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  1. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Agreed, but there is just as big an opportunity for incompetence, have you forgotten they actually injected a huge number of subjects thinking they were giving them a full dose and it turned out to be only half of one?
  2. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Shame it hasn't reached Tory Voters yet and it looks like they are incapable of learning , as you demonstrate with your pitch of trying to make a "Silk purse out of a Sow's ear." :D
  3. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    The basis of the problem is the reduction of flush volumes progressively from high level 11 and 13 litre cisterns down now to 3.5 litre close coupled suites, which struggle to clear the bowl, and lead to very low rates of flow in the sewers. The only available answer at this time is for the...
  4. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    very sad...
  5. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Perhaps it is pertinent to point your attention at a sentence in your comment "Manufacturer has to guarantee it, goes bust if one fails.. " Unless of course you excuse them any liability and pay over the odds for the product "Sold as seen" Sound familiar?
  6. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Wrong as usual but then you usually are being determined to cover for the Government you voted for The Government hasn't got the vaccine rollout right till it is completed, not half done All credit to the people on the ground none to the incompetents who mishandled the campaign. The planning at...
  7. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    No so, actually it matters a great deal ever change to design alters the flushing performance and can even lead to massive problems with the drains, so don't make assumption is like that ,and where potable water supply fittings are concerned unless great care is taken with design to prevent...
  8. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Rubbish!
  9. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Yes it's called intelligence, something you apparently don't suffer from. There's an old saying and very true when something looks too good to be true it usually is. If I had made such a fundamental error of specifying superdeep cold storage and then had to go back to my MD and said but if you...
  10. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Good engineers always are that's where they get to live to an old age. a heck of a lot of mistakes on dosages timings and storage seem to have been made on both Vaccines and then suddenly there's this good news? How on Earth could it be they went to all the trouble to specify in great detail we...
  11. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    "Previously thought" and "should be", "the same should be true" and this after billions spent on research? And the Oxford vaccine has a similar optimistic write up on dosage timing and both curiously at the same time? :D How remarkably fortunate.......
  12. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Hopefully this is true, but why has it taken so long to discover something so fundamental?
  13. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    How very convenient
  14. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I remember an issue of an electronics magazine that included the circuitry and pcb board etching patterns for a mains calculator with nixie numeral display elements and had what seemed like a vast number of logic gates on three separate boards, I doubt that many people built one, as in the...
  15. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    This will make you smile : when Sinclair brought out the "Programmable Scientific" calculator some of the lads in our Thermal Laboratory bought one of the kits and built one, they decided to see if it could be used to help fill in the football pools. By what was probably no more than blind luck...
  16. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Brexit promised Taking back control from unelected officials It sort of went whotsits up!
  17. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

  18. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Latest news on RTE news Truck stopped at Dublin port en route for Belfast, Caught with £5,000 Drugs and £300,000 Sausages Bangers and Hash anyone? :D
  19. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    Ken Dodd explained the syndrome like this "I suffer from Kleptomania when it gets too bad I take something for it!" Perfect Tory logic
  20. oldgroaner

    Brexit, for once some facts.

    I always wondered why it took much loner to drive anywhere in Scotland! Perhaps the old unit values offer a clue? English & USA mile: 5280 feet. 1760 yards. 8 furlongs. 80 chains. Scottish mile: 5952 feet. 1984 yards. Old measure. But the Irish go one better Irish mile: 6720 feet. 2240...