Preparedness for when

COOLTRIKERCHICK

It was 10pm on a Saturday night, he can have time off for a pint or two.. Don't think builders are on 24 hr call

greenbee

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

It was 10pm on a Saturday night, he can have time off for a pint or two.. Don't think builders are on 24 hr call

I wasn't expecting a response last night, but I would have expected him to check up this morning. TBH, as the leak was in new pipework he has put in I would have hoped for a text with advice as to what to do. Who else would I call if I couldn't stop the water and the ceiling collapsed? I'm sure he'd rather I called him to fix it than my insurance company for an emergency fix, and then having to deal with a claim against his insurance.

As it happens I remembered that he had mentioned that this particular pipe was on the hot water circuit and not on the heating one. Hot water I can stop as it is mains pressure. Heating would have involved draining the system which I'm not sure I could have done.

He's called this morning and is on his way over - I'm a good customer, I pay promptly, I don't get upset with small accidents (like his apprentice putting his feet through the ceiling while in the attic), and apparently he wants the water working so he can have his coffee when he gets here tomorrow morning :cool:

1Tonsil

Frugalsod wrote: »

I think that is a very real scenario, and may be happening already. It might take a long time before it reverts to its normal path. It is why have been looking at lots of cold weather gear. So while we might have more extreme summers and winters we will need to be prepared for both. Over time I can see hundreds of millions moving north from Africa as climate change makes life there much harder and drier. In the interim we could have wars over water as it may not land where it traditionally has.

Climate change is real and it annoys me that we have a corrupt government that favours polluting oil industries over cleaner greener energy because they want well paid jobs once they leave politics. Screw the planet I'm alright Jack attitude.

I could not agree more. Here in Greece our summers are getting unbearable and the winters colder and much more stormy. A couple of years ago a deep freeze hit Europe and many froze to death, but it was barely mentioned in the UK media. I worked as a volunteer on the forums trying to get the truth out to the world. I fear our winter is going to be like that this year and get worse over the next few years. Citizens will try to cope the best they can, it will be years before they realise they cannot cope any more.

The weather is changing world wide....droughts where there used to be fertile valleys and floods that are almost biblical in force are happening world wide. I felt so sorry for the Italians who had the most horrendous damage from storms last winter, then got the same during the summer. They have them at the moment and it looks like they may continue all this winter as well.. I seem to remember something by Nostadamus about floods and fire and drought that sent people fleeing to other countries, causing riots and famine, but I cant find my notes about it at the moment.

Mojoworking

The sad thing is that people talk about Britain colonising and pillaging. The truth is it was a very small ruling class who did this and benefitted. The majority of the population have no connection with making money from this time and most of the population were p1ss poor. Work houses etc and treated appallingly by landlords employers etc

It's a bit like now a small disconnected minority make decisions about where we as a people should go. It's called parliament I believe.

ivyleaf

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

A Google for "dystopian future Africa", produces a list of "The 10 best (worst) dystopian fictions", only one of which has the word "Africa" in the synopsis.

That one is District 9, by Neill Blomkamp.

I'm sure the book I read didn't have aliens in it.....

ETA Found! It's "The Ice People" by Maggie Gee.

moneyistooshorttomention

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Exactly.

At the risk of invoking Godwin's Law, blaming us (ie. British people alive today) for slavery, imperialism, etc. is like blaming the German teenagers of today, for the holocaust.

A very apt comparison.


The past is the past and "let the dead bury their dead". You have to move on towards the future and you personally are only responsible for what happens in your own (and younger) generations.

So its down to how to be "human" and help on the one hand, but not harm your own country in the process on the other hand - and I guess better brains than mine are working on how to solve that puzzle all round (at least I hope so....).

...and "Amen to that sister" to the poster who said "How come its just Europe that is being focused on to help?". Yep...how about the source of the whole problem (ie America)? How about hugely wealthy (and relatively peaceful) Arabic countries - ahemm......Qatar for instance....ahem....Saudi Arabia...ahem....

1Tonsil

This news just breaking...its not looking good... I just saw rioting within the migrant crowds in Lesbos as well on the tv.....

http://www.grreporter.info/en/mytilene_sounds_sos/13243

1Tonsil

This is an amazing movie of earth changes and freak weather this month

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukz5dwDLIZg

[Deleted User]

If the government has decided to take more refugees from Syria I guess they will diffuse to all parts of the country in the end and become a familiar part of the population. Change and the prospect of change is always a bit daunting and makes each of us apprehensive as to how it will change where we live and possibly how we live, but change is good for all of us in the long run I think and who knows, these folks might just give us more good things than the bad things we are afraid might happen. The only way we'll find out is to let it happen and see!

moneyistooshorttomention

There are plus sides to this refugee situation - if they are dispersed throughout country. It will probably help with dealing with more "nationalist" type sentiment for nationalists in Britain to see that they are having to adapt to people from a foreign country (rather than just to British people from elsewhere in Britain). That is a bonus. So - as long as numbers are small enough to "add interest" to the British-culture-as-a-whole and not big enough that there might be any attempt to amend our own Way of Life against us iyswim.

Those are the two points concerning me from our pov - ie them adapting to us (fine - have own music/food/way of dressing - as these add interest to our own culture. But NOT the "way of thinking" etc). The other point being = how many would we be talking about in what is already a very overcrowded country?

Not an easy situation and it has to be thought through "unto the 7th generation" as to the effects. I'm currently studying how a "softly softly catchee monkey" approach by a minority of people in a place can lead to noticeable social change that impacts for the worse on the majority of people only 30/40 years later....and its the younger generation of the Majority that can find themselves being discriminated against in their own country.

The phrase "thin end of wedge" is always something to look out for and, if the minority accept things as they are = fine. If they don't.....:cool: