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About Wotwosit

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    Sheffield's Eastern Gulag
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    Liquidating the enemies of the Proletariat
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    Liquidating the enemies of the plutocracy
  1. The family of this poor gentleman have every right to be outraged. I rode into Sheffield from Broomhill a couple of months ago on the Last Bus number 40 route. Sitting in the front seat near the door I could see the driver very clearly. From the Hallamshire to West Street he steered with two fingers on the wheel while juggling his diary and mobile phone or similar with the remaining fingers and other hand and looking at the road only now and then. At no stage was the handbrake applied even when stationery at the traffic lights at Hanover Way. A letter to SYPTE and Last Bus about this incident got nowhere as usual. What do we need to do to keep death of the roads?
  2. Ford diesel engines (or the 1.6 and 2.0 litre versions at least) are the PSA ( Peugeout-Citroen) engine. If you are looking for information on a range of cars try: http://www.honestjohn.co.uk
  3. On the whole the British would rather buy cheap food? Do we pay for this in poorer health on the garbage in garbage out basis? If the customers will buy rubbish then the markets will sell it. On that score Morrisons are no worse than the rest. Do supermarkets abroad sell the same range of c**p food seen in the UK, my impression ( based on France and Italy) is that they don't. Just a thought.
  4. A friend of mine had a particularly tiresome one of these collectors nab him on Fargate. He asked the collector (in a very quiet whisper so it wasn't heard by anyone else) if they has ever given evidence in court in an assault case involving actual bodily harm. When the collector said 'no' my pal offered to give them the chance to do so in a case where they were the victim.
  5. Repeat what my Grandfather told me about confronting problem people: "Never lose your temper if provoked". "Be polite even if others aren't". "Never ever threaten anybody or tell them what you are going to do to them except for the time when you have a loaded gun in your hand. ( Like never) "If you are going to do something just do it, don't talk about doing it. "Keep having the edge for yourself at all times". "If you can, let them start it, you finish it and it's then self defence."
  6. Wind Power more "wind" than power? 1. Statements based on the maximum wind turbine output are very misleading. The output of a wind turbine works on the cube rule - at half maximum operating speed it generates one eighth of the power it would at full operating speed, at one quarter speed one thirty second. The wind only needs to slow by a modest amount before the power level is almost invisible. 2. Wind turbines feeding into the grid cause the main power stations to burn more fuel. Just like a car on a long run compared with stop start around town, varying outputs use more fuel. As power is not stored, a variable feed into the grid from a wind turbine causes base load power stations to run up and down and so use more fuel. If that fuel is coal or gas then more greenhouse gas is generated. You have to do all the sums to find out if wind power is as green as claimed overall. 3. Denmark has one of the highest greenhouse gas emissions per person in the whole of the EU. It also has one of the highest fractions of its power made by wind turbines. There may be a good explanation for this of course.
  7. Just a few questions before the topic of the path becomes a ranting opportunity. For example does anyone know for definite that : 1. The path is or is not a public right of way. 2. The cost of making the path's surface safe and lighting it to make it acceptable as a public right of way to Sheffield Council Planners might be very high and more than the Trust can justify. 3. Parking on that stretch of Barnsley Road is not to be subject to restrictions imposed by Sheffield Council highways at some stage in the future. Just a few thoughts.
  8. Is the thermostat on the tank controlling an immersion heater or a gas or other central heating boiler that heats the house and the hot water for the taps?
  9. Questions to clear up some arguments. What are the burial customs of various religions? Before and during the burial process? Why are the graves in church graveyards always point in the same direction. Where do they put the tombstone? What do Muslims /Hindus/other religions do? Is it true Jews are buried standing up?
  10. "Investment" = "spending with no obvious payback of the "investment"
  11. There's even worse news on the way. The company I work for buys its energy through a broker and gets some of the keenest prices around. The brokers have told us for budgeting our energy costs for 2008-09 we need to assume a likely increase over the year of 40%. It might be less than that but in budgeting your cash flow you have to look at the worst case options. To add insult to injury, the unit cost of gas in this rise is going up by considerably more than 40% but the increase is diluted by all the other charges that come with it on the bill - transmission charge, metering charge, billing charge, Climate Change Levy......and VAT. And a proportion of the UK's electricity is generated in gas-fired power plants......... What all this may mean for the domestic customer's energy costs is another thing.
  12. The most bizarre - rectal examination in kneeling position at the Northern General. I could have sworn the Doc had a hand on each of my shoulders at some stage during the process - [only joking - ] Otherwise the pulling the tubes out during a vasectomy, thought the cutter was trying to pull my teeth out on the end of the pipework dangly bits!
  13. Yes Funky Gibbon dead right. While ever the North votes Labour time in and time out it never will change. The Tories need London and know they have no chance in the North, and Labour needs Scotland to become the Government. Both of these regions get the cash bungs. The rest of the country can go hang because " we know we have your vote or will never get it - so go stuff yourselves".
  14. Loch Fynne? Leeds, (City Square branch): The Meal (for 2 persons) Assorted Breads (4/5 slices) with butter Haddock, Chips. Mushy peas (in a small 'dip' pot and barely warm) (about £13) Grilled Sardines with some supporting items Couple of Cokes Tap Water Cost: £40 ish Food Quality: OK - it was hot apart from mushy peas Food Quantity: "Light Dining" = small helpings. Service: Good to average/adequate Overall: Not bad, but felt pricey for what you get.
  15. Get to see the views on http://www.lakedistrictdesktops.com/ 600+ to go at
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