Yes it is, about 3 or 4 episodes in. Once you’ve watched it, let me know if you find Daisy annoying!
Given it’s on Sky there will be a relatively small audience, compared free to air channels.
I think it’s great. Although daisy is a bit ott.
A bit? She genuinely is close to putting me of watching it!
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Only if you think that it is the responsibility of national govt to pay for every little thing. What has happened to people taking personal responsibility for paying for things? I don’t recall any of your social change references actually demanding their govts pay for trivial things like home insulation.
When it comes to the environment it’s all smoke and mirrors, some of which is 'encouraged by subsidies and unilateral efforts which are pointless. We will reap the whirlwind of closing proper power stations and relying on imported electricity and “renewables”, as winds don’t blow consistently nor does the sun shine enough. The only renewable that makes any sense in the UK is tidal, but that doesn’t mean blighting 10s of thousands of acres of the land or seascape
The problem with the age old idea that poor people should go without, is that it works well with things that don’t in turn affect the not poor.
But the downside of the climate becoming hostile, is that rich people also live here.
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this is literally the problem
this is an outdated view. The advancement in energy storage in the last decade or so has mitigated these kinds of concerns.
sure, some of the ideas around barrages are definitely not great and I am massively against, but, again, the technology has advanced. The UK now has the world’s most powerful tidal turbine - with absolute minimum of land or seascape affected: 'Most powerful' tidal turbine starts generating electricity off Orkney - BBC News
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You left out the “and mirrors” and this is the bigger problem. All the guff about net zero carbon this or that, is a con trick and supposedly intelligent people are suckered in to it, as if planting a few trees here and there or put up some other form energy generation and propose it makes whatever you have done, good, really defies belief. In reality you cannot undo millennia of industry, with more industry and technology that relies on the elements that are in by comparison in miniscule quantities, and require extremely unfriendly methods in terms of extraction and processing. The “advantage” of the modern extraction and processing is that it’s happening somewhere else and as if by magic, it appears. We are then being taxed and being mislead that it’s for the good of the environment.
If electricity can be stored why are we importing it from France? Storage is well behind where it should be to keep up with demand because again private investors want the govt to pay for it and the idea of it being nationalised, just don’t go there. Storage won’t reduce energy costs to the consumer. It is expensive, very life limited (it’s only a battery) and extremely environmentally unfriendly in terms of the components. We have been systematically lied to about wind as a sustainable source of electricity, it’s been all blue skies and fluffy clouds and real concerns batted away. The turbines are probably all together more polluting (given each one uses hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, plastic and again rare earths), greater footprint and less efficient per square metre, (MW per MW) than traditionally powered generation. I would sooner see barrages across estuaries than one turbine anywhere as barrages are less obtrusive and unless something really odd happened you won’t stop two tides every day, whereas who knows where and how much wind or sunshine there will be. Close the turbines down and make the operators pay for the removal costs and return every single penny they’ve had in govt handouts to build them. I don’t recall the industrial revolution giants asking for or getting govt handouts; they had ideas, developed them and invested their and other private individuals money. Some got very rich, but they deserved it and this wealth funded directly or indirectly the social reformers mentioned.
I remember growing up with stories that we will run out of oil and gas and by 2000 we’d be driving electric cars, which has been updated by “experts” since the 70s. Fifty years on and the experts have been shown to be wrong and now it is taking taxation, and legislation to force us down the non oil/gas electric route. Just taking cars which are not anywhere as good as they need to be and ever likely to be, as the technology is ridiculously expensive, environmentally unfriendly, unreliable and short lived. But when we are finally forced to lose gas as a fuel and only use electricity, the fun will really begin, as wind and sun, won’t be able to provide enough in the UK. The only person worth their salt in this all electric malarky is Elon Musk, because he is an ideas man and willing to get it wrong.
This rather sums up any response to that particular poster.
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My fuel gauge going from 1/2 to 1/4 on today’s commute, only about 35 miles each way. The half had done 4 days of only a slightly shorter commute, both on motorways and not much difference in heating use
Every fuel gauge I’ve known works like this, they are very poor design. Takes ages to get from full to half and then plummets, even though you are doing nothing different.
It is just frustrating that it goes down by so much. It is a new car to me and I don’t know how long what I have in the tank will last, judging by my last journey, I wouldn’t get to work and back.
Do a few weeks where you fill up, record how much you put in and the mileage do a bit of maths. After a few weeks you will get an idea of what the normal range of the car is. Or fill up when it gets to half or just below.
Getting a Go Outdoors catalogue through the post and spending far longer than I should going through their website, looking at lovely things I shouldn’t buy as I’m saving for a house.
Still, I’m very tempted, particularly as with a DDS card you get an extra 15% off.
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Yes, I keep meaning to do that. I always reset the tripometer when I fill up but then forgot to record it anywhere!
Where’s the masks?
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Good question…
Didnt you know… they’re all exempt…
1m+ social distancing too I see… 
The whole of 282 Sqn must be then by the looks of SM 
I guess this goes back to my questions made in the return to F2F thread:
I believe the current rules say masks must be worn indoors still.
Does this only apply whilst at the squadron/unit?
If not, where does it apply?
Is it only for activities where it’s only cadets involved?
If you go somewhere not cadet-y, is it still required? (Museum, awards events etc etc)
Does the rule apply to non RAFAC personnel attending indoor RAFAC events, or is it personal choice for them?
Probably all members of the Conservative Party 