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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2020 21:34:58 GMT
Putain de merde.
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Post by kris on Feb 26, 2020 21:49:03 GMT
Even I know that’s not right.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2020 21:50:51 GMT
It's the best I can do.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2020 7:06:11 GMT
I don't see what KFC gravy has to do with anything.
How about "voudrais-avoir, pourrait-avoir, devrait-avoir"?
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Post by JohnV on Feb 27, 2020 9:21:38 GMT
I know a res avoir
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 5:12:50 GMT
OH NO, there’s dirty water lapping at the MDF of your flat-pack kitchen. Dear me, your dismal new-build hallway’s swimming in sh*t. Exactly why is that my problem?
You may remember me. I’m the prime minister. I won the election hands down. I’m in charge. Yes, very powerful.
But I’m not Cnut the Great, if you’ll forgive my Old Norse. I can neither turn back the tide nor part the waters. So why should I have to turn up to your bloody flood?
Where am I? Staying in a 115-room country mansion with my girlfriend, 25 years younger than I am, drinking a port that Churchill had laid down in 1943.
Do I fancy leaving that behind, strapping my wellies on and wading through filthy brown water to look at your pathetic house? Do I arse.
Let me just check, when’s the next election? End of 2024? And will any of these floods be remembered then? I very much suspect not.
It breaks my heart that all your IKEA furniture has been ruined and your library of Lee Child hardback first editions washed away with the tide. So tawdry and then the flood. I can’t bear to think about it.
Shut up, move to higher ground and do please bugger off. I’m busy. This country isn’t going to f**k over itself.
Yours, the prime minister
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Post by naughtyfox on Feb 28, 2020 8:05:55 GMT
I know a res avoir Does anyone think the reservoir at Whaley Bridge has whales in it?
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Post by JohnV on Feb 28, 2020 9:20:18 GMT
OH NO, there’s dirty water lapping at the MDF of your flat-pack kitchen. >............ snip to save bandwidth ...............< Yours, the prime minister I have always thought how stupid it is for heads of government to head for disaster areas to wander round, interrupting the work of those in the field and the work that they should be getting on with (kicking arses of those who are in any way to blame and demanding sensible suggestions of what could be done to prevent it re-occurring) A Prime Minister visiting a flood area is purely a propaganda action.
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Post by peterboat on Feb 28, 2020 9:31:51 GMT
OH NO, there’s dirty water lapping at the MDF of your flat-pack kitchen. >............ snip to save bandwidth ...............< Yours, the prime minister I have always thought how stupid it is for heads of government to head for disaster areas to wander round, interrupting the work of those in the field and the work that they should be getting on with (kicking arses of those who are in any way to blame and demanding sensible suggestions of what could be done to prevent it re-occurring) A Prime Minister visiting a flood area is purely a propaganda action. To many nupties in the world like him John, its an environment problem so the minister goes, and he did, more than likely its the narrowing of the severn and the silt build up that is causing the isue, bloody good dredging would sort it nicely
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Post by pearley on Feb 28, 2020 9:47:37 GMT
OH NO, there’s dirty water lapping at the MDF of your flat-pack kitchen. >............ snip to save bandwidth ...............< Yours, the prime minister I have always thought how stupid it is for heads of government to head for disaster areas to wander round, interrupting the work of those in the field and the work that they should be getting on with (kicking arses of those who are in any way to blame and demanding sensible suggestions of what could be done to prevent it re-occurring) A Prime Minister visiting a flood area is purely a propaganda action. Quite so. The last thing you would want when trying to clear your flooded home is the Prime Minister, or Leader of the Opposition, turning up in nice new wellies and pretending to push a broom around whilst a bevy of reporters and cameramen snap away with his attendant advisors and security men stand around getting in the way. 10 minutes and they are back in their fleet of Range Rovers and back to the next photo opportunity leaving those Government Agencies that have been there all the time to continue with their work.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 10:37:01 GMT
OH NO, there’s dirty water lapping at the MDF of your flat-pack kitchen. >............ snip to save bandwidth ...............< Yours, the prime minister I have always thought how stupid it is for heads of government to head for disaster areas to wander round, interrupting the work of those in the field and the work that they should be getting on with (kicking arses of those who are in any way to blame and demanding sensible suggestions of what could be done to prevent it re-occurring) A Prime Minister visiting a flood area is purely a propaganda action. Yes, quite. But I bet the Aussie PM wishes he pulled his finger out a bit sooner. Also the sensible suggestions appear to revolve around building new houses on flood-plains.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 10:42:37 GMT
I have always thought how stupid it is for heads of government to head for disaster areas to wander round, interrupting the work of those in the field and the work that they should be getting on with (kicking arses of those who are in any way to blame and demanding sensible suggestions of what could be done to prevent it re-occurring) A Prime Minister visiting a flood area is purely a propaganda action. To many nupties in the world like him John, its an environment problem so the minister goes, and he did, more than likely its the narrowing of the severn and the silt build up that is causing the isue, bloody good dredging would sort it nicely And that was something called 'satire' (an old tradition especially associated with politics). Incidentally, no particular location was mentioned. As for the Severn, it has regularly flooded for many years past. Whose government would you like to blame? Pitt?
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Post by bodger on Feb 28, 2020 12:03:43 GMT
I have always thought how stupid it is for heads of government to head for disaster areas to wander round, interrupting the work of those in the field and the work that they should be getting on with (kicking arses of those who are in any way to blame and demanding sensible suggestions of what could be done to prevent it re-occurring) A Prime Minister visiting a flood area is purely a propaganda action. To many nupties in the world like him John, its an environment problem so the minister goes, and he did, more than likely its the narrowing of the severn and the silt build up that is causing the isue, bloody good dredging would sort it nicely whereabouts?
I have worked on pipeline crossings at Bridgnorth and Minsterworth, and cannot imagine any location where dredging would make the slightest difference. The only way to clear the flood waters would be to increase the gradient and only 'im upstairs could manage that by arranging a bloody great earthquake to tilt the earth's crust a bit.
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Post by bodger on Feb 28, 2020 12:04:56 GMT
I have always thought how stupid it is for heads of government to head for disaster areas to wander round, interrupting the work of those in the field and the work that they should be getting on with (kicking arses of those who are in any way to blame and demanding sensible suggestions of what could be done to prevent it re-occurring) A Prime Minister visiting a flood area is purely a propaganda action. Yes, quite. But I bet the Aussie PM wishes he pulled his finger out a bit sooner. Also the sensible suggestions appear to revolve around building new houses on flood-plains. no, I think it would be better to do the opposite.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2020 12:14:53 GMT
To many nupties in the world like him John, its an environment problem so the minister goes, and he did, more than likely its the narrowing of the severn and the silt build up that is causing the isue, bloody good dredging would sort it nicely whereabouts?
I have worked on pipeline crossings at Bridgnorth and Minsterworth, and cannot imagine any location where dredging would make the slightest difference. The only way to clear the flood waters would be to increase the gradient and only 'im upstairs could manage that by arranging a bloody great earthquake to tilt the earth's crust a bit.
Although to be fair it does seem broadly in the nature of most rivers to have a naturally occurring gradient... ETA I found it astonishing to learn that, in the Fukishima event, the carefully prepared flood defences were overwhelmed for that very reason. When the waters retreated and a survey was carried out, it was found that the ground had been lowered by a meter or so. Wow.
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