14-10-2008, 18:28
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Re: A River Runs Through It.
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Originally Posted by garinda
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It's almost Medieval, when they had open sewers/drains running down the middle of their thoroughfares. I suppose we should count ourselves lucky that we don't have turds floating down our streets.
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Where stray dogs have been doing their doings we do! 
Up this neck of the woods it wouldn't matter if the pavements were sloped towards the gutters because the drains are all blocked anyway. We already have some lovely water features resembling miniature fountains gushing over the grates.
Whatever happened to those trucks which used to suck up all the gunk out of the grates? |
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