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Sigh.... They have fully completed some sections of the street lighting, but in my part of town they are still laying the underground pipes - with no wire inside! I'm interested in why they don't use fully insulated cabling in the first place, or how they actually get the wire through the pipe.

I've examined where the pipes surface - there is no drawstring! But they have completed working street-lighting in other parts of town already, so clearly they know what they are doing 🙂 I need to attend when they are getting the elec tric cable through the pipe - or perhaps I'll ask the crew working on this 🙂

Humour me on this one please! In Luang Prabang, the electricity company is busy installing street lighting. They cut a deep groove into the pavement using a power saw, lay down heavy black rubber insualted pipe that's about 4cm diameter, then cement over that pipe to return the pavement to its original condition. The trench where the pipe is laid twists and turns around obstacles (such as trees), and surfaces every 30 metres or so, where the street lamp will be placed. But there is no electrical cable inside the piping..... I assume that since they have cemented over the pipe, then they intend to push the electrical cable through the pipe, and they must have done this on previous jobs - so know that it works ok. But how?? On a hotel-build in Phuket yonks ago I did all the electrical cabling and I can tell you that it was impossible to push an electrical cable 30 metres inside a pipe....... The pipes have no string or 'pull wire' inside. So how do they thread the electrical cable up the pipe and around corners...?

My ignore list gets longer and longer. Seems this forum attracts trolls....

kindergarten troll - on ignore, bye-bye baby.....

Correct. It's due to be retired in a year or 2 from now. The astronauts will leave and the ISS will be positioned to re-enter (and hopefully all burn up) over the Pacific Ocean, but get your helmet on if you live on a Pacific island!

There is no emergency and the Taikonauts do not need rescuing! They have a 'spare' return vehicle at the Chinese space station that could be used if there was a real emergency. Minute pieces of space junk often hit satellites. The ISS has quite a few holes, including one that seemed to be created from inside the ISS!

I have bronchiectasis for 25 years now. I have a daily mucus thinner tablet and walk perhaps 10km every day to help to thin the mucus in my lungs so I can cough it up. Let me know if you want more info about this illness 🙂

Nice controversial topic there Bob.... Bound to generate lots of posts eh? (wink)

[quote] ... No flimsy surgical mask or even supposed N95er is gonna protect anyone. You want protection then you gotta mask up properly with a WW1 mustard gas mask. [/quote] Jeez, what total ignorance! Mustard gas is absorbed through the skin! A 'real' N95 mask can stop 98% of airborne pathogens escaping into the air (according to University of Maryland). You understand? People wear masks not only to avoid being infected by airborne pathogens, but also to stop spreading their own cough/cold/flu/covid germs. I appreciate people who have a cold etc wearing masks to protect me from their germs. They are demonstrating common sense. People also wear simple masks to protect themselves from larger airborne particles (soot, dust etc) when they are in cities, riding a motorbike etc. That's also common sense. So I really don't understand the attitude of 'some' foreigners towards others who wear masks. Seems to be based on ignorance....

Al Jazeera has just released a hard-hitting documentary on the latest fighting in Myanmar. Watch it here:

Scientist here - your figures above are way off! Typical % of carbs in: 9% carrots 20% potato 10% beetroot 11% squash Additionally, 100% of those carbs are NOT broken down into digestible sugar (glucose) - a portion of that figure is fibre. Eating food with carbs is a good way to avoid a sugar 'spike' because it takes time for the digestive system to break down the long-string molecules of carbs. There is nothi ng unhealthy about eating food with carbs - your body requires these and as long as you follow a balanced diet and 'burn' off the food sugar that is in your cells (eg by exercise), then you will not get fat (energy in - energy out law of science).

Yes! Unlike many, I am old-skool Brit, brought up in rural England, shooting my .410 shotgun by age 10, taught by my father to always be honest (even if the truth hurts), always be a strong male etc etc. That guy should have been in a secure hospital, not roaming the streets. did you know that people of black African ancestry are about 10 times more likely to be mentally ill? This situation should never even happened if those who are dangerously mentally-ill are held in secure hospitals, but 'Care in the Community' has destroyed the safe England that I once knew.

I have absolutely no idea, (because I don't have a fixation on vaccines/antivaxers/tinhat nutters...)

I remember this news report. That boy was not healthy - he was obese, and reports at that time indicated that obese people who were not even old or sick with other illnesses seemed to be more prone to dying from Covid 19. As for myself (with a chronic lung illness), I had the initial 2 jabs in Laos, then a booster sometime later in Turkey, and finally another booster about 12 months later in Pattaya. Yes, I got Covid 19, (because Covid vaccines don't stop you getting infected with this virus, but minimise the effects of the illness). I had a slight fever for 2 days and then tested negative. So I'm very happy that I was vaccinated.

Great for being the hero, but I don't understand on what legal terms he is living in the UK. Algeria was never part of the British colonial empire...

The best way to avoid all these problems is to be skint like me... 🙂

Mr Bean managed it from a comfy armchair on the car roof....

Wrong! I don't read ToL and the police have reported that the attacker was known to the authorities....

Well, I don't live in the UK and I have absolutely no problem being labelled as a racist bigot....

Additionally, this latest incident doesn't bode well for 'normal' (sane), law-abiding black people in the UK. Would you now want to sit on a train next to a large black male...?

I can well believe that he is mentally ill, but if he is mentally-ill and if he was known to the authorities, why on earth was he not in a secure nuthouse? The number of unpredictable nutters roaming the streets in the UK is because of the 'Care in the Community' policy enacted years ago, which decreed that the mentally ill are better cared for in the community, as opposed to being in a secure hospital. I have never agreed with this policy! As a teenager, I had a friend who was mentally-ill, but a very nice guy when he wasn't having a psychotic episode. But he was required to stay in a secure hopsital and only allowed out to visit me while in the presence of his large, male minder.....

Yes, it seems to have been a gay party. That's why the article states that the police entered via the rear entrance 🙂

The only legal defence item allowed in the UK is a personal alarm!!!

Hi Sticky Dump, thanks for your comments. But remember your weekend release from the nuthouse will be over later today. Better watch out 'cos the loony asylum minders will be coming for you with their strait jackets 🙂