This is a step toward euthanasia in the UK.
The news is still updating.
if ever a topic divides a nation this is one!
True, very true.
Croatians in the south of the country are steaming over a tunnel that has cost taxpayers 280m kuna (£33m; $44m) and “leads to nowhere”.
According to the TV station RTL Croatia, construction has halted on a 1,471-metre tunnel through a mountain range near the town of Omis, which was meant to connect with an existing bypass and solve the town’s severe traffic problems.
The tunnel was supposed to link to the Omis Bridge and was hailed as part of an “important infrastructure project” in providing a faster connection for residents between the town and the main coastal road. It was also hoped that the route would alleviate the “major traffic jams” that the town suffers from during its main tourist season.
Construction began six years ago, but RTL says that “everything stopped” and the money is now being spent elsewhere. This has led to widespread public mockery.
‘Maybe they think Batman lives there’
one only has to move out of the riches of west Europe to realize that there is another Europe and that is East and that’s where things can go horribly wrong
True, it is a crazy old world Gummy Bear.
I just wanted to post some news for a change.
good idea but be prepared for all that may come your way!
I would like some of your news stories. Pretty please:lol:
'course,it WOULD have been a lot less contentious if they’d correctly worked out the vectors and gradients between START of tunnel and END of tunnel at bypass…which they didn’t,thus missing the Omis Bridge by several hundred metres,Sweetie…
True Pugsy. I was amazed to learn that the channel was actually proposed in Victorian times. Amazing history on that.
Ah,but at that time,the tunnel was with regard to two things-agriculture and drainage. The closest railway didn’t [at the time] even actually pass through Omis. Strange,but true. So-a canal would’ve been really popular at the time.
What’s your Vector Victor.
I love this.
Ah today was funny - my car has ‘died’ so I had just about managed to drive it chuff chuff chuff hiccough hiccough to my FIL place who is a mechanic and left it there for a week. then he told me the bad news - it still wouldn’t go. So - today I went down to see the car and we dropped around to the local mechanic - talked car talk to him who said ‘nah it’s effin dead’
So we then decided to tow it back to my place for pre-funeral arrangements - my fil attempts to tie up towing ropes of not thick enough diameter [yes he is a bit thick ]and had no coupling links -sorry ladies you may not understand all of this. he then attempts to pull breaking the rope of course several times and removing a 2 inch piece of skin off of his leg!
getting really funny now! - as he attempted to tow his car was going west and mine east - hang on he said I am going to get some proper towing brackets. A crowd had gathered at this point offering advice that went unheeded
Well whilst I am waiting I am strumming my fingers and decided to try to start the car - just for fun!! and bingo it started - spluttering and coughing but it was chugging - I thought feck this I am gonna make a run for it. So of I took with the existing chain under the car dragging along the tarmac. As I chugged along at 20-30 km/hr people were waving and pointing to under the car - I just waved back - smiled and said thank you. and so I chugged - there was one major obstacle the main hway that I had to cross to arrive safely home. I approached it with trepidation but phew no traffic in sight so shot across at 20-30 kmp and home safe with now the wife following me and the fil who had caught up. when I had finally parked they arrived.
I don’t believe you have just done that he said - well I said I am a scouser and when we decide to do something we follow through. let me look under the bonnet he said - so we lifted it and to my amazement there were hoses etc that had not been re-connected - I would never had done it if I’d known - but he said 'I still don’t know how you managed to do that with all these hoses and pipes not connected. I have now been awarded the order of the main roads - bush mechanic - [scouser] award for astonishing driving under extremely hostile conditions.
Oh I do hope pugsie bear likes this tale wot with him into drivin and all ??
Makes you wonder why the bloke who invented the shovel didn’t become a trillionaire,eh?
Oh…sorry gums…you have SUCH speedy fingers,you little minx…
Are you kidding? M’main man,I once drove a golf ball nearly 20 yards,using just a big stick thingy!
Well done…see? The gods DO take pity on you now-and-again!
victoria wanted her vector to be vicious at which point the relationship ended as vector was a very sensitive young man and could never be vicious to anyone?? - just a thought!
What hoses I ask? Radiator???
Blimey, you are like my hubby Gummy. I am so glad we drive new cars these days.
You think I don’t know about cars!!!
I have been under many an old car in the past. I can help change an exhaust - so there!!!
I also know the sound when the big ends are knocking.
knocking.
yes radiator for sure and other pipes too - I think I have a lucky angel!
Circa 1980, the fan belt went on my Mk2 Celica, I was at a pub about 10 miles from home, it was late summer and was getting dark at about 8.30pm. Of course, without a fan belt, there was no alternator or water pump, so every time I started or stopped, I was using battery power that wasn’t being replaced, also after a distance of about a mile and a half, the car was running hot, me and the lads did a bit of planning, and managed to stop at seven pubs on the way home, the headlamps were like candles at 10.30pm.