Latest Moan From You and Me 2024

Is lead pipes better than asbestos pipe? i know a farmer that has asbestos pipe across the fields to his farm then goes to plastic to get around the rules so poor old cows + farmer are drinking that water that goes through those pipes

 

The World Health Organisation do not consider asbestos fibres in water a serious health problem. The American EPA have a limit of seven million fibres per litre. It's certainly safer than when asbestos fibres are in the air.
Worse than lead pipe no real idea.
Asbestos pipes have a life of about 50 years, as they age they begin to disintegrate and become more dangerous to handle.

 

I always thought asbestos was only dangerous when breathed into the lungs I didn't think it was toxic.
I still have an asbestos soil pipe on my house and some asbestos roofing, I even have it in the cupboards in the house.

 

I've been looking aghast at the coverage of that obscenely expensive Indian wedding.
Then I begin to wonder whether we're any better. There have been at least two rather expensive royal weddings here in recent times.

 

If they can afford it, what's wrong with an elaborate wedding @BB3? It's not how I'd spend my money but then I have rather less disposable income and no need to make a statement.

As for royal weddings, they do bring in a lot of tourism pounds.

The average cost of a UK wedding this year is over £20,000. I can't imagine spending that much for one day - just as obscene - and would rather see it spent on a house deposit or something practical that will make married life easier fo rthe long term.

 

Money quite possibly made off the back of workers who are paid a pittance. There have been various guesses at the cost. Everything from £70 million to a quarter of a billion. Those at the top of the wealth pyramid in India live in a totally different world to everybody else.

 

If there wasn't such a chasm between rich and poor in most countries and the people at the bottom of the food chain were just less well-off ( in varying degrees) rather than desperately poor, they would be likely to use their money to buy stuff sold by the rich who would get their money back anyway. The poor tend spend their money on buying things rather than stashing it away. it
This sounds to me like sensible capitalism rather than communism.

 

Wealth and poverty in extremes have always been with us. See the history of a house not far from where I grew up.

Wentworth Woodhouse - Wikipedia


Owned first by the Marquess of Rockingham (locally known as Shaky Bacon) and then the Earls Fitzwilliam, it became the largest private house in Europe. It was built on the value of the coal under its foundations and the sweat and toil of the impoverished miners who extracted it while being housed in slums.

And yet, when the war demanded increased coal production, the miners supported their fabulously wealthy employer in objecting to this monstrous carbuncle being spoiled by the sight of coal heaps outside its windows. They saw them as “decent employers”.

rotherham business news: News: Wentworth Woodhouse owners unable to prove recent damage caused by subsidence


It has suffered from appalling subsidence for years, thanks to the missing tons of rock underneath its walls.

 

And speaking of the consequences of exploiting natural resources, did anyone listen to this creepy little story last night?


BBC Radio 4 - Short Works, The Knockers' Ballroom

It fair put me off my sleep.

 

News programmes, why show us video footage with the reason for showing it blotted out.
BBC just now, "this video shows the gunman lying motionless on the roof", all we could see was a roof with a big fuzzy patch.
Totally pointless showing it.

 

I’ve always been wary of big fuzzy patches.

 

I was watching the live news late that night and the chap being interviewed said "they blew his head off". Haven't heard that said since. Bit too much for the BBC.

 

I was watching the news this morning and they were interviewing a Trump supporter. I had to laugh at the fact that he was wearing a Trump sunvisor with 2020 on it. He had tried, badly, to cross out the final 0 and replace it with a 4. Unfortunately he would seem to have used a non-waterproof marker pen to do it.

 

So there has been a case of some numpty getting things slightly wrong and cause update problems for Microsoft.
I hope they take this as a warning not to get too involved with all this cr*p and maybe rely on other systems as well, or even people.
They were saying its hot a steamy in Tokyo and the air conditioning in buildings was being affected, really???
Dont they have a manual override, its just too stupid to contemplate how clever people put all their eggs in one basket, or even hand over the running of such things to a piece of unreliable machinery.
Things have gone too far surely.
Sanity needs to return.