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Post by jean on Dec 14, 2012 0:33:56 GMT
It is a quote from a Green Peace press release, though there is no evidence of that in the post, just a piece of purple prose. Right now plans are being drawn up that could see dozens of new dirty gas power stations built in the UK. If their plans go ahead, it risks decades of carbon emissions and losing thousands of new green jobs.thesequal.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=climate&thread=748&page=1Only just seen this! Yes, pippop is right - that's how I do links. You can see it's a link if you hover your mouse over it - see the underlining? Then you click on it, and it takes you to the source of the quote. I didn't realise you didn't know that. (Note the different shades of purple in your version above.) |
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 14, 2012 4:10:11 GMT
So do you agree with Greenpeace's use of the word "dirty" to describe gas-fired power stations, jean? Or did you include that sentence by accident? Pippop needs to know, urgently, please! Really entertaining to watch the pair of you wriggle!
(I think Pippop thinks you have made a fool of yourself, jean, and is desperately trying to get you off the hook! Isn't s/he wonderfully loyal!)
The discussion is not how to do links but whether YOU believe what you posted in your Greenpeace quotation.
If you don't really believe gas-fired power stations are "dirty" tell us. We'll forgive you! Nobody's perfect, after all. Perhaps you thought Greepeace was just exaggerating for effect or using a bit of poetic licence or that no-one would pick you up on your and Greenpeace's absurdity?
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Post by jean on Dec 14, 2012 8:31:04 GMT
So do you agree with Greenpeace's use of the word "dirty" to describe gas-fired power stations, jean? Or did you include that sentence by accident? Pippop needs to know, urgently, please! You have entirely missed the point of my post, marchesa - perhaps not surprising, since (as you now realise) the bit in purple was a link, which you were supposed to click on, and read in its entirety the article to which it led you. Here's the beginning of the Mail article: The Conservative campaign manager in the by-election to replace Louise Mensch as MP for Corby has been caught on film admitting he encouraged a rival candidate.
Chris Heaton-Harris today apologised after footage emerged in which he suggested his friend James Delingpole had put his name forward to stand against the Tory party candidate.
Mr Heaton-Harris, MP for Daventry, was filmed saying it was 'part of the plan' to 'cause some hassle' in the Corby by-election by making wind farms a major issue ahead of polling day.
Ms Mensch stood down in the summer, claiming she could not juggle family life and the demands of being an MP.
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 14, 2012 11:36:59 GMT
I was not discussing the Mail article or the Corby by-election, I was querying, IF you remember, YOUR quotation of Greenpeace's claim that gas power stations are "dirty".
Stop blathering, please, about unrelated matters.
This thread is about electricity production from thermal and renewable sources, in case you had forgotten.
So, are gas-fuelled power stations "dirty", in your opinion, jean?
It is surely not unreasonable to expect a Green Party candidate to be willing and able to express a view on this matter?
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Post by jean on Dec 14, 2012 12:06:54 GMT
Stop blathering, please, about unrelated matters. I've told you what the purpose of my OP on that other thread was, marchesa. Stop blathering, please, about unrelated matters. (Nearly all methods of generating elecrtricity are dirty to some degree, of course. How much dirt and of what sort we are prepared to tolerate is what we have to decide.) |
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 14, 2012 17:42:01 GMT
Since you went to the trouble to quote a Greenpeace press release we have to assume you were acquainted with the contents and approved them.
So is it your opinion that gas power stations are "dirty", jean, and that we should not build any more of them, indeed that we should perhaps close down those we already have?
How do you think Greenpeace, or indeed, your own Green Party would manage to keep the lights on in winter without this fuel described as "dirty"?
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Post by jean on Dec 14, 2012 17:51:08 GMT
Since you went to the trouble to quote a Greenpeace press release we have to assume you were acquainted with the contents and approved them. The press release was all about the Tories and James Delingpole and his dirty tricks, marchesa. You haven't said a single word about that! I'll wait until you do. |
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 24, 2012 16:32:30 GMT
THIS thread is about Electricity Generation, jean.
Why not respond to the thread topic, while you're passing through?
I suppose it boils down to this, "You can lead a whore to culture but you can't make her think".
Courtesy of Dorothy Parker. Merry Christmas, All!
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Post by aubrey on Dec 24, 2012 19:14:51 GMT
Whores are just as able to think as anyone else is.
(Dorothy Parker not showing much feminine solidarity, there.)
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Post by jean on Dec 24, 2012 19:46:21 GMT
Jean used the word "dirty", pippop. She may well have been quoting some Green Party or Green Peace propaganda but she quoted it approvingly. I am free to post or not on any thread as I see fit, marchesa. I am only posting on this one because I needed to correct several erroneous assumptions of yours. First, I was quoting - not might well have been.Secondly, I do not necessarily endorse every word of everything I quote, especially if the main purpose of the article I'm quoting lies elsewhere. But I have already said that most methods of energy generation are 'dirty' to a greater or lesser extent. Nuclear energy is only 'clean' if you don't consider how to deal with what's left behind afterwards. |
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Post by pippop on Dec 24, 2012 19:48:58 GMT
Whore are just as able to think as anyone else is. That's funny, you could've meant "who're" or maybe it was supposed to be "whores are...". Now I'm wondering if there is any difference. English is a funny language with subtleties. I'm no expert. I think I agree with you though; I love lots of the things she said but think that one is a bit mean. I've started on the Xmas thing now and should be off for a bit so if I don't see you before you see me then I'll take this opportunity to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! |
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Post by jean on Dec 24, 2012 19:56:57 GMT
...I love lots of the things she said... Did you mean Dorothy Parker there, or the lovely marchesa? |
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Post by aubrey on Dec 24, 2012 20:19:32 GMT
I corrected it immediately, but them forgot to post for about 2 hours. I have no proof of this, though.
I think it's a clever quote, and probably irresistible; but it is unfair.
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Post by marchesarosa on Dec 27, 2012 11:24:04 GMT
Usually seen in the form of
“You can lead a horse to water
But you can’t make him drink.
You can lead a horticulture
But you can’t make her think.”
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Post by pippop on Dec 27, 2012 12:29:49 GMT
I corrected it immediately, but them forgot to post for about 2 hours. I have no proof of this, though. I think it's a clever quote, and probably irresistible; but it is unfair. I still love her and you and me are in good company because apparently David Sedaris loves her too! |
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