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Post by Andyberg on Oct 14, 2017 18:38:39 GMT
There's a chap moors on the towpath a mile or so from Burscough known as 'Dirtyshirt' for obvious reasons, I often say ok to him when our paths cross, if I'm heading to Parbold, walking to the boozer or suchlike. Now I know his boat doesn't move anywhere, he uses a water butt for his water supplies so he never ventures anywhere where he can empty his bog so can only presume it goes in under the hedge / in the cut! He uses one of the 'bucket/chuck-it type of bog like below as I've seen it on his back deck quite often( fortunately not when it's being used!!) Should the subject be broached with him on health hazard fly tipping grounds or is it better just to block it from my thoughts? What would you do?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2017 18:46:37 GMT
Block it from your thoughts - in the words of Forest Gump:-
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 14, 2017 18:46:39 GMT
I thought your sprogs were taking you out for muchos beerio?
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Post by Andyberg on Oct 14, 2017 18:48:50 GMT
I thought your sprogs were taking you out for muchos beerio? No we had an afternoon on boat where we discussed folks chucking shit in the canal amongst other thingsπ
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Post by lollygagger on Oct 14, 2017 18:51:19 GMT
I thought your sprogs were taking you out for muchos beerio? No we had an afternoon on boat where we discussed folks chucking shit in the canal amongst other thingsπ They need retraining.
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Post by Saltysplash on Oct 14, 2017 19:29:50 GMT
What the eye doesnt see, the heart doesnt worry over, an all that.
If caught in the act then he should be forced to consume the contents of the bucket
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2017 19:33:21 GMT
I suppose historically there would have been many thousands of boats 'dumping waste'.
Perhaps we should just be thankful it's only the odd one or two now, and not worry too much.
Rog
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Post by bodger on Oct 14, 2017 19:40:11 GMT
you've got to be pretty sad to allow your imagination to work on that kind of shit.
get on and enjoy life's journey, why don't you?
................. oh, and while you're about it, the title of your thread is entirely imaginary in itself, 'cos by your own admission you don't know what he does with his personal effluent.
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Post by Andyberg on Oct 15, 2017 0:10:11 GMT
Does he dunk his Rich Tea biscuits in the bucket? I can't answer that honestly, but, judging by the state and smell of the chap, I would imagine he slops the contents of said bucket over himself and his shirt from time to time!
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Post by Stumpy on Oct 15, 2017 0:29:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 7:56:16 GMT
Is this thread about throwing the cassettes in the hedge or throwing the shit in the hedge?eta title has been edited to add the word "contents"
Its an interesting point dogless made that all boat dwellers and itinerant workers would have been shitting in the hedge or the cut in the canals' working days.
I wonder if keen traditionalists do this while polishing their gas mask clip chimney chains?
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Post by kris on Oct 16, 2017 10:36:15 GMT
Coming through Thorne yesterday a boater blatantly tipped his bucket into the cut right in front of me. It was obviously a bucket and chuck it so a regular practice for said boater. He was only yards from an elsan point, lazy bastard.
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Post by kris on Oct 16, 2017 13:00:40 GMT
Coming through Thorne yesterday a boater blatantly tipped his bucket into the cut right in front of me. It was obviously a bucket and chuck it so a regular practice for said boater. He was only yards from an elsan point, lazy bastard. Pics or it didn't happen! oh it happened , I tend to focus on sailing my boat rather than taking photos seen as I'm a single hander.
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Post by JohnV on Oct 16, 2017 13:13:47 GMT
I was at Naburn Marina earlier and noticed that and was discussing it with one of the guys there .... oddly now the sky also has a yellowish glow which is something I have seen before in the Gulf of Mexico when there was a hurricane in the offing. (and my solar panels are extracting very little charge from it I'll have to run the genny this afternoon)
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Post by thebfg on Oct 16, 2017 13:23:26 GMT
Its weird. It was bright red London way and when we got closer to home it has gone yellow there is 100% cloud cover. Flying in, from about Belgium there was complete cloud cover for as far as the eye could see in every direction. All the way to Luton. Blooming Windy too.
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