[Climate change protests]

25 minutes ago, beefybake said:

Obviously you've missed the fact that diesel cars are now regarded as toxic, are gradually being taxed off the road, every car manufacturer in the world is scrambling to

produce electric cars, all the 'smart money' in investments is going down the road of low carbon, climate change, SRI ( Socially Responsbile Investment ).

Basically , away from fossil fuels.

So tell me then, how do we power all these electric cars? 

[Climate change protests]

3 minutes ago, coprolite said:

So we should just chuck what we have in the sea? 

It's not having plastic that's the problem, it's throwing it away. 

I didn't say we should chuck plastics in the sea. I simply pointed out that individuals refusing to use plastic products wasn't going to stop plastics from being produced. 

The answer to the waste problem is for industry to find a successful way to use the plastics that our consumption of hydro carbons creates. 

[The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread]

I watched the game on BT Sport despite already knowing the result. It was chronic. The goals conceded were dreadful. Erhahon is rightly being criticised but Jack Baird and Gary McKenzie were also dreadful. 

What was really cringeworthy about the TV coverage though was the pre match interview with Tony Fitzpatrick where yet again he insisted St Mirren should be a top 4 club. Surely even he struggles to believe his nonsense. 

[Climate change protests]

4 minutes ago, beefybake said:

I live in a rural area, made up of villages 2 or 3 miles apart, and the nearest proper town a dozen miles in any direction.    The good thing is that small local film

societies spring up, and I get to see stuff that never appears in mainstream cinemas.  About this time last year one of the societies put on an independent film

called "Plastic Ocean".  Quite eye-opening for me. Since then I really do make sure that the plastic milk bottles go to the recycling bins. And I've changed to

using bamboo handled toothbrushes, and also almost stopped using plastic disposable razors, and have returned to using a steel safety razor. Little things, maybe,

but doing my bit.

Also, changed to using 100% renewable electricity a year ago, as the price came down to a level that I could afford.

Extinction Rebellion.....

They did a presentation at one of the film societies in March. I went along.   They collected emails from those who were interested.

A week or so later I received an email urging me to get more involved, with the aim, to go up to London for the big demo that took place April time.

I didn't, as it costs a fortune to go from here to London.

Personally, from my student days in Glasgow almost 50 years ago, I'm more of an urban stone thrower mentality.

That's not what the Extinction Rebellion is about.

I do support what they're doing , and the way they're going about it.

(PS. I've never had a stipendiary job. It's all been working for pay, mostly self-employed )

You realise that what you are doing is utterly pointless? 

The production of plastics is a by-product of the process of distilling hydro carbons. So regardless of whether we stop using plastics or not, whilst we still need oil, gas, bitumen, diesel, kerosene, sulphur ect plastics are still going to be produced. 

 

[The St. Mirren FC 2023/24 thread]

First post so go easy guys. 

I'd agree with what Demented Zebra said on the last page about Gordon Scott. I have no reason to like him, or to trust him but he hasn't done himself any favours over the years he's been in charge. I'm probably in a minority but I didn't rate Oran Kearney and I am perfectly happy that Jim Goodwin has replaced him as manager. but Gordon Scott's comments to the press are embarrassing. It's not the fact that he appears to have lied, or that he seems to have broken his own non disclosure agreement, it's that he claims St Mirren wanted to keep Oran Kearney as manager, but couldn't due to the irresistible lure of part time football in Northern Ireland. How much of a diddy club does that make St Mirren?

I'm not worried at all about the lack of signings yet. I'd expect most of the transfer activity from the club to come late in the transfer window, or even after the window closes. Players with options are going to want to look elsewhere given the instability at the club.