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Huge Electrical Load Increase due to Gas Mains' Failure.

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Just look at that pile of new electrical fan heaters.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7745187/Thousands-Scotland-left-without-gas-days-mass-mains-failure.html


Z.
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    and if the acidic comments beneath are anything to go by the readership of the article are not exactly technically literate or sympathetic.


    It is a sobering reminder however, how dependant we have become on north sea gas over the last 50 years or so,and how ill-prepared we are right now for it's inevitable phase-out in coming decades.

    Houses are built  having no other means of heating, so the option to huddle round the fireplace is no longer there, and not really well enough lagged to work well without it.
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    A few years ago the village I live in was plagued with power cuts of varying length, including one on Christmas day. The gas central heating would not work and those with electric cookers had a cold Christmas dinner. Fortunately we have a solid fuel range so had a hot Christmas dinner. 


    When laying a new water supply to my house the digger driver ripped the gas supply to my neighbour out, it was T'd off the supply running down my drive. They could not fix the supply until my neighbour returned in the evening and they could get access to the house to purge the gas appliances.
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    Gridwatch tonight is showing that nearly half of the U.K's electricity is being generated by C.C.G.T. (Gas).


    Z.
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    On ITV this evening they showed one of the handed out electric heater in Falkirk which had gone up in flames,


    Clive
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    AncientMariner:

    On ITV this evening they showed one of the handed out electric heater in Falkirk which had gone up in flames,


    Clive




    Dad, what is the lady trying to say? I can't understand her.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LnJu_SIH20


    Z.

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    Dad, what is the lady trying to say? I can't understand her.



    Perhaps lessons like Stanley Baxter's Parliamo Glasgow would have been more use in schools in England than learning French, as unlike France, Scotland still is actually part of the UK, at least for now.

    I agree Falkirk is not quite the same accent, but there are clear similarities.

    As  he would probably say 'warrahelza probleem?'

    Or perhaps ' izzyofiz gas?'  - with a nod to the earlier Uptra burd's - at the house of the young lady

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    Lol.


    I once phoned Control Gear Direct to discuss the specification of a consumer unit ? I don't know which of us had the biggest issue with the different accents.


    Andy B.
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    I think I must be quite good at adapting to regional accents - at one point a good few years ago now,  when we had a query about something we had ordered, my colleagues tried and then waited so that I could call the lass on the 'phones at Beerming-gumingineeringsoo-ploys, or Birmingham Engineering Supplies as per the catalogue, as I seemed to have far more luck being understood than they had. It all worked in the end,  but I remember thinking it was quite funny, as they really had no clue what was being said.
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    Dad, what is the lady trying to say? I can't understand her.



    Perhaps lessons like Stanley Baxter's Parliamo Glasgow would have been more use in schools in England than learning French, as unlike France, Scotland still is actually part of the UK, at least for now.

    I agree Falkirk is not quite the same accent, but there are clear similarities.

    As  he would probably say 'warrahelza probleem?'

    Or perhaps ' izzyofiz gas?'  - with a nod to the earlier Uptra burd's - at the house of the young lady

     

     




    Classic cerebral comedy. I laughed till I cried and my cornflakes bowl overflowed.


    Z.

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