Gritters

[GB72]

I have a cure for boredom, spend Sunday morning arguing with your insurers over a burst pipe and why the emergency response policy does not cover emergencies and it can take up to 2 hours to get through to report an emergency to them.

 

[pokerjoke]

Smiffy tell the misses when shes baked the cakes you can use them to fill in the hole and stop the draft.email from the hospital let us know how your doing.

 

[viscount17]

I know the solution to boredom.

Work. That is where I am, clocking up double time.

I am still bored, but at least I am getting paid for it. If I was at home, I would be doing it for nothing.

I'm at work too, don't think it's the solution to boredom though - and I don't get double time.


somehow I don't think pokerjoke has ever seen the great sandwich debate or he'd think this the epitomy of sanity.

. . . today I are mostly eating cheese and mustard doorsteps

 

[pokerjoke]

Me too drawboy I think every golfers way past boredom getting towards suicidle.As for work murphthedog doesnt sound like your getting much work done,do you work for the council by any chance?

 

[Smiffy]

Smiffy tell the misses when shes baked the cakes you can use them to fill in the hole and stop the draft.email from the hospital let us know how your doing.

I may have to.
Just got back from B&Q with the necessary tools to do the job.
"Do not use on temperatures lower than 5 degrees"
Bugger.
I can hear the X-box calling....

 

[forefortheday]

I have a cure for boredom, spend Sunday morning arguing with your insurers over a burst pipe and why the emergency response policy does not cover emergencies and it can take up to 2 hours to get through to report an emergency to them.

Should have rung the emergency number then mate

father in law held a boiler repair guy hostage a few years ago after a fiasco.(in fairness to him it was the third visit over 3 weeks in winter).

Complain you'll get a nice generic letter that will make you all warm and fuzzy.

 

[DCB]

My dad told me John Wayne couldn't fly a plane. ooo! he was a lying sod.

How could someone called Marion fly a plane and save the Western world ?

 

[toonarmy]

Ah, THEY can't be sued if someone slips or falls can they?

Golfmmad.

That is an urban myth.

Sorry Clive, assuming you mean being sued for clearing a footpath if someone falls on it is a myth rather than prisoners etc., you're dead wrong. In fact, just yesterday a spokesman for the Health & Safety Executive reiterated that 'you are probably best to leave public areas alone'.

If you do it and someone falls, they could pursue it thanks to the culture we live in. Why do you think all the sport was cancelled this weekend? The majority of pitches are fine, it's the areas 'around the ground' that are the concern and the only concern there is some numpty slipping over and then trying to sue the club.

Yes, people tend to be too lazy these days to clear paths but a significant factor in this is the legitimate fear of prosecution if you do it. So where is the incentive?

When I were a lad (cue Hovis music...) snow like this was an annual event (more or less). Funny how we all coped quite admirably back then...

Maybe it's a new kind of global warming/climate change snow that is impervious to 21st century wits...

 

[pokerjoke]

You said it yourself the reason we coped years ago is because we were allowed to clear it up.

 

[GB72]

I have a cure for boredom, spend Sunday morning arguing with your insurers over a burst pipe and why the emergency response policy does not cover emergencies and it can take up to 2 hours to get through to report an emergency to them.

Should have rung the emergency number then mate

father in law held a boiler repair guy hostage a few years ago after a fiasco.(in fairness to him it was the third visit over 3 weeks in winter).

Problem is that was the emergency number. Part of my complaint was that I could actually get through easily on the sales number (surprise, surprise). They claimed that they were doing all that they could to answer emergency calls but clearly that did not amount to using sales staff to answer the emergency calls from their existing customers.

Complain you'll get a nice generic letter that will make you all warm and fuzzy.

 

[Herbie]

Reading this brings on a few titters, personally I dont see what all the fuss is, only real problem I have seen is the inability of drivers not the difficulty of conditions, sadly seeing more than enough 4x4 vehicles in ditches or watched them slide about out of control rather than any other type. It always seems a really big deal here when a little bit of snow arrives.It doesnt really matter what type of car you are in (other than the most extreme conditions) if your skills are lacking for such conditions, they always show up no matter what you drive.
Whenever these conditions are discussed I always remember a guy in a pub talking to his pals and describing how he ditched his car on his regular work route on a tight bend on black ice, giving himself complete innocence of anything..."Huh, black ice, what can you do?" was his cry.The long discussion and consoling by his mates and the resentful complaints about council not gritting, no warnings etc. As I knew him, and after finishing my drink, I paused and told him it was 100% his fault, after much F-ing and blinding and insulting me for not knowing anything, I simply said..."If the black ice was at fault and not your driving, how many people crashed before you, and after you at the same spot, what exactly made others avoid what you could not?".............Nothing was said, but their faces were a picture.

 

[Golfmmad]

Funny you should mention about 4x4 vehicles Herbie. Last week my car stayed on the drive for 3 days as side roads were pretty bad round here. So I did a lot of walking locally and one thing I noticed most of all were the 4x4 drivers, driving much too fast for the conditions. They seem to have the mentality of, I'm ok my car can cope in these conditions, but I shuddered to think what could have happened had they needed to stop suddenly - even more difficult with all the extra weight.

Golfmmad.

 

[USER1999]

I get plenty of work done. At the moment, I am paid to turn a switch on and off every 10 minutes. For 9 hours a day. And no, I don't work for the council, or any other public funded body. It's tough, but someone has to do it.

 

[drawboy]

Watch the RSI Murph, it's a killer.

 

[Andy]

Salt \ grit has no effect if temperature is -5 or below to be honest.

Best to get JCB 3c's to physically clear snow and you'll have a better chance of moving.

Andy

 

[Imurg]

Funny you should mention about 4x4 vehicles Herbie. Last week my car stayed on the drive for 3 days as side roads were pretty bad round here. So I did a lot of walking locally and one thing I noticed most of all were the 4x4 drivers, driving much too fast for the conditions. They seem to have the mentality of, I'm ok my car can cope in these conditions, but I shuddered to think what could have happened had they needed to stop suddenly - even more difficult with all the extra weight.

Golfmmad.

Don't get me started on the standard of driving this last week...........

 

[Andy]

Can you beat this Imurg?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8454242.stm

Andy

 

[Golfmmad]

One of the reasons why I left the car on the drive.

Golfmmad.

 

[madandra]

I was out at the car tonight and chipped away at the ice covering the roan and it is still 3" thick.

 

[Parmo]

Nice to see Government has diverted 5,000 tons of grit meant for Leeds elsewhere, it wouldnt be so bad but it took me 3hrs on public transport to get 8 miles on Monday and now the thaw has started and the roads clearish black ice has covered every road... Thanks Brown, I wonder where our grit has gone?? South-east no doubt.