This Weather.....

[Rudy]

Whilst praising Bolty

[Spider]

And listening to a Michael Bolton playlist

[Rudy]

And oasis mega mix 

[Youri McAnespie]

I only hate Greggs nonce and Holmes.

The rest I just pity the fools.

It's the drinkers of 'Rivvy' I pity an' all, if the proprietors can rinse the gullible with a 400% markup to cost then fair play to 'em...

Edited October 12, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[bolton_blondie]

Bloody lovely today. 

[jmjhb]

Nice squall line just now

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 hour ago, jmjhb said:

Nice squall line just now

When that arrived, I just happened to be looking out across soke woodland. Trees suddenly were blowing at a really large angle, and leaves seemed to explode from branches.

Then the rain. All over within a minute or two.

[Casino]

Looks reasonable for the next few hours

We will see

[Escobarp]

2 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

When that arrived, I just happened to be looking out across soke woodland. Trees suddenly were blowing at a really large angle, and leaves seemed to explode from branches.

Then the rain. All over within a minute or two.

What about the weather?

[Rudy]

My dog has started doing something strange. 
 

He has a little flower bed where he buries a bone. 
 

All day at least once an hour he’ll go outside and patrols the garden, walks the full perimeter about 3 times. Stops and has a sniff of his spot where’s he’s buried his bone. 

 

What I’ve noticed recently is, when it’s dry he’ll go out and bury it. Before it rains he’ll go and dig it up. Bring it inside. Then when it stops he goes and buries it again. 
 

Noticed it when he started barking at the back door when it was raining and he didn’t have his bone. 
 

Attenborough would be all over it 

[deane koontz]

[Tonge moor green jacket]

5 hours ago, Escobarp said:

What about the weather?

Kinell, that long- I'd be spoiling her!!😁

[BobyBrno]

8 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

When that arrived, I just happened to be looking out across soke woodland. Trees suddenly were blowing at a really large angle, and leaves seemed to explode from branches.

Then the rain. All over within a minute or two.

A customer came in just before it started. I know him well but I was busy and was glad when we’d sorted the business and he could go and leave me alone to work.  Looked outside and the squall started. We ended up talking about Bolton’s fortunes for 15 minutes till it ended. 

[Zico]

Two of the lakes have merged 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cumbria-59092200

 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

27 minutes ago, Zico said:

Two of the lakes have merged 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-cumbria-59092200

 

Wow. Can see the plume of silt washed into the lakes. 

 

[Rudy]

We still on a water shortage?

[MickyD]

2 hours ago, Rudy said:

We still on a water shortage?

United Utilities were advertising on radio for us to take shorter showers, turn off taps when brushing teeth, make sure a leaky cistern is fixed, all in order to save potable water.

We’ve been here before; the volume of water has never changed since earth was formed. Some is ice, some is sea, some in lakes and rivers, some in clouds, etc.

I learned at school water cannot be destroyed nor created.

If some of the ice melts, it changes to water and sea levels rise. If the atmosphere warms up, it evaporates more water into vapour/cloud.

Then it rains and fills up the sea, lakes and rivers. It was known at school geography lessons as the Water Cycle.

UU seem to be forgetting these geography basics because they claim long showers, dripping taps, running taps, etc., are wasting water as though once lost, it’s never coming back. I’m calling bullshit.

[Youri McAnespie]

One argument proffered in support of private ownership of utilities is that competition benefits the consumer.

Except in the case of water there is no competition.

United Utilities might want to think about sorting their leaks an' all...

And one could wash with an eggcup of water and launder one's clothes in a rainwater filled dolly tub - the majority of my extortionate bills are for disposal, including the utterly ridiculous charge for 'run off' - from the roof etc.

I know someone with a shop and a flat above - United Utilities wanted 'run-off' surcharge payments from them AND their tenant above.

How do they work that one out, there's only one fucking roof..?

My late parents, as working class as they come, sold-out and invested in U.U. when they floated, their investment was relatively modest at first, but they initially refused dividends in favour of further shares.

They used to get a cheque every year that was ridiculous.

Everyone should refuse to pay.

Cheeky cunts coming to the taxpayer for necessary improvements to infrastructure? Lemon Socialism at its worst.

Get it brought back into public hands.

DON'T WANT TO PAY! WON'T PAY!

 

Edited November 1, 2021 by Youri McAnespie

[Tonge moor green jacket]

Whatever ownership model is adopted, fact remains that big projects and ongoing costs have to be paid for.

There will always be a debate as to which system is better, but for the immediate future, the growth of our population and associated pressures on the land etc is putting the network under strain.

Watching a report earlier about Madagascar's drought; we should consider ourselves fortunate, and not complain about having to pay for what we get from our taps or what we shove down the drain.

Micky- water can be made and destroyed. Plants do it all the time.

[Youri McAnespie]

If they're 'under strain' hand it back then.

The only strain they have is in picking up their bonuses year on year.

Lemon Socialism - troughing away with the tasty morsels, expecting the taxpayer to eat the shit sandwich.

They can get fucked.

Even a capitalist should baulk at the monopoly of U.U.

And their wastage is criminal.

Yet the top brass get their ill-gotten gains and shareholders get their butties.

Everyone should stop paying.

What can they do (worse)?

It'd only take a month to break them.

So we'd stink a bit and shit and piss in a hole out back for a few weeks, big deal.

[stevieb]

5 hours ago, MickyD said:

United Utilities were advertising on radio for us to take shorter showers, turn off taps when brushing teeth, make sure a leaky cistern is fixed, all in order to save potable water.

We’ve been here before; the volume of water has never changed since earth was formed. Some is ice, some is sea, some in lakes and rivers, some in clouds, etc.

I learned at school water cannot be destroyed nor created.

If some of the ice melts, it changes to water and sea levels rise. If the atmosphere warms up, it evaporates more water into vapour/cloud.

Then it rains and fills up the sea, lakes and rivers. It was known at school geography lessons as the Water Cycle.

UU seem to be forgetting these geography basics because they claim long showers, dripping taps, running taps, etc., are wasting water as though once lost, it’s never coming back. I’m calling bullshit.

I read somewhere (probably a Youri 'stat') that UU waste 25%.

When they ask me to take shorter showers I fill the bath up to the brim then whack taps on full whack and unplug it. 

Fucking cunts pinning their wastefulness on the growing climate emergency 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

1 hour ago, Youri McAnespie said:

If they're 'under strain' hand it back then.

The only strain they have is in picking up their bonuses year on year.

Lemon Socialism - troughing away with the tasty morsels, expecting the taxpayer to eat the shit sandwich.

They can get fucked.

Even a capitalist should baulk at the monopoly of U.U.

And their wastage is criminal.

Yet the top brass get their ill-gotten gains and shareholders get their butties.

Everyone should stop paying.

What can they do (worse)?

It'd only take a month to break them.

So we'd stink a bit and shit and piss in a hole out back for a few weeks, big deal.

Won't necessarily make one jot of difference will it?

Still needs people to do the same jobs.

Still need companies to be successful for shareholders to invest in.

We all have pensions which require shares and other plans to invest in.

All this anti money making stance is all well good until a viable alternative is needed.

Being ignorant of the strain our services are under doesn't mean there aren't any neither.

Pre pandemic the country was growing at a rate similar to a city the size of Newcastle each year.

They all want water, electricity, houses, food, roads and rail etc.

That means investment in so much more than a new house on a bit of greenbelt somewhere.

[Rudy]

This rain today has been absolutely torrential 

[bolton_blondie]

Just now, Rudy said:

This rain today has been absolutely torrential 

I think the word you are looking for is shit. 

[Rudy]

Just now, bolton_blondie said:

I think the word you are looking for is shit. 

Bollocks to global warming, I want some heat and sunshine 

Polar bears should have gone out with the ice age, fuck em had their chance