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mark occomore
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 Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:56 am Post subject: Not Allowed To Wash Your Windows |
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Householders may not be allowed to wash their windows during a drought, under plans to tighten up hosepipe bans to be announced by the government later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7055672.stm
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I suppose with people having big pools, jacuzzis and hot tubs in their houses the order needs updating. Only able to use the big pools if we don't have rain like we have had over the last few years.
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Use coca cola instead then.
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 8:25 am Post subject: |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | Use coca cola instead then. |
That would be very sticky |
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:07 am Post subject: |
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| I'll just water from the pool. Easy! |
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iwarburton
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: |
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Can you still wash your windows via water in a bucket?
Ian. |
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Scott_Nelson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:17 am Post subject: |
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| I've never washed my windows with a hose pipe - and I've yet to see anyone else to, either. I often use windolene after wimping them down with a damp sponge. |
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Briant
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject: |
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| ......'wimping them down with a damp sponge'.......The mind boggles! |
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Scott_Nelson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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You should try wimping your windows sometime, Briant. It makes the glass weaker.  |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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| J_ROC72 wrote: | | You should try wimping your windows sometime, Briant. It makes the glass weaker. |
Top of a window glass comes weaker over years. The stuff which it's made from drips down to the bottom. |
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gfloyd
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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| J_ROC72 wrote: | | You should try wimping your windows sometime, Briant. It makes the glass weaker. |
I've heard you called many things, but never a wimper.
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Scott_Nelson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | The stuff which it's made from drips down to the bottom. |
That sounds like male masturbation, Mark! |
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Scott_Nelson
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| Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject: |
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| gfloyd wrote: | | J_ROC72 wrote: | | You should try wimping your windows sometime, Briant. It makes the glass weaker. |
I've heard you called many things, but never a wimper. |
Well, there's a first time for everything! |
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mark occomore
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| Have a smashing time. This will a plain ( Pain of Glass ) in arse Excuse me..... |
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firewirefred
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 11:09 am Post subject: |
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| mark occomore wrote: | | This will a plain ( Pain of Glass ) in arse |
Eh? I don't understand what that means, Mark. |
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Briant
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It may be an oxymoron, Fred! Or a new way of walking! Walk Right In!  |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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| firewirefred wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | | This will a plain ( Pain of Glass ) in arse |
Eh? I don't understand what that means, Mark. |
Lost me too but then I wondered if it was the work of a naughty word filter. e.g. 'crap' used to be automatically changed to 'Poor, In my opinion'. If so, I wonder what the original word was!
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nod
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| mark occomore wrote: | | The stuff which it's made from drips down to the bottom. |
I think it's called glass, and I don't think it could be described as ' drips'.
I recall as a kid when we woke up on cold mornings we had ice on the inside of our windows (no Central Heating up-north ya knows) and that would drip, maybe you have ice windows ? |
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Mark Mayhew
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I have just returned from a long holiday in Australia where they are suffering the worst drought in their history.
The government have imposed a huge number of restrictions re use of water-stopping people in this country washing their windows in a drought situation is nothing/very trivial compared to the restrictions in Australia in force currently. |
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seymourwhitebits
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| Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| nod wrote: | | mark occomore wrote: | | The stuff which it's made from drips down to the bottom. |
I think it's called glass, and I don't think it could be described as ' drips'.
I recall as a kid when we woke up on cold mornings we had ice on the inside of our windows (no Central Heating up-north ya knows) and that would drip, maybe you have ice windows ? |
glass is not a solid. over time the molecules will indeed start moving south so the window will be thicker at the bottom than it is at the top even though when it was made it was the same thickness all the way down.
cse physics 1983 
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