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I have a dog.
i drive 1.5 miles to work in a car that does 7mpg
Major crime alert! Send for the CO2 police! Planet murderer!
I resort to weedkiller and calcium sulphate on the patio* once a year or so.
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*assembly of red and orange 1990's slabs with a jungle of virulent triffid between slabs and aggressive moss and slime growth due to being tucked under a north facing railway embankment and retaining wall.
I have a dog.
You've misspelt 'iPad'.
I've travelled more in the car to get to places to ride, than the actual riding distance this year.
Major crime alert! Send for the CO2 police! Planet murderer!
I prefer to think im keeping the oil and gas economy going 🙂
I use a variety of petrol powered equipment for garden maintenance, plus I eat Loads of meat 🍖 😋
Pizza oven in the garden. Really don't need to light a fire to cook a pizza.
But they taste so good.
i boil the kettle, with almost twice as much water as i will use in the cafetiere (min. for kettle) and the let the boiling water cool back down nearly 20* before using it.
too tight to buy a low volume, 80* kettle
Major crime alert! Send for the CO2 police! Planet murderer!
I prefer to think im keeping the oil and gas economy going 🙂
Yeah - Send for the CO2 police! Planet murderer! 😀
I use the internet for trivial things
I don't compost. I should as it's the only thing we actually throw out (scrapings, tea bags, coffee, fruit/veg skins etc). But I don't like the idea of a rotting VAT next to the house.
I insist in only buying Brazilian beef products.
No, I don’t think it’s a terrible thing either but I’ve been informed otherwise.
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I just really love shitting in the woods. No idea why but it just makes me feel like a king. All that nonsense about bagging it and taking it home can go get ****ed.
When I tidy up the kitchen sometimes there are bits of food scraps and I put the whole lot in the bin instead of picking the bits of food out.
Sometimes I throw recyclable packaging away in a bin when I am out and about, instead of taking it home to recycle.
Occasionally chucking large car parts in the recycling bin. Chucked a crankshaft in there once.
Oof. Those things are valuable. We have several different scrappies who come around in vans and they gladly take all my old bike and car parts.
Major crime alert! Send for the CO2 police! Planet murderer!
I prefer to think im keeping the oil and gas economy going 🙂
Yeah – Send for the CO2 police! Planet murderer! 😀
Just wait till you find out i dont sort out the recycling either!
Oof. Those things are valuable. We have several different scrappies who come around in vans and they gladly take all my old bike and car parts.
I heard they just leave a 20 yarder at the end of your drive
I love hot baths too btw and on some lazy jobless days I have been known to have one in the morning, it's lovely.
Just did a calculation, and a bath a day for a year uses up 1.2MWh of electricity which is about £200-250 and about 280kg of CO2 emissions (uk average) which is about the same as driving 1200 miles in a typical car. or about 5,400 miles in a good EV. Or, about the same as lighting a typical house (guessing 6 bulbs) 24 hours a day for 2 years.
Which doesn't sound so bad, but compared to flying it's about the same as Edinburgh to London twice.
Also, munro bagging, not really that great either given the amount of driving.
Lol @ thols2
Having a second car that is really bad on pollutants, purely as a fun thing.
Do a lot of miles just to go riding somewhere.
I counter them though by not changing the daily driver every 2/3 years (9 years old and still plenty of life left in it) and by not producing any kids.
Where to start... too many kids, too many pets, live too far from the office to cycle, old victorian house which has the insulation of a sieve - I'll probably burn in hell for it all.
I'm sounding a bit like a grumpy old man today
Dropping apple stalks on the ground. I eat the apple, pips and all but I'm left holding the stalk.
If that's too petty then buying 3kg plastic bags of apples instead of loose ones, oh and they aren't bio !
I don't repair inner tubes.
I use the internet for trivial things
so far the winner I think for total pettiness 🙂
Hmmm, two kids and a dog*, not off to a good start really.
None of us eat beef anymore and we'll have at least two meat free days a week.
Cycle commute for the last 10+ years, neither me or Mrs F drive for work, one of the cars spends 4-5 months a year sorned. They're old too, in fact I've owned two cars in the past 20 years :D, less than 5k miles per year. However, quite a bit of that mileage is covered towing a trailer to various circuits so I can spend a weekend going round and round in circles trying to be quicker than I was last time I visited, fuel is burned, tyres are ruined.
I've only been on eight flights in my lifetime.
I can't think of anything petty I do knowingly, it's either good or awful.
*the dog's ace, can I get rid of the kids and keep the dog?
I own cryptocurrency.
About a quarter mile from my house is a 4 way traffic light. You can tell from a bit of a distance where it is in the sequence and therefore if you can make it to the lights for the upcoming green.
I'll properly gun my (diesel) car from cold to make it through if I think I can. Almost certainly worse than sitting idling* for 2 minutes.
*yes it has start stop, yes its always enabled.
No it wont do it after quarter of a mile, especially on a cold morning. I trust the german engineers to know when is right to turn it off, and when to keep it going better than my own gut feeling, so I won't turn it off manually.
My cat has an electric blanket in it's bed in the summerhouse.
On the other hand it is old and fat and doesnt kill any wildlife these days.
Oh ****.
I’m going to be TJ when I’m older.
I guess it could be worse....
I got an electric blanket (I get seriously cold feet) and I basically never remember to turn it off. I am a monster.
Oh and practically everything to do with 3d printing, it's a great way to buy plastic from china and then waste electricity in order to turn it into slightly different plastic half of which goes in the bin and probably can't be recycled and most of the rest is just complete nonsense that nobody needs.
7mpg
wtaf, i drive a double decker coach that manages more than 9mpg, with 79 people on board!!
I like to use petrol as a chain cleaner.
On a couple of occasions I have had to poo in the woods, pretty sure that despite my care - that it does actually have and environmental impact. And no, I didn’t have a bag to take it home - but it wouldn’t have been suitable for bagging anyway…
My household goes through bananas at a rate of about two packs a day.
I have a bike just for the purposes of riding it around in pointless circles in the woods.
7mpg
wtaf, i drive a double decker coach that manages more than 9mpg, with 79 people on board!!
MPG?
The big boys measure it in GPM. Probably a couple of gallons just on this tyre warmup.
I once flew a plane back from the USA with zero passengers and a cargo of cast-iron frying pans.
7mpg
It's a rotary engined mazda, most of the fuel probably gets chucked out of the exhaust unburnt!
I once flew a plane back from the USA with zero passengers and a cargo of cast-iron frying pans.
Because you buzzed the tower?
I have a bike just for the purposes of riding it around in pointless circles in the woods.
Both my bikes are owned purely for this intended purpose. Occasionally I could find a tenuous excuse for using one for something practical as an additional benefit but that isn't the point of them at all.
Arriving shortly, an expensive indoor bike so I can ride in virtual circles and therefore become better/faster at riding in outdoor circles in the future.
Arriving shortly, an expensive indoor bike so I can ride in virtual circles and therefore become better/faster at riding in outdoor circles in the future.
That one will probably need plugging in to the mains too. Burn him! And by the same measure, me too.
The big boys measure it in GPM. Probably a couple of gallons just on this tyre warmup.
It’s almost certainly running on alcohol anyway, top fuel rails and funnies use nitro and alcohol, IIRC.
I don’t sort the recycling, except for glass bottles. But then, I don’t have to, which makes life much easier.
I buy wine from the other side of the world.
And force children into slavery in third world countries to provide the rare earth metals for my electric car.
Right. I now have a list of names for my little notebook for when I am world dictator
Ha!
We're turning our low voltage outdoor Christmas lights on tomorrow. It's not December and I don't even care.