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I purposely didn't Google Coal Tarsoap for that reason, I knew H&S at various levels would be protecting us from ourselves and climate doom.

In the BBC item on grid improvement it says something about £2 per household from which I assume they are using 50 years to pay for the investment. I don't think energy company investors are that patient or long term in their requirements for returns.

Jun 27, 2019 at 12:08 PM | TinyCO2

The source of Aid Money, Food Aid, Emergency supplies after disasters etc has been disguised.

Much Aid from the UK goes out under EU Labels, without a Union Jack on it.

US Aid goes out under the UN Label, without a Stars and Stripes Flag on it. As the US Funds the UN and IPCC, draining US Taxpayers, without any discernable benefit, it is not surprising that Trump is tired of being dictated to.

I am a supporter of Foreign Aid, but the UN could do with making some substantial cuts on its internal expenditure

Who gets drunk while trying to impress people for a job? To be honest I just hate the taste of booze and my fellow engineer gate crashers drank my share. I was just there out of curiosity and free food. I also discovered very early on that I'm a very expensive drunk. On my 21st my mates were determined to get me so. They lost a lot of money and I was still mostly sober when we returned at 2am. I didn't even have a hang over 7 hours of sleep later.

Jun 27, 2019 at 2:04 PM | TinyCO2
They obviously thought you were a bit strange, because you weren't drunk?

Noting the original name of Wright's Coal Tar Soap, "Sapo Carbonis Detergens" from the 1860s, reminded me of this from the 1890s, a curious but legally very significant tale about things that DON'T DO exactly what they say they will do on the tin.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_Co

Jun 27, 2019 at 12:36 PM | Still In The Dark

The consumer will pay as usual, for poor delivery of unreliable electricity, that needs new power cables.

Something is not right here. If the existing power cables are old and knackered, they are old and knackered and needed replacement. They are supplying the same addreses, but the sources of the newly Unreliable electricity have been changed. Where has all the money and profit gone,that would have been used to replace the old and knackered cables?

I sneaked into a recruitment session for an advertiser while at Uni. It started with drinkies and nibbles and then showed a series of adverts, the first of which was an amusing but convoluted ad for coal tar soap. Then there was a question and answer session. I asked how many of the audience could remember the brand of soap. Embarassed silence. They should have hired me because I was the only one there who wasn't drunk, was paying attention and wasn't scared to point out mistakes.

Cheap and traditional soap
Reading comments made about soap made me curious, as I remember coal tar soap being the weapon of choice after muddy and abrasive games of football and rugby at school in the 1970s and after thorny pruning and gardening with roses/brambles and other bloodthirsty vegetation.

As a cheap disinfactant/antiseptic that was incorporated into daily hygiene routines, in Victorian times, it is not surprising that it attracted such devotion, and did genuinely lead to improved health. The EU banned the original recipe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright%27s_Coal_Tar_Soap
"W.V. Wright & Co.'s coal-tar soap was first sold in 1860. It was originally named Sapo Carbonis Detergens, which remains a registered trademark."

"Removal of coal-tar"
"European Union directives on cosmetics have banned the use of coal tar in non-prescription products, resulting in the removal of coal tar derivatives from the formula and replacement with tea tree oil as the main anti-bacterial ingredient. To cloak this major variance from the original recipe, the new soap has been made to approximate the look and smell of the original product."

At least £2.2bn will need to be spent upgrading the electricity network in the north to make Scotland ready for net-zero, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks has said.

SSEN - which looks after the pylons - said the investment is to meet the predicted demand for green electricity.

Lines will be upgraded from the north east to the central belt.

It will be paid for by SSEN and is expected to see annual bills for UK householders increase by about £2.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-48784637