Permission for TV aerial.

Indeed. Anyone truly keen on football has no choice.

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Dave Plowman (News)
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*Everybody* can choose what they like for daytime entertainment, or for that matter any entertainment. Whatever happened to going out for a walk?

It's not obscene profit. The advertising of those financial products and mug's game compensation claims are made because it has been identified that the audience reached is open to buying them.

It isn't BSkyB's fault that is has an audience that is receptive to that, they are simply the messenger.

That's something else. We are only paying because we choose to pay. Nobody says that one *has* to have a Sky subscription or a given package or indeed a television at all.

The rat is the handouts of public money to people who don't know how to use it properly.

There is no point in shooting the messenger.

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Andy Hall

Go ahead. I don't subscribe so it will be no insult to me.

I agree with you that much of the Sky output is crap, I just don't agree with your argument.

MBQ

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manatbandq

Nonsense. It's their money and they can spend it however the hell they like.

BTW, not all council house tenants are poor. I know of at least one such who runs a coach firm from his house and regularly parked several hundred thousand pounds worth of coaches in the street outside.

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Huge

CAI and Sky don't allow fixing using bolts to a stack, the reason is because it is not a load bearing structure, I have seen 3 stacks collapse by other ppl, I do bolt to the stack occasionally when needs must, but as a DIYer Andrew G I would stick to your own house and not advise ppl to drill into the stack, I have drilled a stack with written consent from the owner before install and the vibration cascaded soot into the front room, customer tryed to sue, but had written consent.

It is against Health and safety regulations to drill into the stack LOL this will void your house insurance when a =A320000 bill for building work comes through the door, next time you tell someone to drill into a 1-2 ton unstable structure looming on top of their house with no house insurance think before you put your foot in your mouth.

I am a CAI SKY Microsoft Ericsson Lucent accredited Special heights Engineer

Mash up your own house not others

Pay the man =A3150 pound for a single aerial feed + 40-65 for each extra point, thats the going rate for ppl that can install lashing kits.

Oh yeh the chimney in the middle of two building is communal, if it is installed the neighbour would have to take you to court and loose, if the neighbour damages the install that is a criminal offence, hope that cleared that one up LOL

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KEALAN

No dude the stack is communal the neighbour can try and sue if they are stupid but they will loose in court I have seen 5 such court cases, if the neighbour objects LOL move to a better area and give the old neighbour a slap LOL

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KEALAN

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KEALAN

Hang on Tony, you don't mind climbing up a 120+ ft mast because you once was a chimney sweep, you are a fool, how did you harness yourself to the top of the mast then, I have been a specialist heights engineer for 15 yrs + and you are the thickest idiot I have ever heard, do you think there is any reason to climb up the mast to align an aerial, if so tell me why, I abseil off blocks of flats daily and still can not work out how you pay for a helicopter to fix your harness to the top of the mast, we on the other hand take the mast off the bracket test the components and align from the ground with a meter, chim chimeny chim chimney chim chim cheroo, leave it to the pros coz your not that bright....

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KEALAN

Being fairly tolerant and generous to a fault I'll ignore your abusive remarks as part of your ignorance on the subject..

The mast in question was a free standing structure used for telecoms purposes and as such is fitted with "Railok" to which you can attach a full body harness to, and with this you are "connected" to the structure at all times. The device is arranged so that movement in the one upwards direction is very easy, however if you move at the slightest bit too fast in the downward direction in a fall situation it locks up thus arresting the fall.

And me old chum you very often have to attend to various equipment's on such structures for things like microwave links etc which you can't line up on the ground.....

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tony sayer

I think it's useful when people post their qualifications then we know exactly how to regard their postings.

Owain

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Owain

I didn't think that Microsoft achieved any elevation in anything.

Of course "special heights" may not mean something high (vs. low).

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Andy Hall

Its a qualification required by Microsoft's bankers and accountants for standing in the mountains of cash they get from milking their customers.

VH.

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Van Helsing

Slightly OT but, is drilling into the stack lower down also frowned on ? i.e. fitting a plasma tv to the chimney breast ?

Pete

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Pete Cross

I wondered if "Special" referred to the school...

Owain

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Owain

Handouts are worth it imho, they bring many and large benefits to all in society. However, I totally agree they are ill used. The less able someone is to run their own finances, the more likely they are to claim benefit, so its no surprise that some claimants pee the money up the wall.

A good starting point to adressing this would be a sensible education. Todays school curriculum simply fails to teach key life skills in area after area.

I think the main problem with the benefits system is the lack of the will to do anything about it at ground level. Those involved simply couldnt care less.

NT

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meow2222

They don't bring anything to me, although having said that, I don't really believe in the concept of "society".

That's certainly true.

So the solution, apart from education is that people receiving benefits from the public purse should have to account for significant expenditures.

I would rather pay for healthcare directly than to give money in taxes, going to benefits, then tobacco taxes, then government health funding. There are too many middle men in that chain.

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Andy Hall

Yes, any drilling of chimneys is, or should be, frowned upon (1). Do the job properly and use a lashing kit plus any other bits you need for fitting if it HAS to be on chimney.

Better still, try to find another suitable place to put it.

(1) A lot of chimneys are fragile and of such low overall mass that the vibration caused by an SDS drill or possibly even an normal hammer drill could further weaken or damage them. Then those weakened chimneys will have to cope with resisting the sideways force imposed by a flat (in your case) object that was never meant to be there in a severe storm that just happened to be perpendicular to your surface.

Why do you want a plasma tv on chimney?

Steve

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Steve

Try reading the post again.

The two words "chimney" and "breast" have to be taken together with the fact that it's a plasma TV as indicating the context.

Would you want a plasma TV on a chimney or on the chimney breast in the lounge, say?

MBQ

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manatbandq

Now I understand why people like this are tagged "Tiscali idiot".

MBQ

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manatbandq

You should have taken some time out for grammar lessons.

MBQ

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manatbandq

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