Observation: Virgin Media Street Cabinets.

"Paul Ratcliffe" wrote in message
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On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:37:04 +0000, Mark Carver

wrote:

Strangely, I didn't observe dead charred bodies clinging to the
busbars.


To valuable as a source of meat for Tesco burgers and Findus ready meals
to be left on the bus-bars for long.

Funny you should say that, a supermarket I went into there was selling
slightly out of date Tescos stock.

They'll have some new stock in next week then.

Seriously, what *does* happen to the reported 10 million burgers that
have been taken off the shelves?


Dunno - but Brian would have no difficulty finding the fish counter in our
local Morrisons!

Bill Taylor wrote:


The cables are
230V and insulated;

As a matter of interest, those who use aluminium ladders to climb onto
the roofs of houses near overhead electric cables will know that often
the insulation on the wires is badly frayed.

Bill

wrote:

http://www.teleramics.com/main/signage.html

So it's OK to throw potatoes or turnips?

Bill

Mark Carver wrote:
David Woolley wrote:

I suspect you will find that ordinary people in such countries have a
much better awareness of the technological infrastructure that serves
them.
Why would that be? I can't think of a single reason.


In the UK people expect to buy their technology in black or
white boxes and just plug it into the wall.
Don't the wogs do that?

Also, I don't know specifically about that country, but outside
Western Europe, accidental death is much more accepted as a fact of life.
Canada? Australia?

Oh, for goodness sake, you're sounding like a pompous council official
now !
David's very sort of, well legalistic, isn't he? David, are you a minor
local government official?

Bill

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:37:04 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:

Strangely, I didn't observe dead charred bodies clinging to the busbars.

To valuable as a source of meat for Tesco burgers and Findus ready meals
to be left on the bus-bars for long.
Funny you should say that, a supermarket I went into there was selling
slightly out of date Tescos stock.

They'll have some new stock in next week then.

Seriously, what *does* happen to the reported 10 million burgers that
have been taken off the shelves?
When my dad worked on the council and a supermarket freezer packed up he
was entrusted with taking the 'spoilt' food to the tip. He used to bring
it home and we ate it.

Bill

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:37:04 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:
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Seriously, what *does* happen to the reported 10 million burgers that
have been taken off the shelves?

They are being incinerated at a power station.
Bloody waste.

Steve Terry
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Amazing how OT we go.
What I can't understand is why this horse and pork meat in beef testing and
withdrawal is limited to frozen products.
Regards
David

On 11/02/2013 02:15, Bill Wright wrote:
wrote:

http://www.teleramics.com/main/signage.html

So it's OK to throw potatoes or turnips?

Yes probably due to the fact that wanging vegetables wouldn't damage
the insulators as much as stones.
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Phil Cook

On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 07:43:35 -0000, "David Park"
wrote:

Amazing how OT we go.
What I can't understand is why this horse and pork meat in beef testing and
withdrawal is limited to frozen products.
Regards
David

I think this may be more to do with the physical form of the meat in the
end product. The frozen products concerned have meat in ground-up/minced
form. If horse meat is the same colour as beef that must make it very
difficult or impossible to tell what type of animal the meat comes from
just by looking. Meat on-the-bone, a joint, would be much more easily
distinguished.

It seems that the meat is removed from the bone and cut into pieces at
the earliest point in the supply chain so that by the time it gets to a
Findus factory, or wherever, it is a heap of unrecognisable boneless
"chunks".

I've just heard on Radio 2 that the reason horesemeat is likely to have
come from Romania is that the government there has banned the use of
horses on the roads. Result - lots of surplus horses being sold.

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Peter Duncanson
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On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 05:31:27 -0000, "Steve Terry"
wrote:

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 14:37:04 +0000, Mark Carver
wrote:
snip
Seriously, what *does* happen to the reported 10 million burgers that
have been taken off the shelves?

They are being incinerated at a power station.
Bloody waste.

The problem is that if the meat has been fraudulently introduced into
the supply chain there is not certainty that it is fit to eat. It may
not have been subject to the normal inspection processes. Supermarkets
and other retailers just can't take the risk.

If a supermarket did try to sell the dodgy items they would need to
alter the wording on the packaging to make it clear that the meat might
not be what the makers have claimed. That would raise enormous
complications regarding legal responsibility.


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Peter Duncanson
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