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Note to Self
#"Keep up Bobby, keep up!"

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John Wayne would have loved Trump and Trump would have loved him, both of them dying for a scrap with anyone who doesn’t agree with them. Seeing that Wayne got rid of most of the Native Americans single handed Trump would no doubt hire him to get rid of the Mexicans, a match made in hell that would be, so be thankful for small mercies, it was bad enough having Charlton Heston president of the gun club for all those years, he held fast on all the rules and wouldn’t budge an inch to tighten them up, he was another ‘nuke ‘em’ fanatic, I wouldn’t trust him near a shirt button.

Mars! Don’t kid yerself Gummy, yours or my descendants will never see that day unless someone comes up with a way of transporting souls, but I think God and the devil have that market covered already, I believe the market can go up or down depending on the individual.
No the human body would never survive all that radiation out there, NASA has a huge wage bill to meet every month, space travel or no space travel, and they are running out of funds, this Mars thing is a stunt to get the people interested and the government money rolling in again.
They have discovered a few earth like planets out there, who knows one of them might be heaven, but you know the old song “Everybody want’s to go to heaven but nobody want’s to die” ya gotta get there the hard way according to the good book.
I have a feeling some of us here won’t be needing overcoats where we’re going.

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Oh dear wots made you miserable all of a sudden??

mars is gonna 'appen it said so on the tellie and the tellie never lies!!

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Very clever Gumbud - Fretboard I like it.

Same here young Robert - Same here, we can get lost together.

Forget that Gumbud - The Mars factory is in Slough Buckinghamshire or is it Berkshire now
I'm interested in this budding romance. Do you say to bag a Sheila?

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Oh dear wots made you miserable all of a sudden??

I’m in great form Gummy, not miserable in the least, just the usual slagging off of the pompous famous, peasants like me are allowed that small luxury.

The wife has taken the dog around to the ‘Poodle Parlour’ to have him clipped and shampoo’d, I pleaded with her to leave him for another while as the weather is so cold, he’s only a handful.
He always smells like a rose and looks like a scalped rat when he comes out of that place, the Hungarian girl who does him goes to town with the clippers, he needs his hair in cold weather like this, but he’s the wife's baby and she makes the decisions as to his welfare, God help him.

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Had to go to the Doctors today, about my Bowel condition, it's not that I am irregular, in fact, I go everyday about the same time, but there in lies the problem. My poops are tiny, but the Doc reassured me, all was Ok, he said Spitty, it happens like this, when you are a "Small Business Man".

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now let's get this right spittie and i am sure Pug will back me up on this one the size of your poops has got nothing to do with your business - it is all about the size of ya meals - you haven't been eating noodles and nothing else again have ya - I told ya about that ages ago - noodles and meat and vegies - wack em all in together you silly sod!!

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Spitty it is to do with stress.
The bowl contracts and only allows a little to pass down at a time.
IBS can take many forms - Don't worry.
Whilst we are on this subject.

The Story of Thomas Crapper
The Great Stink [BBC, ]
After Thomas Crapper’s groundbreaking invention around 1850, public water closets became increasingly commonplace in London. Eventually the primitive sewers of the time could not cope with the volume of faeces and it came to standstill. A great festering, stinky standstill, known from then till now as The Great Stink, which occurred during June of 1858. Faeces was backed up everywhere. There was no escape, even Parliament suffered.


New Sewage System
Two engineers were called in to solve the problem. Joseph Bazalgette was given £3m to build a sewer network that did not deposit London’s personal effluent into the Thames and he ended up spending over £20m.
Sir Goldsworthy Gurney, of Cornwall, was the other. He was asked to do something about the smell emanating from the sewers. His solution was to attach a pipe to the sewer, strapped it up the side of Big Ben's clock tower and stood at the top with a match.
Another source relates the following: He thought he could burn off the noxious gases [sewer gas]. So he connected the main Victorian sewer to the chimney in the Clock Tower of the Houses of Parliament.


Christopher Jones in his book, 'The Great Palace of Westminster' takes up the story.


"Unfortunately the gases would not light. Next, Gurney put a coal fire at the base of the Clock Tower and tried again; this time the gases burned. One day though when Mr Joseph Bazalgette, the chief engineerat the Metropolitan Board of Works, was examining the pipe that led from the main sewer to the Clock Tower, he discovered that there was a leak from a fractured coal-gas pipe into the sewer, and only a trap-door in the sewer was stopping the coal-gas from reaching the furnace at the bottom of the Clock Tower. There had already been one small explosion, although no one was hurt and no damage done. If the full blast of coal-gas and sewer gas had reached the furnace, then the chances are that the Clock Tower would have taken off for the moon, and the rest of the Palace would have been destroyed with it. Gurney, who so nearly blew up the Palace of Westminster, died knighted and respected in his bed. Guy Fawkes, a bumbling plotter of ludicrous incompetence, died in excruciating agony on the scaffold not far away, in Old Palace Yard."
and tantalisingly, but with little detail, and no evidence:
“Not everyone realises that Britain's iconic symbol, the Westminster Clock, not only serves as national timekeeper but as a sewer ventilation chimney.”
So any further info on that would be gratefully received!


Joseph Bazalgette designed an extensive underground sewerage system that diverted waste to the Thames Estuary, downstream of the main centre of population. Six main interceptor sewers, totalling almost 100 miles (160 km) in length, were constructed between 1859 and 1865, some incorporating stretches of London's 'lost' rivers.

Sewers north of the Thames feed into the Northern Outfall Sewer, which feeds into a major treatment works at Beckton. South of the river, the Southern Outfall Sewer extends to a similar facility at Crossness.


However, while parliament and the great and the good were saved from the horrific stink, Bazalgette's work had not solved the problem entirely.


Despite Bazalgette’s ingenuity, the system still dumped tons of raw sewage into the Thames - sometimes with unfortunate results. The death toll from the sinking of the pleasure boat Princess Alice in 1878 would certainly have been smaller if it had sunk elsewhere on the Thames. As it was, it went down close to one of the main sewage outfalls. Approximately 640 passengers died, many poisoned rather than drowned. Horror at the deaths was instrumental in the building of a series of riverside sewage treatment plants. [Science Museum]

Stinkpipes
Clearly, Gurney’s ventilation pipe principle was put into practice along much of the length of the Victorian sewers, as you can still see the pipes in place today more or less following the route of the main sewers and on many of the connecting sewers too.

"The gas is mainly hydrogen sulphide and it gives that rotten eggs smell, " said Gary Paley, of Darlington, who has been a sewerage engineer for 18 years in Yorkshire. "It usually occurs when sewage is being pumped long distances. It can become septic as it does not travel from A to B quick enough. It can also occur in flat areas where the speed of flow is slower."The gas will eat concrete if not dealt with. I remember that the sewer near the racecourse in Thirsk had been almost totally eaten by the gas and just the reinforcing bars from inside the concrete pipes were left. "

So the sewers were vented.

The pipes had to be tall so the noxious fumes escaped way above nose-level, and the Victorians were given a new canvas on which to show off their casting skills. As sewer gases can be heavier than air, it was necessary for the wind to disperse them before they could settle at ground level.

A number of manufacturers were able to build and supply the ventilation pipes, usually with ornate designs, probably massively over-engineered, and many ,many of which survive in place to the present day.

Companies such as J.Stone and co, founded in 1842 by Josiah Stone, George Preston and John Prestige. Marine, railway and general engineers, based in Deptford, London. Henry Edie and Co of Bow Foundry, in east London, established in 1843, AC Woodrow & Co; Frederick Bird & Co West Drayton near London, engineers; Ham Baker.

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Sweetie, Mr S. Fire was joking. 'Twas a play on wurds.

All very interesting Mrs P. The houses of Parliament are full of sh1t. Well who would have thought it?

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Well there we have it, the history of crap, very educational Sweetie, I now know more about shite than I do about me own family, the wife always told me that anyway.
(I'm only pulling your leg)