@velvet donkey posted:They are getting away with murder slim
The sewage is unreal
Hi Velvet 
The amount of sewage dumped in rivers and the sea is appalling 
@velvet donkey posted:They are getting away with murder slim
The sewage is unreal
It's a disgrace Velvet 
@El Loro posted:It's absurd when they say that. A leak under roads and pavements is the responsibility of the water companies. I don't think they would take too kindly if a house-owner started digging under roads or pavements to repair a leak themselves
No, there'd be a right hoo hah if that happened 
As Velvet said, the water companies get away with murder.
@El Loro posted:Hi Velvet
The amount of sewage dumped in rivers and the sea is appalling
Did you watch the Paul Whitehouse programme where he went around Englands rivers discovering the raw sewage being pumped in by the water companies....shocking!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jw74
@slimfern posted:No, there'd be a right hoo hah if that happened
As Velvet said, the water companies get away with murder.
Did you see Arnie Swarz. filling a pothole? Mistakenly 
@velvet donkey posted:Did you see Arnie Swarz. filling a pothole? Mistakenly
No, was that one of his duties as governor of California or criteria to become one 
Was about a week ago. The road had been cut out for some sort of further work which bugged him. So he re-tarmaced it
@slimfern posted:Did you watch the Paul Whitehouse programme where he went around Englands rivers discovering the raw sewage being pumped in by the water companies....shocking!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001jw74
No, I didn't see that but this was on the radio news at the end of last month:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-65099906
Also this a couple of days ago about South West Water being fined ÂĢ2.1m for pollution offences in Devon and Cornwall:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...r-pollution-offences
@velvet donkey posted:Was about a week ago. The road had been cut out for some sort of further work which bugged him. So he re-tarmaced it
@El Loro posted:No, I didn't see that but this was on the radio news at the end of last month:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/sci...environment-65099906
Also this a couple of days ago about South West Water being fined ÂĢ2.1m for pollution offences in Devon and Cornwall:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...r-pollution-offences
So we don't only have the highest water bills but also the highest figures for sewage pumped into our waters
and if you ask me, ÂĢ2,000,000 is not enough of a fine and to go one futher, I'd have the fine taken out of the CEO's and board members pockets....then the polluting would stop!
@slimfern posted:So we don't only have the highest water bills but also the highest figures for sewage pumped into our waters
and if you ask me, ÂĢ2,000,000 is not enough of a fine and to go one futher, I'd have the fine taken out of the CEO's and board members pockets....then the polluting would stop!
From the Environment Agency in July last year:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...llution-hits-new-low
Feargal Sharkey is yer man amongst others.
The Tories will lose this on water pollution 
They should. Feck business as Boris said 
@El Loro posted:From the Environment Agency in July last year:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...llution-hits-new-low
The Environment Agency is today calling for:
1.Courts to impose much higher fines
2.Prison sentences for Chief Executives and Board members whose companies are responsible
I'm 100% in agreement with that
@velvet donkey posted:Feargal Sharkey is yer man amongst others.
The Tories will lose this on water pollution
They should. Feck business as Boris said
@slimfern posted:The Environment Agency is today calling for:
1.Courts to impose much higher fines
2.Prison sentences for Chief Executives and Board members whose companies are responsible
I'm 100% in agreement with that
Find a brick wall and you know
They've got the game covered. Token fines.
@velvet donkey posted:Find a brick wall and you know
They've got the game covered. Token fines.
@slimfern posted:"Two years ago we dedicated a lot of resources and a lot of people to fixing leaks and we're out there doing that," he said.
"That's a service we're providing free to customers."
I don't know how they have the nerve to say that ...it's not free!
true slim-our water bills are high
@El Loro posted:From the Environment Agency in July last year:
https://www.gov.uk/government/...llution-hits-new-low
totally agree EL higher fines and prison sentences
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Slim, a couple of films on the Talking Pictures tv channel this coming week which may interest you.
Tomorrow at 15.00 is Luis Bunuel's "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" made around 1954. I have mentioned this film before when it was shown on one of the minor tv channels. Rather different to say the old tv series. Bunuel's first English speaking film made whilst he was working in Mexico. As a result, the film was made using the very old Pathecolor filimg tinting which had been used in early colour silent films, So, the colour quality is the main weakness of the film. It;s a good serious adaptation of the novel and the section where Crusoe is delirious is quite something.
Crusoe was played by Dan O'Herlihy. The producers had wanted the character to be played by Orson Welles but Bunuel considered him to be too overweight,
On Wednesday at 23.40 is "Hangover Square" (1945) starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders. A gothic film noir set in the 1900s in London, Classical pianist finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer and gets gaps in his memory.
Music score by Bernard Herrmann, one of his earliest films. Highlight is the finale with Herrmann's piano concerto macabre.
Cregar's final film. He was a heavyweight in character, build and weight. Had weighed 300 pounds, he decided to go on a catastrophic crash diet which was unsupervised and lost a third of his weight. Result was that he had to undergo stomach surgery bur it was too much for his heart which gave out a few days later. He was only 30. If he hadn't died so long, he would probably have had a substantial Hollywood career and be much better known.
@El Loro posted:Slim, a couple of films on the Talking Pictures tv channel this coming week which may interest you.
Tomorrow at 15.00 is Luis Bunuel's "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" made around 1954. I have mentioned this film before when it was shown on one of the minor tv channels. Rather different to say the old tv series. Bunuel's first English speaking film made whilst he was working in Mexico. As a result, the film was made using the very old Pathecolor filimg tinting which had been used in early colour silent films, So, the colour quality is the main weakness of the film. It;s a good serious adaptation of the novel and the section where Crusoe is delirious is quite something.
Crusoe was played by Dan O'Herlihy. The producers had wanted the character to be played by Orson Welles but Bunuel considered him to be too overweight,
On Wednesday at 23.40 is "Hangover Square" (1945) starring Laird Cregar, Linda Darnell and George Sanders. A gothic film noir set in the 1900s in London, Classical pianist finds his life poisoned by a music hall dancer and gets gaps in his memory.
Music score by Bernard Herrmann, one of his earliest films. Highlight is the finale with Herrmann's piano concerto macabre.
Cregar's final film. He was a heavyweight in character, build and weight. Had weighed 300 pounds, he decided to go on a catastrophic crash diet which was unsupervised and lost a third of his weight. Result was that he had to undergo stomach surgery bur it was too much for his heart which gave out a few days later. He was only 30. If he hadn't died so long, he would probably have had a substantial Hollywood career and be much better known.
I don't know much about the story of 'Robinson Crusoe' other than he was deserted on an island.
One film I have seen and enjoyed is 'Castaway' with Tom Hanks...same basic story but with different experiences I would imagine.
I don't suppose Mr Well's was too pleased about being overlooked because he was too fat 
Might give that one a look 
As for Cregar's crash diet leading to an early death...that's sad 
Not sure I'd like that film El, sounds a bit sinister 
Thanks El
@slimfern posted:I don't know much about the story of 'Robinson Crusoe' other than he was deserted on an island.
One film I have seen and enjoyed is 'Castaway' with Tom Hanks...same basic story but with different experiences I would imagine.
I don't suppose Mr Well's was too pleased about being overlooked because he was too fat
Might give that one a look
As for Cregar's crash diet leading to an early death...that's sad
Not sure I'd like that film El, sounds a bit sinister
Thanks El
Thanks Slim
The full title of the book is:
"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself."
It was written by Daniel Defoe with Crusoe narrating what happened to him. It's though that the character was based on Alexander Selkirk.
The success of the book lead to other similar books referred to as "Robinsonade". The best known of those was "The Swiss Family Robinson".
The tv series "Lost in Space" was "The Swiss Family Robinson" transferred to a space setting. That of course featured the Robinson family, the young boy being Will, and the robot (just known as The Robot) whose best known line being all too familiar to us: "Danger, Will Robinson" 
@El Loro posted:Thanks Slim
The full title of the book is:
"The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself."
It was written by Daniel Defoe with Crusoe narrating what happened to him. It's though that the character was based on Alexander Selkirk.
The success of the book lead to other similar books referred to as "Robinsonade". The best known of those was "The Swiss Family Robinson".
The tv series "Lost in Space" was "The Swiss Family Robinson" transferred to a space setting. That of course featured the Robinson family, the young boy being Will, and the robot (just known as The Robot) whose best known line being all too familiar to us: "Danger, Will Robinson"
Remember well enjoying 'The Swiss Family Robinson' when I was a girl, although, not so much the stories...was a girl quite some years ago as you know
8 & 20 years is a long time to be alone on an island 
Wasn't there a robot called Robbie in one of the series?
@slimfern posted:Remember well enjoying 'The Swiss Family Robinson' when I was a girl, although, not so much the stories...was a girl quite some years ago as you know
8 & 20 years is a long time to be alone on an island
Wasn't there a robot called Robbie in one of the series?
The robot in "Lost in Space" was just "The Robot".
Robby the Robot was the one in the 1956 film "Forbidden Planet"
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