The Off Topic Topic

[mongers]

They are still catching up, AFAIK the UK is the country with the fastest installation of offshore wind turbines in the world. They have to put them at sea because the NIMBYism is atrocious on land.

NIMBYism is atrocious for everything on land. We can't build houses, the high speed rails controversial, expanding London's air capacity's a nightmare and there's real issues with all power plants - we need all of them over the next 10-20 years though.

Ironically nuclear's one of the easier ones because many of the new plants are planned to built on top of old decommissioned sites.

Oh, it's much worse than that, locally they're trying to install an offshore wind south of the Purbecks and the well off are complaining it'll spoil their view.   

Will it not?

It won't.

[Sheilbh]

I find wind turbines quit cool to look at actually.  It certainly has not hurt the view in West Texas.

I thought they were quite pretty in the Highlands.

[garbon]

I find wind turbines quit cool to look at actually.  It certainly has not hurt the view in West Texas.

I don't. The ones on the entrance to Palm Springs are pretty much eyesores and use up a lot of land (someday I'm sure the desert cities will grow and overtake them).  Though like the Cabazon dinosaurs they are tacky iconic.

[sbr]

It's not physically possible for taco bell, or any food, to go from one end to the other in 22 minutes, right?

[CountDeMoney]

It's not physically possible for taco bell, or any food, to go from one end to the other in 22 minutes, right?

Sure it is.  It's not a good thing, but it's possible.

[Lettow77]

 I have, after much toil, nearly finished a staggeringly partisan capstone paper on Forrest. It contains wonderful lines such as "..Regrettably, the Union was unable to measure up to the comparatively virtuous Forrest's standard of moral rectitude.." and "..To his credit, Forrest did not sink to this base and iniquitous standard of conduct.. "

Much ado is made of how he was loved by the black citizenry of Memphis, and how anyone who ever disliked him is the worst kind of villain.

I have all but included the rays of light he emitted when making his saintly pronouncements, and expect to receive accolades for the clarity of my vision and discerning judgement in composition.

[Malthus]

The previous two posts have somewhat of a similarity. 

[CountDeMoney]

Congrats Lettuce, I'm sure you're the shoo-in for the Council of Conservative Citizens' annual "Golden Noose" Award with that.

[Lettow77]

As Forrest's wealth rose in estimation, he provided for his family's education and, not content with charity that began and ended at home, took a substantial loss investing in an academy to bring higher education to Hernando, Mississippi. (Forrest, of course, thought only of others, and neglected his own educational attainment.)

[alfred russel]

I have all but included the rays of light he emitted when making his saintly pronouncements, and expect to receive accolades for the clarity of my vision and discerning judgement in composition.

I have some doubts.

[Admiral Yi]

"His wealth rose in estimation?"

[Razgovory]

The Klan rally in Memphis didn't go over that well last week.

[fhdz]

I have all but included the rays of light he emitted when making his saintly pronouncements, and expect to receive accolades for the clarity of my vision and discerning judgement in composition.

I have some doubts.

[Neil]

I have, after much toil, nearly finished a staggeringly partisan capstone paper on Forrest. It contains wonderful lines such as "..Regrettably, the Union was unable to measure up to the comparatively virtuous Forrest's standard of moral rectitude.." and "..To his credit, Forrest did not sink to this base and iniquitous standard of conduct.. "

Much ado is made of how he was loved by the black citizenry of Memphis, and how anyone who ever disliked him is the worst kind of villain.

I have all but included the rays of light he emitted when making his saintly pronouncements, and expect to receive accolades for the clarity of my vision and discerning judgement in composition.

Wasn't he a slave trader though?  Surely that makes his 'moral rectitude' much less than pretty much anyone who isn't Hitler?

[Lettow77]

 In twenty five pages I did not see fit to mention that Forrest dealt in slaves.

Someone else's paper can cover it.