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/

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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:10:25 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Who's it going to hurt? An earthworm?

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"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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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.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:38:28 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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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

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"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:38:28 -0000, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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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.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:47:29 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:38:28 -0000, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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. I guess the others are just to match it and look nice. It's also a very popular tourist attraction, that probably more than pays for the arches.

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"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:47:29 -0000, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:38:28 -0000, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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.

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.

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
wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:38:28 -0000, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:11:10 -0000, Rod Speed wrote:



"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:53:11 -0000, The Other John
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 +0000, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

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.

cynic
Because it's nearly the end of the financial year and if they don't spend
the money their budget will be cut next time?

/cynic

That's probably closer to the truth than it should be. [rolls eyes]

Are all the new poles going back exactly where the old ones were ?

They are in this street. In other streets I've seen them in different places, but the spacing is still pretty similar. No matter, you can get different heads with different LEDs for different spacings anyway, without moving the poles.

If not, it may be more economic to just replace the lot and the older
underground wiring that has turned out to be a dud design at the
time the lamps are changed to LEDs.

The old ones were completely functional, nothing to suggest the wiring was dodgy.

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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:37:32 -0000, Tim Watts wrote:

On 25/02/15 17:54, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I haven't seen concentric cable for forty years.
It WAS a dead loss.

My house is supplied with it, including the cable they recently replaced.


So's mine - 2 core (live centre and neutral outer) on a TN-C-S system.

There is a 3 conductor version for TN-S systems too.

My earth is connected to the neutral at the meter. They are one and the same. No doubt the substation has an earth spike. I don't think I do, apart from the odd little wire to a pipe.

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"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:37:32 -0000, Tim Watts
wrote:

On 25/02/15 17:54, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:

I haven't seen concentric cable for forty years.
It WAS a dead loss.

My house is supplied with it, including the cable they recently
replaced.


So's mine - 2 core (live centre and neutral outer) on a TN-C-S system.

There is a 3 conductor version for TN-S systems too.

My earth is connected to the neutral at the meter. They are one and the
same. No doubt the substation has an earth spike. I don't think I do,
apart from the odd little wire to a pipe.

That's the earth.

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:01:46 -0000, "Phi" wrote:

snip


They are replacing the cables because LED lamps take less current
for a given light output, so it was necessary to reduce the size
of the supply cables.

Necessary? In what way?

Were the cables so big that the smaller current could not fight its way through
them or it got lost in the "big" cables somewhere?

"Judith" wrote in message
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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 14:01:46 -0000, "Phi" wrote:

snip


They are replacing the cables because LED lamps take less current
for a given light output, so it was necessary to reduce the size
of the supply cables.

Necessary? In what way?

Were the cables so big that the smaller current could not fight its way
through
them or it got lost in the "big" cables somewhere?

He's taking the ****/trolling.
You fell for it.
But socialists are not clever.

On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 10:20:06 PM UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:10:25 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Who's it going to hurt? An earthworm?

--
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Customer: "Try cutting a little faster."

You've all missed the point. Its a fiendish plot. They aren't just replacing the lampposts they are installing hidden video cameras and listening devices with connected Tazers. They'll keep you rabble under control.

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 17:52:48 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:37:16 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:


What I've noticed is teh digging up and replacement of paveing slabs at bus stops. it was all done last year and the year before that. I'm betting teh council have a bit of money left over and need to spend it ASAP or they'll loose it, so they just spend it.

Doing that should be enough reason to sack someone. Budgets should carry over.



But they don't, that's the facts getting in the way again.

On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:57:26 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 17:52:48 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:37:16 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:


What I've noticed is teh digging up and replacement of paveing slabs at bus stops. it was all done last year and the year before that. I'm betting teh council have a bit of money left over and need to spend it ASAP or they'll loose it, so they just spend it.

Doing that should be enough reason to sack someone. Budgets should carry over.



But they don't, that's the facts getting in the way again.

A budget is not a law of Physics, there's no reason it cannot be changed. Any private company would carry it over. What's wrong with government depts?

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On 26/02/15 14:02, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:57:26 -0000, whisky-dave
wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 17:52:48 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:37:16 -0000, whisky-dave
wrote:


What I've noticed is teh digging up and replacement of paveing
slabs at bus stops. it was all done last year and the year before
that. I'm betting teh council have a bit of money left over and need
to spend it ASAP or they'll loose it, so they just spend it.

Doing that should be enough reason to sack someone. Budgets should
carry over.



But they don't, that's the facts getting in the way again.

A budget is not a law of Physics, there's no reason it cannot be
changed. Any private company would carry it over. What's wrong with
government depts?


A private company would carry its core budget (net worth) over year to
year inherently.

But I bet the bigger companies still run the depts like the government:

"You asked for X last year and did not spend it all - and Dept Z asked
for more this year and they did spend their budget last year, so we will
dock yours and give it to them"

The problem is that unless the company boss (or Chancellor) has
omniscience, (s)he cannot possibly know who is competantly compiling
their budget and who is just grabbing what they can.

Perhaps a compromise would be to let them keep a float budget over
several years. If they come in over budget or need a special purchase,
they can use the float and justify it later. They can make savings, come
in under budget, dock their next budget, get a pat on the head for
saving money and everyone wins.

If they cock up and overspend (without a good reason) they can use the
float to tide over, get a bollocking and then have future budgets
reviewed - but the float does not get put back straight away.

There must be a 100 ways to do the whole thing more sensibly. But this
is the country that has had the most ****ed up system of Stamp Duty on
conveyancing and took at least 60 years to fix it when the fix had to
have been one of the most trivial there was to make!

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 25/02/15 19:16, ARW wrote:
"Phi" wrote in message
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They are replacing the cables because LED lamps take less current for
a given light output, so it was necessary to reduce the size of the
supply cables.


:-)))))))))))))

And I'll raise you a customer that said "why do we not not use 12V
instead of 240V then we could use really thin cables"


They possibly could:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob-and-tube_wiring



As a thread drift - those floorboard in the picture of the link you gave

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._tube_1930.jpg

look very similar to the ones in a house I am working at in Doncaster.

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"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 25/02/15 13:34, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
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.


When? Where?


Sheffield?

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads/w...adproject.html



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In article ,
"ARW" wrote:

When? Where?

Sheffield?

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads/w...adproject.html

From that page:

Making Sheffield brighter

We are replacing the street lights with state of the art Light Emitting Diode
(LED) technology. LEDs provide brighter 'white light' to improve visibility
and safety as well as being energy efficient.


IMHO, this is wrong. LED lighting provides a hell of a lot more _glare_,
but (to me, strangely), less _illumination_. And there is a hell of an
increase in light pollution, too. At least, wherever I have seen LED
lighting (streets, business premises, domestic "security" lights, car
headlights, etc etc etc.

Further, these new street lights are going to have to stay working
flawlessly for a bloody long time, to justify the (I imagine) horrifying
expense that is going into installing them.

John

On 26/02/15 21:20, ARW wrote:
"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 25/02/15 13:34, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
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.


When? Where?


Sheffield?

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads/w...adproject.html




OK - ta!

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:19:51 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:10:25 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Who's it going to hurt? An earthworm?

It is your opinion as a qualified electrician that "it ain't broke" is
it?
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 21:20:34 -0000, ARW wrote:

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
...
On 25/02/15 13:34, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
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.


When? Where?


Sheffield?

https://www.sheffield.gov.uk/roads/w...adproject.html

Everywhere AFAIK?

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On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:28:33 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:19:51 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:10:25 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Who's it going to hurt? An earthworm?

It is your opinion as a qualified electrician that "it ain't broke" is
it?

The lights were all working fine.

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"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:28:33 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:19:51 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:10:25 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Who's it going to hurt? An earthworm?

It is your opinion as a qualified electrician that "it ain't broke" is
it?

The lights were all working fine.

LOL

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 01:03:10 -0000, bm wrote:


"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:28:33 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:19:51 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:10:25 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Who's it going to hurt? An earthworm?

It is your opinion as a qualified electrician that "it ain't broke" is
it?

The lights were all working fine.

LOL

Lack of counter argument noted.

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"fred" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 10:20:06 PM UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265
wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 22:10:25 -0000, Alex Heney wrote:

On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:34:40 -0000, "Tough Guy no. 1265"
wrote:

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.

That is your opinion as a qualified electrician is it?

If it ain't broke don't fix it. Who's it going to hurt? An earthworm?

You've all missed the point. Its a fiendish plot. They aren't just
replacing
the lampposts they are installing hidden video cameras and listening
devices with connected Tazers. They'll keep you rabble under control.

Bugger, now we'll have to kill you. Byeeee...

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 14:02:35 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:57:26 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 17:52:48 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:37:16 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:


What I've noticed is teh digging up and replacement of paveing slabs at bus stops. it was all done last year and the year before that. I'm betting teh council have a bit of money left over and need to spend it ASAP or they'll loose it, so they just spend it.

Doing that should be enough reason to sack someone. Budgets should carry over.



But they don't, that's the facts getting in the way again.

A budget is not a law of Physics,

But the law of physica is easier to chnage than the authorities doing something logical and sensible ;-)

there's no reason it cannot be changed.

There's loads it's called govenrment.

Any private company would carry it over. What's wrong with government depts?

they put the most incompedent in charge and those that can do the job do the work rather than the admin.


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In article ,
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:


Is this the new name for the parrot person?

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On 27/02/15 13:39, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:


Is this the new name for the parrot person?


If so, he does a good job of inventing a persona and keeping in
character. More like Dribble reinvented as a northerner I'd say.

On Friday, 27 February 2015 13:40:35 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
Is this the new name for the parrot person?

I'm pretty sure this is Uncle Pete. Both have posted in uklm as
being from Scotland, and Tough Guy linked to a personal website that
had 'peter' in the domain name.

"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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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.

it's common for councils to deliberately waste money like this, because if
the government sees them having money left over at the end of a year they
will cut back on their subsidising. Thus the councils have to make out they
need every penny.
Councils use a variety of tricks to waste money, one being road humps.

On 27/02/15 15:43, tg wrote:


"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
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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.

it's common for councils to deliberately waste money like this, because if
the government sees them having money left over at the end of a year they
will cut back on their subsidising. Thus the councils have to make out they
need every penny.
Councils use a variety of tricks to waste money, one being road humps.


Pity they don't "waste" it on a bit of road resurfacing...

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 16:04:37 -0000, Tim Watts wrote:

On 27/02/15 15:43, tg wrote:


"Tough Guy no. 1265" wrote in message
news
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.

it's common for councils to deliberately waste money like this, because if
the government sees them having money left over at the end of a year they
will cut back on their subsidising. Thus the councils have to make out they
need every penny.
Councils use a variety of tricks to waste money, one being road humps..


Pity they don't "waste" it on a bit of road resurfacing...

I wish they'd road resurface LESS. It's a total waste of money. Cars do not require a completely smooth surface. If we're expected to drive over 10cm high speedbumps, then how is a 3cm pothole going to cause a problem? £100 a month council tax? What useful things do I get from this? Bin collection, that's it.

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:47:08 -0000, Tim Watts wrote:

On 27/02/15 13:39, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:


Is this the new name for the parrot person?


If so, he does a good job of inventing a persona and keeping in
character. More like Dribble reinvented as a northerner I'd say.

I've never changed my character. I change my name when I get fed up of the old one. Read more into it if you want you silly child.

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:52:29 -0000, Martin Bonner wrote:

On Friday, 27 February 2015 13:40:35 UTC, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
Is this the new name for the parrot person?

I'm pretty sure this is Uncle Pete. Both have posted in uklm as
being from Scotland, and Tough Guy linked to a personal website that
had 'peter' in the domain name.

You're not the sharpest knife in the drawer are you?

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:39:22 -0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:


Is this the new name for the parrot person?

Pieces of nine, pieces of nine! Parroty error.

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On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:59:36 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 14:02:35 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:57:26 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 17:52:48 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:37:16 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:


What I've noticed is teh digging up and replacement of paveing slabs at bus stops. it was all done last year and the year before that. I'm betting teh council have a bit of money left over and need to spend it ASAP or they'll loose it, so they just spend it.

Doing that should be enough reason to sack someone. Budgets should carry over.



But they don't, that's the facts getting in the way again.

A budget is not a law of Physics,

But the law of physica is easier to chnage than the authorities doing something logical and sensible ;-)

there's no reason it cannot be changed.

There's loads it's called govenrment.

Any private company would carry it over. What's wrong with government depts?

they put the most incompedent in charge and those that can do the job do the work rather than the admin.

I've noticed. Why on earth do competant people never get put in charge? Surely you get promoted when you're good at something?

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On Friday, 27 February 2015 16:18:47 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:59:36 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Thursday, 26 February 2015 14:02:35 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:57:26 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 17:52:48 UTC, Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote:
On Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:37:16 -0000, whisky-dave wrote:


What I've noticed is teh digging up and replacement of paveing slabs at bus stops. it was all done last year and the year before that. I'm betting teh council have a bit of money left over and need to spend it ASAP or they'll loose it, so they just spend it.

Doing that should be enough reason to sack someone. Budgets should carry over.



But they don't, that's the facts getting in the way again.

A budget is not a law of Physics,

But the law of physica is easier to chnage than the authorities doing something logical and sensible ;-)

there's no reason it cannot be changed.

There's loads it's called govenrment.

Any private company would carry it over. What's wrong with government depts?

they put the most incompedent in charge and those that can do the job do the work rather than the admin.

I've noticed. Why on earth do competant people never get put in charge?
Surely you get promoted when you're good at something?

and if your good at something why would they promote you to do something else because they'll have to find a replacement and if yuo're doing the jpob well why get rid of that person and replace them with someone that won;t be better.
Obviously it depends on the job.





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