Slight OT ... pipeline practicalities

[Frank Erskine]

Hear hear.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Is this Clarkson writing under an alias?

[grimly4]

That would have been the Libyan fossil water project?

[grimly4]

Use the immigrants as leakstoppers.

[grimly4]

Iirc, prior to the privatisation of the water companies, the spending was slashed to make the profits look better.

[Steve Walker]

That's the one.

I've just had a quick look and found

which has a picture of said pipes on trucks.

The bit I saw was on the drive from Tripoli to Benghazi - driven by a Libyan ex-fighter pilot who obviously liked flying in formation (one of our guys took a photo which clearly shows us only feet behind the other car that we were with and 130 kph on the clock!)

SteveW

[jgharston]

Last time Yorkshire Water has a hosepipe ban I was particulalrly annoyed because my bit of YW gets it's water from Ladybower and it was well topped up then (plus I get my hosepipe water off the roof). It was the supplies further north/east that were running low.

JGH

[The Other Mike]

No :) Although he probably has the same view on the south east, Clarkson would do nothing to protect the water resources of the North.

[Hugh - Was Invisible]

I seem to recall he is at odds with his neighbours on a Scottish island because he wants a footpath across his land closed

[Adrian Simpson]

In article , Hugh - Was Invisible writes

That might come as unwelcome news to the residents of the Isle of Man.

Adrian

[Hugh - Was Invisible]

Well I got the island bit right. Countless counsellors have spent many hours trying to persuade me that I shouldn't try and be perfect.

Point remains that he is a self centred idiot in real life, not just when seeking publicity for his next book, DVD etc.

[Huge]

Except he isn't.

[grimly4]

I suspect his IoM neighbours just wish he'd f*ck off.

[grimly4]

I assume you've met him. Funny how wankers stick together.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

It's likely not his neighbours he has the problem with - more those who come to gawp at anyone/anything that has appeared on TV etc. And the press.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

A pal who knew him as a neighbour from before the Top Gear days, says he was very polite to the point of being shy.

[grimly4]

Perhaps the gawpers cause the problem, but he attempted to shut a public right of way across a corner of his land, which pissed off the locals. Fuck him - he has four other houses he can have privacy in.