Composting Liptons Herbal Tea
Dear Consultants
I have recently bought some Liptons herbal tea bags. Though they were delicious I was shocked to find that the labels are plastic coated, the string nylon and the bag nylon. Surely in these enlightened, home composting days it should not be allowed for companies to produce tea bags that are not compostable?
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Fox attacks.
Dear CSC
I notice in the papers that a second fox attack has occurred and was wondering if you could give some recommendations on ensuring that our children are safe from these creatures that all of a sudden seem to have taken to eating children.
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Consultant C Says:
June 22nd, 2010 at 9:06 pmI am extremely surprised at these alleged incidents concerning foxes and am doubtful that a fox was concerned at all. I would like to see forensic evidence before commenting further - I fear someone may have been mistaken. Entering houses is not normal fox behaviour.
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Gulf Oil Spill
Dear All.
It seems that a lot of shouting is being done about the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico giving their tuppence worth on the event and so I feel I would like to too.
The spill is a tragedy on a massive scale. Not only have a large number of people lost their lives but a very large area of habitat on the west coast of the US is in danger and already countless animals and plants will have been killed.
People seem to be screaming that BP should be taken over by the US govt as they can’t handle the spillage. BP has already gone to all other oil companies operating in the gulf and borrowed any equipment suitable for controlling such an issue. Most worrying is the fact that none have such equipment and BP, though poorly prepared, was best prepared for such an incident.
This spill was not created by BP but instead by a series of other companies. What BP has done is put its head above the parapet and stated that as they were funding the operation, they will take full responsibility. Why is no one blaming the rigs owner (transocean), the operator (Halliburton), the US administration for licensing the operation, the US administration which approved the safety shut downs or even the manufacturers of the safety equipment?
The clean up costs are going to be massive and BP has said it will foot the bill. Sadly this is putting a financial value onto environmental degradation and to a large extent this is impossible. The money will instead largely go to businesses that are damaging the area (to varying extents) through fishing, farming and tourism.
It is strange that the US administration is going to look to have no one out of pocket for this disaster with the 10th anniversary of the Bopal disaster just the other day. Though hundreds died and many thousands were injured and many hundreds of thousands now live within the contaminated (and it still is) area and suffer birth defects the US negotiated the compensation down to $20million and is actually still to pay half of this.
So sorry for this rant but can we have a bit of common sense with regards this issue. BP and all the other companies involved in this issue, including the licensing authorities should foot the bill for the clean up. What we need is an organisation to ensure that all that can be done is being done, that sufficient funds are available to fund these operations and also to compensate where business has been damaged and also someone to put in place better risk assessments which are tried in practice rather than in theory! Can the CSC please step in??
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justmeint Says:
June 15th, 2010 at 10:15 amThis entire toxic scenario is frightening……
Did You Know?
BP engineers alerted federal regulators at the Minerals Management Service that they were having difficulty controlling the Macondo well (Deepwater Horizon) six weeks before the disaster, according to e- mails released by the Energy and Commerce Committee.“I don’t think this would have happened on Exxon’s watch,” Tom Bower, author of “The Squeeze: Oil, Money and Greed in the 21st Century,” said in a June 11 Bloomberg Television interview. “They’d be much more careful and much more conscious of the need to supervise subcontractors.”
WELL excuse me your sainted Exxon……. and Chevron and ConocoPhillips.
Let’s just take a look at a few of your past misdemeanours, and then we can consider again – if the moratorium on deepwater drilling should be lifted, and place it all firmly back into your nice clean hands!
http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/fairy-stories-about-oil-companies.html
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Inconsiderate Umbrella Users
From a pedestrian
The other day during some rain I was trying to walk down a busy street in Edinburgh but was plagued by short folk with umbrella walking towards me. Surely people can see that they are endangering peoples eyes and should hold their brollies above other peoples head height? Common Sense Consultants, what can we do to cure this menace?
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June 11th, 2010 at 12:48 pmPhysical violence may be appropriate but is outlawed in most countries. You could try selling these buffoons good quality waterproof clothing thus negating the need for their pesky brollies, however the simplest solution would be to walk on the other side of the street.
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ultrasound technician Says:
June 13th, 2010 at 3:39 amKeep posting stuff like this i really like it
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New SPD pedals
From someone with a bruised ego
I recently got new SPD pedals (the type you click into and then twist your foot to get out of) and fitted them to my bike. On the first outing when approaching some traffic lights I went to break and to unclip but was unable to do the latter. I was left with two choices; to get run down by going through a red light or to fall off my bike. I chose the latter. Surely manufacturers should set new SPD pedals to their slackest setting, not stiffest setting, when selling such things?
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Consultant G Says:
May 25th, 2010 at 11:49 amSorry Mr Bruise, but surely it common sense for the individual to check the pedals before attaching themselves to them.
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June 11th, 2010 at 12:50 pmQuite so G, this chap is clearly a fool. It is his responsibility to ensure the safety of his equipment, seeking to blame others is poor form.
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Travel Size
From a recent traveller
I recently was flying so, knowing the rules on what is allowed on as hand luggage (max 100ml for any liquid), went out and bought a smaller bottle of deodorant spray. The one I bought clearly stated “travel size” on it but it turns out that it is not flight sized as it is 120ml! My question to the CSC is more to do with justifying the 100ml rule. You are not allowed a 200ml bottle with less than half in it as (and I quote) you may add another liquid to it and turn it into an explosive yet you can take any size of empty bottle through (into which you could add 2 liquids (should you wish and I would strongly suggest that making explosives is not a good idea!)). Are these rules not just letting the terrorists win by inconveniencing most of us while not really stopping anyone with a bit of imagination?
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Cynic Says:
May 25th, 2010 at 11:46 amThis is a dangerous area, because we do not want to give terrorists ideas. I am still amazed that I can buy a glass bottle (smash it = weapon) full of flammable liquid (alcohol) in duty free. This to me is madness.
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June 11th, 2010 at 12:54 pmIt is very difficult to set alight to standard strength drinking spirits - it is necessary to warm them first which would make for a rather slow improvised explosive device.
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June 15th, 2010 at 3:45 pmLets try !
Not on a plane, but in your garden sometime. We can buy a load of cheap booze (minimum pricing ????) and then try and set fire to it.How about we do it in work time ? Sounds like a good afternoon to me.
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Lightening Power Station
Someone thinks they have had a great idea.
Why don’t we use lightening to feed into the grid and use it as a source of energy? I think I may have solved the worlds energy needs!
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Consultant K Says:
April 28th, 2010 at 12:33 pmWhat we are after is Watts! Lightening has a very very high voltage but a relatively low amperage. Multiply the two together and you get power (watts). Though it is not a small amount of power you will get it only exists for a very short time.
Lots of figures are out there but lets run with the following
1,000,000volts, 40,000amps and lasts for 1/10th of a second.
Volts times Amps gives us the Watts
Using the above we therefore have 40,000MW which is a lot but then we have the time factor which brings that down to a little over 1MW hours which is still a lot. But then when we put that strike into a house over a year it will only provide 126Wh for a year.
But then we have to take into account all the losses from the system. Energy from the strike lost to noise, light and inefficiencies in the system. Then how do we capture it? We would need to have spikes all along the grid waiting to collect it, rectify it to the grids phase and drop it in.All in all it is a nice idea but not one that is practical.
June 29th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Yes, it should be banned. I suggest that you buy another brand instead.