Joanna Lumley

[awol]

National Treasure, Joanna Lumley, is campaigning against exploding discarded ordanance under water to clear the sea bed for wind farms (she's in favour of them). Could be difficult for Boris to clear the Beaufort Trench for his bridge.

 

[jimi]

National Treasure, Lumley, gets on my tits! I almost immediately oppose anything she advocates as a matter of principle. I know I'm being childish but she really gets up my nose!

 

[dom]

National Treasure, Lumley, gets on my tits! I almost immediately oppose anything she advocates as a matter of principle. I know I'm being childish but she really gets up my nose!

What are ageing celebs supposed to do if we kick them out of important advisory roles relating to energy security, public expenditure, etc.?

Next you'll be saying Gary Lineker shouldn't get Chris Whittys job

Jeez Jimi

 

[DJE]

National Treasure, Joanna Lumley, is campaigning against exploding discarded ordanance under water to clear the sea bed for wind farms (she's in favour of them). Could be difficult for Boris to clear the Beaufort Trench for his bridge.

No problem - use a floating tunnel.
World's first submerged floating tube bridge lined up for Norway - New Civil Engineer

 

[Frogmogman]

Could be difficult for Boris to clear the Beaufort Trench for his bridge.

Seeing as Johnson managed to spaff 50 million on NOT building the garden bridge across the Thames, goodness know how much money he could spend on not building this one.

(I refuse to refer to him as Boris. For me, the only Boris that matters is Boris Herrmann).

 

[claymore]

National Treasure, Lumley, gets on my tits! I almost immediately oppose anything she advocates as a matter of principle. I know I'm being childish but she really gets up my nose!

She's pretty dreadful in 'Finding Alice'

Jamesie - ah seem tae recollect ye fantasising aboot her a while back - are ye still as sweet on Stephanie Flanders as ye used tae be?

 

[jimi]

Seeing as Johnson managed to spaff 50 million on NOT building the garden bridge across the Thames, goodness know how much money he could spend on not building this one.

(I refuse to refer to him as Boris. For me, the only Boris that matters is Boris Herrmann).

I'm sure you know that Joanna Lumley is a family friend of the Johnston's and the garden bridge was actually her idea!

 

[Frogmogman]

I'm sure you know that Joanna Lumley is a family friend of the Johnston's and the garden bridge was actually her idea!

I do.

 

[jimi]

She's pretty dreadful in 'Finding Alice'

Jamesie - ah seem tae recollect ye fantasising aboot her a while back - are ye still as sweet on Stephanie Flanders as ye used tae be?

Och I'm afraid yer confusing me with the aged Para? I was mair inclined towards Fiona Bruce although I had the pleasure of playing against Kirstie Wark at hockey once in my teenage years ;-)

 

[dgadee]

National Treasure, Joanna Lumley, is campaigning against exploding discarded ordanance under water to clear the sea bed for wind farms (she's in favour of them). Could be difficult for Boris to clear the Beaufort Trench for his bridge.

We need that bridge!

 

[JumbleDuck]

National Treasure, Lumley, gets on my tits! I almost immediately oppose anything she advocates as a matter of principle. I know I'm being childish but she really gets up my nose!

She does have a track record of supporting dreadful scheme, but that's not really her fault. She can supports what she likes - it's the credibility she gets from politicians and the donors that's the problem. She recently successfully supported a Centre for Children's Literature near me, in Dumfries, which is about as terrible an idea as you can get. The idea of a Centre for Children's Literature isn't bad, but putting it two hours by coach each way from the central belt means that practically no school groups can visit it. It's doomed.

It's in an old house, the garden of which supposedly inspired Peter Pan. It has a nice café, which they built by concreting over half the garden.

And relax. A bit off topic, theis, but she also supported the Garden Bridge plan in London, and that was almost nautical.

 

[Frogmogman]

TBH I wasn't really that angry about money wasted on the garden bridge until Johnson's interview on the Nick Ferrari show in March 2019, in which he dismissed a similar sum of public money to that which he had blown on the project being spent investigating historic child abuse cases with “You know £60m I saw was being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse".

Aside from introducing many people to the public school slang word of spaffing, the insouciance with which he trivialised the awful things that had been inflicted on the victims just pulled into focus for me what an awful individual he truly is.

 

[Rappey]

Gotta love how no matter what the thread title it often ends up as a rant against the government..

 

[claymore]

Och I'm afraid yer confusing me with the aged Para? I was mair inclined towards Fiona Bruce although I had the pleasure of playing against Kirstie Wark at hockey once in my teenage years ;-)

Feck sake - The Wark is never that old....

 

[Sailfree]

No problem - use a floating tunnel.
World's first submerged floating tube bridge lined up for Norway - New Civil Engineer

I trust bozo is better than Norways PM and spent more money achieving less (£50m on the Garden bridge) so he is No1 in the world!

Do you know how far as this tunnel/bridge got? and at what cost?

 

[dgadee]

No problem - use a floating tunnel.
World's first submerged floating tube bridge lined up for Norway - New Civil Engineer

Brilliant! Donaghadee to Portpatrick! Just keep the dogs and ham sandwiches out of it.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Brilliant! Donaghadee to Portpatrick! Just keep the dogs and ham sandwiches out of it.

I've just written an modelling exercise on a floating tunnel there as part of a university course in fluid dynamics - looking at buoyant, wave and tidal forces. It's not a daft idea.

 

[dgadee]

I've just written an modelling exercise on a floating tunnel there as part of a university course in fluid dynamics - looking at buoyant, wave and tidal forces. It's not a daft idea.

You'll need to give up any thought of retirement. Donaghadee needs you.

Ps: in your modelling make sure the Larne option is shown to be exhorbitantly expensive. Those religious nuts!

 

[RJJ]

TBH I wasn't really that angry about money wasted on the garden bridge until Johnson's interview on the Nick Ferrari show in March 2019, in which he dismissed a similar sum of public money to that which he had blown on the project being spent investigating historic child abuse cases with “You know £60m I saw was being spaffed up the wall on some investigation into historic child abuse".

Aside from introducing many people to the public school slang word of spaffing, the insouciance with which he trivialised the awful things that had been inflicted on the victims just pulled into focus for me what an awful individual he truly is.

Back then I was a lukewarm supporter of Johnson. But the garden bridge was always an atrocious idea. We got off lightly with the £60m.

Get this - part of the justification was to provide more greenery and offset some CO2. But the six actual trees would have to be regularly pruned, and hard, so as not to damage the structure. Nobody seemed to think that you could plant a few oak trees in Richmond Park for an afternoon's work and a couple of grand.

 

[Adios]

National Treasure, Lumley, gets on my tits!

National Treasure Lumley took National Treasure Lovejoy sailing from Maldon one time so she can't be all bad.