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Post by kris on Sept 16, 2016 9:10:31 GMT
Did anybody else see more4 floating homes programme. It wasn't a good programme. My thought was, if this becomes popular moorings are going to get very hard to find.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 16, 2016 10:20:36 GMT
Didn't see it, can you sum it up for us?
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Post by kris on Sept 16, 2016 10:53:46 GMT
How to make a modern floating apartment and isn't this such a cool trendy thing to do. It focussed a lot on the hassles of moving and lifting oversized loads. This was obviously the only drama/ tension.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 16, 2016 13:24:37 GMT
Pacific Ocean is big enough for all! Floating homes with garden gnomes!
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Post by kris on Sept 16, 2016 18:07:53 GMT
Pacific Ocean is big enough for all! Floating homes with garden gnomes! just collect all the floating plastic together and you would have a floating country.
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Post by naughtyfox on Sept 16, 2016 18:27:15 GMT
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Post by kris on Sept 16, 2016 18:36:33 GMT
That's the one collect it all together, throw in a bit of Dutch magic. (Turning water into land. ) You could have another country.
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Post by quaysider on Sept 16, 2016 19:02:11 GMT
I watched it - it just seemed like an over-priced portacabin on the water...
I'd like the to covered utilities properly - to show how it reacts if water levels rise/fall etc. NOT a patch on a Kevin Mcloud either. I did feel for that bloke when it "was too big" to begin with lol...
I know it was well insulated, but relying on the body heat from 2 occupants to be enough to heat it is a bit optimistic... I mean, what if one stays out late - the other will freeze for sure lol.
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Post by PaulG2 on Sept 16, 2016 20:03:23 GMT
Pacific Ocean is big enough for all! Floating homes with garden gnomes! Point of order, Guv........ Unless I'm mistaken, that's the Atlantic Ocean over there in your neck of the woods. Not that y'all aren't welcome here on the Pacific. It's just you have to remember that we don't smoke fags here, "sod it" means to replant your lawn, and a "good shag" refers to quality Axminster. Most importantly, American beer is best served chilled! Remember to bring your sun screen and your surf boards!
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 16, 2016 20:08:20 GMT
Pacific Ocean is big enough for all! Floating homes with garden gnomes! Most importantly, American beer is best served chilled! They do say that American beer is served chilled so you can tell the difference between it and urine.
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Post by PaulG2 on Sept 16, 2016 20:50:35 GMT
Most importantly, American beer is best served chilled! They do say that American beer is served chilled so you can tell the difference between it and urine. And "they" would probably be right. I've never been in British pubs, but I've done the rounds in Deutschland and it's amazing how good beer can taste. You certainly don't get that here. All the beer made here has an underlying bitterness to it. What's worse is that the same thing applies to coffee. I don't know if it's the water or what, but coffee in the US is bitter - it's awful! Anywhere in Europe or the UK, even in China, you can get a cup of coffee and it is rich and delicious, but, bring those same coffee beans home here and when brewed exactly the same way, it is bitter. You can buy a fancy $7.50 Starbucks coffee and still it is bitter. I seem to recall I once had decent coffee at the Plaza Hotel in NYC, but, other than there I've never had a really good cup of coffee in America. I often wonder if it is the industrial waste Fluoride that we add to our water than makes our beverages so bitter? What's the average pH of water coming out of the tap over there? It's not unusual here to get water with pH7.0 - pH5.5, which is pretty acidic. I've often filtered my coffee water through an R/O system, but I never adjusted the pH just because that would be major PITA for one pot of coffee, and besides my measuring and adjusting kit wasn't food grade. Regardless, I can buy alkaline water (pH about 8.0 as I recall) in the store here, and I wonder how that would work for coffee? I think I'll give it a try.
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Post by kris on Sept 16, 2016 20:52:41 GMT
Most importantly, American beer is best served chilled! They do say that American beer is served chilled so you can tell the difference between it and urine. there are actually some good american micro breweries. But I agree about the big brand name brews. I mean Budweiser what is that all about, can you actually get drunk on it.
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Post by kris on Sept 16, 2016 21:02:43 GMT
I watched it - it just seemed like an over-priced portacabin on the water... I'd like the to covered utilities properly - to show how it reacts if water levels rise/fall etc. NOT a patch on a Kevin Mcloud either. I did feel for that bloke when it "was too big" to begin with lol... I know it was well insulated, but relying on the body heat from 2 occupants to be enough to heat it is a bit optimistic... I mean, what if one stays out late - the other will freeze for sure lol. i agree he was boring compared to Kevin mccloud. The programme didn't really go into much detail either.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Sept 16, 2016 21:11:19 GMT
They do say that American beer is served chilled so you can tell the difference between it and urine. What's the average pH of water coming out of the tap over there? Gosh, UK tap water varies enormously from region to region, and can change dramatically if you travel just 50 miles up the road, depending on where the water comes from (reservoir, chalk aquifer, peat bog, sewage recycling plant etc). In very broad terms, UK tap water can be divided into "hard" and "soft". www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/triple_aqa/water/hard_soft_water/revision/1/
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Post by Delta9 on Sept 17, 2016 6:43:42 GMT
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