BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[BoldonLad]

I think we should reduce our impact on the planet. Interference seems to just lead to unintended consequences.
PS - I'm no angel. Just a bit self aware.

Exactly, at some point, introducing Cane Toads and Rabbits into Australia seemed like a good idea, no doubt backed by "independent" experts.

 

[briantrumpet]

I assume you pay prescription charges? it would be much cheaper to buy paracetamol at the supermarket. ASDA 64p for 16 x 500mg capsules.

Edit: I see @Rusty Nails beat to this one too 😊

I don't pay prescription charges, and I have a senior railcard. The two things might be connected. And I wouldn't get 174 paracetamol in one go at Asda.

 

[Mr Celine]

It was a perfectly safe bit for overtaking.
Damn mobile home obscured the camera van.

If you couldn't see something the size of a camera van it clearly wasn't safe to overtake!

There's a 40mph limit for trucks along most of the A75. It's hell at times. Hell for the truck drivers and hell for people stuck behind them and D&G is very rural. Senseless. Sense would be here... and here... and there say, not all the f*cking way.

I hate to break it to you but it's not just the A75, the Scottish LGV speed limit is 40mph, with the exception of motorways, dual carriageways and the A9.

There are now extended 20mph speed limits on 2 roads in and out of my local town and they make zero sense. Zero.

All of the Borders towns became 20mph during one of the lockdowns as a temporary experiment. This provoked death threats at the time to councillors and council staff. At the end of the experiment there was a public consultation, which was overwhelmingly in favour of making the limits permanent. At quiet times this makes my drive into town take an entire extra minute. Most of the time it makes no difference.
When I'm in cycling mode I can now keep up with the traffic. When I'm in pedestrian mode it's much easier to cross the road.

 

[First Aspect]

To me, if it is "managed", then, by definition, it is not a natural space. Is a "natural space" one which is as it would be if no humans had come along and "managed" it?

For example, if "we" had not killed off the wolves, etc, there would be no need to cull deer. Nature would balance the equation, through starvation, disease or predation.

I do recognise that in UK, there is, in all probability, no "natural spaces" in my terms.

EDIT. I am catching up, reading further, I see others have said similar 😂

Our marine environments and intertidal areas are not environmentally insignificant. But too much of it is unprotected.

 

[First Aspect]

If you couldn't see something the size of a camera van it clearly wasn't safe to overtake!


I hate to break it to you but it's not just the A75, the Scottish LGV speed limit is 40mph, with the exception of motorways, dual carriageways and the A9.


All of the Borders towns became 20mph during one of the lockdowns as a temporary experiment. This provoked death threats at the time to councillors and council staff. At the end of the experiment there was a public consultation, which was overwhelmingly in favour of making the limits permanent. At quiet times this makes my drive into town take an entire extra minute. Most of the time it makes no difference.
When I'm in cycling mode I can now keep up with the traffic. When I'm in pedestrian mode it's much easier to cross the road.

It has changed many of those towns and villages from being split in two by a fast A road bar one or two crossings, to being villages .

 

[Ian H]

Better for what? We're just one of the millions of various kinds of fauna, albeit a dominant one. We don't exist outside nature. If we 'overgraze' we'll go extinct, like other animals before us.

Less pollution, less mining, less chopping things down, burning, etc, etc. No nukes. 😱
Better for all the other species.

A different species will come to dominance, driving others extinct, survive for a period, destroy its own habitat and die out. Rinse and repeat.

To put it another way: we aren't in opposition to nature, we're intrinsically part of it. We dominate through our superior ability to control our surroundings, but that has limitations.

 

[First Aspect]

I don't pay prescription charges, and I have a senior railcard. The two things might be connected. And I wouldn't get 174 paracetamol in one go at Asda.

Don't do it Brian. if you need a friend I'm just up the road. If you need a glass of water, I'm also just up the road.

 

[Ian H]

Don't do it Brian. if you need a friend I'm just up the road. If you need a glass of water, I'm also just up the road.

Just don't spill it in your rush to get to him.

 

[First Aspect]

Just don't spill it in your rush to get to him.

A bidon of water.

 

[Ian H]

A bidon of water.

...or drop it.

 

[briantrumpet]

It has changed many of those towns and villages from being split in two by a fast A road bar one or two crossings, to being villages .

There was a consultation on an always-slow-and-busy bit of road in Exeter, and the question was which place out of about five I'd prefer to see a zebra crossing, so I said all five, please. It would make no difference to how quickly the cars got to the other end of the road, but it would make a difference to how quickly the chicken could cross the road.

 

[briantrumpet]

A bidon of water.

Could you make it gin, please? With lime, if possible.

 

[Pblakeney]

A different species will come to dominance, driving others extinct, survive for a period, destroy its own habitat and die out. Rinse and repeat.

To put it another way: we aren't in opposition to nature, we're intrinsically part of it. We dominate through our superior ability to control our surroundings, but that has limitations.

Thank you for demonstrating the god complex and utter arrogance.
Clever species do not destroy their surroundings.

 

[briantrumpet]

Don't do it Brian.

Don't worry, I won't. The only Asda is at Newton Abbot.

 

[icowden]

Thank you for demonstrating the god complex and utter arrogance.
Clever species do not destroy their surroundings.

Actually they do. They just get eaten by other species which means that the surroundings get a chance to grow back.

As we have already altered nature, we need to keep doing our part unless we can restore the ecosystem - e.g. introduce wolves to manage the deer.