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Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

Hot equerries are in your area, waiting to service your carriage.

(I don't know what an equerry does, something with horses and carriages?)

It's a battlefield role in Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy

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Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lol

https://twitter.com/ianwalker/status/1765639904321560865?t=YW4LlfgvjisOP-mO-xE22g&s=19

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!

Close the border Humza, shut off the pipes.

Do not get addicted to water my English friends, you will resent its absence.

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
https://x.com/ianwalker/status/1765639926731727180?s=20

I absolutely refuse to believe that a person's showers are anything other than a totally negligible about of water used by the country.

Ofwat says "Currently around a fifth of water running through pipes is lost to leakage".

E:

gonadic io has issued a correction as of 16:00 on Mar 7, 2024

Biplane
Jul 18, 2005

RealityWarCriminal posted:

party of forced Labour

euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

why don’t you have agriculture.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

euphronius posted:

why don’t you have agriculture.

King needs his hunting grounds

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
It rains a lot. The UK, for all its faults, doesn't try to grow things in literal deserts very often.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

gonadic io posted:

It rains a lot. The UK, for all its faults, doesn't try to grow things in literal deserts very often.

yeah your water usage stats are basically the opposite of the california central valley

honestly it doesn't even rain a lot, it just rains really efficiently

for instance, birmingham gets 800mm of precipitation annually. austin texas gets over 900, but we're bordering on a semi-arid climate because it all happens across four storms a year

i say swears online has issued a correction as of 17:27 on Mar 7, 2024

Gripweed
Nov 8, 2018

gonadic io posted:

https://x.com/ianwalker/status/1765639926731727180?s=20

I absolutely refuse to believe that a person's showers are anything other than a totally negligible about of water used by the country.

Ofwat says "Currently around a fifth of water running through pipes is lost to leakage".

E:


Do less industry.

i am harry
Oct 14, 2003

30gal of water in your home
30gal of water
take one down
pass it around
next months stipend is 29

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics...mber%3D240pti11

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

I'm always amused by Americans using lawn sprinklers constantly to maintain their 2cm tall grass, whereas here it'll be 2cm longer the day after mowing and will grow for 10 months straight without any watering.

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

Clyde Radcliffe posted:

I'm always amused by Americans using lawn sprinklers constantly to maintain their 2cm tall grass, whereas here it'll be 2cm longer the day after mowing and will grow for 10 months straight without any watering.

It keeps green, and you can spot when a neighbor's dog is near the lawn which allows you to threaten your neighbor.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1765784253198217411?t=L-jIRd4L4X-5UCeuR_vCog&s=19

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

look,

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
*reports NHS to Prevent*

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
What happens if you get reported to prevent, do you get to go to meetings with other cool people?

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
Get to? You are legally obliged to.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Yeah, meeting at his majesty's pleasure

kyojin
Jun 15, 2005

I MASHED THE KEYS AND LOOK WHAT I MADE

Microplastics posted:

Yeah, meeting at his majesty's pleasure

I'm too old for this poo poo

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007


Socialism's gone woke

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Only two countries in the world have a fully privatized water and sewerage system.
England and Wales.

Here are the top water companies in the UK, and how much they made in 2022:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1179995/leading-water-and-sewer-utilities-companies-in-the-united-kingdom/

2 billion by Thames Water. Top four nearly 8 billion between them.

Yet instead of telling the companies to fix the leaks to provide more water, the government is telling the poors to stink more.

deletebeepbeepbeep
Nov 12, 2008
I think we should be doing what we can to reduce water consumption in homes by retrofit or other physical measures (and improvements to building regulations). Obviously having one less shower a day ain't going to do poo poo in the grand scheme of things.

Our water companies are basically the mafia and exist only to extract money from us for their shareholders whilst doing the minimum to keep the taps on and in the mean time trashing our rivers and sea.

Betjeman
Jul 14, 2004

Biker, Biker, Biker GROOVE!
And this off the back of the wettest February on record. There's water everywhere.

It's our fault that the population has been growing, with each new house adding more to the water coffers, but infrastructure is lagging 30 years behind.

Mind, we got a leaflet through our door suggesting we are using less than a third of the average amount of water for a similar household. We are not particularly frugal with water so god knows what some people are doing with it (I guess we don't powerwash our car and drive)

lumpentroll
Mar 4, 2020

life hack: instead of buying a white noise machine, just leave the taps running

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
the north east still has plenty of water because they built a huge resevoir expecting a big industry boom then thatcher destroyed all industry. it'll probably start getting shipped down south once things get really bad

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
give us your water. London needs it for money

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

deletebeepbeepbeep posted:

I think we should be doing what we can to reduce water consumption in homes by retrofit or other physical measures (and improvements to building regulations). Obviously having one less shower a day ain't going to do poo poo in the grand scheme of things.
The UK does appear to have the potential to drop its tap water consumption, based on the levels you see in other European countries, though it is not like its consumption is super excessive compared to the norm in the richer parts of Europe.

Jose posted:

the north east still has plenty of water because they built a huge resevoir expecting a big industry boom then thatcher destroyed all industry. it'll probably start getting shipped down south once things get really bad
the north east gets saved when someone looks at a map and sees infrastructure getting built more than 100 furlongs from London, and immediately cancels the project

keep punching joe
Jan 22, 2006

Die Satan!
Just drink from the Thames londoners lmao

Hard water makes hard men.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

keep punching joe posted:

Just drink from the Thames londoners lmao
free cocaine means higher productivity, so it's win-win-win

Pistol_Pete
Sep 15, 2007

Oven Wrangler
There's an amazing chart that shows the number of new reservoirs constructed in the UK over, like, a century. The moment the water industry is privatised, it just stops dead. Not a single new reservoir since privatisation lol, all the revenue's been snaffled by the shareholders instead.

genericnick
Dec 26, 2012

Pistol_Pete posted:

There's an amazing chart that shows the number of new reservoirs constructed in the UK over, like, a century. The moment the water industry is privatised, it just stops dead. Not a single new reservoir since privatisation lol, all the revenue's been snaffled by the shareholders instead.

but also water company debt blows up. It's great

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
The cowards have turned replies off

https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1766054164314886561?t=em24ydLajgDCAjob9qcbzw&s=19

Kaveman
Jul 25, 2009

NEVER!!!


Jose posted:

the north east still has plenty of water because they built a huge resevoir expecting a big industry boom then thatcher destroyed all industry. it'll probably start getting shipped down south once things get really bad

We still have issues with distribution of that water
last year rivers in county durham had to get topped up with water from northumberland via tankers

the state of the rivers in recent years has turned my fisherman da from climate changer denier to greta.

Tom Smykowski
Jan 27, 2005

What the hell is wrong with you people?
Counter Extremism Czar

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь

Tom Smykowski posted:

Counter Extremism Czar

In charge of deploying acceptable extremism

lobster shirt
Jun 14, 2021

a tsar thats against anti-semitism? not bloody likely!

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Moderation Czar

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Pener Kropoopkin
Jan 30, 2013

antisemitismus Oberleutenant

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