On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 00:23:22 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:47:29 -0000, Rod Speed
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news On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:38:28 -0000, Rod Speed
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news On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 20:06:09 -0000, Paul Pot wrote:

Tough Guy no. 1265 explained on 2/25/2015 :
Why are councils re-laying all the cables and replacing all the
streetlamp poles for no ****ing reason? All they needed to do was
to
change the lamp on the top. What a waste of millions of pounds of
council taxes. The cables worked fine. The poles were in perfect
condition.


Handing over public money to masonic owned companies is what's going
on.

These are the people taking all the money in Scotland:
http://www.lightways.co.uk/

Weirdly expensive way to do that thing in the
background, maybe that mentality is infectious
or comes from eating all that haggis.

It moves boats. It's basically a huge lock gate.

http://www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk/abo...w-does-it-work

Still a stupidly expensive way to construct it with those
arches above the waterway that do nothing structural.

They do on the bit that rotates.

Sure.

Well obviously, as when it rotates, the top of the arch is then the side, then the bottom. The bit the boat is in rolls round the inside of the arch.

I guess the others are just to match it and look nice.

Yeah, that's what I meant.

It's also a very popular tourist attraction, that probably more than pays
for the arches.

But it would have got just as many tourists
without the arches on the non rotating part.

Probably.

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