SteamyTea

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/laser-radiation-safety-advice/laser-radiation-safety-advice

Which should also include persons that think they know better. I think it is like driving. We have rules and laws, and experience teaches us behaviour, then you get the twats that think they know better and cause mayhem all over the place. They often only do such minor damage that it is not, in their eyes a problem, occasionally though, it has long lasting effects.

There is a saying that 'bad things happen when good people do nothing'. You are doing nothing, but feel entitled to criticise. To me there is a disjoint in thinking there.

Real ones do it themselves.

But you are not going to do it. Seems like a fear of failure.

My parents looked at a house for sale, was owned by the son (Michael Telling) of one of the Vesty family. Michael had murdered his wife and dumped the body on Exmore, but kept her head in the freezer at home. House was being sold with all fixtures and fittings.

Where do you get your alternative truths from?

Loads in Dorset. Wytch Farm is the largest onshore oil field in Europe. 110,000 barrels a day in 1997, 50,000 B/D in 2002. It is estimated that there is 479.6 million barrels left. There is also 4.73 million tonnes of natural gas liquids and 1.42 billion cubic metres (50×109 cu ft) of natural gas. So why is this not being exploited then? it is already a production site with the infrastructure there, locals are used to it.

The French copy no one.

"I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees."

Lloyds Underwriters https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/profile-two-men-who-lost-a-billion-names-in-the-lloyd-s-syndicates-run-by-anthony-gooda-and-derek-walker-are-facing-ruin-richard-thomson-relates-a-tale-of-two-incompetents-1494224.html

Yes, like Yes Minister, why we are still enjoying it now.

I forget you don’t get irony.

I take it you are unaware of the concept of civil war. Here is a potted history our ours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Civil_War

Will be no harder than us leaving the EU. That was all sorted out over a cup of afternoon tea wasn't it.

Don't say that, the anti-RE brigade may have to face some home truths that they spout nonsense out of their arses, or worse, do some research themselves.

They had to do a similar thing with car insurance by not quoting female drivers lower be aude they were female. Result was women drivers got higher quotes. I think the important metric with insurance is when it comes to paying out. Don't matter a (expletive deleted) if you pay 100 or 1000 a year, if they don't settle a claim adequately, the customer has been conned/scammed.

Interesting listen https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m003011r

It does. Try using a £50 note down here, not many places will take them. Cash handling is also expensive, a charge that gets passed onto the end consumer. I hate using cash at work, card payments are so much easier. There is no technical reason that EV charging points cannot take the major cards, self serve checkouts at super markets manage it.

We pay for a lot of things we don't use all the time. Health care, vehicles (public and private), education (have you used a quadratic equation since you left school). I don't use roads in Scotland, and you don't use my local roads, but they are there if we choose to travel. Energy production is not just about generation, security and quality of supply is equally important. Gas, oil and nuclear also get paid to throttle production, it is not unique to renewables.

That is called 'The Tragedy of the Common'

Yes you can

Assuming this is a pumped system (twin impeller shower pump) on a vented system then you run the risk of emptying the loft tank and the DHW cylinder. This at best caused an air lock, at worse, the cylinder can distort and fail. If it is a mains pressure system (invented) then no need for a pump. On a combi system (instantaneous), then most struggle to run one shower, two will give trouble. So it all depends what you actually have already.

I don't know. The article is rather speculative as it is an area where not much research has been done. I think our modern life, for some, is much more 'indoors' than it used to be. How much of a real difference that makes I have no idea. I am currently sitting out in the sun. There are 13 other people here (like the last supper) and they are all indoors.