Somewhat Ironic. Raf To The Rescue

[retrocop]

https://metro.co.uk/2019/08/02/raf-drafted-stop-dam-collapsing-destroying-town-10504837/?ico=pushly-notifcation-small&utm_source=pushly


So many residences on the wrong side of the Dam



I hope the Brylcream boys make as good a job saving this Dam as their predecessors (617 Sqd)did in destroying them.
Can't help feeling there is an elderly resident in the Rhur Valley muttering ' Shadenfreude'

[Zacs-Master]

'even I have difficulty following it'

Now you know how we feel.

[Peter Pedant]

o the goyt
the reason why you southern softies cant get your braynz around what is going on on gthe Goyt ( its a river ) is that the pretty leggy Beeb hackettes dont know the difference or meaning of
dam,weir,mill race, spillway, leet

the water when teh lake is full, goes over the top of the dam ( =weir ) - althought there are unharmed spillways always at the top of the pictures. The clear side of the dam is paved and they allowed the paving to be uneven and so when there was a rush of water .....
it flipped off the paving stones and then gouged a great scar out of the filling which is earth and concrete.
This weakened the earth and concrete core of the dam built 1831
There was never a hole in the dam as in the little dutch boy er fable - that really would have got me running for the hills ...

I tend to think a dam busters bomb wouldnt have done anything
(old construction and not deep enough)

[Peter Pedant]

that should have been - "so off the wall, but still with the usual decoration of possy stupid little remarks which are a constant feature of AB"

if they werent there: I am certain I would wonder where they had gone

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

Has I have told you many times, you know nothing about my service in the RAF, because I am not one to air my personal details on this site.

Peter Pedant

Neither did I ever state that I served during WW2.

But eh!! you guys keep making up your fairy stories if they make you feel better.

[Zacs-Master]

Is this you, AOG?

[mushroom25]

//other damned facts - LadyBower - sqads post - the lake of the lady in the lake murder. Mr X said that his wife had left him and showed the Police a post card - "I have left you". 30 y later she was found by divers in a dustbin bag on a ledge 30 ft down in Lady Bower. He coughed //

not Ladybower, PP - Coniston Water. both near-ish to Manc but on different sides of the M6...…
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/murder-of-the-lady-in-the-lake-was-kept-secret-for-20-years-trial-told-7907445.html