes are arrogant cunts…
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Wind farms an oxymoron, short of a good night on the curry, how do you grow wind? The things don’t work when there is a flat calm or too much wind (too much/too little climate change perhaps?) One green goon claimed we could store electricity (cannot be done as electricity itself is incapable of storage) by using capacitors to keep the leccy flowing to cities when the wind was not blowing. I really don’t want to be on the same continent as those when they go tits up. There’ll be some blue lights going up and down when that happens.
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Electricity incapable of storage ? Capacitors do that very thing. However I get your point.
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