Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#1
Watching all of these young people going for a paddle in the river makes me cringe, I can't stand to watch it.
Just where they are paddling, over the last few weeks I have seen untold Vodka and wine bottles smashed and thrown into the river.
How long before a parent or child shouts for help and no one is around to stem the bleeding?
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
#2
That makes me want to shout - how dare those careless bast*Rds create such a risk for such an innocent place and group. It makes me feel just a little angry..................
#3
Hmmmmm. Will leave this thread well alone. Fe detector gone! Which is irony??
#4
Bob, Bob, Bob - put down that glass...........................if you will. I will.
#5
Bern. V perceptive!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
ok bob you win again, what is a fe detector?
i sometimes wish i had turned up at school.
#7
Howard, don't be daft lad, it's a machine that detects fe's (whatever they are). They used modified versions in Egypt when it was a colony of ours. It was used to detect banned fez's. Rumour has it a new version is in production, but this time to detect foxes. Do try to keep up with technology.
#8
Oh for God's sake. Did no-one do chemistry at skool? Doh.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#9
i barely reached the two "rs", never done chemistry, leave it to others to sort out prescriptions.
#10
Did chemistry, hated every moment of it.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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#11
Thank goodness evolution didn`t hate chemistry Sid, or you wouldn`t be here.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
#12
Fe = Iron. Could go on at great length about double valencies. + cosmology (we are stardust, we are golden etc). Will have another slurp instead!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#13
thanks for simplifying things bob !!
#14
Bob, I've got a double valence on the bed, will that do?
#15
Bob - at least I was with you Old Man. And I was sh1t at chemistry......great at latin and greek though.
#16
Where it not for the vodka bottles, old tins and heaven knows what all else it would be great to see kids paddling in the river. It should be used. Once it powered several little mills on its way down to the sea. I daresay the romans used it. It is in a sorry state now which is a pity, given the forumites who really have its best interests at heart. Perhaps some enterprising soul could open up a business letting out pedalos for short rides up and down the river. Just kidding!
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#17
It's not just broken glass one should worry about in the Dour, and there is enough of that, but we regularly find hypodermic syringes during the monthly clean ups.
They could be washing in from anywhere along the length - who knows? If anyone gets one of those embedded in their foot they may suffer a lot worse than just a cut - tetanus, Weils Disease, drugs - who knows. I wouldn't go in in anything less than rubber soled heavy duty waders.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#18
when i was a kid we never had to worry about such things as broken bottles and syringes in waterways.
the worst thing though we did not know it at the time was dog mess in the park, we always came home with some on us, unavoidable.
nobody used to clean up after their dog then.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#19
Howard, I thought you also had to contend with butterfly bombs, incendiaries and other UXBs.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#20
the. worse thing phil was when those french blokes came over firing arrows in the air.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.