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Major flooding in England

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  • #32
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    I have a question. How crap are we, and the Brits, that the Dutch have to step in to help? It was said before that if the Dutch had Ireland, they'd feed the world. Maybe we need to go Dutch.

    Yeah, but then they'd want the world to pay half.


  • #33
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    MadsL wrote: »
    Yeah, but then they'd want the world to pay half.

    Link?


  • #34
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    And it seems the politicians over there are falling over one another to blame somebody for it. Newsnight just gave me a new favorite word, 'Quangocrats'


  • #35
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,566 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    rustedtrumpet wrote: »
    Deserved, centuries of actin the pox around the world, come back to haunt em

    Don't be so harsh, the people of Cork aren't that bad.


  • #36
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    P_1 wrote: »
    And it seems the politicians over there are falling over one another to blame somebody for it. Newsnight just gave me a new favorite word, 'Quangocrats'

    Channel 4 news had it all down to climate change earlier.
    Finally actual weather conditions has fitted their model.


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    I have a question. How crap are we, and the Brits, that the Dutch have to step in to help? It was said before that if the Dutch had Ireland, they'd feed the world. Maybe we need to go Dutch.

    The Dutch have much more expertise and equipment for things of this nature and scale.


  • #38
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    The Dutch have much more expertise and equipment for things of this nature and scale.

    I know. But why? We live on a wet kip of an island. Should we not also be drainage experts? The Dutch are also marine salvage experts, heavy lift experts and have a thriving horticulture industry. We should be far more Dutch. Embrace the wetness and thrive. Be less bloody unemployment anyway.


  • #39
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    Link?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_Dutch


  • #40
    MadsL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,299 ✭✭✭✭MadsL


    Stavros Murphy wrote: »
    I know. But why? We live on a wet kip of an island. Should we not also be drainage experts? The Dutch are also marine salvage experts, heavy lift experts and have a thriving horticulture industry. We should be far more Dutch. Embrace the wetness and thrive. Be less bloody unemployment anyway.

    Pffftt!!! Can't even get the N4 to stop flooding every time it rains in Dublin.


  • #41
    Rightwing
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,101 ✭✭✭Rightwing


    kneemos wrote: »
    Why haven't the culchIes started a thread about it?

    That's about as 1980's as could be.


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  • #42
    Stavros Murphy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭Stavros Murphy


    MadsL wrote: »
    Pffftt!!! Can't even get the N4 to stop flooding every time it rains in Dublin.

    So maybe we should start figuring out how to. Turn a weakness into a strength. It isn't rocket science.


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