BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

The British people are sending distress signals!


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Otterton has been invaded?

 

[Ian H]

Otterton has been invaded?

I saw no hordes.

 

[briantrumpet]

I saw no hordes.

And no pillaging either? A quiet day for Otterton then.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Can Ottertown accommodate a horde? Where would they stay?

 

[Ian H]

Can Ottertown accommodate a horde? Where would they stay?

Ladram Bay, just along the coast. loadsa static caravans and a gift shop.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Ladram Bay, just along the coast. loadsa static caravans and a gift shop.

So they're used to dealing with hordes then. Outsource them to neighbours.

 

[First Aspect]

Doesn't look like hydrogen buses are the future.

https://aberdeenbusinessnews.co.uk/aberdeen-hydrogen-bus-fleet-to-be-sold-off/

I saw that. There is still a lot of investment in fuel cell technology, because hydrogen is still seen as a viable renewable energy storage medium. It isn't clear to me yet whether there will be a sufficiently large "hydrogen economy" for more borderline battery/fuel cell applications (such as HGVs) to back a hydrogen production and storage industry.

It will depend on battery technology. In think we will soon transition from heavy and inconveniently reliable and long lived (inconvenient for the auto industry) batteries to lighter solid state batteries that give better range and charging capacity, but which don't last long. Hard to tell of the economics will work outside of personal transportation.

 

[briantrumpet]

The Daily Mail really taking the broader perspectives on the likelihood of the Middle East situation...

 

[AndyRM]

The Daily Mail really taking the broader perspectives on the likelihood of the Middle East situation...

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I like how they've extended the picture to fully of off that plume of smoke. Surprised they haven't shrunk the headline so we can get a better look at the fireball on the right.

 

[briantrumpet]

I like how they've extended the picture to fully of off that plume of smoke. Surprised they haven't shrunk the headline so we can get a better look at the fireball on the right.

It was more that they focused on a few British people having an unplanned fireworks display than 80 Iranian children being vaporised that I thought was so on brand. If you've already seen the whole front page, you'll know that the bottom half was Farage's outright racism about brown people voting in the by-election and not voting for his pet racist.

 

[AndyRM]

It was more that they focused on a few British people having an unplanned fireworks display than 80 Iranian children being vaporised that I thought was so on brand. If you've already seen the whole front page, you'll know that the bottom half was Farage's outright racism about brown people voting in the by-election and not voting for his pet racist.

My tongue was firmly in my cheek.

 

[briantrumpet]

This is a really good interview from someone pushing back against the anti-20mph zone stuff coming out from the Telegraph et al. It's pretty clear where the interviewer's sympathies lie, and it's a shame he feels it necessary to have his say after the interview, with no chance for the interviewee to counter - for instance, the "It's really weird to drive at 20mph" crap... it's only weird, because you've not done it enough, you twerp. It's not some instinct we're born with, one way or another, FFS.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

It’s not weird, it’s frustrating and annoying.

 

[BoldonLad]

This is a really good interview from someone pushing back against the anti-20mph zone stuff coming out from the Telegraph et al. It's pretty clear where the interviewer's sympathies lie, and it's a shame he feels it necessary to have his say after the interview, with no chance for the interviewee to counter - for instance, the "It's really weird to drive at 20mph" crap... it's only weird, because you've not done it enough, you twerp. It's not some instinct we're born with, one way or another, FFS.

In the early 1800s, it was widely believed that travelling at more than 30mph, on the new fangled Railways would cause passengers to go insane, or, suffocate. 😊

 

[Ian H]

In the early 1800s, it was widely believed that travelling at more than 30mph, on the new fangled Railways would cause passengers to go insane, or, suffocate. 😊

Whereas in fact, it's the delays and cancellations that cause passengers to go insane.