The BIG Freeeeze

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Temperature in the UK equal to tose at the poles.

Road salt being rationed

Gas being rationed

22 deaths so far

More snow on the way

No sign of temperatures going much above Zero until 22nd Jan (according to Metcheck.com)

Companies unable to opperate as staff can't/won't get to work.

Winky talking bks as though nothing is happening.

Not looking too good is it.

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FourWheelDrift said:

How soon before the first rag has the headline "Winter of discontent" on it's front page?

Can't be too long surely

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Balmoral Green said:

If I had an outdoor shop, I would run with 'Now is the winter of our discount tents'.

Badoom-tish!

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I can just see winky spinning it if the gas does run out

"We are getting on with running the country"


Maybe if the Global Warming propaganda (met)office had take their collective heads out of their sphincters they could have see this comming and we could have been prepared.

Why is it that councils allways seen to run out of grit in just a few days.
It's not like they use it often, maybe 4 weeks a year at most.
That still leaves 48 weeks to mine, process and distribute the stuf FFS!

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IIRC there was a thread here recently where someone got flamed for suggesting that he should sue the council for not gritting the roads.

If the Council has pissed away their budget on jollies rather than essentials, then maybe the guy has a point.

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Deva Link said:

odyssey2200 said:

Why is it that councils allways seen to run out of grit in just a few days.
It's not like they use it often, maybe 4 weeks a year at most.
That still leaves 48 weeks to mine, process and distribute the stuf FFS!

The strategically agreed stocking level is 6 days worth. Apparently they actually had 13 days worth.

I suppose storing large volumes of the stuff long-term isn't easy as it would wash and / or blow away. It would need immense building to keep large volumes under cover.

Most of it gets sheeted down or there are large buildings in various places.
There is one on the M42 just north of the M6 IIRC



ETA the correct pic

Edited by odyssey2200 on Friday 8th January 23:34

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posted in wrong thread!




Thanks Mods

Edited by odyssey2200 on Friday 8th January 23:35

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rs1952 said:

The Big Freeze? Nuthnin .....

When I were a lad, we had 1963. That WAS a big freeze



1963? Luxury! In 1947 we used to dream of the 1963 cold snap to warm us all up



They don't know they're born today .....


in case anybody doesn't know where this is coming from - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo

'an you tell kids that today and they won't believe you!

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plasticpig said:

Apparently it takes 1/4 tonne of grit to do a mile of road but it takes up to 1 tonne to do a mile for a road where snow has settled. Councils pay between £20-£30 per tonne depending on the mixture and quantity purchased.

With that in mind and the potential consequences of not gritting the road, maybe the councils should stop pissing my tax away on fluffy, PC crap and spend it on essentials and important things.

speed ICE Kills

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turbobloke said:

This is looking likely to happen wintertime for the next couple of decades - with worse to come.

How are those Damart shares TB?

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I drove from Wiltshire to Truro and bacl today.

Main roads and motorways were OK but in places the outside lane was only half clear.

The side roads were fooking deadly though

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My OH is a Civil Servant and was told not to come to work by her boss on Wednesday.

The car park ot the office is down a steepish slope and if it gets Icy the management company will not come on site to grit it due to Heath & Safety issues.


You couldn't make it up

She did go to work on Thursday though

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Elroy

My Mother, Sister, Wife and some of our friends are all Civil Servants and from my presonal experiance, based on over 30years of accounts of the way that the public sector is run and what it allows it's staff to get away with, I respectfully call bkS! on your account of the public sector.

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I took my lad to ATC on Wednesday night.

By the time I had driven home he had phoned to get me to collect him again.

ATC was closed dur to H&S .

Aparently they could be sued if a cadet slipped and got hurt.


I guess that same applies to the schools.

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nonegreen said:

I was working at 4 am sorting transport for lazy feckers who can't be bothered getting out of bed to clear thier driveway. I never read the daily mail. (surprised you can read) I like spouting rubbish on here its very theraputic and cools down my piss which is constantly being reheated by public sector tossers who largely do a crap job and need the sack. Especially schoolteachers Local Council Staff they are the pits.

EFA

Edited by odyssey2200 on Saturday 9th January 14:38

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Balmoral Green said:

nonegreen said:

Especially schoolteachers they are the pits.

Hmm, will just run that one by Mrs BG and get back to you

I thing BG might not be back anytime soon

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nonegreen said:

odyssey2200 said:

Elroy

My Mother, Sister, Wife and some of our friends are all Civil Servants and from my presonal experiance, based on over 30years of accounts of the way that the public sector is run and what it allows it's staff to get away with, I respectfully call bkS! on your account of the public sector.

I have spent 30 years having to sort out the mess civil servants leave so we will have to agree to differ here civil servants are nearly all total halfwits.

I'm telling my Mum whay you said!

Boy, you are in big trouble now!!!

TBH

There are a large amount in the Public sector that would not still be employed if they worked in the private sector.

Sadly the PC brigade let them get away with murder.

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Global Warming Myth

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We had a bout 4 inches of snow overnight and it has been snowing on and off all morning, sometimes quite heavily.