Cold, wet, dark, foggy and dismal at the Castle this morn,
no post yesterday the elbow had escalated from extremely painful to
excruciating so I spent the day curled up in a ball whimpering while stoned out
on industrial strength painkillers.
But the swelling has reduced to the size of a tennis ball
and the pain has subsided to merely agonising.
The
Piss Poor Policies Millionaire Club Coalition’s “Green Energy” attempts
seem to have hit a snag.
Following complaints about the noise of rotating blades from
nearby residents, operators have agreed to switch off the machines or reduce
their speed when the wind is blowing too strongly.
The agreements, which mean the turbines generate less
electricity, have been revealed in dossiers from local authorities about their
investigations into noise pollution complaints.
They show that at Askam wind farm, near Barrow-in Furness,
in Cumbria, which comprises seven turbines, a control system was installed to
turn off the machines when wind speeds get too high.
After complaints about noise from a 12-turbine wind farm on
a former RAF base at Lissett, near Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire,
environmental health officers found that high winds caused the machines to
exceed the noise limits laid down in the scheme's planning conditions.
So an arrangement was reached whereby some of the turbines
were slowed down when the wind was blowing at certain speeds and from certain
directions.
I posted the answer to energy problems over on Nourishing Obscurity a while a
go-water wheels...
But now Auntie has come up with a spiffing foreign debt “interactive pie chart”
to help out dim gits such as myself.
It seems that:
Dear old Blighty is in debt to the tune of about 7.3
Trillion Euros.
Germany owes 4.2 Trillion Euros
Le France doesn’t have 4.2 Trillion Euros.
Espana lacks 1.9 Trillion Euros.
Italia needs 2 trillion Euros.
The heart of democracy wants 0.4 Trillion Euros.
Portugal is devoid of 0.4 trillion Euros.
And Ireland lacks 1.7 trillion Euros.
Not as bad as I thought-7,300,000,000 Euros; that works out
at about £500 at today’s exchange rate, anyway click on either of the links
above and spend a while getting even more confused...
Provincial police
are looking for a naked jogger with a beer belly after he was spotted by a
female runner Tuesday at about 5 a.m. in Innerkip.
The runner is
described as a balding white man in his fifties, six-feet tall, with a
moustache.
This isn't the
first time the nude jogger has been seen in the area, said police.
Innerkip is about
130 km southwest of Toronto.
No fool like a wrinkled old fool.
A Liverpool
dressmaker who shot to fame through TV's My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding has created a
gown made entirely from human hair.
Thelma Madine's
bizarre creation was made from 250 metres of hair extensions and now has a
price tag of more than £50,000.
She worked with
Voodou hair salon in Liverpool to create the dress, which took eight dress
designers more than 300 hours to complete.
The brain child
behind the hairy dress was Voodou stylist Ryan Edwards.
Mr Edwards said:
"It's something that we've been thinking about designing for a while as
it's just so different.
"I approached
Thelma and her team to see if they would be up for doing it and they loved the
idea. It took a team of about eight people just over 12 days to make and as you
can see, we used a lot of hair!"
Not only does the
dress contain 250 metres of hair but tens of thousands of individual hair wefts
and different pieces of hair, as well as 1500 crystals and 12 underskirts. It
weighs approximately 15 stone.
Hairy couture.
Enter the MXP Calorie Shaper Pants.
For a whopping $32, these shiny boxer briefs purport to aid
in the burning of additional calories.
The secret (apparently) lies in their resin coating, which
makes them stiff. This added stiffness provides resistance, leading to an
increased number of calories burned.
For example, a 140-pound man walking 90 minutes per day can
burn upwards of the equivalent of a half litre of beer a week.
My underpants are stiff-nothing to do with losing weight
though....
And finally:
A former police
officer is suing the Lothian and Borders force, claiming a training exercise
left her scared of sirens.
Louise McGarva is
seeking £500,000, alleging she suffered post-traumatic stress disorder after
taking part in a simulated riot that spiralled out of control. She said she had
been left with a fear of police cars and sirens after being crushed during the
riot training in a former hospital building in West Lothian.
Lawyers for the
35-year-old allege that eight officers were left injured during the exercise
after their instructors attacked them with “baseball bats, long batons and
martial arts”, using “excessive” force.
Ms McGarva said she
repeatedly passed out after being crushed in the melee while an officer giving
her medical assistance allegedly told her she had “had it” and was going to
die.
The former officer,
who retired on grounds of ill-health, said the incident left her suffering from
nightmares and flashbacks, as well as depression and panic attacks, and she
needed psychological treatment at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
She should be cured then......
And today’s thought on this Sunday: Lord save me from your followers.
Angus
3 comments:
The runner is described as a balding white man in his fifties, six-feet tall, with a moustache.
This isn't the first time the nude jogger has been seen in the area, said police.
Did the offended one report on whether he was well-endowed or not?
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