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How to deal with the UK's drought

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    #11
    What 'UK Drought?' We've got gallons of water up here in the North. The stuff that flows abundant from the taps is pretty much all naturally filtered mineral water. Just because a few cockneys have to drink 8th hand recycled piss does not a crisis make.
    Guy Fawkes - "The last man to enter Parliament with honourable intentions."

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      #12
      Originally posted by Alf W View Post
      What 'UK Drought?' We've got gallons of water up here in the North. The stuff that flows abundant from the taps is pretty much all naturally filtered mineral water. Just because a few cockneys have to drink 8th hand recycled piss does not a crisis make.
      Aye, we drink it straight from t'lake up ere lad. an it's nivver dun us any 'arm.

      None o'this suckin it up out'v 'oles like them Southern Girly Boys!

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        #13
        Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
        It's got fook all to do with the lack of rain in the south, but the population of the south of England has doubled under New Labour due to immigration.

        whs. I thought it had been a reasonably damp winter, in the South West at least, and the previous summer almost constant rain.

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          #14
          'appen that's why they all talk like Julian Clary down there.

          muss' be them 'ormones.

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            #15
            Originally posted by KimberleyChris View Post
            'appen that's why they all talk like Julian Clary down there.

            muss' be them 'ormones.
            In Essex the water has passed through at least 50 ladies bladders before it enters the local reservoirs.

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              #16
              Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
              In Essex the water has passed through at least 50 ladies bladders before it enters the local reservoirs.

              Where is that accent from? He's Southern obviously, but which part?

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                #17
                I've just bought a van and several pallets of empty water bottles. I'll be collecting water from the resivoir just up the road from my house and selling it on a street corner in Reading at £5 a litre. Plan B baby!
                McCoy: "Medical men are trained in logic."
                Spock: "Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error."

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                  #18
                  When we lived in Newbury, we had to buy a new kettle at least once a year.

                  Just looked inside mine here, which I've had for about three years, and the element is still shiny metal.

                  Come up here and help yourself to some Thirlmere lad. Good in your engine too.

                  Only problem is that a bar of soap disappears in a puff of foam every two days. Good job we don't use it much oop North :-)

                  Anywhere else you can stand a part-used block of Imperial Leather on its label. Here it collapses into a soggy mush.
                  Last edited by KimberleyChris; 21 February 2012, 23:42.

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                    #19
                    Well if I did my sums right, each of us in the UK gets 11 tonnes of rainfall per a day in our acre of land, which should be plenty to be getting on with.

                    [Based on 1000mm rainfall per year over UK, land area 240,000 km^2, 60 odd million peeps].

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
                      Well if I did my sums right, each of us in the UK gets 11 tonnes of rainfall per a day in our acre of land, which should be plenty to be getting on with.

                      [Based on 1000mm rainfall per year over UK, land area 240,000 km^2, 60 odd million peeps].
                      Turn that into engineering.
                      Me, me, me...

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