The Off Topic Topic

[Grey Fox]

It's easy to build in places that the ground barely freezes.

[Josquius]

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What's amazing about that photo is despite the complex build the pavement is entirely flat, if it were in the UK there's be bricks edges sticking up or holes and no end of other trip hazards.

And for good measure a cable company would have dug right across it and filled in the trench with blacktarmac instead.

It's unusual to see paving stones on the continent. More usually it's tarmac, which works much better.
I've often wondered if this is another example of British penny wise pound foolishness. Saving the utility companies potential cash whilst creating worse paths that cause other people problems.

Or is there some weather reason we go with flags.

[Zanza]

It's unusual to see paving stones on the continent. More usually it's tarmac, which works much better.

[Syt]

Yeah, not sure what he's on about. I don't recall seeing tarmac pedestrian areas. Sidewalks, yes, but depending on twon/city, it's often more a 50/50 mix of paved sidewalks and ones using stones, bricks, etc.

[Josquius]

Yeah, not sure what he's on about. I don't recall seeing tarmac pedestrian areas. Sidewalks, yes, but depending on twon/city, it's often more a 50/50 mix of paved sidewalks and ones using stones, bricks, etc.

If not pavements then what?

[Syt]

Yeah, not sure what he's on about. I don't recall seeing tarmac pedestrian areas. Sidewalks, yes, but depending on twon/city, it's often more a 50/50 mix of paved sidewalks and ones using stones, bricks, etc.

If not pavements then what?

When you say tarmac/pavement, I think this:



When all pedestrian zones in German or Austrian cities I've ever seen are this:

[Josquius]

I was thinking more of general pavements in inconsequential areas than pedestrianised shopping streets, where yes things tend to be fancy in some form or other..

Though quickly checking random spots on street view it does seem Germany is more towards the British style of paving vs Switzerland and France dominating tarmac.

[Syt]

P.S.: Sometimes you might still see cobblestone pedestrian zones, but they're disappearing in favor of paving stones.

[Syt]

I was thinking more of general pavements in inconsequential areas than pedestrianised shopping streets, where yes things tend to be fancy in some form or other.

Yeah, as mentioned above, they will often be pavement, but you also commonly find stones, concrete tiles, bricks, etc. Depends on the town, area of town, etc. In my old home town where I grew up it was probably 50-60% pavement vs. 40-50% stones, bricks etc.

[The Larch]

It's easy to build in places that the ground barely freezes.

Maybe people shouldn't live in that kind of places. 

[The Larch]

It's unusual to see paving stones on the continent. More usually it's tarmac, which works much better.

Double

Jos, do you ever think before saying this kind of stuff?

[grumbler]

Another mass shooting in the US.  Employee about to get fired shoots up a bank in Louisville KY, killing four and wounding nine.  Gunman killed by the responding cops.

CNN

'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

[HVC]

It's easy to build in places that the ground barely freezes.

Maybe people shouldn't live in that kind of places. 

You ready for 33 million Canadian refuges? bc citizens get to stay where they are.

[The Larch]

It's easy to build in places that the ground barely freezes.

Maybe people shouldn't live in that kind of places. 

You ready for 33 million Canadian refuges? bc citizens get to stay where they are.

You can move south, the US has plenty of non-frozen real estate. 

I assume you guys will be very polite about it.

[HVC]

You kidding? Out of the freezer and into the firing range?