From: Jim on
Andy Bonwick wrote:
>>> If you want to know where our electricity is coming from until the new
>>> nukes are finished go and look in any high st shop.
>>
>>You have whooshed me there?
>
> Ok, it's also in any out of town/retail park shop.

Are you suggesting we burn chavs for power?
From: Nige on

"'Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Nige wrote:
>> "Andy Bonwick" <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote in message
>> news:8m1qh5d8n83ob49q98as8f0qt9ai4se3oj(a)4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:39:41 -0000, "'Hog"
>>> <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Andy Bonwick wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> If you want to know where our electricity is coming from until the
>>>>> new
>>>>> nukes are finished go and look in any high st shop.
>>>>
>>>> You have whooshed me there?
>>>
>>> Ok, it's also in any out of town/retail park shop.
>>
>> I'm lost too....
>
> Your own fault for not collecting the Garmin

Very good!


From: Nige on

"Jim" <null(a)0.0.0.0> wrote in message
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> Andy Bonwick wrote:
>>>> If you want to know where our electricity is coming from until the
>>>> new
>>>> nukes are finished go and look in any high st shop.
>>>
>>>You have whooshed me there?
>>
>> Ok, it's also in any out of town/retail park shop.
>
> Are you suggesting we burn chavs for power?

plenty of fat to burn :)


From: ginge on
On Mon, 07 Dec 2009 14:01:39 +0000, Jim <null(a)0.0.0.0> wrote:

>Andy Bonwick wrote:
>>>> If you want to know where our electricity is coming from until the new
>>>> nukes are finished go and look in any high st shop.
>>>
>>>You have whooshed me there?
>>
>> Ok, it's also in any out of town/retail park shop.
>
>Are you suggesting we burn chavs for power?

How are we going to make Soylent Green if we start doing that?
From: Doki on

"Andy Bonwick" <nospam(a)bonwick.me.uk> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 09:14:33 -0000, "Doki" <mrdoki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>"'Hog" <sm911SPAM(a)hotmailCHIPS.co.uk> wrote in message
>>news:hfheam$nqr$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>>> Stephen Cowell <stephenleeNOSPAMcowell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> "In the 1990s, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy
>>>> Authority started to implement plans to
>>>> decommission, disassemble and clean up both
>>>> piles; the decommissioning is now partially
>>>> complete. However, Pile 1 still contains about 15
>>>> tonnes (14.76 L/T) of highly unstable uranium
>>>> fuel, and final completion of the decommissioning
>>>> is not expected until at least 2037."
>>>>
>>>> Out of sight, out of mind, eh?
>>>
>>> It keeps people in jobs for life FFS and I'm all for that
>>
>>Broken window fallacy. Their jobs for life cost us all.
>
> Would you sooner it was just left where it is?
>
> I don't really understand your bit about the jobs for life costing us
> all unless you mean the tax payer is standing the bill. Windscale was
> built to give us (the UK) nuclear weapons so who else is going to pay
> fot it?

Of course such things have to be cleaned up. However, the idea that there's
a silver lining in the form of job creation is entirely incorrect. The money
we spend employing these people has to come from somewhere (ie, the tax
payer or BNFL), so there is no overall benefit to society.