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Post by flatandy on Aug 31, 2023 13:53:39 GMT
This Johannesburg story is grim. Particularly the fact that there seems to have been a locked gate at the entrance that people couldn’t get out of.
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Post by perrykneeham on Aug 31, 2023 14:30:42 GMT
Jo'burg is said to be utterly grim in and of itself. This looks like the classic squat-full-of-illegals scenario. Barricades set up to defend against the law and criminals become something of a burden. Also, I doubt the "tenants" had access to power, so I guess that they would have made their own arrangements for heating in what is winter in SA.
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Post by voice on Jan 27, 2024 22:38:58 GMT
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Post by mids on Jan 27, 2024 23:56:48 GMT
Adidas Samba-print.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 24, 2024 10:28:26 GMT
Nasty. www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68387970It does rather look like the cladding was involved. Interestingly, I wonder if the problem was not with the composition of the panels per se, but with the stand-off, creating a flue. I don't know whether we fix cladding in UK for the same reason and whether the stand-off is the same. My first thought was that we're more interested in heat retention and mechanical protection, whereas Johnnie Bacalo is more interested in preventing solar gain. |
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Post by mids on Feb 24, 2024 10:48:07 GMT
I wonder if they're in for years of wailing, victimhood and grasping for compo?
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Post by flatandy on Feb 24, 2024 14:51:06 GMT
I don't know whether we fix cladding in UK for the same reason and whether the stand-off is the same. My first thought was that we're more interested in heat retention and mechanical protection, whereas Johnnie Bacalo is more interested in preventing solar gain. In winter somewhere like Valencia gets cold enough that they'd probably want some heat retention; and they might not have installed decent heating anywhere because it's not really worth it for 30 nights a year. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if a fire was caused by some ad hoc improvised heating. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 24, 2024 14:55:11 GMT
Or fish drying.
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Post by flatandy on Feb 24, 2024 14:57:27 GMT
Johnny Bacalo living up to his name?
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 24, 2024 14:57:58 GMT
I wonder if they're in for years of wailing, victimhood and grasping for compo? There are clear differences between Valencia's Campanar district and London's Compostans. |
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 28, 2024 10:52:52 GMT
Oh, FFS. www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68415802Grenfell survivors are traveling to Valencia to lay flowers? This really is starting to look like a two generation legal career, isn't it? I wonder who paid. |
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Post by mids on Feb 28, 2024 11:02:18 GMT
Fucking ghouls.
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Post by perrykneeham on Feb 28, 2024 13:07:31 GMT
Scavengers.
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Post by mids on Feb 28, 2024 13:52:55 GMT
They could have just tweeted their sympathy.
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Post by mids on Feb 29, 2024 21:43:17 GMT
Next stop on the world grief tour? "At least 43 people have been killed after a fire broke out in a multi-storey building in Bangladesh, the country's health minister says. According to local media, the blaze began in a restaurant at around 22:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Thursday in the capital, Dhaka." www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68442375 |
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 1, 2024 8:59:56 GMT
Emperor's Gate, eh? Someone drying salmon, I expect. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68443968Now, this might be fun. I know a bloke who did a major project there are few years back, and didn't get paid, allegedly. Nick, WKC. |
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Post by flatandy on Mar 1, 2024 14:45:25 GMT
Hmm. The kind of people who live in that kind of building in South Kensington might get more sympathetic treatment from the government than the fish-driers of Ladbroke Grove did
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Post by perrykneeham on Mar 4, 2024 17:53:35 GMT
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Post by mids on May 4, 2024 10:18:09 GMT
Scum. Send 'er back. "A struck-off solicitor who exploited the Grenfell Tower tragedy has been jailed for seven and a half years. Prosecutors said Flora Mendes had already been struck off in 2015 after being found guilty of providing unregulated immigration advice. However, she continued operating and made up fake addresses at Grenfell to convince immigrants she was legitimate. The 45-year-old, from Luton, admitted 14 counts of fraud and one count of offering immigration advice without a licence. www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cxe9g0el8epo |
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Post by happyhammerhead on May 5, 2024 8:57:48 GMT
f**k me, don't click on that link!
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