Nuclear Power Stations Ha Ha Ha

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When I was building Sizewell B 10 years ago ( not entirely on my own of course ) and then moving on to Sizewell C and Hinkley Point they (the government) decided not to bother as they had all this ever so cheap North Sea Gas to use up and cancelled the rest. We wrote loads of letters to no avail pointing out the folly and then took our redundancy payments, very early retirement or just got sacked. It cost as much to cancel as it would to keep building 'em but we all went on our merry way and became very highly qualified lollypop men or the usual might as well do my PhD now sort of thing.
Now there is just a hint that we might need them again. Everyone is banging on about the reasons for and against but no one seems to think about a very basic fact. Who is going to build them ? Media Studies Graduates perhaps ?
Do they think we just sit on a shelf waiting for someone to pick up a few hundred qualified engineers with nuclear reactor expertise.
Thanks folks....Rant...Rant....Rave... I feel better for that...
 
rant away ... I do it often

haha ... like it. :D

Too many "skills" have been lost already in the past 20 years ... we can rely on the government though, they just keep repeating they same old garbage.

;)
 
tellboy, I sympathise with you.

I've worked in Nuclear power stations as well, Dungeness quite a lot. I used to X-Ray pipes and pass them as fit or not (ever seen the China Syndrome, hehe).

If properly run, one of the safest and non-polluting forms of energy ever.

I've researched nuclear power quite a lot in the past, but won't go into lots of details here.

Suffice to say, I kinda like Greenpeace, sympathise with most of what they support, but they got it wrong on this one, imo.

tellboy, hope you find employment again, I really do.

And on a political note:

I voted Labour all my life. Seemed right at the time.

But I'm really not very keen on Tony Blair. There is no Labour party anymore, Blair is more right wing than John Major, he's wearing the wrong colour tie.

Therefore I find myself disenfranchised from our political system.

Tories are grey, Labour are false, Liberals don't really know what they want except to be in power and Greens are loonies.

Think I'll become an anarchist.

And that, my son, was my rant :D
 
I think one of the best things Blair could do would be to introduce Nuclear Power.

Ive toured Dungeness, liked it so much went back again. Nuclear power, in my opinion, IS the way forward. No greenhouse gasses! Just water vapour. Yeah theres sludge thats radioactive for 24,000 years, but thats a lot more easier to deal with than a fickin gaping hole in our ozone layer, with skin cancer rising.
 
christopherpostill said:
I think one of the best things Blair could do would be to introduce Nuclear Power.

Ive toured Dungeness, liked it so much went back again. Nuclear power, in my opinion, IS the way forward. No greenhouse gasses! Just water vapour. Yeah theres sludge thats radioactive for 24,000 years, but thats a lot more easier to deal with than a fickin gaping hole in our ozone layer, with skin cancer rising.
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Refreshing.

To see somebody so young has got it sussed and has seen past the scaremongerer's hyperbole.
 
I dont quite understand what you meant by that (not sure on the meaning of the last word) but i dont know about "Sussed", i just think its a much better method of producing power than Gas, Oil or Coal. There are many generations of uranium left as a method of producing power, Nuclear is quite rare and new. Gas? no more than 30 years.
 
Floppy has his own dictionary ... I have a copy if you want one. :thumb:

You'll get a reply in the Kings English ... just wait there, he'll be along shortly to explain. :D
 
christopherpostill said:
Is it light enough for Royal Mail Standard parcels?
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Nope ... but it will fit in one 40ton truck though.

;)
 
Gordon Bennet, don't nobody speak the Queen's English round 'ere?

'Sussed' means 'Understood' 'I worked it out' 'I know what you're on about' ecetera and so on.

It derived from the powers the police were given some time ago to stop anybody they didn't like the look of and give them a hard time. The law was called 'Suspicion'. This law meant the police could pull anybody they fancied if they looked suspicious.

This law was enthusiastically applied in Lambeth, particularly on the streets of Brixton, where many a brother gained the unwelcome attentions of PC Plod.

The law was later repealed but 'Sus' being the first three letters of 'Suspicion' stayed in the local parlance.

As for 'hyperbole' I thought you'd been to school. Look it up.
 
oops ... Chris, you gone and upset the 'Stomp' now ... look, no smilies. Tisk Tisk.


OK ... back on topic then ... shall we. :D
 
floppybootstomp said:
Gordon Bennet, don't nobody speak the Queen's English round 'ere?

'Sussed' means 'Understood' 'I worked it out' 'I know what you're on about' ecetera and so on.

As for 'hyperbole' I thought you'd been to school. Look it up.
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Dude we was just messing around. Infact it is quite the contrary, i have a habit of speaking posh...i never tend to abbreviate, i talk as i type :)

I know what sussed means! It was hyperbole i wasn't sure of...
 
Hmmmmm..., well I never looked it up in no dictionary, but I always understood hyperbole to mean...

"waffling on all sorts of rubbish that sounds logical & significant but generally talks all around the subject or creates misleading impressions about it, often by using all sorts of multisyllabylic words & 'meaningful' phrases often loaded with adjectives & terminology designed to provoke an emotional rather than rational response (& to imply that the speaker's knowhow on the subject exceeds yours) but primarily designed to distract the listener with side issues & thereby prevevent a rational analysis of the issue at hand & to avoid examining said issue too closely."

Now... what were we talking about again? :o
 
I'm another disenchanted voter who has abandoned the Labour party and I was a member for many years.

Gabs xx
 
Charles Kennedy:

Pros

a)he is normal, unlike blair in the red corner and those creepy weirdos in the blue corner...
b)he used to present on LBC 97.3 - local radio talk show in london
c)hes a nice bloke
d)he looks constantly drunk

cons:

he knows nothing about politics, and his party cant ever make up their mind where they are going

but then i ask you this: do either of the other 2 parties know where they are going, or know ANYTHING about politics? The only good thing about this government is Gordon Brown running the economy. Aside from that i think liberals should be given a shot

my 2 cents - please dont kill me :P
 
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cirianz,

If Sir Flop's dictionary weighs in at around 40 ton, looking at your explanation above, your dictionary would probably weigh as much as Jupiter :D

I too have a dictionary of my own, it fits on a single A4 size sheet of paper. Anyone interested in a copy? :D
 
Quadophile said:
cirianz,

If Sir Flop's dictionary weighs in at around 40 ton, looking at your explanation above, your dictionary would probably weigh as much as Jupiter :D

I too have a dictionary of my own, it fits on a single A4 size sheet of paper. Anyone interested in a copy? :D
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hee hee hee... I know, & the scary bit is that I could've gone on MUCH longer, but I thought that if I got toooooooooo hyperbolic christopher would reach the end of my waffle with even less idea of what the word meant than b4 I started (that being the purpose of hyperbole after all) so I thought that I should restrain myself ;)

For a more abbreviated (don't you love that word;) ) version:

In the hands of an ordinary person hyperbole means much the same as exaggeration & is not meant to be taken literally. In the hands of a politician it means manipulation & distraction & counts on the 'fact' that the listeners do not know enough to know that it should not be taken literally.
 
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floppybootstomp said:
Gordon Bennet, don't nobody speak the Queen's English round 'ere?

'Sussed' means 'Understood' 'I worked it out' 'I know what you're on about' ecetera and so on.

It derived from the powers the police were given some time ago to stop anybody they didn't like the look of and give them a hard time. The law was called 'Suspicion'. This law meant the police could pull anybody they fancied if they looked suspicious.

This law was enthusiastically applied in Lambeth, particularly on the streets of Brixton, where many a brother gained the unwelcome attentions of PC Plod.

The law was later repealed but 'Sus' being the first three letters of 'Suspicion' stayed in the local parlance.

As for 'hyperbole' I thought you'd been to school. Look it up.
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Oh, by the way, thanks Flops :D. I knew the meaning of the word sussed (it is a part of the common parlance here) & that it evolved from the word suspicion. But I had no idea about the Law & the history behind it all! Cool, Thanks :D
 
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