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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #475 on: 25 November, 2013, 01:33:17 pm »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #476 on: 25 November, 2013, 06:02:45 pm »
Heathrow hires high-wire team to change tens of thousands of 'out of reach' light bulbs

Okay, I accept that Heathrow doesn't really count as "The Provinces", and note that this story is actually about a cockup by the companies that installed the system that was supposed the provide access to the fittings, rather than the usual architect with no sense of practicality you might assume (no hand-painted pink self-tapping screws here).

But I'm really posting it for the comments...

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They must be made to wear Hi-Viz vests and have number plates fitted. I'm sick to death of the damage done to my car by these louts.

I'm reasonably sure that lamps don't pay road tax, either.

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #477 on: 25 November, 2013, 06:13:48 pm »
... the usual architect with no sense of practicality you might assume ....
Like the one who designed buildings for a housing co-op in Reading with stairwells lit by windows that didn't open, which could only be accessed from the outside by putting up complicated & expensive scaffolding to get over roofs, & were shielded from rain so didn't even get a good rinse every now & then?

Amazing how quickly they went black.

He also specified cheap-looking but remarkably expensive plastic door handles which broke very easily indeed. I was told it was all to do with the aesthetics of functionality . . . .  Apparently it doesn't matter if it works, as long as it looks vaguely industrial. :facepalm:
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #478 on: 29 November, 2013, 12:50:35 pm »
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #479 on: 09 December, 2013, 11:35:01 pm »
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #481 on: 10 December, 2013, 12:03:50 am »
Climbs like a sprinter, sprints like a climber!

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #484 on: 11 December, 2013, 02:41:08 pm »

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #485 on: 12 December, 2013, 09:45:24 am »
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #486 on: 14 December, 2013, 11:18:52 am »

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #487 on: 16 December, 2013, 01:36:27 pm »
Working my way up to inferior.


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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #490 on: 17 December, 2013, 06:50:31 pm »
http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/14/artificial-leg-prompts-paedophile-panic-at-swimming-pool-and-evacuation-of-children-4230694/

Oh FFS!  :facepalm:

I was trying to imagine a situation where your first instinct is to evacuate the kids in case of paedogeddon, rather than - for example - check there isn't someone passed out in the cubicle.

But someone mentioned there had been previous peeping tom incidents at that pool...


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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #492 on: 18 December, 2013, 06:36:07 pm »
Surely that officer who is doing a grand job fighting crime throughout East Anglia deserves some kind of medal.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #493 on: 19 December, 2013, 06:33:48 am »
Swindon has a new car park, with slightly wider spaces than all the others.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10886361.Wide_bay_car_park_seen_as_fresh_start_for_town/

Seriously, since every successive generation of a car seems to be 2" wider than the last one, this is probably necessary.  It's quite hard to walk between cars in most car parks now.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #494 on: 19 December, 2013, 07:05:01 am »
Swindon has a new car park, with slightly wider spaces than all the others.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10886361.Wide_bay_car_park_seen_as_fresh_start_for_town/

Seriously, since every successive generation of a car seems to be 2" wider than the last one, this is probably necessary. It's quite hard to walk between cars in most car parks now.

It's not the cars that are 2" wider, Roger....   ;)
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #495 on: 19 December, 2013, 08:36:20 am »
Swindon has a new car park, with slightly wider spaces than all the others.

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/10886361.Wide_bay_car_park_seen_as_fresh_start_for_town/

Seriously, since every successive generation of a car seems to be 2" wider than the last one, this is probably necessary.  It's quite hard to walk between cars in most car parks now.

Going slightly OT for a second, this is why I like going to Costco (apart from the cheap prices, good food etc) as the car parking spaces are made to US standards, thus REALLY wide.
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #496 on: 19 December, 2013, 09:32:55 am »
I see that Buzzfeed offers a helpful 2013 local news roundup.
Not especially helpful or mature

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #498 on: 20 December, 2013, 03:01:56 pm »
"The earthquake was around half the strength of another tremor to hit Wales earlier this year.
In May, an earthquake measuring a magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter scale struck off the Welsh coast."

Someone not quite got the hang of the Richter scale there.

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #499 on: 23 December, 2013, 04:03:01 pm »
Okay, there's a storm on the way.  So let's have the photos of broken umbrellas from all your local news sources...