Things that make you SAD thread.

[SSB]

Reading tributes to young Jordan Banks. What a lovely kid.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1392466878296174604

 

[Paul]

My brother was down my Moms this evening and found an old picture of my Dad when he worked on a farm, you'd think nearly 20 years since we lost him it would get easier

 

[lemonjelly]

Had a couple of bowls matches now restrictions are easing. Usually this would be a post in the happy thread, but yesterday, saw a lovely guy from another team who lost his wife to covid last april. He's still struggling big time, and although I knew it would happen, it confirmed that there will be numerous matches where we notice certain people are missing.
Bowls is a bit of a community, so it will likely be a bittersweet season I guess.

 

[northfield wolf]

My brother was down my Moms this evening and found an old picture of my Dad when he worked on a farm, you'd think nearly 20 years since we lost him it would get easier

I thought the same when i lost my Dad Paul. It dont get any easier, i still shed a tear by his grave, 17 years on.

 

[Tredman]

Resigned today. Christ on a bike that’s tough to do.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Ach, I've found it incredibly easy in every job I've resigned from

I do hate people though.

 

[Tredman]

I’m not overly fond of a lot of them myself but it always feels like I’m fucking them over. Which I suppose I am kinda.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Fuck it, in nearly every case they were either ripping me off pound for pound or genuinely horrible.

I'd never leave anyone in the lurch but I never owed any of them anything.

 

[The Bear]

I’m not overly fond of a lot of them myself but it always feels like I’m fucking them over. Which I suppose I am kinda.

If the situation were reversed and they needed to let you go they likely wouldn't think twice.

I wouldn't be losing any sleep over it. You have to do what's best for yourself ultimately.

 

[Freddeno]

What the heck, how has Boris Johnson ended up with that puma of a woman..guess she is is a golddigger then..

 

[Sniffer]

He hasn’t got a pot to piss in. Will have in the future if she survives that long with him given his record in life to date.
Getting involved in with a serial adulterer whilst his wife is being treated for cancer tells you all you need to know about her character. They are welcome to each other with the only sad part that the despicable individual she lives with is in charge of the country.

 

[Lycan]

I'm absolutely in bits.

The daughter of a family friend (some of you on here will have met Aidrian, Wolves fan from Dunblane who came down to the games with me a few times) who suffers from severe mental health issues has gone missing in Glasgow. Obviously serious concerns for her wellbeing.

Absolutely terrifying and desperately sad situation. Horrible seeing her face splashed across the papers this morning.

 

[darlowolf64]

I had to take Mrs D back into hospital yesterday morning at 04:15 after problems from her surgery. She either has an infection or not all of the appendix was removed/they didn't stitch everything up correctly. She will be having a scan today to determine whether they need to re-operate...

 

[sycophantia]

I had to take Mrs D back into hospital yesterday morning at 04:15 after problems from her surgery. She either has an infection or not all of the appendix was removed/they didn't stitch everything up correctly. She will be having a scan today to determine whether they need to re-operate...

thats a bastard, hope they sort it out properly this time for her

 

[Tredman]

The floods in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands look terrible. We are going to see a lot more of this over the next few years

 

[AndyWolves]

The floods in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands look terrible. We are going to see a lot more of this over the next few years

It's only going to get worse, this is as good as it'll be right now.

 

[sycophantia]

The floods in Germany, Belgium and Netherlands look terrible. We are going to see a lot more of this over the next few years

Horrible, 80+ dead in Germany and many more missing, 9 dead in NL/Belgium, the people of Liege have been told to leave the city.
I suppose the only thing to be done in the short term is flood defences but longterm there doesn't seem much of a will to do anything anywhere in the world.
Feel very sorry for the people in those areas, its an area we visit often on holiday.

 

[Tredman]

Horrible, 80+ dead in Germany and many more missing, 9 dead in NL/Belgium, the people of Liege have been told to leave the city.
I suppose the only thing to be done in the short term is flood defences but longterm there doesn't seem much of a will to do anything anywhere in the world.
Feel very sorry for the people in those areas, its an area we visit often on holiday.

There’s lots you can do to reduce harm, but flash floods are the most difficult to deal with though. We need to mandate SUDs and separate collection systems for rainwater and wastewater at a minimum. All costs though and no country seems willing to spend everything needed.

 

[MARKakaJIM]

Overhauling all the old combined sewers into separate systems would be a nightmare, without doubt the best solution but not sure how practical to implicate with such widespread older systems in place.

Modern drainage designs generally do a decent job from my experience, almost every job now has approval of drainage design as a pre-start planning condition and flow rates agreed with sewerage providers. I've yet to see a scheme where a full SuDS design is workable/practical though, either though lack of space for balancing ponds or unsuitable ground for soakaways but they generally take on board what they can now, permeable pavings with build ups providing attenuation where practical, larger below ground attenuation systems in lieu of ponds.

Thinking back to my University days I think a large part of the problem now is in more rural areas, farmland being thrashed to within an inch of it's life as margins get tighter, deforestation, all things that reduce the more natural landscapes ability to hold water further up the chain and meaning rainfall gets into rivers and drainage systems more quickly, causing havoc as it descends toward more built up areas.

 

[Tredman]

Gotta separate the sewers really - no other option, at some point someone is going to have to pay up. Can't say where obviously, but I'm in the middle of deploying a monitoring system for sewers in one utility; its truly frightening how many spills there are per day.

And if there is no space for SUDS just build fewer houses...

Definitely true on rural areas, again though its money - we will have to incentivise farmer to keep hedges, put in drainage etc. Ultimately though if even the Dutch with all their cuts are being flooded we are all in for a very difficult time.