New pillar appeared on our driveway..

arthurdick

Well, this has given me a morning giggle, good to see a few on top form.
I was half expecting to see crashy on this thread, he likes to talk bollards, thinking about it, I am surprised he has not been on here to say this pillar has something to do with brexit and that house prices will now crash, he is always going on about post brexit.

(crashy, if you read this do not get upset, I am only having a giggle and you do seem like a nice polite geezer, shame about the stuck record though)

moneyistooshorttomention

Y'all missed one - ie coulda been a flesh-and-blood pillar, ie a "pillar of society".

For benefit of OP - a person that is referred to as a "pillar of society" is one that commands widespread respect for their useful contributions to society.

......until someone finds out they've run off with the club funds or the vicar's wife or....(but that would be telling about just what I've noticed a local "pillar of society" near me doing - and I wonder if it went down on police records):rotfl:

At which point most people stand round going "I never knew - and they've picked up some "Honour" or other for their work too or "Everyone speaks so highly of them". Others of us stand there thinking - "Why didn't they realise?"

00ec25

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

one that commands widespread respect for their useful contributions to society.

that would be impossible, this is after all a thread with MSE's finest pillars in it

EachPenny

Bringing the thread back on topic after G_M's shocking post, when it comes to electrical supplies for some street furniture a 'cabinet' is technically known as a 'pillar'. A street lighting 'pillar' can be anything from a great big box like the BT cabinets shown earlier in the thread all the way down to a box about 4 inches square and about 18 inches high.

So this hulking great beast would be known to a highways engineer as a 'pillar', even though everyone else would call it a 'cabinet'



https://www.lucyzodion.com/products-overview/feeder-pillars/steel-pillars/

Smodlet

Don't think it would be much fun trying to slide up and down that, EachPenny. :eek:

Cakeguts

Smodlet wrote: »

Don't think it would be much fun trying to slide up and down that, EachPenny. :eek:

Might be fun to watch people try though?

G_M

You could always bend over it instead.

Cakeguts

G_M wrote: »

You could always bend over it instead.

I would bend over backwards to help continue this thread. It is making me laugh so much.

AdrianC

It's a pillar, not a pole. No need to dance around it.

Smodlet

There is no "need" to dance around a pole, either, unless you are seriously into paganism...