Septic country

daveyeh

So the country folk don't want to pay to check if their s***e is polluting the land.

Was this not an eu directive from 15 years ago or something?

I think they should shut their underbites and just pay.

Discuss.

stupidusername

daveyeh wrote: »

So the country folk don't want to pay to check if their s***e is polluting the land.

Was this not an eu directive from 15 years ago or something?

I think they should shut their underbites and just pay.

Discuss.

it's not just 'country folk' that have septic tanks.

Seachmall

stupidusername wrote: »

it's not just 'country folk' that have septic tanks.

Who else would store their shit in the garden?

Culchies are weird.

af_thefragile

Doesn't all the poo just dissappear into the center of the earth when you flush your toilet??

Mal-Adjusted

OP, if you're looking to troll, i suggest either go to the Ian paisley thread or go to the GAA forum and say something about Rugby.

Seachmall

af_thefragile wrote: »

Doesn't all the poo just dissappear into the center of the earth when you flush your toilet??

No, it collects in Cavan. They build houses and pubs and children out of it.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

OP, if you're looking to troll, i suggest either go to the Ian paisley thread or go to the GAA forum and say something about Rugby.

ANY sport forum and say something about rugby.

Chuck Stone

Why can't they just eat da poo poo?

Mully_2011

If people maintained them properly and cleaned them once a year they wouldn't have a problem honestly ye can't have septic ****e getting into groundwater.

I'm all for it tbh well its in my interest to be for it

OneArt

stupidusername wrote: »

it's not just 'country folk' that have septic tanks.

People in Dublin don't sh!t, are beautiful and intelligent, smoke and drink and never get sick or die.

Sindri

I take offence to this culchie bashing.

Know I like the companty of a lovely young lamb as much as the next Kildare man (in fact there was some sheep in my garden today), but our septic tank is not overflowing...


Oh wait, it is. Actually at the drain some tomatoes plants started growing, we passed the seeds through our digestive system.

The cycle of life eh, it's beautiful

daveyeh

Mal-Adjusted wrote: »

OP, if you're looking to troll, i suggest either go to the Ian paisley thread or go to the GAA forum and say something about Rugby.

Ian Paisley played GAA under a psuedoname for Tyrone when they won their first Ulster Championship in 1956. And he hates rugby.

ejmaztec

daveyeh wrote: »

So the country folk don't want to pay to check if their s***e is polluting the land.

Was this not an eu directive from 15 years ago or something?

I think they should shut their underbites and just pay.

Discuss.

The fee's not the problem, the thousands payable to replace the system afterwards is the problem. The local jobsworths will condemn all of them.

Salt001

Its not so much the charge to have them inspected,its what they will have to pay if the tanks don't meet the specs.
Houses built at different times will have tanks built to different specifications and people are worried that even if their tanks are functioning properly that the wont meet a standard spec.
Not too much info about if there will be any grants for people if they have to have work done to improve their tanks.

daveyeh

ejmaztec wrote: »

The fee's not the problem, the thousands payable to replace the system afterwards is the problem. The local jobsworths will condemn all of them.

Good. The whole of bogland stinks of cow s**t already. Is it really a good idea for human s**t to be bubbling out of pipes and shores into farmland and rivers?

If it's an old polluting system that needs replacing, then they should replace it. It's a bit of a no-brainer as they say.

jackal

ejmaztec wrote: »

The fee's not the problem, the thousands payable to replace the system afterwards is the problem. The local jobsworths will condemn all of them.

Tough ****e.

The inspections should not be a formality, there are some absolute nightmares out there I am sure. Whatever the EU directive is, that's what we do, or should we Irish put up with more effluent in our water/land than the rest of Europe because the boggers get up in arms?

Sindri

I'm going to have to dig up my back garden and lay sand down now for drainage purposes.

maddragon

Sh1t happens.

si_guru

jackal wrote: »

The inspections should not be a formality, there are some absolute nightmares out there I am sure. Whatever the EU directive is, that's what we do, or should we Irish put up with more effluent in our water/land than the rest of Europe because the boggers get up in arms?

What about all the taxes paid by "Culchies" to maintain the townies sewers, whereas we have to maintain our own at our own expense?

marketty

I never thought I'd agree with Gerry Adams but his point about the government subsidising the repairs made me think.
His point was that those who live in towns and cities have their sewage systems paid for by general taxation which we all pay for, and those with septic tanks don't get benefit from it.
Seemed to me like the best argument so far in favour of council taxes. People in towns and cities should pay more to cover the provision of services like sewerage, culchies should pay less as they have to supply AND maintain their sewerage system themselves to an acceptable standard.
Same goes for water rates.

biko

daveyeh wrote: »

I think they should shut their underbites and just pay.
Discuss.

Use existing threads. Maybe try to tone down the "cityslicker v culchies" aspect.