Cortese's Corner - formerly Beefy's Corner, the off topic chat thread

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Jaime looks weird with short hair.

 

I am rather concerned now that having watched the final episode of Poirot and looking forward to the last of the recent three episode series of Sherlock that our good guys have started killing the villains.

Has something happened to the morality of our heroes and that it is now ok to kill the bad guys?

Has this seeped into main stream drama from those video games some of you young guys like to play?

If so then I am very worried.

 

Another bloody power cut . That's three in the last two months......

 

I watched it, but will still watch again to check if I've missed something...always a lot going on in Sherlock.

 

So I believe the new season of Archer starts on US TV tonight?

 

Yuuuuuuuuuuup.

 

Solar panels a solution? Or do they cut out when the mains go off?

 

It depends, I believe, on how your system is set up. You can be generating your own electricity and yet be tied to the grid. What you don't use is sent to the grid and le gods of electricity pay you. There are systems where you can be independent of the grid, tied in or a bit of both, and it is all recorded.

In my ideal, keep-the-planet-habitable-for-animal-life scenario, every household would be issued with sufficient solar panel arrays, and wind turbines to be comfortably energy rich. There would be no need to build new, but obsolete, nuclear power stations, so far away from homes that the resulting output would only be about 40-50% of what it was when it was generated [you think we get the whole motherload..?].
In fact, the UK could become the world leader on solar photovoltaic panel manufacture if it wanted to be, with the general British public as its main customer, and being so geared up for such a big market, they would be competitive across the world. Too radical..? Or shall we have those nuclear power stations that are probably obsolete even now, and certainly will be by the time they produce their overpriced electricity..?

 

12th Dec I flew to Manchester and found out the next day I needed to be in Gloucester. Today I arrive at the airport and can't board... because I booked my flight for the following day. FML.

 

Just got hailed on on my way back from work. **** you too weather.

 

Hooraaaayyyy!

 

Apparently a town near me is actually seriously changing its name to King's Landing to honour GoT.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/01/08/herts...es-with-name-change-to-kings-landing-4255313/

 

Sweet. A week or so after getting a cup final, I now get to referee at the Saints academy.

 

Moving up in the world! Maybe you'll bump into Qwerty?

 

I've just found out Louis Tomlinson from One Direction owns a football team. That's a bit random.

 

Some of the middle of the road residents might object to that, not strictly PC these days.

 

Not unless he stops in for a coffee on the way. I'm long out of that business.
Did a cup final last year too, its was fun...but cold...and long. Must have been a few hundred peeps watching.

 

Did you also get one insult too many, that put you off, or is that another ref on here..?

 

Nah just didn't have time any more.

 

Ah, Ok. You did used to entertain us occasionally with the odd story of newly unearthed Anglo-Saxon.