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I now have personal reason to hate them. Shortly after ariving home last night I had my neighbour round to tell me the sewer system in the road outside our houses was blocked, resulting in his toilets overflowing raw sewage into his house and a spectacular water fountain display in the street. Going out to check on the damage it was observed that (a) water containing very weak traces of human excrement and the other crap people flush down their loos (pun intended) was shooting a foot in the air from a manhole in the road, and (b) very strong traces of similar excrement and crap was flowing from a manhole cover in the small drive just a few feet from my garage. Well actually no, it wasn't flowing, more bubbling down the drive like magma from a slowly errupting volcano. All in all it was one very big very nasty smelling mess taking up half the road and causing raw sewage to flow down the gutter at the edge of the road and straight into the storm drain which flows straight into the stream and which in turn flows through the local primary school. That will be a lovely treat for them to play in during breaktime this morning! Thankfully my toilets did not back up and overflow, though I daren't flush them till this morning just to be safe. As mentioned though my neighbour's did, and he has two very young children in the house too. Ok, so accidents happen and this is a pretty tame one all in all, no one has been hurt or seriously put out, and a dozen calls to the local water board did get it noted on a computer system somewhere in Eastern India. Of course they can't actually do anything though as the sewage backing up the system is due to the flood water taking up all the room in the pipes. And here the story begins. Floodwater.... sewage system... storm drains... What on this merry little Earth is floodwater doing being directed into a sewage system that already has blockage problems from time to time because of the two hundred new houses on the estate half a mile away flush their shit past my house? We have storm drains to channel storm water away. Pinnex Moor Road (where I live) and the surrounding estate is as the name suggest built on top of Pinnexmoor - moorland - as is the entire Cowleymoor estate, and as is the new Moorhayes lot they are butchering our landscape with at the moment. Moorland floods, this area quite badly in fact, which is why we have so many damned drains everywhere, (and why I personally helped dig a six foot borehole under my conservatory to prevent the house flooding w
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I now have personal reason to hate them. Shortly after ariving home last night I had my neighbour round to tell me the sewer system in the road outside our houses was blocked, resulting in his toilets overflowing raw sewage into his house and a spectacular water fountain display in the street. Going out to check on the damage it was observed that (a) water containing very weak traces of human excrement and the other crap people flush down their loos (pun intended) was shooting a foot in the air from a manhole in the road, and (b) very strong traces of similar excrement and crap was flowing from a manhole cover in the small drive just a few feet from my garage. Well actually no, it wasn't flowing, more bubbling down the drive like magma from a slowly errupting volcano. All in all it was one very big very nasty smelling mess taking up half the road and causing raw sewage to flow down the gutter at the edge of the road and straight into the storm drain which flows straight into the stream and which in turn flows through the local primary school. That will be a lovely treat for them to play in during breaktime this morning! Thankfully my toilets did not back up and overflow, though I daren't flush them till this morning just to be safe. As mentioned though my neighbour's did, and he has two very young children in the house too. Ok, so accidents happen and this is a pretty tame one all in all, no one has been hurt or seriously put out, and a dozen calls to the local water board did get it noted on a computer system somewhere in Eastern India. Of course they can't actually do anything though as the sewage backing up the system is due to the flood water taking up all the room in the pipes. And here the story begins. Floodwater.... sewage system... storm drains... What on this merry little Earth is floodwater doing being directed into a sewage system that already has blockage problems from time to time because of the two hundred new houses on the estate half a mile away flush their shit past my house? We have storm drains to channel storm water away. Pinnex Moor Road (where I live) and the surrounding estate is as the name suggest built on top of Pinnexmoor - moorland - as is the entire Cowleymoor estate, and as is the new Moorhayes lot they are butchering our landscape with at the moment. Moorland floods, this area quite badly in fact, which is why we have so many damned drains everywhere, (and why I personally helped dig a six foot borehole under my conservatory to prevent the house flooding w
David Wulff wrote: very strong traces of similar excrement and crap was flowing from a manhole cover in the small drive just a few feet from my garage. Well actually no, it wasn't flowing, more bubbling down the drive like magma from a slowly errupting volcano. On the upside, there are predictions of no trick-or-treaters in Pinnex Moor Road tonight :).
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
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David Wulff wrote: very strong traces of similar excrement and crap was flowing from a manhole cover in the small drive just a few feet from my garage. Well actually no, it wasn't flowing, more bubbling down the drive like magma from a slowly errupting volcano. On the upside, there are predictions of no trick-or-treaters in Pinnex Moor Road tonight :).
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog Photography - The product of my passionJust in case I'll pick up some police crime scene tape on the way home tonight and wrap it round the door a few times... :-D
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter
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David Wulff wrote: very strong traces of similar excrement and crap was flowing from a manhole cover in the small drive just a few feet from my garage. Well actually no, it wasn't flowing, more bubbling down the drive like magma from a slowly errupting volcano. On the upside, there are predictions of no trick-or-treaters in Pinnex Moor Road tonight :).
Look at the world about you and trust to your own convictions. - Ansel Adams
Meg's World - Blog Photography - The product of my passionDavid Wulff wrote: Still, it should keep the trick or treaters away for tonight at least. Megan Forbes wrote: On the upside, there are predictions of no trick-or-treaters in Pinnex Moor Road tonight At least there won't be any trick-or-treaters there tonight!
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David Wulff wrote: Still, it should keep the trick or treaters away for tonight at least. Megan Forbes wrote: On the upside, there are predictions of no trick-or-treaters in Pinnex Moor Road tonight At least there won't be any trick-or-treaters there tonight!
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I don't think there will be any trick or treaters tonight for David, LOL! Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
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I now have personal reason to hate them. Shortly after ariving home last night I had my neighbour round to tell me the sewer system in the road outside our houses was blocked, resulting in his toilets overflowing raw sewage into his house and a spectacular water fountain display in the street. Going out to check on the damage it was observed that (a) water containing very weak traces of human excrement and the other crap people flush down their loos (pun intended) was shooting a foot in the air from a manhole in the road, and (b) very strong traces of similar excrement and crap was flowing from a manhole cover in the small drive just a few feet from my garage. Well actually no, it wasn't flowing, more bubbling down the drive like magma from a slowly errupting volcano. All in all it was one very big very nasty smelling mess taking up half the road and causing raw sewage to flow down the gutter at the edge of the road and straight into the storm drain which flows straight into the stream and which in turn flows through the local primary school. That will be a lovely treat for them to play in during breaktime this morning! Thankfully my toilets did not back up and overflow, though I daren't flush them till this morning just to be safe. As mentioned though my neighbour's did, and he has two very young children in the house too. Ok, so accidents happen and this is a pretty tame one all in all, no one has been hurt or seriously put out, and a dozen calls to the local water board did get it noted on a computer system somewhere in Eastern India. Of course they can't actually do anything though as the sewage backing up the system is due to the flood water taking up all the room in the pipes. And here the story begins. Floodwater.... sewage system... storm drains... What on this merry little Earth is floodwater doing being directed into a sewage system that already has blockage problems from time to time because of the two hundred new houses on the estate half a mile away flush their shit past my house? We have storm drains to channel storm water away. Pinnex Moor Road (where I live) and the surrounding estate is as the name suggest built on top of Pinnexmoor - moorland - as is the entire Cowleymoor estate, and as is the new Moorhayes lot they are butchering our landscape with at the moment. Moorland floods, this area quite badly in fact, which is why we have so many damned drains everywhere, (and why I personally helped dig a six foot borehole under my conservatory to prevent the house flooding w
Is Cowboys English slang for something other than people who work on ranches? (or a loathed football team in a state renowned for such people?) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Is Cowboys English slang for something other than people who work on ranches? (or a loathed football team in a state renowned for such people?) Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote: Is Cowboys English slang for something other than people who work on ranches? (or a loathed football team in a state renowned for such people?) In the UK, a "Cowboy" is usually a reference to someone who does a substandard, probably rushed job, hence "Cowboy builder", "Cowboy plumber" or "Cowboy programmer" :-D Some cowboys run scams as well, tricking old people out of their life savings, and what not, for doing said shoddy jobs (usually unnecessarily too). -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
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Joe Woodbury wrote: Is Cowboys English slang for something other than people who work on ranches? (or a loathed football team in a state renowned for such people?) In the UK, a "Cowboy" is usually a reference to someone who does a substandard, probably rushed job, hence "Cowboy builder", "Cowboy plumber" or "Cowboy programmer" :-D Some cowboys run scams as well, tricking old people out of their life savings, and what not, for doing said shoddy jobs (usually unnecessarily too). -- Ian Darling "The moral of the story is that with a contrived example, you can prove anything." - Joel Spolsky
Ian Darling wrote: In the UK, a "Cowboy" is usually a reference to someone who does a substandard, probably rushed job, hence "Cowboy builder", "Cowboy plumber" or "Cowboy programmer" And careless A10 pilots :) Ryan
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I don't think there will be any trick or treaters tonight for David, LOL! Regards, Rohit Sinha Browsy
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. - Mother Teresa
Lol. You guys are mad. :-D There have been none so far, but then I am sitting here in total darkness and did circle the block twice before making a run for my door so no one would see me... :-O
David Wulff The Royal Woofle Museum
Putting the laughter back into slaughter