Author Topic: Caption it #1811 (Read 1402 times)

Canardly · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2020, 02:42:44 pm »

It's OK Iddu found the baton.

Basil · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2020, 02:57:34 pm »

Every time I dig a bit out someone else fills it up again.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2020, 03:14:09 pm »

Boris Johnson is spoiled for choice.

Basil · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2020, 03:24:11 pm »

"Ive found a 50p and half a cup so far. How are are you doing?

Basil · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2020, 03:25:44 pm »

Come on kids, tell daddy where you were when you were playing with the car keys.

orienteer · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2020, 03:58:30 pm »

Spot the ball.

T42 · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2020, 04:49:30 pm »

Actually, we were asking if the Australians could help.

Kim · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2020, 04:50:14 pm »

First one to hit fibre wins.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #9 on:** January 26, 2020, 06:11:18 pm »

No, no, no. It's blues over there, yellows that side and orange in the middle. Now then everybody, from the top, scene 2, take 4...

andytheflyer · « **Reply #10 on:** January 27, 2020, 10:18:50 pm »

Not a caption, but an observation, as an engineering geologist who moved a lot of muck in his career. There are no dump trucks on the job (there are 2 parked up though). So the diggers are simply moving muck from one place to another. Achieving nothing. This looks plain stupid to me. Looks like someone told someone else to hit the job with as much plant as they could find, without any plan for how to use it to achieve some useful end result.

Kim · « **Reply #11 on:** January 27, 2020, 10:26:00 pm »

Reverse-googling reveals that the photo's from AP on the coronavirus story: "Heavy equipment works at a construction site for a field hospital in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province." apparently. Perhaps all they're doing is smoothing the ground a bit (digging in undergrowth?) before setting up tents and stuff?

Jaded · « **Reply #12 on:** January 27, 2020, 11:03:25 pm »

Not tents, a pre-fab hospital, built in a week.

72 people have died, don't you know. Fewer people die from pollution and car crashes each week...

Rowan · « **Reply #13 on:** January 27, 2020, 11:11:56 pm »

I hope Boris has someone watching how its done - he has 40 to build.

China is just amazing at civil engineering projects.

is this day 4?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0o1_JcKZeQ

Vince · « **Reply #14 on:** January 27, 2020, 11:57:55 pm »

Searching for the Stroudwater canal's 'missing mile'.

Jaded · « **Reply #15 on:** January 28, 2020, 12:14:59 am »

Is that the mile that Vince has been sailing his trump card on...?

T42 · « **Reply #16 on:** January 28, 2020, 08:58:01 am »

When Xi loses a contact lens.

andytheflyer · « **Reply #17 on:** January 28, 2020, 10:30:11 am »

Quote from: Kim on January 27, 2020, 10:26:00 pm

Reverse-googling reveals that the photo's from AP on the coronavirus story: "Heavy equipment works at a construction site for a field hospital in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei Province." apparently. Perhaps all they're doing is smoothing the ground a bit (digging in undergrowth?) before setting up tents and stuff?

If all they wanted to achieve was a level surface, get a couple of dozers in with laser guidance (very common practice). They'd have been done in a day or so. And they already have a dozer on site, presumably they could find one or 2 more. If you want to level a site, hitting it with a multitude of diggers is the last way to go about it. Muppets. Propaganda publicity shots.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #18 on:** January 28, 2020, 10:42:32 am »

andytheflyer has got it right. Not a practical approach but looks impressive to those who don’t know.

Kim · « **Reply #19 on:** January 28, 2020, 02:31:56 pm »

There's a video circulating on the web. It comes across like one of the construction montages from Challenge Anneka, scaled up by a couple of orders of magnitude, and features more varied construction equipment in an impressive feat of choreography that seems to involve more driving around than actual construction work...

The other thought that occurs is that "we're going to need diggers, lots of diggers" is a fairly alarming reaction to an epidemic, and you might want to give the public an alternative reason for needing them.

sprogs · « **Reply #20 on:** February 14, 2020, 06:26:22 pm »

The Technobees prepared the foundations for another hive.

LittleWheelsandBig · « **Reply #21 on:** February 23, 2020, 11:23:08 am »

Quote from: Kim on January 28, 2020, 02:31:56 pm

The other thought that occurs is that "we're going to need diggers, lots of diggers" is a fairly alarming reaction to an epidemic, and you might want to give the public an alternative reason for needing them.

Apparently somebody has looked through the time-lapse for the new hospitals and noted that there were very few toilets in the new hospitals. That isn't such a problem if they are morgues or suchlike.