Pet Peeves

[Caomhaoin]

Probably, but I don't think it's the only reason. The 'solutions' like wind turbines (made out of fibre glass, unrecyclable, inefficient eyesores) and rationing pensioners heating in winter? Bullshit.

Sure just caulk your windows and wear a jumper if it's cold grandad!

Don't get me started on electric cars. I know Ireland has made strides in renewable energy percentages, but taxing diesel cars off the road for 0 CO2 (false!) gliders whose battery alone will set you back 20000 stones.

Tax China and India off the road.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Apples and oranges. Everyone knows reducing energy consumption is the best long term way to reduce emissions, far more sure a solution than replacing the source of the energy. Air conditioning not only eats energy, contributing to carbon emissions mid to long term, but also has a net urban effect of immediately heating cities by pumping hot air outward. Reducing the amount of work air conditioners are doing is beneficial on multiple fronts. And the other new Spanish law, telling shops to turn off their window lights when they're closed, that's also just common sense energy consumption reduction, regardless of how much it may anger brand awareness marketeers.

[Eoin McLove]

Fuck reducing air conditioning. Australia is roughly 5 million degrees in the summer time. It's absolutely painful. I get home from work,  close all the blinds and pump the ac all evening. I couldn't live otherwise- the polar icecaps bedamned.

[Caomhaoin]

They are only telling businesses and 'recommending' homeowners to do it because they want to 'do their bit' in poking Russia in the eye, regardless of what 'everybody knows'.

I'm not saying you don't have the kernel of a point, but it seems you are far more doctrinaire than you imply that I am. Lads using the AC in 40 degree weather is a drop in the ocean compared to the true causes of pollution. The Chinese, Ted.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Close all the blinds and shutters before you leave in the morning, if you're not doing so already. Makes a massive difference. During heatwaves, our house is totally closed off to direct sunlight from 9am onwards, even if I'm working at home. Besides which, who chooses to move to a place (Australia) that, as Dylan Moran put it, is already as hot as the sun!

[Eoin McLove]

Yeah, we keep them closed all day but the rental we are in is shit. Cold in winter and unbearable in summer. We are going to move in December when our lease is up,  inshallah, but we'll see what's available. Even in a modern house here you couldn't survive without ac in your car and house. It's a frying pan with a flag.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

Tis the properly ancient houses insulate the best. We were in a place like you're describing until a year ago, then struck lucky finding a stone wall place for rent and the difference is a godsend. Still black out during the day though.

Do agree with you on the electric cars and many other measures being bullshit Kev, but reducing consumption across the board is the one thing that may help. And talking to men who've been working the earth for 60+ years this last week, they're all saying that the party is ending; our kids are not going to have the excess of luxury we (those men's kids) had, not for long anyway. Harsh, harsh times are coming if crops start failing due to heat, and that's the prediction here, not from climate scientists but from farmers weighing their harvest year after year.

[Caomhaoin]

The blackout does help, I'll grant you. The problem is that here the temperature is still too high to sleep at night. The only option is to switch on the AC for twenty minutes and hope I fall asleep before the timer turns it off.

Pet Peeve for today - People stopping dead in the street to look at the phone. I almost bumped into some bint taking a photo of her nails there earlier. It's like braking on the motorway or not letting a lad with one item off in the supermarket. Inconsiderate and irritating.

[Carnage]

That's as bad as pricks dragging a suitcase along by the handle and crossing directly in front of you, tripping you with the thing in the process.

[Bürggermeister]

The cunts who stop dead in exits and other narrow passages for a chat or a think, completely ignorant of people trying to get in or out around them.

On a related topic, fuckers who only start getting their wallet or purse out, at the till, once they've been told how much the one or two things they are trying to buy costs, as if it's a surprise that they'll need to pay for them. Bonus points for the ones who spend an age fishing around for the correct change, only to eventually give up and hand over the €2 which has been staring them in the face for a couple of minutes.

[ochoill]

Re. protecting your house from heat, if there's windows you never let the blind up on, tape tinfoil to them shiny side out.  You can deck the back of a curtain in it too but flat to the window is best.  Helps keep the heat out.  My gaff gets disgracefully hot in summer, even for here, because the rooms are built into the roof of a bungalow.  I never let the small windows blinds up anyway, so I built a sort of tin foil and black bag blackout over each one, they are pitch black for natural light now.  First night was disgraceful since the heat had already built up and couldn't escape, but after that it has dropped the rooms by about 3 or 4 degrees.

[mickO)))]

The wankers at anpost seems they are still at this bullshit of sending back packages for no reason that come from outside the EU. Had something coming from Australia that arrived here on the 1st just checked the tracking and now it is on the way back to Australia. This bullshit has been going on for a year now so fed up with it and nobody is doing anything to fix it. Ireland is the only EU country that is doing this.

[Eoin McLove]

I've just noticed that my eyebrows are starting to migrate down over my eyelids! Getting older, if nothing else, never ceases to throw up new surprises 

[Carnage]

The occasional drooping hair or full sprout? I've had the former for a few years and it's annoying, alarming and depressing in equal measure.

[Eoin McLove]

It's neither a lone pine  nor a dense rainforest. It's somewhere between a copse and a grove. Clearly the creep has been ongoing for some time, hidden in plain sight...