Jeremy Vine meets a gangster

[Venod]

Central Electricity Generating Board?

I used to work for for the CEGB it made money kept people in work and was a leader in electricity generation, research and building of power stations with a mandate to keep the lights on, electricity was no more expensive than it is nowadays, so the govenment sold it off, is todays power supply industry any better ? I don't think so.

Plus I don't get my discount from the YEB shop, why? because they all shut.

 

[slowmotion]

Useless fact alert

One of the ex-chairmen of the CEGB had a home made from a converted pig-sty near Bath. It had active solar air collectors for a roof. It's performance was monitored by a visiting American professor who I worked with. He had a refreshingly pragmatic attitude to data accuracy...

"Well, that's close enough for Government work....."

 

[winjim]

Useless fact alert

One of the ex-chairmen of the CEGB had a home made from a converted pig-sty near Bath. It had active solar air collectors for a roof. It's performance was monitored by a visiting American professor who I worked with. He had a refreshingly pragmatic attitude to data accuracy...

"Well, that's close enough for Government work....."

Good enough is good enough.

 

[dellzeqq]

who was that CEGB chappie that staged a rail crash with a nuclear waste container?

 

[Dogtrousers]

who was that CEGB chappie that staged a rail crash with a nuclear waste container?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY446h4pZdc

 

[benb]

I saw one where they fired a small military jet along a track into a concrete wall at 500MPH. The jet literally atomised - it turned to dust - but the wall was virtually undamaged.

 

[booze and cake]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZY446h4pZdc

They went to all that effort back then, and this week we hear Sellafield have been storing plutonium and uranium waste in plastic bottles in a cupboard, terrifying. What happened?#cutbacks

 

[booze and cake]

I'm not in the tiniest reassured its all OK at Sellafield because that loaded cupboard isn't moving.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I question their methodology. I did extensive small scale tests with dinky toys when I was younger, and they always bounced.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

The driver of the car has now been charged with a number of offences following her altercation with JV.

From the Evening Standard:

Scotland Yard confirmed that Pearson, a student, of Vauxhall, was charged on Tuesday with driving without reasonable consideration to other road users, failing to licence a vehicle and using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.

She has been bailed to appear at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court on November 8.​

 

[Nibor]

The woman who Jeremy Vine filmed in a road rage attack has been charged with among onther offences not paying her "Road Tax" oh the irony.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/13/woman-charged-over-road-rage-clash-with-jeremy-vine/

 

[gavgav]

Good, throw the book at her

 

[biggs682]

Lock her up and throw away the keys

 

[Sixmile]

I only know this is being talked about elsewhere as I looked it up earlier.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/jeremy-vine-meets-a-gangster.206318/

 

[Nibor]

so it is I looked for that and failed thought it ironic that a road rager would be done for failing to pay their vehicle excise duty.