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AI alert! No need. Pretty sure we all know the ins and outs of burning wood. Given the forum, and even the thread title.

PFASs like plastics are just to damn useful and convenient. If they weren't then we wouldn't be in this predicament. Plastics of course are now being pushed on us even harder because the oil industry is starting to lose its fuel revenues. I think the long term effects are just beginning to be seen actually. Micro plastics and PFASs are both starting to be implicated in lots of serious health problems. Apparently someone did a study on the brains of Alzheimer's suffers, all had high concentrations of micro plastics present .............. too soon to decide between correlation and causation, but it's not going to be good news. Smoky wood burners will be small beer in comparison.

I know, we've been here before a few times I believe. I agree with all of that. I was talking mainly talking about local air pollution, air quality, not global CO2 emissions. The elephant in the room that you didn't mention is the non-combustion particulates that come from cars and trucks. The brake and tyre dust predominantly. I believe that is probably now a bigger issue than engine emissions. Especially with all the bigger, heavier electric cars. That very rarely gets talked about in the promotion of EVs. It's something that requires far greater scrutiny. Urgently. Micro plastics, and the myriad of chemicals within them - yeah, that's the real demon here. We've only just found the tip of the iceberg, in terms of understanding the damage that they're doing to all of us. We're breathing/eating/drinking it in all the time.

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That and just trying to grasp the easiest low hanging fruit, just to be seen to be doing something. I imagine wood burner smoke is a very small proportion of the total air pollution, compared to the millions of cars and lorries on the roads and aircraft in the skies. Maybe they think they can cancel out the effects of all the extra runways they're intent on building, dreamers.

Lucky you. I imagine he is a pleasure to talk to. He had some good stuff to say when I heard him interviewed quite recently. I hadn't realised he was English until then.

Mici, Romanian beef and pork sausages. With a generous helping of sour cream and garlic, (raw). Bloody lovely.

We can both share Alex's vintage suet. I'm sure he won't mind posting it off.

What was in yours? I've never cooked them. My dad used to, I've find memories of steak and kidney pie with dumplings.

Too fluted for beech.

Maybe an escaped pollard of a Hornbeam to be more specific.

Do you know who Hunter S Thompson was? Lighten up Davey lad. I prescribe a copy of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, (the book, the film is pretty crap), and two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that you'll need all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

I dunno, his illustrator from back in the day seems to have produced plenty of Trump work. Ralph Steadman.

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Go on then, what happened on the 8th September? Someone had to ask.

I'm clean.

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That's an interesting stance. We must live in parallel universes. Yes, I've obviously heard of Nixon and Clinton, but not Harding I must admit. We'll have to agree to disagree again. It's rather a tricky thing to quantify anyway: the exact degree and then ranking of Openness of Corruption. How would it ever be proved one way or another in court if it ever came to that? Why isn't Bregman afraid of Trump coming after him for libel? Maybe he realises that, or maybe he was figuratively speaking. Or maybe he was talking about moral corruption. Who knows. (Whatever the case, Trump habitually makes far more outrageous claims.) The upshot is that our national broadcaster is being bullied into self-censorship by a foreign leader. I guess that doesn't bother you, which is a surprise. Regardless of magnitude, do you accept that there is a a certain degree of corruption in the Trump administration? Similarly, that the Death of Freedom of Speech is happening to a certain extent? I rather thought you'd be concerned at the latter if nothing else. <Trump has been accused of various things..> - Occam's Razor needs to applied. <...but so far not much has stuck.> - there's probably reasons for that, as already discussed.

Jesus, the crap people waste their money on. It's a cult, a quasi-religion.

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Why? I don't know much about that. Meme-coin?

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