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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Leaving assonance and alliteration aside, shellfish is to selfish as shopfitter is to shoplifter as Trump is to turnip. What's the word for that?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
    An admirable literary trope????



    I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

      Martin Luther King

  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    steveTu said:
    Whatever happened after Grenfell? 
    It has had an impact, it's still having an impact - the consequences have been far reaching and it is still a frequent point of discussion - perhaps not in Government, but among those that can change things, those lives are not forgotten.
    It may have vanished from the daily bulletins but it is still being covered in the media, if you want to know about it.
    Grenfell Tower inquiry: 11 key things we’ve learned this year - BBC News
    There's a very good podcast as well. I'm not sure if the enquiry has restarted - they had a covid related suspension.

    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    You have to feel sorry for those fishermen. They were promised rainbow unicorns but ended up with inevitable reality. It's really not fair.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • SueAtooSueAtoo Posts: 380
    Sorry all, I seem to have got on the wrong thread, I thought this was "have a Giggle".
    East Dorset, new (to me) rather neglected garden.
  • Zoe P2Zoe P2 Posts: 848
    You have to feel sorry for those fishermen. They were promised rainbow unicorns but ended up with inevitable reality. It's really not fair.
    Sadly, the whole brexit campaign was based on those "rainbow unicorns", I think....  



    I have a dream that my.. children.. one day.. will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character

      Martin Luther King

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    They'll have to make do with a load of pony like the rest of us.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219

    '...This is off-topic but is Official Secrets worth watching? ...'

    It's all taste eh? I thought it was well done. I didn't actually remember the court case, so it was quite 'fresh' to me. Personally I thought the film was good and so did my son - and if the 'facts' presented are 'facts', frustrating as hell as to how the gov controls some information. If you're like me you'll end up asking '...how on earth can it ever be illegal to expose illegality?...'
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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited January 2021
    But what actually changed? How many buildings(I should say lives) are still at risk due to dodgy cladding?
    ...and yesterday on Radio  they were talking about the housing market and how flat prices were suffering still due to this issue - ie doubts about dodgy cladding still being in place.


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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    @steveTu But that's only one part of the issue. The impact it has had is that this type of cladding isn't being used on any more buildings. In fact the sensitivity of designers to the combustibility of facade systems has entirely changed. The assumptions about how fire externally affects people in a building have been junked. The assumptions about the reliability of manufacturers' information and the way designers, especially architects, approach refurbishments have all been fundamentally reconsidered. Regardless of the lack of new regulations, designers and builders have changed the rules about materials used in high rise buildings and building control have had a pretty hard shake up in their attitudes as well.
    The replacement of what is already there and the changes to the regulations will all wind their slow way through. But that doesn't mean nothing has changed.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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