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[Mason89]

I took it out the library last Saturday and just over half way through it and have to say it is easily one of the best biographies I have ever read. I am just past the point where he was monkeysitting in Amsterdam

I could well imagine the audiobook being even better with his own distinctive voice enhancing his written words.

I’m on chapter 26 & it’s the best thing I’ve ever heard on audiobook. He could be reading out the telephone directory & it’d be entertaining. It’s put me off weetabix though.

I just don’t get poetry & a spoken word night is my idea of hell but this is marvellous stuff

Nobody ask what I mean by stuff. This isn’t 2003

[57vintage]

I’m on chapter 26 & it’s the best thing I’ve ever heard on audiobook. He could be reading out the telephone directory & it’d be entertaining. It’s put me off weetabix though.

I just don’t get poetry & a spoken word night is my idea of hell but this is marvellous stuff

Nobody ask what I mean by stuff. This isn’t 2003

“Luxury. Pure, unashamed luxury”.

Of the 49 books I have read (including 5 audiobooks, courtesy of Aberdeen’s superlative, helpful, generous library service), it’s the standout.

Only Mariella Frostrup reading out “Clark, Whyte, Shewan, Munro, McMillan, Petersen, Little, Smith, Winchester, Melrose, Wilson”

or “Clark, Boel, Hermiston, Murray, McMillan, Buchan, Forrest, Robb, Harper, Willoughby, Graham”

or “Leighton, Rougvie, McMaster, Cooper, McLeish, Miller, Strachan, Simpson, McGhee, Black (Hewitt), Weir”

or “Shearer, Perry, Lonie, Walker, Niddrie, Nicol, Still, McKay, Keith, Lennox, Donaldson”

in perpetuity, would come close.

[57vintage]

Wasn’t Arkwright Jr snagged in this sort of intrigue a few years ago?

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/you-shouldnt-be-cheating-on-your-wife-womans-sugar-daddy-blackmail-plot-exposed/amp/

[57vintage]

Wasn’t Arkwright Jr snagged in this sort of intrigue a few years ago?

https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/...t-exposed/amp/

Ah....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-40977366?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_scotland_news&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=scotland

"This story was updated on 29 September following a court ruling which granted anonymity to the alleged victim."

Righto.

[mondo_notion]

I see, in an effort to save mankind, they are pondering the idea of refreezing the Arctic. Google how because I sure as hell don't know.

I had a similarly brazen idea to help global warming. Hear me out....

They are always on about sea levels getting dangerously high. I saw a thing about a nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point and it sucked in about 100 tonnes of water an hour to keep the reactor cool and to use for super heating to produce the steam that eventually spins the turbines that generate the power.

Build more nuclear power plants! If we have loads of power plants sucking in that amount of sea water the levels are bound to go down and we get electricity at the same time. Win win.

I don't even mind if anyone claims this idea as their own.

[Mason89]

I got married. She turned up & said yes so I’m fairly chuffed.

[donsdaft]

Congratulations loon.

[57vintage]

I got married. She turned up & said yes so I’m fairly chuffed.

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Congratulations.

[mondo_notion]

Congratulations loon.

Congratulations.

Of course I'm happy for Mr and Mrs Mason89 but I solved global warming and not a peep from anyone. He gets hitched and it's all 'congratulations' this and 'well done' that. Life's so unfair.

[Hewitt_Scores]

I got married. She turned up & said yes so I’m fairly chuffed.

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Congrats!

[eastnuekdon]

I see, in an effort to save mankind, they are pondering the idea of refreezing the Arctic. Google how because I sure as hell don't know.

I had a similarly brazen idea to help global warming. Hear me out....

They are always on about sea levels getting dangerously high. I saw a thing about a nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point and it sucked in about 100 tonnes of water an hour to keep the reactor cool and to use for super heating to produce the steam that eventually spins the turbines that generate the power.

Build more nuclear power plants! If we have loads of power plants sucking in that amount of sea water the levels are bound to go down and we get electricity at the same time. Win win.

I don't even mind if anyone claims this idea as their own.

I'll reply since you're not happy that everyone ignored your cunning plan.

Unfortunately once the steam is superheated it condenses again and gets returned. If you fancy going swimming near a nuclear power plant you'll probably find the sea is unseasonably warm there. Nice try though. Back to the drawing board

[mondo_notion]

I'll reply since you're not happy that everyone ignored your cunning plan.

Unfortunately once the steam is superheated it condenses again and gets returned. If you fancy going swimming near a nuclear power plant you'll probably find the sea is unseasonably warm there. Nice try though. Back to the drawing board

Hmm, I still think my science is sound. But thanks for your feedback nonetheless.

[eastnuekdon]

Hmm, I still think my science is sound. But thanks for your feedback nonetheless.

Yeah its not sound in the slightest. Unless your plan relies on superheated steam disappearing into space. Which it doesn't. It goes though a condenser and returns to water again. Just google a block diagram of a nuclear power plant.

[57vintage]

Y It goes though a condenser and returns to water again.

I can shatter the myth of "The Angels' Share" trotted out by distillery tour guides to the gullible.

[mondo_notion]

Yeah its not sound in the slightest. Unless your plan relies on superheated steam disappearing into space. Which it doesn't. It goes though a condenser and returns to water again. Just google a block diagram of a nuclear power plant.

I appreciate your input but on this occasion I don't think I can let solid facts stand in the way of saving mankind. We don't have long left so we need to push boundaries even if that does mean bending the laws of science.