101 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Why couldn't they make their inspection overnight or better still blast it with a hair dryer 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8MileBU Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Tbh, I’m a big fan of these falling ice bombs they’ve made-up for the sake of containing or at least inconveniencing Fifers for a day or so. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Is there any need for most travelling to actually work in edinburgh?Fife is supplying thousands of workers to edinburgh but can they not just work in remote offices in fife?Whole thing seems daft. It's an easy environmental improvement. Not just for edinburgh but any major city. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 #ProperBridge 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 Yeah exactly! Why can't all those doctors, nurses, firemen, teachers, cleaners, construction workers, carers and shop staff not just do their work from their own kitchens? [emoji38] Seriously though we do need solutions to the fact that everyone wants to work in the same area at the same time.Office workers dumbass 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.A.F.C Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 What seems to be your boggle? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 5 hours ago, The Master said: #ProperBridge The wife's uncle worked on the construction of that. Being a Dundonian, he was a raging alcoholic and turned up for work most days blind drunk. He fell off it three times in two years and was fired after the last time for losing a tool in the Tay. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topcat(The most tip top) Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 6 hours ago, The Master said: #ProperBridge So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay, Until it was about midway, Then the central girders with a crash gave way, And down went the train and passengers into the Tay! The Storm Fiend did loudly bray, Because ninety lives had been taken away, On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember’d for a very long time. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 3 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay, Until it was about midway, Then the central girders with a crash gave way, And down went the train and passengers into the Tay! The Storm Fiend did loudly bray, Because ninety lives had been taken away, On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember’d for a very long time. If it's not Billy Connolly reciting William McGonagle in a fucking blizzard, i'm not interested. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 8 hours ago, Mastermind said: Tinpot stuff. Why? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTJohnboy Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Perhaps Boris Johnson will propose extending HS2 from Leeds to Newcastle, then on to Embra and Fife, finishing in Dundee, or maybe on to Aberdeen, before finally terminating in the celestial city of Inverness. That would make more sense and be less costly than building a bridge across the fucking Irish Sea. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 40 minutes ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay, Until it was about midway, Then the central girders with a crash gave way, And down went the train and passengers into the Tay! The Storm Fiend did loudly bray, Because ninety lives had been taken away, On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember’d for a very long time. Was this a train that 1) didn't use tracks and 2) could travel in time? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 (edited) 3 hours ago, topcat(The most tip top) said: So the train mov’d slowly along the Bridge of Tay, Until it was about midway, Then the central girders with a crash gave way, And down went the train and passengers into the Tay! The Storm Fiend did loudly bray, Because ninety lives had been taken away, On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember’d for a very long time. Oh beautiful bridge that is the Queensferry Crossing, Takes 1.7 miles to walk the whole thing, And praises for the new replacement bridge many did sing, As it allowed for the continuation of road travel back and forth, Across the Firth of Forth. It has not one, not two, but three a tall tower, That you can see from Kincardine and perhaps Aberdour, Designed to handle winds and many a rain shower, But not snow and ice, Which when it sparkles looks nice. But the structure of the bridge is cable-stayed, And so travellers across need not be afraid, When they go about their travel for leisure or trade, Along the longest triple tower cable-stayed bridge on this Earth, Either southwards towards Edinburgh, or north towards Perth. But on the 10th February in 2020, The weather was cold and ice formed aplenty, But heating on the cables, they didn't have any, And so ice gathered and fell onto the road, And it hit with a bash, and the ice did explode! And so the bridge it had to be closed, And the Fife commuters they all proposed, That the Forth Road Bridge that had supposedly decomposed, Should be temporarily opened given the circumstance, But they couldn't, because it was under maintenance. The Fifers were not impressed, And the commuters were beginning to get stressed, And there was probably a great deal of unrest, As they all had to go through the pain, Of going to work in the morning by using the train ... Edited February 11, 2020 by Hedgecutter 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 It seems Canada aren't any better prepared for this kind of thing. https://globalnews.ca/news/6395011/bc-snow-ice-bombs-bridges/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy Jean King Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 No one blamed the SNP yet ??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
parsforlife Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Just now, Billy Jean King said: No one blamed the SNP yet ??? The torries are going after them on social media about it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 1 minute ago, parsforlife said: The torries are going after them on social media about it. How are the Tories responding to the 5 bridges shut in Englandshire 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Anyone on Swedish/ Danish Twitter able to feed back on the reaction to the Oresund bridge closure or is it only this place that has lost the fucking run of itself 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 SNP dårlig apparently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Should have used Scottish steel IMO 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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