Resurfacing

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:35 am

hisroyalgingerness wrote:
superjohnmcginlay wrote:I actually thought this was a thread about tarmac.
i'm beginning to wish i had done it on tarmac

Well I'm a Hot Rolled Asphalt man mesen, Bitmac's just no good.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:29 am

Please state your position on screeding

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:36 am

Batman wrote:Please state your position on screeding

I'm uncomfortable about the whole thing. It has no place in modern Britain.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 10:57 am

devonshire road has terrible chips at the mo. someone should tell the council, it's a disgrace

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:03 am

Oh for the days when your shoes stuck to the road in summer and every kid played tar-marbles.

Gertie · Post by **Gertie** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:27 am

hisroyalgingerness wrote:devonshire road has terrible chips at the mo. someone should tell the council, it's a disgrace

I reported a pothole on my street the other week, I nearly fell in it and was lost forever (stop the cheering).

Anyways I filled a form online, someone rang me to check the details and then troublesome Gertie-swallowing hole has been tarmaced over, with me on the right side.

I am the neighbourhood busy body.

Your Royalness I can give you the busy body website if you're bothered.

superjohnmcginlay · Post by **superjohnmcginlay** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:48 am

Gertie wrote:
hisroyalgingerness wrote:devonshire road has terrible chips at the mo. someone should tell the council, it's a disgrace
I reported a pothole on my street the other week, I nearly fell in it and was lost forever (stop the cheering).

Anyways I filled a form online, someone rang me to check the details and then troublesome Gertie-swallowing hole has been tarmaced over, with me on the right side.

I am the neighbourhood busy body. Your Royalness I can give you the busy body website if you're bothered.

Ah but is it only the hole filled in? Temporary tarmac is $hite and doesnt last very long. It needs a full wearing course strip and resurface.

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:51 am

superjohnmcginlay wrote:
Gertie wrote:
hisroyalgingerness wrote:devonshire road has terrible chips at the mo. someone should tell the council, it's a disgrace
I reported a pothole on my street the other week, I nearly fell in it and was lost forever (stop the cheering).

Anyways I filled a form online, someone rang me to check the details and then troublesome Gertie-swallowing hole has been tarmaced over, with me on the right side.

I am the neighbourhood busy body. Your Royalness I can give you the busy body website if you're bothered.
Ah but is it only the hole filled in? Temporary tarmac is $hite and doesnt last very long. It needs a full wearing course strip and resurface.

Gertie, you need to test this. When you get home tonight, jump up and down repeatedly on the tarmac covering the hole.

Let us know how you get on.

hisroyalgingerness · Post by **hisroyalgingerness** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:58 am

Gertie wrote:
hisroyalgingerness wrote:devonshire road has terrible chips at the mo. someone should tell the council, it's a disgrace
I reported a pothole on my street the other week, I nearly fell in it and was lost forever (stop the cheering).

Anyways I filled a form online, someone rang me to check the details and then troublesome Gertie-swallowing hole has been tarmaced over, with me on the right side.

I am the neighbourhood busy body. Your Royalness I can give you the busy body website if you're bothered.

i always knew you curtain-twitchers had an actual site, i knew

Gertie · Post by **Gertie** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:15 pm

warthog wrote:
superjohnmcginlay wrote:
Gertie wrote:
hisroyalgingerness wrote:devonshire road has terrible chips at the mo. someone should tell the council, it's a disgrace
I reported a pothole on my street the other week, I nearly fell in it and was lost forever (stop the cheering).

Anyways I filled a form online, someone rang me to check the details and then troublesome Gertie-swallowing hole has been tarmaced over, with me on the right side.

I am the neighbourhood busy body. Your Royalness I can give you the busy body website if you're bothered.
Ah but is it only the hole filled in? Temporary tarmac is $hite and doesnt last very long. It needs a full wearing course strip and resurface.
Gertie, you need to test this. When you get home tonight, jump up and down repeatedly on the tarmac covering the hole.

Let us know how you get on.

Well if you think it will provide useful scientific research then I shall do it for the good of the world. I'll let you know how it goes.

Bruce Rioja · Post by **Bruce Rioja** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:13 pm

hisroyalgingerness wrote:devonshire road has terrible chips

As do Little Lever and CrazyHorse.

CrazyHorse · Post by **CrazyHorse** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:46 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
hisroyalgingerness wrote:devonshire road has terrible chips
As do Little Lever and CrazyHorse.

There is only one way to sort out this chip fued once and for all...We need SOTWA to organise a mums' chips smackdown.

Perhaps we could get as many TW members to pop over to yours ma's for a chip butty each one day then over to mine the day after or something like that with the winner being decided with the use of a secret PM ballet.

Obviously everyones travel costs and other expenses will be covered by the site admin.

Sound like a plan?

americantrotter · Post by **americantrotter** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:51 pm

I'm in.

I love chips. Plus a trip would be nice

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:56 pm

americantrotter wrote:I'm in. I love chips. Plus a trip would be nice

It would be a wasted trip for me as "my" chips are the best going. Part boil a couple of decent potatoes, make em into large slices- fritter style- then fry them. Two slices of buttered thick sliced bread, salt and vinegar and bingo: Chip Heaven.

communistworkethic · Post by **communistworkethic** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:02 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:
americantrotter wrote:I'm in. I love chips. Plus a trip would be nice
It would be a wasted trip for me as "my" chips are the best going. Part boil a couple of decent potatoes, make em into large slices- fritter style- then fry them. Two slices of buttered thick sliced bread, salt and vinegar and bingo: Chip Heaven.

Surely that's a "special" butty not a chip butty??

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:05 pm

A blind tasting is what’s required here.

Tangodancer, Crazyhorse and Bruce’s Mum assemble at an agreed venue with the equipment of their choice (chip pan, deep fat fryer, potato peeler etc)

A cook off then commences with TW posters asked to vote on chip A, B or C. It won’t be revealed until after voting which cook is represented by which letter.

It makes sense logistically with only one venue required.

TANGODANCER · Post by **TANGODANCER** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:24 pm

Bloody hell, how did we get from road-surfacing to chip-butties in the first pace? Started with Macadam and ended up with McCain.

warthog · Post by **warthog** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:27 pm

TANGODANCER wrote:Bloody hell, how did we get from road-surfacing to chip-butties in the first pace? Started with Macadam and ended up with McCain.

We came via Devonshire Road.

Batman · Post by **Batman** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 5:49 pm

I am afraid this is rather dull.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:50 pm

Batman wrote:I am afraid this is rather dull.

But it doesn't have to be. There are all sorts of pigmented tarmacs available today. And while we're on the subject what about concrete? A far superior and much maligned material (also more useful for permanently removing certain posts or posters)

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