Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by Gentleman Jim » Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:43 pm

tenchboy wrote:
Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:49 pm
Without checking anything whatsoever, I'll take a chance and say that I too, vaguely remember that it was bored through the gault clay - which is the next very soft layer down below the lower chalk and glauconitic marl - which crops out at Folkstone and that is why it went from there rather than Dover.
The gault clay at Folkstone is notable for some of the most beautiful little fossil ammonites that can pick up anywhere in England: euhoplites and anahoplites, between an inch and an inch and a half in diameter, all covered in a pinky mother of pearl that just glistens in the mud slides after a shower of rain.

ETA: pics
Many hours of happy fossicking in the clay of the East Cliffs area in Folkestone normalyy yielded >99% Belemnites :(
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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by Woodchopper » Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:04 am

New report:

A Fixed Link between Great Britain and Northern Ireland:
Technical Feasibility
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.u ... bility.pdf

tl;dr a bridge would cost up to £335 billion and a tunnel would cost up to £209 billion. Both would take about 30 years (including planning and access infrastructure).

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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by tenchboy » Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:24 am

Cheers Woodman, just reading that now.
The route for the bridge was chosen to span the Beaufort’s Dyke at its narrowest point,
allowing foundations to be located clear of the areas likely to contain dumped ordnance
I can't help but feel that the authors wrote as if they were addressing BJ directly and that before going to print they had to make sure that they had deleted the words 'You idiot' from the end of every paragraph.
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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by tenchboy » Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:33 am

The coastline of the Rhins is
characterised by the rocky headland and sheer cliff faces YOU IDIOT
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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by Bird on a Fire » Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:51 pm

Still, it makes HS2 look good value for money.
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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by Little waster » Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:54 pm

Bird on a Fire wrote:
Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:51 pm
Still, it makes HS2 look good value for money.
All we'd need to do now is to change HS2's route to cross the Grand Canyon and go through the Royal Artillery's live firing zone on Salisbury Plain.
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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by Nero » Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:57 pm

Little waster wrote:
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:54 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:51 pm
Still, it makes HS2 look good value for money.
All we'd need to do now is to change HS2's route to cross the Grand Canyon and go through the Royal Artillery's live firing zone on Salisbury Plain.
Could we suggest a station at Imber, I'm sure there would be plenty of passengers?

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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by IvanV » Sun Nov 28, 2021 4:28 pm

tenchboy wrote:
Sun Nov 28, 2021 8:24 am
Cheers Woodman, just reading that now.
The route for the bridge was chosen to span the Beaufort’s Dyke at its narrowest point,
allowing foundations to be located clear of the areas likely to contain dumped ordnance
I can't help but feel that the authors wrote as if they were addressing BJ directly and that before going to print they had to make sure that they had deleted the words 'You idiot' from the end of every paragraph.
The Airport Commission's evaluation of "Boris Island" Airport was similar.

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Re: Boris Johnson is an idiot - irish bridge edition

Post by jimbob » Sun Nov 28, 2021 7:24 pm

Little waster wrote:
Sun Nov 28, 2021 3:54 pm
Bird on a Fire wrote:
Sun Nov 28, 2021 1:51 pm
Still, it makes HS2 look good value for money.
All we'd need to do now is to change HS2's route to cross the Grand Canyon and go through the Royal Artillery's live firing zone on Salisbury Plain. Might as well make it some undisclosed dump from Porton Down as well, for the full Beaufort Dyke experience
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Have you considered stupidity as an explanation

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