Why look??

huskydog
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edited July 2016 in General Chat #1

Outside my shop the electricity board have dug up the pavement to do some repairs and there is a large hole ,why is it that everyone that walks past has to stop and look down the hole? ,what do they expect to seeSurprised

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  • JillwithaJay
    JillwithaJay Club Member Posts: 2,485 ✭✭
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    edited July 2016 #2

    Don't know HD.   I'm singing Bernard Cribbins song, "There I was digging this 'ole ..."

    Perhaps the same reason as, when they see a 'wet paint' sign, they have to test it.  My dad used to put a blob of paint on something with a sign that said 'test here'. Happy

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2016 #3

    HD, what shape hole is it?

  • huskydog
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    edited July 2016 #4

    At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yetUndecided

  • Metheven
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    edited July 2016 #5

    At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yetUndecided

    Oh, you looked in it then Laughing

  • woodlanewanderers
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    edited July 2016 #6

    Do you need a half spade to dig a half of a hole. I have never seen half a hole.

  • huskydog
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    edited July 2016 #7

    At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yetUndecided

    Oh, you looked in it then Laughing

    Only to see if they have uncovered any of my bonesHappy

  • cariadon
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    edited July 2016 #8

    Surprised A body.

  • volvoman9
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    edited July 2016 #9

    I reported a hole in the road to the police and they said they would look into it
    Undecided

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  • Cornersteady
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    edited July 2016 #10

    At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yetUndecided

    Oh, you looked in it then Laughing

    that's why I askedSmile

  • jeffcc
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    edited July 2016 #11

    At the moment it's square , but i think they have only dug half of ithe hole , so it's not really a whole hole yetUndecided

    Oh, you looked in it then Laughing

    Only to see if they have uncovered any of my bonesHappy

    So when they have finished digging the hole will it then be Oblong? twice as deep or just square but twice as big?Wink. Use left and right arrows to navigate.

  • tombar
    tombar Forum Participant Posts: 408
    edited July 2016 #12

    Don't know HD.   I'm singing Bernard Cribbins song, "There I was digging this 'ole ..."

    Perhaps the same reason as, when they see a 'wet paint' sign, they have to test it.  My dad used to put a blob of paint on something with a sign that said 'test here'. Happy

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  • artyboo
    artyboo Forum Participant Posts: 457
    edited July 2016 #13

    People are naturally nosey. This is exactly why we get miles of tail backs on the motorway when there has been an 'incident' on the other side.

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited July 2016 #14

    Don't knock digging holes, they found Richard III in one a couple of years ago! Just don't let anyone drop a cig end in!Happy

  • IanH
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    edited July 2016 #15

    Why look? 

    To see what's there.......Smile

  • huskydog
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    edited July 2016 #16

    Why look? 

    To see what's there.......Smile

    But all i can see is the bottom of a holeUndecided

  • IanH
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    edited July 2016 #17

    Why look? 

    To see what's there.......Smile

    But all i can see is the bottom of a holeUndecided

    So you now know what's there.....Smile

  • redface
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    edited July 2016 #18

    How does that song go? "It all makes work for a working man to do."  So leccy dig a hole - puncture the gas main - Gas Board fracture the water pipe, water company breaks the sewer and they in turn sever the  TV/phone cables. Seems the best option may be
    to move shop Husky. Laughing

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited July 2016 #19

    Perhaps they don't want to be seen looking in your window, HD!Wink

  • neveramsure
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    edited July 2016 #20

    Perhaps they are really tunnelling under your shop HD.SurprisedLaughing

  • huskydog
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    edited July 2016 #21

    It's been raining this morning, so iv'e now got a well outside the shopSurprised

  • IanH
    IanH Forum Participant Posts: 4,708
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    edited July 2016 #22

    Well I can't say I'm surprised......

  • redface
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    edited July 2016 #23

    "Perhaps they are really tunnelling under your shop HD"

     Only the illegal immigrants probably - best to report them unless they can pay your rates for sleeping on the cellar floor.Surprised

  • dennisd
    dennisd Forum Participant Posts: 157
    edited July 2016 #24

    I was walking across a building site with a workmate, talking away and not watching were we were going. He fell into a deep hole, so deep I couldn't even see him but I could hear him moving around.

    I shouted down " Paddy have you broken anything?"

    "No"  he shouted back " it's empty"". Smile

     

  • SteveL
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    edited August 2016 #25

    Holes are interesting if you are a geologist Never know what strata there might be below the man made top layer, that's if it goes deep enough. There' ve been some fissures in a road near us, took them two weeks to fill in‼?

  • RichardPitman
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    edited August 2016 #26

    I find such holes fascinating. Amazing to see all the pipes and cables that lie unseen beneath the surface. You'd really think that they'd have come up with something better than this by now, maybe some sort of services conduit covered by removable slabs.

    Also interesting to see how thin the layer of road stone actually  is, before hole goes back into clay.

  • huskydog
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    edited August 2016 #27

    they have just come to fill in the hole ,but didn't have enough soil to fill it ,so they dug another hole and used the soil from thatUndecidedSurprisedCool

  • ABM
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    edited August 2016 #28

    {  WOTSER  ==  Where  are  you  ?? }

    Sigh,  Sigh  Sigh  Triple  squared  !!  Wink

    Sounds  like  somebody  has  found  a  bundle  of  1920's  "Radio  Fun"  comics  !

  • eyebrowsb
    eyebrowsb Forum Participant Posts: 554
    edited August 2016 #29

    Well, people are looking at our hole which isn't even a hole .... yet Surprised  BT have identified, and spray painted a large area where
    they are going to dig, just outside our house.  All the neighbours have been coming to have a look Laughing

  • Navigateur
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    edited August 2016 #30

    Just get some matching spray paint and mark off any bits of defective tarmac you would like relaid as well.

  • redface
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    edited August 2016 #31

    Ah -  now, round my way they actually number the pot holes so we occasionally get 2 x no3, 3 no1 s and all sorts of other duplications. In the end they repair the lot!

    Well done that guy who added others into the mix!