Environmental Health and Urban Renewal

[KennyR]

We had cavity wall insulation installed free some time ago. Pity about the quality of the "double glazing" installed also for free some weeks later, which lets out more heat than not having cavity wall insulation did in the first place. :-P

[KennyR]

Fade wrote:
Some poor taxpayer somewhere is paying the price for you to suck from the government tit!

Yeah, us!

Let's look at the alternative way - private housing in inner city USA. Ooh, cockroaches. Good for protein, eh? American poor people are so lucky. :-)

[KennyR]

T_Bone wrote:
Rich people don't get {bleep}roaches?

One of the reasons rich people over your side get bleeproaches is because the people in poorer areas can't afford to get poison put down, so the bleeproaches breed there and spread outward. With us, and several a state-paid for eradication campaigns, I live in what's known as a 'deprived area' and I've never seen a bleeproach in my life!

[KennyR]

odin wrote:
Uhm....I think it also has to do with the climate. Here in The Netherlands I've never seen a single cookroach. Whereas in Australia you nearly trip over the damn things. Spotted them in Corsica too. I usually take my holidays in Scandinavia and I haven't seen them there either. That would suggest they only really thrive in warm(er) climates?

That's true - but Scotland is mild in winter, warm in summer, and very wet - perfect for bleeproaches. And the little buggers are supposed to be able to survive nuclear holocaust, which might even allow them to survive the Scottish climate. If they're lucky.

[KennyR]

They eat Dutchmen!

[KennyR]

It's true - it's just that the Pentagon accidentally destroyed the records.

[KennyR]

Scotland gets the gulf stream, which makes it considerably warmer than anything at the same latitude. Palm trees can grow on the west coast, and we rarely get a winter colder than -2 C, except at high altitudes. We're probably warmer than the Netherlands, at least in Winter. But if Netherlands was as wet as Scotland, it would be time for you to rejoin the North Sea.

All this of course, makes it perfect for bleeproaches. Those little bleepsuckers. But socialism saved us. ;-)