Noisy manhole problem solved (From The Argus)

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Hovite wrote:
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Surely it's not PC to say ''manhole cover'' these days. It should be ''personhole''. Equal rights and all that.

Can always tell Hovite when we are bored due to lack of meaningful Albion news. We start reading general news.

Perhaps the Argus could cover a story about the number of drains that are still blocked from the amount of grit dumped on the roads 3 years ago. Southern Water have told multiple times over the years but have refused to clear them.

saraman wrote:
Can always tell Hovite when we are bored due to lack of meaningful Albion news. We start reading general news.

Off to a good clean start on the humour front saraman.

Yep I thought I would venture somewhere else, it's a bit dull in the other room. Needed a breath of fresh air and stretch my legs.

How often does the average man have a noisy hole problem?

Hovite wrote:

saraman wrote: Can always tell Hovite when we are bored due to lack of meaningful Albion news. We start reading general news.

Off to a good clean start on the humour front saraman. Yep I thought I would venture somewhere else, it's a bit dull in the other room. Needed a breath of fresh air and stretch my legs.

Haha, you slay me Hovite. We shouldn't get to many interruptions on this thread.

It is sad indeed when authorities need the glaring light of publicity before they will address issues that affect their residents but not themselves.

Well done the Argus!

saraman wrote:

Hovite wrote:
Please enter your jokes below please

Surely it's not PC to say ''manhole cover'' these days. It should be ''personhole''. Equal rights and all that.

I am pro feminist, and I say it should be Womanhole.......yes?

Hoarder12345444 wrote:

saraman wrote:

Hovite wrote: Please enter your jokes below please

Surely it's not PC to say ''manhole cover'' these days. It should be ''personhole''. Equal rights and all that.

I am pro feminist, and I say it should be Womanhole.......yes?

Careful Hoarder.

According to urban legend, a manhole cover was accidentally launched from its shaft during an underground nuclear test in the 1950s, at great enough speed to achieve escape velocity. The myth is based on a real incident during the Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, where a 900 kg steel plate cap was blasted off the test shaft at an unknown velocity, and appears as a blur on a single frame of film of the test; it was never recovered.

A calculation before the event gave a predicted speed of six times Earth escape velocity, but the calculation is not likely to have been accurate.

After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as "going like a bat out of hell!!

Hovite wrote:
According to urban legend, a manhole cover was accidentally launched from its shaft during an underground nuclear test in the 1950s, at great enough speed to achieve escape velocity. The myth is based on a real incident during the Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, where a 900 kg steel plate cap was blasted off the test shaft at an unknown velocity, and appears as a blur on a single frame of film of the test; it was never recovered. A calculation before the event gave a predicted speed of six times Earth escape velocity, but the calculation is not likely to have been accurate. After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as "going like a bat out of hell!!

Well, that was mighty interesting. Where did you pick that up, Wikipedia? Never realised that you are such a scholar (and a gent I might add) Hovite.

saraman wrote:

Hovite wrote:
According to urban legend, a manhole cover was accidentally launched from its shaft during an underground nuclear test in the 1950s, at great enough speed to achieve escape velocity. The myth is based on a real incident during the Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, where a 900 kg steel plate cap was blasted off the test shaft at an unknown velocity, and appears as a blur on a single frame of film of the test; it was never recovered. A calculation before the event gave a predicted speed of six times Earth escape velocity, but the calculation is not likely to have been accurate. After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as "going like a bat out of hell!!

Well, that was mighty interesting. Where did you pick that up, Wikipedia? Never realised that you are such a scholar (and a gent I might add) Hovite.

Oi....enough of this...get a room please!
;-)

dawind wrote:

saraman wrote:

Hovite wrote: According to urban legend, a manhole cover was accidentally launched from its shaft during an underground nuclear test in the 1950s, at great enough speed to achieve escape velocity. The myth is based on a real incident during the Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, where a 900 kg steel plate cap was blasted off the test shaft at an unknown velocity, and appears as a blur on a single frame of film of the test; it was never recovered. A calculation before the event gave a predicted speed of six times Earth escape velocity, but the calculation is not likely to have been accurate. After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as "going like a bat out of hell!!

Well, that was mighty interesting. Where did you pick that up, Wikipedia? Never realised that you are such a scholar (and a gent I might add) Hovite.

Oi....enough of this...get a room please! ;-)

What room? Sounds like a TV prog.

Speaking as a professional assassin I was quite gutted to hear this news.
I'd always had this spot down as the ideal location for carrying out late night shootings, given the fact that residents would naturally attribute the crack of my pistol to this bothersome manhole cover. Now I have nothing to disguise the sound of my nocturnal slayings and shall be forced to take my business elsewhere or switch to the much less reliable garrote.

saraman wrote:

dawind wrote:

saraman wrote:

Hovite wrote: According to urban legend, a manhole cover was accidentally launched from its shaft during an underground nuclear test in the 1950s, at great enough speed to achieve escape velocity. The myth is based on a real incident during the Operation Plumbbob nuclear tests, where a 900 kg steel plate cap was blasted off the test shaft at an unknown velocity, and appears as a blur on a single frame of film of the test; it was never recovered. A calculation before the event gave a predicted speed of six times Earth escape velocity, but the calculation is not likely to have been accurate. After the event, Dr. Robert R. Brownlee described the best estimate of the cover's speed from the photographic evidence as "going like a bat out of hell!!

Well, that was mighty interesting. Where did you pick that up, Wikipedia? Never realised that you are such a scholar (and a gent I might add) Hovite.

Oi....enough of this...get a room please! ;-)

What room? Sounds like a TV prog.

Yep Wiki, key search term; manhole cover, just in case you thought I had this sad bit of general knowledge, well I have now ;o)

Crystal Ball wrote:
How often does the average man have a noisy hole problem?

well it is Brighton so not really your average 'man' lol definately a few things stuck up manshole hahahahaha

My word it is a slow news day