2018 Summer V 1976 Summer

[Mick Dempsey]

According to Viz, yes.

 

(I’m sure it’s actually very nice)

[Mick Dempsey]

Hadn’t realised that the Viz poster was a homage (prolly not right word) to this one.

[westphalian]

well in 76 there was patches of crude oil on the sand like the viz poster but more jellyfish

[Vespasian]

2 hours ago, Billhook said:

Don't think there is much argument about the world becoming warmer as it has done many times in the past without Range Rover Sports and modern warfare.  The big question which is up for debate is how much of it is man made.

If we all cut out all fossil fuels now and other forms of pollution would it make any significant difference to global warming?.

These things should be done anyway for a clean environment, but that is a different argument.

Barring the occasional volcanic eruption, I'd suggest all climate change is down to us...  and seeing as no one wants to live in 19th century and have the working and living conditions now that they had back then, then its obvious we can only mitigate any consequences going forward..   which might not be enough..  in fact I'm sure of it..   like lemming over the cliff..  but hey, even I would rather eat my cake now and be damned with those that come after us...   so what can you say..

 

I think natural resource depletion is in a race with climate change as to why we're gonna be up sh'ts creek, climate change or otherwise though..   fifty years at most before the sh't really hits the fan..

 

 

In a word, its only a mater of time before we all have to get used to having less..  

 

 

 

[Tommy_B]

24 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

Barring the occasional volcanic eruption, I'd suggest all climate change is down to us...  and seeing as no one wants to live in 19th century and have the working and living conditions now that they had back then, then its obvious we can only mitigate any consequences going forward..   which might not be enough..  in fact I'm sure of it..   like lemming over the cliff..  but hey, even I would rather eat my cake now and be damned with those that come after us...   so what can you say..

 

I think natural resource depletion is in a race with climate change as to why we're gonna be up sh'ts creek, climate change or otherwise though..   fifty years at most before the sh't really hits the fan..

 

 

In a word, its only a mater of time before we all have to get used to having less..  

 

 

 

I've been getting used to having less since I got married

[Billhook]

2 hours ago, westphalian said:

talking about Skeggy. we would go there every year but in 76 we discovered Newquay. i thought i was in the Caribbean. Just seen Jaws and was worried each time i heard a splash. i remember the grass being damaged more in 76 than this year. i had zero midges in my wood this year and fewer mozzies. Earth is not in danger, we are. water shortages, migrating populations failed crops etc. feel sorry for the kids. global warming is going to happen, me turning turning the central heating down isn't going to cut much v the 3 billion of china and india wanting a developed world life style.

is skeggy still shit?

We make a special point of taking friend's children there to show them what will happen if you smoke and drink too much energy drink and coke, eat crap food and do not take any exercise.

It must be the mobility scooter capital of the world.  You have not made it in life unless you became pregnant at fourteen, followed by a free house and obesity fuelled by benefits. You then at about twenty five stone  qualify for a mobility scooter before you are twenty five.

I am not joking when I say that the danger of being hit by one when window shopping  is a serious problem!

[Vespasian]

4 minutes ago, Tommy_B said:

I've been getting used to having less since I got married

In fifty years if you're still with us, you'll think you lived like a king..  

[eggsarascal]

4 minutes ago, Billhook said:

We make a special point of taking friend's children there to show them what will happen if you smoke and drink too much energy drink and coke, eat crap food and do not take any exercise.

It must be the mobility scooter capital of the world.  You have not made it in life unless you became pregnant at fourteen, followed by a free house and obesity fuelled by benefits. You then at about twenty five stone  qualify for a mobility scooter before you are twenty five.

I am not joking when I say that the danger of being hit by one when window shopping  is a serious problem!

I haven't been for years, thankfully. I used to do the market at Ingoldmells. It's was pretty rubbish then.

[Tommy_B]

11 minutes ago, Vespasian said:

In fifty years if you're still with us, you'll think you lived like a king..  

I imagine that if I make it to 85 I'll be happy enough to raise a smile, let alone anything else

[Billhook]

2 hours ago, Mick Dempsey said:

Hadn’t realised that the Viz poster was a homage (prolly not right word) to this one.

I learned to fly at good old Skeggy Aerodrome and I can assure you that the dark patches are probably not crude oil but more likely something much more unpleasant

As we took off over Butlins and then the North sea there was a black slick heading out from the caravan sites in certain weather and tide conditions..  That was in 1978 and although the Golden Sands project did improve things, there are still problems down the whole East coast

 

 

https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15412592.Millions_of_litres_of_sewage_pumped_into_sea_by_Southern_Water/

 

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/23/uk-bathing-water-ranks-next-from-last-eu-beach-table

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10178020

 

 

A couple I met near Oxford back in the 1980s told me the sad story of their eight year old daughter swimming off Bognor Regis in about 1960.

That evening when put to bed firstly it was "Daddy I can't feel my feet"

An hour or so later it was                                "Daddy I can't feel my legs"

It was a very virulent form of Polio caught from the sewage contaminated sea water and she was dead by the morning.

They spent the rest of their lives inspecting all the sewage outflows of all coastal resorts and recording the "solids" and various other items in a book called Golden Sands.  I think this may have sparked off the Blue Flag system but obviously things have become lax again with all the extra holiday makers.  All that food has to go somewhere.........