zxrlocost
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 11:37 AM |
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UK worst droughts ever
yeah right so the water board can take the prices up and worry people
just like the shite they told us about the petrol prices 'NEEDING' to go up
anyone notice how theyve took the prices down and crepped them back up again
and no one has said anything
Rule Brittania Baby
its just rained for three days in a row here in the Mids
[Edited on 16/5/06 by zxrlocost]
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donut
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 11:41 AM |
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We are all being conned left right and centre.
This country is C***
Andy
When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andywest1/
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Deckman001
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 11:43 AM |
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Nothing in Croydon for a few days now, we even had a thunder storm go over us the other day, but only got a few mm's of rain, i know this as i
have a drain pipe fed water butt, and it's nearly empty 
Every where looks lovely and green, but it's only on the surface, I dug a hole the other day for a shrub to go in, surface was easy, three
inches lower and it was bone dry I'm guessing we need a monsoon or two to get over the draught !
Jason
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trikerneil
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 11:56 AM |
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Why can't they put in a 36inch pipe from the midlands or Wales and make a big ring main?
They ran a 24inch gas mains where I lived back in the 60s when the country swapped over to natural gas.
ACE Cafe - Just say No.
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brashhighlander
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 11:58 AM |
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You need to move up to Scotland. It has rained here for the last two days and loads of water on the road. Feel free to come up and help yourself 
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muzchap
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 12:20 PM |
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A generous 'Scotsman' there must be a catch somewhere
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If you believe you're not crazy, whilst everybody is telling you, you are - then they are definitely wrong!
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02GF74
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 12:23 PM |
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Surely we should be paying less?
We pay the water companies for a sevice i.e. water and they are failing to deliver it.
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ditchlewis
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 12:28 PM |
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we just have to face it, the climate is changing.
the car may not be clean but at least you won't need a hood on it
may be communism had a good side, every thing was scarse and you had to pay black market prices....
hang on a minute this looks much like a new labour britain
ditch
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DarrenW
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 01:33 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by CaLviNx
Hey stop telling dammed English to come up here there's enough of the buggers here as it is, they must show their passport at the border now you
know
ITS A JOKE JUST INCASE SOME HAVE HAD AN OPERATION TO REMOVE THEIR SENCE OF HUMOUR
I'll get me coat..............
Regards
Dont get your coat - stay right there and keep shouting. If people go to Scotland they will have to drive past my house which will clog up our lovely
roads.
I must have been driving in the drought yesterday - NOT. Got totally soaked on A68 from Corbridge.
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Mezzz
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 01:33 PM |
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Its a load of bull as far as I can see.
If the companys just looked after there leaking pipes and stoped moaning about it and do somthing
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Mr G
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| posted on 16/5/06 at 02:51 PM |
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In the southwest we've been made to pay through the teeth for years, now other companies are hiking the prices up other people are seeing what
we've had to endure down here.
If I told you what my old monthly bill was for a 2 bedroomed flat you'd think it was for a quarter
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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lexi
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 09:24 PM |
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I love it when people say "the climate is changing" When was it ever stable?. If we had got the horrendous winters with floods that
climate changers have been predicting then reservoirs would be full. Any nasty weather now and it`s climate change. They can`t give you an accurate 5
day forecast but can tell you what it will be like in a hundred years. All of them have a new book on the subject coming out. Bloody tree
shaggers!!
Alex
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coozer
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 09:37 PM |
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Get yourselve up here to the north east. Heating on and lashing down with the wet stuff.
If the water board here have leaks they couldn't make it any wetter. The rain will flood back into the pipes!
There is small stream out the back of my house that has ducks on it for the first time. Sure sign of a flood me thinks!
I also suspect it take a mighty big hole in the system here to drain Kielder reservoir.
No chance of a drought here in the true north next to the sea...
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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coozer
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 09:49 PM |
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In answer to climate change, it's been happening since Adam & Eve. The planet has been warming up since the last ice age.
All I can say is bring it on, the sooner I can sit out in the garden, shut my eyes and feel like I'm in Spain the sooner.
Swings and roundabouts, down south you pay more for water but less for heating 'cause its warmer.
Up here the waters cheap 'cause we have loads of but bugger me it's cold!
Anyone remember '76? Hottest summer for ages then, guess what? The coldest longest snow filled winter for ages!
Grin and bear it, we are English!
1972 V8 Jago
1980 Z750
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JoelP
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 10:01 PM |
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apparently torrential rain is largely lost as runoff, to fill resevoirs and groundwater you need long term drizzle. And yes, its been raining all week
in sunny GODSshire
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Peteff
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| posted on 17/5/06 at 10:24 PM |
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The water companies still made £2 billion profit between them despite all their waste and inefficiency. I think it is disgusting that a basic need
like water should be in the hands of robbers like the water companies and should not be in the private sector where it has to make money. They should
pay us for the water running off of our property back into their store but insted they charge us for disposing of it, where's the logic in
that.
P.S. It's rained buckets here all day.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Mr G
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| posted on 18/5/06 at 09:53 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by coozer
Swings and roundabouts, down south you pay more for water but less for heating 'cause its warmer.
It's not uniform across the south though, and with what we're paying for gas the scales would still be tipped towards water if we used
more gas but less water
The excuse is the amount of coast line the county has and the need of the water company to spend on sewage treatment works. That was years ago, we
have all new treatment plants built but the bills are still sky high.
We're paying for holiday makers to come down here and swim turd free then pi$$ off home again
What's wrong with going for a dip and hoping that bit of string hanging out your mouth is part of a tea bag like the good old days
[Edited on 18/5/06 by Mr G]
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a
car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes
and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
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jono_misfit
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| posted on 18/5/06 at 10:33 PM |
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Think the problem with the south is too many people live there!
Concentrate anything on an area with a finite resource and its price jacks right up.
Its not helped by poor water mains etc (think i saw on TV its 1/3 of water produced is lossed in leaks!), but replacing damaged pipes is an expensive
business. The only place there going to get the money from is you lot.
Still at least you get treated water. Water to my dads place is just passed under a small UV light before going to the tap. Saying that its the same
water that runs down the hill to highland spring, gleneagles water etc. Tastes ok.
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