Post B0utCkIeFv1EtNeiX2 by ligma_male@mstdn.starnix.network
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(DIR) Post #B0uqFTMfNRXNNJ8yiO by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:22:17.279148Z
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Remember the pothole of doom, that was such doom because it was just off a section of road that flooded at the drop of a hat? Remember how they had road works signs there for weeks last summer without doing anything, then took them away without fixing the PhoD but with a new patch of concrete running across the road in just the way it might after a drain had been put in? Since then, there has been no flooding after even heavy rain, for which hurrah! I’ve even stopped slowing down to peer suspiciously at it in the dark on wet days. Which is why I drove into about six inches of water while doing thirty+ this evening. Thankfully I now know the route well enough to stay on the road even when it’s hidden, and so did not hit the PhoD. Coming home it was only about four inches high, so presumably the new drain just got overwhelmed temporarily. Nonetheless, I shall return to last winter’s regime of checking it.
(DIR) Post #B0uqvUN61Wj6f0NbY8 by FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:24:29.544506Z
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@Flick complicated. Shouldn't it be a bright colour if it can't be repaired?
(DIR) Post #B0uqvVPy8KcPuCjPfM by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:29:54.340755Z
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@FeartnTired A helpful local had put a traffic cone in it, and one next to it to show the height difference, and then later a helpful sign emerged saying “DANGER BIG HOLES”. When they cleared away the roadworks signs, they took those as well.
(DIR) Post #B0uqxPTxAnv44jVGG8 by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:30:16.326046Z
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@FeartnTired But painting the road not much help if underwater.
(DIR) Post #B0ur1AP3B9RST008Su by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:29:23.752764Z
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@Flick Eeek! Few years ago when himself was in the landy with bloke in his hobby band, going to a gig, they had a scare. Mad tourist came roaring down the road and forced them onto the verge, only the verge was really a very deep and water filled pot hole, or more a length than a hole. The car had also thrown up a load of water off the road too, nutcase speeding in such conditions. Apparently there was scads of water flying up over the windscreen and the bloody vehicle was rocking about the edge, he thinks had it been a car rather than the landy they would have gone over the edge.
(DIR) Post #B0ur3uN9EkvncKQ16O by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:31:26.846996Z
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@HebrideanHecate If I’d have been in a normal car this evening I suspect I would have needed a tow.
(DIR) Post #B0urJ3PPvBgRzHhaVM by FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:32:10.253463Z
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@Flick you know what I mean
(DIR) Post #B0urJ4mqnY1SGFfofY by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:34:09.877962Z
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@FeartnTired Not really, love! The best thing — if they can’t be arsed to fix it — would be to put the cones back. I assume that everyone assumed the new drain would fix it so it was all ok.
(DIR) Post #B0urJLTGlbSc0Rdv0a by HebrideanHecate@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:33:50.815420Z
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@Flick The state of the road is a bloody disgrace. So is the carpark in town next to train station, my God, you could easily break a leg trying to negotiate it, there are ruts and pot holes you could lose a cow down.
(DIR) Post #B0usJGb8z5pGqZqulk by ligma_male@mstdn.starnix.network
2025-12-04T20:45:14Z
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@Flick you know how they pour concrete in the trench after they lay internet fiber?
(DIR) Post #B0usOySXKxHWKOY2V6 by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:46:27.560436Z
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@ligma_male laughs in rural EnglandMost people around here are only just moving off copper.
(DIR) Post #B0usyPGneCJPcCxBj6 by ligma_male@mstdn.starnix.network
2025-12-04T20:49:00Z
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@Flick I was implying that you should charm a strapping young lad and do what's best left unsaid (or your council might come after us both)
(DIR) Post #B0usyQWmyEhDW5RTHs by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:52:50.682888Z
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@ligma_male Oh, I see! I am slightly surprised no local farmer has just filled it in, I must admit. It’s miles from where I live, or I might be (eg) muttering about it on the village WhatsApp group. I assume everyone (local and council) assumed that the drain had fixed the flooding issue so the hole was no longer a danger. I certainly did, and I’ve been along there with no bother in some very wet weather recently.
(DIR) Post #B0ut6cYS8fs78M7yPQ by Flick@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T20:54:20.299848Z
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Still, I dare say the roof of my car needed a wash.
(DIR) Post #B0utCkIeFv1EtNeiX2 by ligma_male@mstdn.starnix.network
2025-12-04T20:55:20Z
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@Flick a mixture of gravel and sand would also be an acceptable substitute in case whoever's doing it doesn't feel confident with handling Portland
(DIR) Post #B0uvrSty2uf8iLeiTw by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-12-04T21:25:12.182788Z
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@Flick @FeartnTired They DO say some people have had success with spray paint and anatomically recognisable scribbles around or on potholes. You know. Some other people. Elsewhere. Absolutely nothing to do with you or me.Or the Epic Pothole.
(DIR) Post #B0vuHSifLBhEvab8We by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T08:42:12.863647Z
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@Flick @FeartnTired Mind you, with the epic size of that particular pothole, some hypothetical person could do a truly epic sized anatomically recognisable scribble.
(DIR) Post #B0vyLKK8teplrfE3LU by FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T08:44:46.916427Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @Flick I'd really rather they didn't. by all means make it visible with colourful construct, but can it not be something pleasant to look at or irritating in a less disgusting, and trite, manner?
(DIR) Post #B0vyLL9tnEEaSBRO1A by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T09:27:44.115311Z
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@FeartnTired @Flick The point is, that it seems those particular scribbles get the quickest reaction from the relevant authorities, as in the pothole suddenly gets fixed. I doubt a pretty butterfly would have the same effect.
(DIR) Post #B0vzG3Vm4qsWECiVG4 by FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T09:35:40.250250Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @Flick Lepidopterist
(DIR) Post #B0vzG4eJqZJ7kziqDQ by FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T09:36:28.186588Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @Flick how about a cartoon of the council officials, or local MP then. anything but that.
(DIR) Post #B0vzG5xUykF9olhfkW by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T09:37:55.655618Z
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@FeartnTired @Flick That would require considerable skill to be sufficiently recognisable to be effective, and it still might well be ignored.
(DIR) Post #B0vzTlyC5qfNsUYCZ6 by FeartnTired@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T09:39:26.683088Z
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@Gnomeshatecheese @Flick "Cllr Roads is a twit"
(DIR) Post #B0vzTmzIJF8n2C4av2 by Gnomeshatecheese@spinster.xyz
2025-12-05T09:40:27.350886Z
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@FeartnTired @Flick I think you'd need to use stronger language than that.