haha just noticed that the last post in that was
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I mean, it was ever so cryptically named, I doubt anyone could find it by searching for ‘cheese’ 
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I was looking for the coffee thread earlier but couldn’t remember how Covfaffe was spelt. 
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Leave it alone. It’s maturing nicely but needs at least another year, possibly two.
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South West Water did similar to us down here earlier this year. I can’t recall exactly but I think they compensated those affected to about £50 per half day of outage so I think we got a £300 credit on our account. Not so bad then for residential customers but I don’t think hospitality businesses down here were remunerated quite as fully as they hoped to be though.
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Yes I remember reading about this. Thank you for sharing the info regarding compensation credits to the accounts.
Lots of figures have been bandied around ober the last few days- as you’ll have experienced yourself.
The Devon one was extremely serious though because it was chemicals in the supply I think, wasn’t it?
A fine example of one of the more common shortcomings of software.
A long time ago I had to do some programming - sufficiently long ago that when it didn’t work the product I was using would post an error message (do compilers still do that ?). This was usually helpful, but not in the way the product’s developers intended. Imagine I might have made any one of a dozen errors. The product would flag up the particular error (it thought) I had made. Narrowing down from 12 possibilities to 1 would have been really helpful.
Over time I came to realise that when an error message appeared the one thing I could be (pretty much) certain of was that whatever the error it was suggesting, that would not be the actual cause of the trouble. So it had narrowed the problems down from 12 to 11 for me. Which was a small help.
The word “experience” doing a lot of heavy lifting.
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No that was a different and more serious SWW failure afflicting Brixham & actually polluting their supply with farm effluent. Ours was just a big failure in a pipe near a local underground reservoir which cut off the supply to an area about 10 miles square for 3-4 days. It’s still a shock though, the degree to which you take it for granted.
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I was remembering the Camelford Al2(SO4)3 incident, but that was the 1980s, back when the water supply was still in the public sector..
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Seems that Belgium’s reticence is partly because a disprportionate amount of the (2/3rds) funds are in Belgium.
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Self-administered cock-punch coming up
Looks like I’ve joined the ham-fisted cartridge fettlers club 
And no, mohair jumpers were not involved, just a sheet of kitchen roll…
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Having a consolatory Cocoa Wonderland now.
New cartridge arriving tomorrow…
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Monsanto, as so often - finally the truth about Glyphosate’s carcinogenic properties is emerging after decades of suppression and multiple papers demonstrating the herbicide’s toxicity.
Why you should care: it’s in almost everything non-‘Organic’ you eat, but most especially potatoes, whose plants are sprayed with the stuff to make the tubers ready for harvesting at a predictable time: some of the weedkiller is sequestered into the tubers during this process…
A lot of money has been spent on suppressing the studies establishing its carcinogenic and teratogenic properties, and a lot more promoting the whitewash papers claiming it to be safe… 
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Fuck (not surprised).
I eat potatoes
Don’t worry. My granny ate 40 chips a day and she lived to be 90. And it was her own stubbornness that got her in the end*.
*That bit’s true actually, but that’s a different story …
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This came through yesterday. For those without relatives; internet and shit, communications like this might have arrived a bit too late…
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This is all going to be expensive for them. Any compensation they have to pay will be funded by increases to your bills.
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PO Counters. It’s therunuptoChristmas you eejits. Take it from me, there are going to be people who want to post stuff.
So open two tills and reserve one of them for people who just want to post a few things.
The other one can handle people whose first language is not English and who are trying to tax a vehicle in a process so complex that DVLA have given up trying to do it over the phone. They (DVLA) have told the poor owner that they must present themselves in person at a counter and try to get through the paperwork minefield there. Those of us with a handful of international Xmas cards, needing 15-20 seconds of help from counter clerk, waited while counter clerk phoned a friend (DVLA), then while counter clerk called his manager and let them talk to DVLA, then while, eventually, counter clerk opened a second till and dealt with us while his manager argued the case with DVLA. Which he was still doing when, having posted my cards, I left.
Honestly they need an ‘Easy Shit’ till and a ‘So, You Want To Adopt That Child You’ve Brought With You ?’ till.
Really they do.
Really, really, really.
Especially at Christmas.
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