NEW POTHOLE SOLUTION IMPORTED FROM UK April 19, 2009
Posted by frostygirl in Humour.Tags: potholes, roads, SA
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Now I know why our government have decided to ignore the potholes on all our roads, someone must have visited Navestock, a small English village, and saw the great “success” they are having….read on!!!!
London - Here’s a new road repair plan: “don’t bother.”
Officials in the small English village of Navestock, 40km north-east of London, are considering leaving many of the town’s potholes unfilled as a way to curb speeding.
There’s another advantage as well: leaving the potholes alone is a lot cheaper than fixing them.
City councillor Mike Parrish said the plan would help return many of the town’s smaller roads to their original status as country lanes.
“It seems potholes are good on our quiet little back roads. Not fixing those might save us time and cost and also be a traffic-calming measure.”
Some residents have asked for speed bumps, but potholes would serve the same purpose, the councillor said. The plan would be to repair potholes on certain roads to encourage their use, while letting those on other roads serve as a deterrent.
Former policeman Roy Tyzack called it “ludicrous,” saying a pro-pothole policy would endanger motorists, cyclists, horse riders and the many elderly people who use the roads. - Sapa-AP
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SUB-PRIME MARKETS AND STOCK MARKET CRASH SATIRE October 10, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in Humour.Tags: stock market crash, sub-prime
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British satire at its best a very simple, graphic, yet accurate explanation of why the whole system is collapsing. This is very funny, too. Go to the link below to enjoy this 8 minute satirical interview:
http://brasschecktv.com/page/187.html
(Oh, and by the way, apparently it was Clinton and his Liberal socialist cronies who introduced the silliness of Sub-Prime mortgaging – to grab votes from the likes of those described in the video.)
I hope you enjoy this and I give thanks to AfricanCrisis for posting this first where I copied the link from.
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HANDS OFF!! May 22, 2008
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Here is a joke which I found funny, I hope you do too.
Old Oom (Uncle) Jan was very sick and was basically lying on his death bed at home and all the family where already starting to gather for the expected death. His wife Tant (Aunt) Sannie, trying to keep herself occupied and her mind off her problems, was in the kitchen preparing all the nice cakes, koeksisters (type of sweet very well liked by the Afrikaners), milktarts, etc for the “wake” after the expected funeral.
All the lovely smells coming through from the kitchen to the dying man’s bedroom was so tantalising that he could not resist. He got up out of bed and slowly made his way to the kitchen. With great anticipation he reached out to pick up a koeksister……….. Tant Sannie rushed over, slapped him on his hand and said: “Hands off, that is for the funeral!”
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HORSE MEETS LION February 27, 2008
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Apparently this is a true story!
At a game park in South Africa it is customary for the game rangers to explore the remote areas of the park on horseback. On this particular day the two game rangers took their horses named July and Swernoot on a trailer to the area where they would leave their vehicle and change over to their horses. They regularly undertook this same route and on their return to the trailer they usually gave their horses free reign and allow them to gallop back.
On this particular day they did the same and the horses took off at a full gallop, July in front and Swernoot following behind, but the game rangers spotted one big tree standing out in the open with just grass around it and July’s rider decided to investigate. He lightly guided July slightly off his normal course and allowed him to continue at a gallop with Swernoot still following behind.
When they were about 50 meters from the tree July smelt the smell of lions in the air and started getting nervous, but they did not see any lions and continued. Suddenly both July and his rider saw a pride of young lions laying in the shade under the now fast approaching tree. Swernoot and his rider were oblivious to the problem in front of them and were galloping full tilt behind them. The front rider could not slow down for fear of the galloping horse right behind him, he had no time to tell the rider behind him what was happening and he had no way to go but forward.
Well he just put his head down and raced on, but Swernoot now also realised that he was running straight into the lions but his rider, sizing up the situation, decided come hell or high water he better follow his friend much to Swernoot’s surprise.
Pandemonium, the lions are rudely awakened by two horses bearing down on them they get such a fright that they leap out of the way in absolute consternation, the horses look like horses on a race track they are running so fast, and low and behold they run safely through this group of lions and both horses gallop madly until they reached the trailer before the rangers could get them to stop.
The rangers could not help but laugh and thought to themselves that if anyone had witnessed the event it would have looked hilarious although at the time it was very scary for them! In retrospect they do not know who got the biggest fright them, the horses or the lions!
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