Such clear photos. I bet they were on huge glass plates and the photographer had to disappear under a cloth to take them.
BBC story this morning about the number of people now on social tariffs for their water supply. So far, no issue ... but they keep saying the water companies are paying out billions on this. No, they are not. It is other customers who are paying for the discounts. I have no objection to this happening, but the BBC should not skirt round the central facts of the matter and should not be pretending the water companies are somehow a benevolent force for good in society. It's like when the gov says "We will spend X on Y". No, they won't. They should say "We will divert X amount of tax-payers' money to Y". Different altogether.
Well, I had always been interested in what they were doing with modern technology so thought I had better take some photos.
Some years ago a bloke down the road had something fitted to his car, it said in a very loud American accent, This car is backing up, This car is backing up. One morning I watched him reverse out of his driveway straight into a parked car on the other side of the road. i think this just proves none of this works.
There was also no Health and Safety. I can remember the Nottingham miners who visited Skegness for summer holidays few of the older ones were not carrying some form of industrial disease or injury. There was also an NUM Convalescent Home there, some retired to the area very few survived long after retirement. My maternal Grandfather, a bean pole of a chap, was expected to load and unload 112 lb grain sacks from the cart and often also them carry up a ladder. He didn't make it past 70.
Same here. Incidentally, I just did my "claim renewal" yesterday- much less fun than the visits years ago. The inspectors were usually youngish men and truly found it hard to believe we don't own or watch telly. One was particularly insistent even after I invited him on a tour of our house, and finally I firmly told him that the reason why I live without BBC is that I'm a foreigner and don't speak any English. He made a note and left.
I think the truth is that much of the developed world has tied itself up in regulatory knots - - whilst many years ago safety was terrible etc, we've now gone so far in the other direction, it is nigh on impossible to actually do anything. As an example, take this ex-hospital (NHS)... Beautiful, standstone built buildings, large site and should have been very easily capable of being converted into residential that could include plenty of parking/EV charging and potential for large communal gardens at the front as you can see. Whole lot purchased for something stupid like £250k a number of years ago, and now sits rotting, having been torched by yobs on more than one occasion, and mostly because developers are well aware that the regulatory hoops they'd have to jump through to make it viable are so arduous and costly that it isn't worth it. Best to sit on it for circa 20 years, let it get burned down and rot, become dangerous to the point it gets bulldozed and then build some houses on the plot of land. Yet at the same time, we have our elected elites claim to care about the environment and value for taxpayers money....
Yes, sadly there are others in the house that watch live TV (I suppose I do too, but only because it is on and I happen to be in the same room) - personally, were it not for the ladies of the house, it is questionable if I'd even bother with at TV to be honest.
Somehow this stuff has just come over on my Facebook news feed, happened 2 months ago. Sorry did not see this on our TV. but I don't sit in front of the TV to often. Just Wow. I am sure you all talked about it already.
I also know that a lot of German infrastructure is in a similar state to the UK, especially the older autobahns and their bridges. Italy had a bridge collapse in Genoa a few years ago, some of the stays had rusted away.
Yeah, that was another one where the BBC didn't play with a straight bat... tried to portray it as being a lot less folks being there than there actually was. They used a figure of 150k from memory, yet anyone who has been to a major sporting event with crowds of 80-85k could see that was complete fabrication.
Getting the numbers wrong is nothing new - happens with attendance figures at some political speeches/campaigns too. Just as bad as something being described as "the size of a football pitch" which means absolutely nothing to some of us. Re the rate of inflation.........it would seem that Mr. T's compensation claim has risen to 5 billion dollars which is pretty staggering. Of course, that was on Radio 4 so will be ignored by many I guess. Even more interesting is that he will supposedly be discussing his claim with Mr. Starmer. Baited breath on the outcome anyone ?
