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[@opperdan]

Water towers are used to create water pressure in the mains going into each house. The weight of the water wanting to fall from the tower pressurizes all the neighborhood pipes and allows every home to receive pressurized water for taps and showers.

[@pokeygorilla9368]

was going to say something like that, but you nailed it perfectly, that's exactly what they're for, I'd just add its a way to store energy, you pump water into the tower, later the energy can be used when needed.

[@glumboy4229]

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[@richiestang78]

Nailed it, and its done because its more efficient to use a pump/pumps to keep a water tower full rather then a pump to keep pressure on a whole towns mains.

[@marquis8787]

And for if there is a power outage water still runs without help from the pump

[@vonn4017]

water wants to fall. there goes the theory of gravity

[@kaotekkowbell4324]

Yellow is considered one of the clearest colors to see in poor weather conditions. The stark black against the yellow only increases visibility. Also most of our street signs are Yellow, Red, White or Green because these are considered the most visible colors from a distance. Lines, words on the roads are typically Yellow or White as well for the same reason.

[@chrisnorden8043]

To add to the black stripes/metal, they actually have meaning for first responders. The three black bands from the bottom up indicate the floor level, the seat level, and the bottom of the window.

[@liamengram6326]

Iridescent blue as well (hospital signs)

[@TaftisBack]

The green base for signs is used because of the brain's likelihood to glaze over it; you want the inf9rmation on the sign to "pop". The iridescent blue is used for the opposite purpose; you want emergency route postings and hospital signs themselves to "pop" out from the standards.

[@lasagnasux4934]

Yellow is also the ugliest of all colors and is thus the easiest to notice.

[@kevinprzy4539]

@@lasagnasux4934 the ugliest color is drab dark brown

[@johanna0131]

Before I saw this video, I honestly had no idea they didn’t have fire hydrants like ours in other parts of the world. It’s against the law to park in front of one. If you do and there’s a fire, it’s perfectly legal for firefighters to push your car out of the way with their fire engine or break out your windows so they can get the hose through to the hydrant.

[@LJBSullivan]

Also if you live where there's one on your property in minnesota you better get out there and shovel it out in winter.

[@johanna0131]

@@LJBSullivan 😂 sounds like you’re speaking from experience. I don’t even want to think about how cold it can get in Minnesota. ❄️

[@stellaandes9622]

My dad worked for the post office. He was called a mailman, but his actual title was letter carrier. He delivered mail on Route 2 and had a 2 on his cap. I asked him when he would get a 1 because he was the greatest and deserved to be called number one. I will tell you some time about his delivering mail one time in a gold Cadillac with a chauffeur named Cecil.

[@mattyk2676]

I’m a city letter carrier in the Midwest. Route number 40. 😊

[@hazepheno925]

Typically in the US you only have a Mailbox "metal tube" if you have a Driveway. Apartments, condoes, townhouses, in most cases utilize locked mailboxes located in one area where all residents can access their Post/Mail. Though UPS and FEDEX type services often leave packages at peoples doors in these situations and not at the 'locked mailbox hub". Unless a UPS/Fedex/Amazon package can fit in your Metal Tube, they will walk to your door and leave the package. Back in the day, when you might have to go a mile down a dirt road to get to many peoples houses, a Mailbox at the end of a driveway makes perfect sense. The amount of time it saves the Postman is enormous in more Rural areas.

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

There are all sorts in my area with is rural, farmtown Minnesota population about 3,500. I live in the country, woods behind my house down to a creekbed to the west, field across the road to the east. My mailbox is where the road because driveway (I live on a dead-end so the road kinda just dissolves when it gets to my property). But then in town, there's mailboxes at the end of driveways on street, it's usually newer homes that have a longer driveway, and do NOT have a separate like walkway up to the front door from the sidewalk. In fact there's not usually a sidewalk at all when it's like that. If there is, it's an older part of town and there's that walkway up to the front stoop, and usually there's like a letter box thing hanging right on the side of the house, like you can reach out the front door and grab your mail without having to put shoes on. Suffice it to say, it's all different ways here. In a little town like mine it's done every way. The letter slot in the door doesn't work here though, it's just too cold outside in the winter it would be impractical to have a hole like that.

[@ryandean3162]

Water towers are for water pressure using gravity. You can pump it full with a pretty simple small pump and provide a lot of water at pressure for peak use times which would otherwise require a large pump or multiple pumps to keep up with demand. It's sort of like a rechargeable battery but for water pressure. Think of something like a power plant, it has a maximum output, but the load required by the local town it's servicing might be several times higher than that output at peak times, so you have a big battery that the plant charges up during off times with enough power storage to handle the excess, and then the town can run off the battery.

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

They're extremely simple. I don't understand why we haven't used the similar physics concept with wind turbines. Because during peak energy usage there's usually no wind. When it's absurdly cold or ridiculously hot, the wind doesn't blow. Idk why we don't have a wind tower lift a weight or something like that and then lower in during peak hours or when there's no wind.

[@ryandean3162]

@@djjazzyjeff1232 We do. Solar too. They both are always paired with large battery banks. Same concept. Also more efficient than using a weight, because you have to convert mechanical energy to electrical energy back to mechanical energy to power whatever raises the weight, and then convert the weight's new potential energy into electrical again when you want to use it, which has an extra step or two compared to mechanical/kinetic->electrical->chemical potential->electrical.

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

@@ryandean3162 Really? I’ve never heard of that. One of the biggest gripes I’ve heard, mostly from my good friend’s father who has worked at the energy company for 20+ years is that you have to have equally as much fossil fuel capability as your green energy because when it’s peak use, often times, the sun doesn’t shine and the wind doesn’t blow. It makes sense, I’ve just never seen it. I bring up the weight thing because the major advantage to nuclear aside from how dense the energy is in the isotopes used, is that it’s inside, protected, and no matter what the conditions outside, you can create clean energy. I was just sort of thinking out loud about how to solve that part of the problem.

[@laudanum669]

Anyone who passed thru Tennessee in the 70's-80's could see 100's of Billboards for "See Ruby Falls". They were everywhere and on everything.

[@fayebell4716]

When we go camping in Missouri they have Meramec Caverns (pretty much a tourist trap for a huge cave), we laugh at how many billboards they have. We count every time, last summer it was over 60 within an hour and a half drive lol. The last one always says "You missed us, turn on back" with a huge u turn sign.

[@Wiley_Coyote]

So quaint seeing Laurence complaining eight days into the initial quarantine feeling too housebound. 😃

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

14 days to flatten the curve bro.

[@YetiUprising]

12:46 My dad used to have a paper route. I thought it was the coolest thing as a kid if I got to go along too. The back of the car would be full of papers and waking up at 3AM to deliver them felt like I was breaking the rules being outside "past bedtime".

[@deepcoder1845]

For non-American visitors it is a felony here to not only steal mail from a box but to vandalize it. We take our mail serious but i am sure that will not stop a crackhead that has nothing to lose... ; ))

[@WaitWhoWhat]

Porch pirates are a thing because they rarely get caught v.v

[@ms_scribbles]

@@WaitWhoWhat Also, I'm pretty sure it's because packages from UPS, FedEx, Amazon, etc. are not considered mail since they didn't get delivered by the USPS, and so isn't a felony to steal.

[@glenndahlgren2572]

While visiting England several years ago I noticed that the phone kiosk in the village of Westleton in east Suffolk had removed the phone and installed a heart defibrillator in its place. While in the US Air Force I was stationed at RAF Bentwaters near Woodbridge Suffolk. After 45 years it was great revisiting my old haunts!

[@melissabill1640]

Water towers (having a pressure head due to their elevation) are used to add pressure to water supply pipelines when needed (when a pipe breaks for example and the water pressure drops), and provide a backup for fire fighters when they draw too much water from the pipes while fighting fires, also dropping the water pressure. The fire fighters connect to the pipelines at the fire hydrants, which are installed next to a buried valve on the pipe. They connect with a fire hose and open the valve to let the pressurized water flow through the hose. Every city and town with public water supply pipelines has these features. I know all about this crap from being a civil engineer working for a public water commission.

[@Jacksonj1980]

I dont really know definitively why the implementation of streetside mailboxes but in would guess is because it expedites delivery since they can just pull up and put in without ever leaving vehicle. Also lessens chance of mail person having to deal with unruly, excitable, or aggressive pets.

[@kila4]

A not PC joke/insult, is to ask someone, when they’ve said something stupid, “did you ride the short bus to school”. Because there are shorter yellow school buses that would pick up the special needs kids and transport them.

[@DaSoda70]

A couple of other kids and I rode the shortbus home because it was the only one that went by our houses in the middle of nowhere in the afternoon. Needless to say, I got my drivers license ASAP.

[@kila4]

@@DaSoda70 had you ever heard the short bus “joke”?

[@DaSoda70]

@@kila4 Ha, yeah. Even my family made fun of me for it. Just more reason to be legally allowed to drive.

[@elischultes6587]

Water tanks are used to pressure the water. It’s just head pressure. It also acts like a surge tank. In NewYork City lots of apartments have their buildings. They get enough volume in a day but when everyone takes a shower in the morning they would run short of pressure and volume. Smaller towns water wells might run at 15 gallons an hour and at times they need 30. The tanks fill overnight in low usage times.

[@betsyduane3461]

Clean, treated water is pumped up into the tower, where it's stored in a large tank that might hold a million or so gallons-enough water to run that particular city for a day.

[@liamengram6326]

8:55 Old ones are used a lot as commuter buses in Central and South America. Spent a summer semester in Asuncion, Paraguay during college to do research in the Amazon with one of my professors and we got around mostly by school buses that had probably been retired before I was even in Kindergarten.

[@chronogamer7901]

I'm not an engineer, but my basic understanding of water towers is that they just provide pressure in the water pipes. This is why they are very high above the ground, because they have to be elevated above any of the locations that they are servicing.

[@lleah29]

Mesh fences is perhaps the classiest way I’ve heard to say chain link

[@tomfrazier1103]

...or hurricane.

[@SE-gs6gd]

All school buses are that color because yellow is easiest for the eye to pick up so drivers can see them better.

[@larryfontenot9018]

Water towers are used to store extra water to supplement flow through the community pipes when the normal supply doesn't meet the demand during peak usage hours. They are refilled when the demand drops -- at night, for example. The reason they are towers is because when being drawn upon, they use gravity to feed the water pipes. A large capacity electric pump is typically used to refill them. Most towns have one or two. Mine has four.

[@Heavenzvoice]

In Washington DC because people were always running into school buses or pedestrians were walking in front of them, they decided to now color the tops of the buses white and line the top with flashing lights. A commenter wrote in and said, “great that’s all I need , a moving disco platform barreling down on me!” I laughed about that for days. I imagined some old crotchety person at home writing that comment.

[@DR-mq1vn]

Why do people think that School Buses aren't real? This always cracks me up! Yes, we have Yellow School Buses. It's not a big deal to us at all.

[@okienative4785]

Water towers are, mainly, to pressurize the system so the water flows. Gravity fed as it were.

[@Blondie42]

The kindergarten company I worked for in China uses a yellow school bus, a very tiny one, to pick up/drop off some of the kids who attended our schools. Larger schools also use them, too

[@GroinStrain_]

For every highway billboard in America that says “advertise here”, you get the same thing on placards on roundabouts in the UK saying the same thing “advertise here call this number”

[@TLL1969]

They even used to be a fun novelty when traveling...a la "Burma Shave". :)

[@joanhuffman2166]

Water towers are used to keep the water pressure up. I'm sure they use pumps to get the water up there. Now I'm wondering how the UK does this.

[@xdarockstar2560]

In California where I live we don't have a mailbox in front of our yard there's a mailbox will all the mailboxes are boxes and they're locked and you have a key and it's usually half a block away unless you live right in front of the box and if you were sending mail you stick it in a box that says sending so you don't need to have a little flag up

[@elischultes6587]

I sometimes see a 9’x 15’ flag on a 45’ flag pole in front of a chain restaurant. Most often USA and Canadian flags.

[@krayzy932]

There's a 40' x 80' flag at a Camping World not too far from me.

[@lane6866]

As an American, some of these might exist in other places as well, but I would think of iconic UK things as thatch chocolate box houses, hedgerows, chalk drawings in hillsides, red buses and phone boxes, in the same vein with probably not as many around anymore, the Tardis blue police boxes. Also, the blue and yellow police cars as well as police hats and helmets with the black and white checks, dead bodies on idyllic beaches (I think I might be betraying a lot about my tv viewing habits at this point).

[@bryonensminger7462]

The water is pumped up into the towers through one pipe and then drains through another pipe and it is used to help keep pressure in the system , as well as supplying water into the system then the weight of the water in the tower puts down force and through that pressure

[@T-Dawg123a]

The water pumps into a water tower at a constant slow rate but can leave it at different rates and at different times as needed by a town. The towers are a specific height so gravity pressurizes the output water just right. they also have a super wide coverage area due to the siphon effect, so they're generally built on high hills to reduce the size that the tower needs to be. also putting them in the middle of nowhere is often because the land was cheap there. additionally the tank is oversized so if the pump fails it can be swapped out and not effect water availability and so fire trucks can have enough water to put out a fire.

[@CaptainHightop]

Water towers aren't for water storage, they are used to maintain pressure in the water system. The weight of the water in the tower uses gravity to keep pressure in the pipes over long distances or on a positive grade.

[@blakerh]

I always liked seeing old barns with chewing tobacco ads painted on them. I think the one I used to see was Mail Pouch?

[@dennythomas8887]

One thing I saw on vacation in Britain that we don't have here in America are Castles!

[@carladavis1473]

I grew up with a mail slot in my door and that was the norm but they changed to make it more convenient and easier for the mail carriers.

[@brettpenning]

3:49 Elkhart!! That tower is about 30 mins from where I am 🤣

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

A WATER TOWER IN NEARBY BEACH TOWN WAS CONVERTED INTO A HOME...AWESOME!!!👍👍👍

[@scrambler69-xk3kv]

They are filled during the nighttime low demand hours, then during the day during high demand hours they fill the need, because in many areas the pumps from the local water authority cannot keep up with demand.

[@anneboban2002]

We call them mailmen and mail-women. Not all places have fire hydrants. Where I live they rely on the volunteer fire department. If there is a fire, trucks come from the neighboring communities, too. I have wind chimes on a post in the garden. Our fleas have tiny flags, lol. We pronounce it pay triotic.

[@xdizzle0460]

My old house in chicago just had a a slit with a flap next to the door for mail going to a box built into the brick wall for mail. The entire neighborhood was like that. Now i just have a mail box at the end of my driveway.

[@JakeBourne13]

I live in Iowa and I have an uncle who lived in Washington so we would drive out to visit every other summer. The views are wonderful going out west but most memorable are the Walldrug billboards. Sometimes its the little things in life… like cheesy billboards lol

[@garyevans3421]

It’s always against the law to park next to a fire hydrant. Y’all would get a laugh to see a still photo of a car with its windows broke out and big hoses ran through it and hooked up to the hydrant!

[@ReagonL0L]

Hi blokes, long time viewer and patreon here. Water towers exist as an expansion tank primarily, and as reserve water pressure should there be power failures with pumps secondarily. Since liquids cannot compress like a gas would flowing in pipes, when valves are slammed shut, the shock of the backpressure would turn the infrastructure into well... pipe bombs. Having a tower and expansion chamber for the pressure to go into prevents this. This fact also powers something INCREDIBLY cool called a "Ram Pump" -- I'd love to see you guys react to how a ram pump works, there are tons of informative videos, as well has IRL builds. Cheers,

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

That's not entirely right. It's pumped in slowly over the course of time, then it can make it so that every tap will have pressure even when opened at the same time, as usage increases substantially as people get home from work vs midday when there's not much usage at all. It's really an ingenious solution, as gravity and a large hopper does this better than any pump system ever could and WAY more efficiently.

[@ReagonL0L]

@@djjazzyjeff1232 true but these are benefits of the necessary expansion area for water hammering effects

[@BenRollinsActor]

I fly an American flag from an 18-foot pole in my front yard.

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

Daz talking about the flag thing is INSANE to me as an American. That would never fly here (excuse the pun). I know there are HOA organizations that have rules about stuff like that, like you can have a flag or whatever but only so big, and some dude wanted to fly a MASSIVE one, they made him take it down as he agreed to it in some paperwork to live where he does, so instead he painted his entire front lawn as an American flag instead lol. That's just the way Americans are. I think it's a holdover from long ago, the country was founded on telling people like that to go piss up a rope.

[@lori6115]

Some places are a no fly zone! (is this a pun?)_ some places you cant even have a pot of flowers on your porch!!Sorry, I'm a gardener, and that is more offensive to me!

[@djjazzyjeff1232]

@KZbin Sucks Oh I agree with you 100%. I'm not saying they're good, plus I live in the country, outside of city limits, a cornfield on one side and a ravine with woods on the other. I can do whatever I like. Shoot guns, blow shit up. Massive party. You name it. I can, (and probably have) done it.

[@DJMoore82]

I have a hard time understanding Mike sometimes when he is speaking. I live in NC, and I’d like to think that I speak fairly proper compared to many people I know. And yet I feel so embarrassed that sometimes I get lost in his speech. Anyway, I love your content!! All of you guys are great. Hilarious. I really enjoy watching, and laugh with you often. Peace guys!! ✌🏼✌🏼

[@Paperrockmoon]

The picture of the billboard is at Heritage Station in Calgary Alberta Canada.

[@justinredacted3358]

In my state Vermont which is the 14th state of the USA. We have a ban on billboards on highways and interstate highways, so where billboards are will differ from state to state. Another interesting thing is that in Vermont we don't have any three lane highways.

[@imme6954]

Wish they were banned outside of cities here in Utah.

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

1.4K Thumbs Up + Mine! 👍. Thanks for the fun, funny, and informative, digital video recording! Keep up the good work! 🎬😎🖖✌️👍

[@Seattleguy527]

I think Dave sets an alarm for the middle of the night so he can wake up and press the pause button.

[@laudanum669]

@Office Blokes React You were talking about a water tower converted to a house. You should check out some of the abandoned Missile silos in the USA that have been turned into homes. It's quite interesting what is left behind by the Government.

[@Miesque1973]

In the South, or at least in Texas, fire hydrants are called fire ("fahr") plugs. :)

[@JJJRRRJJJ]

That Elkhart water tower is a few miles from my house lol

[@kensteel9872]

Love you guys

[@jemmajames6719]

I think fire hydrants underground make more sense for us in the UK, we just don’t have the room for them all above ground. I put flags up for various occasions in the UK no one is going to stop me.

[@Heavenzvoice]

To this day when I see a water tower it remind me of my childhood. They were so fascinating and I thought they held all the water supply for the city.

[@diggity1039]

I've been inside a water tower before, when I was a tower climber we were 4G cell antennas with 5G cell antennas.

[@maribelru2011]

Love “across the pond!”

[@terryomalley1974]

As much as I live Laurence's videos, I have to say he got one thing wrong in this one. The yellow school busses are just as common in Canada as in the US.

[@user-yi7td2sq9b]

Yeah, I imagine most of his videos could pertain to the entirety of the N. American continent

[@TimSmith-uc4pk]

There are some cities and counties here in Fla that have ordinances against curb side mail boxes

[@MikeB12800]

Water towers provide pressure for all the water in the town. The water is pumped up them. They are higher then all the commercial and residential buildings. NYC has them on top of the buildings to provide water with pressure for the building. I’m about 20 minutes outside Queens.

[@alyssaroberts3537]

Check the net for the Gaffney South Carolina, peach watertower.

[@spicymeatball3563]

stealing from my mailbox would result in a severe, life changing response.

[@brandonaston2261]

We have a billboard here that literally says 1-800-(a picture of the spokesperson)-wins Its a billboard for a lawyer who’s number is his name Mike and Wins. Its a commercial that airs so much that if you watch tv you’d know the phone number just by seeing his picture and the Wins part.

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

RURAL HOMES HAVE BOXES AT ROADSIDE. SUBURBS BOX AT DOOR OR IN DOOR. INNER CITY MULTIPLE KEYED MAILBOXES OR PEOPLE USE P.O. BOXES, THEY PAY FOR.🤗🤗

[@zachcarder8681]

What does England have for their water pressure if not water towers???

[@zona999]

The American flag thing is a regional midwest/southern thing mostly. I'm in the Southwest and nobody has an American flag on their house except maybe the 4th of July.

[@pauljones7721]

Alot of the red telephone boxes are now being used to store AEDs. Defibrillators

[@hardtackbeans9790]

Water towers are only to maintain a constant pressure. I would assume the same purpose in the UK. 19:05 We hardly have any telephone boxes at all. The few we have are more like stands. There is no enclosing box at all.

[@justinwebber5313]

I'll be honest, I take them so for granted that I didn't even notice they weren't often there when I spent 9 days in the UK

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

Mark 10:49. 1976 was our Bicentennial year, and at the time, we lived in Oklahoma City's, "Eastland Hills Mobile Home Park", and the lots were seperated by such fences, though we called them, "chain-linked fences". Our younger neighbor, Chris, had a dog bigger than he was. The dog was named, "Buffy", because as a German Shepherd, he lacked black fur. We had another neighbor named, "Roger Mosley", who eventually got killed in a car crash. But before that, he was intimidated by, Buffy. Whenever we walked by the dog, Roger, would say something. Well, one day, Buffy, made it over the fence, and knocked over a very scared, Roger, who wanted to tell like a ninny, but before he could, he began laughing hysterically, because Buffy's very wet tongue was tickling him! It seems that all along, Buffy, just wanted to make friends with us! So he did! The point of this anecdote, is that the guy is wrong about dogs not knowing how to get out! They just need the proper motivation! 🧐

[@kingjames1308]

Its much more efficient to have one pump pump water 60 ft in the air and then let gravity feed all the water to the town than having 100s of pumps that need to pump water to all the houses in the town. =)

[@Thaum1el]

some of these things are in Canada as well. funnily enough my ex snickered at my fascinating of yellow school buses and fire hydrants when I came over.

[@philu3]

Fyi, almost everything you see in the US, you can also find in Canada.. Canada is like the US, but with a British echo (i.e universal healthcare, similar postal code, military organisation, etc)

[@DanielPierce]

Water towers are used to create pressure, instead of every single house needing a water pump, the town has one large pump that pumps water up to the tower and then gravity creates the pressure to deliver water to every house in the town.

[@kila4]

I do not have a mailbox, I have a mail slot on my front door, and the mail just gets pushed through, and drops onto my floor. If I want them to take mail, I put it halfway through the slot, with the stamp showing, and they take it.

[@jefffitzgerald8410]

We have yellow school buses in Canada too. Where I grew up there was no public transportation. As most of Canada and the U.S. do. Or don't?

[@BenLemay77]

Most differences are explained with wide areas to cover and desire for security. A letter box in your door means that someone can access the interior of your home from the exterior for more cautious areas. A mail box by the road saves time to the mail man, and people who do not want visitors do not see people they do not know at their door.

[@lylechipperson3407]

Alot of people are kind of overexplaining how water towers work. This is what they are, A GRAVITY FED SIPHON. To start the siphon, you use small pump systems to slowly fill the tower. Then you open up the outflow, and the volume of water inside creates a siphon that is able to pull water out of the ground faster than it would otherwise. It's a cheaper way to pump water than relying on power at all times. The same physics that makes watertowers work makes people be able to steal gas out of cars, if that makes it any clearer.

[@5stardave]

But it is also used to pressurize the water system. Some areas with hills don't use towers, they have water tanks up on the hills to achieve the same goal.

[@storbokki371]

Water towers provide water pressure really cheap, and are used during peak hours and refilled in off hours.

[@JPMadden]

1) There is at least one state--Vermont--that prohibits large billboards along the highways (motorways). Perhaps because of tourism, you will see many small signs for businesses along secondary roads. 2) Astonishingly, considering how concerned with safety we've become, most yellow buses do not have seatbelts. The federal government has no requirement, and only 6 six states do, although they likely "grandfathered in" all the old buses before the law became effective. 3) My 1950s house has a mailbox by the side door at the top of the driveway. Just 2 blocks away, there are newer houses with front yard mailboxes. Mailboxes affixed to the house seem to be rare for newer suburban houses, perhaps at the request of the U.S. Postal Service. 4) Receiving home delivery of a newspaper (or even reading a newspaper) has declined, but they are typically either thrown onto the driveway or yard, or placed into a second box beside the front yard mailbox. My 80-year-old mother tips the delivery person to place it inside her door, because she uses a walker. 5) I have a long-time neighbor who is a good person, but is an imbecile. One day he erected a small flagpole and for a day or two he hung both the American flag and the Confederate flag. Someone must have told him you shouldn't hang any other flag with the American flag, never mind the battle flag of an enemy army. 6) You were talking about the "Council" taking down UK flags. Every few years there is a story in the U.S. about some uptight Condo or Homeowners' Association, likely in a wealthy or retirement community, that strictly regulates outdoor decorations. Some extra-uptight busybody decides this includes the American flag. Letters are sent telling those with flags to remove them, who are sometimes military veterans or even lawyers. Lawsuits are filed and the busybodies lose. It's so stupid, and these little fascists never learn. 7) Occasionally you will see businesses or individuals flying unnecessarily large flags. I always wonder if they are "red flags" for people I shouldn't trust. As the English writer Samuel Johnson famously said in 1775, "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

[@Dano12345100]

I wrote a pretty good article for my school paper in '82 and I was stalked by principal and superintendent for weeks since they were so angry with me. The bus company owner didn't like my comments about overcrowding and no seatbelts. That was fun!

[@liamengram6326]

New York State doesn't allow them in the Adirondacks. The Adirondack State Park in NY at 6.1 million acres is actually larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, Grand Canyon, and Great Smokies National Parks combined. It is written in to the New York Constitution that they are to remain "forever wild" thus any sort of development in and around the park is strictly regulated. One such regulation is ABSOLUTELY NO LARGE BILLBOARDS.

[@marydavis5234]

It is illegal to have billboards in Vermont and Hawaii.

[@markmorano1516]

Water towers are used to keep water pressure up in city water systems. They are always the highest point of a municipal area. They use gravity so when you open the spicket, the water has pressure. Without them you need pumps which are.much more expensive.

[@gettinrobbed]

Things movies get wrong about hydrants is in the north we have dry barrel hydrants which means u hit a hydrant no water coming out because pipe is below frost line and you would just snap pole to open water main. In the south they don't do this so you are more likely to see water gush when hitting a hydrant.

[@amberhines3979]

I work in subrogation and people hit buses all the time. Every time I get a new file, I ask the same question. HTF do you hit a bus???? I actually saw a black school bus from the Dallas ISD, it looked like a prison bus. Fitting

[@Bozemanjustin]

Office blokes This is hilarious. It is Main's water! Water pressure is determined by the height of the water column. By pumping water from the ground up into a tower, now everyone has good shower pressure at their house. Remember water finds a level. So if a building was taller than that water tower, you wouldn't even get water out of the spigot. That's why that tower has to be bigger than any of the homes or businesses, that it supplies

[@all3nplayzgames577]

Is there a specific legal reason the council comes around and tells you to take it (the British flag) down?

[@Blondie42]

Reading this suddenly makes me wonder if it would only be for the British flag, or if they had the English one on their house would the council still come 'round and demand it be taken down as well. I think, could utterly be wrong, but the Scottish certainly seem to like their flag.

[@jimmiegiboney2473]

Mark 18:43. Those very large ones? If you know the story behind, "The Star-Spangled Banner", then you know the source of inspiration for that new, uh, "tradition"? 🤔. It occurs to me, that the layout of more than a few automobile dealerships, could be fort-like, back when forts were designed like, Fort McHenry. But that's where I see most of those type of huge flags, along the I-35 corridor, is at such businesses. 🤔. 🧐. 🇺🇸

[@vodriscoll]

There are also yellow school buses in Canada.

[@pokeygorilla9368]

Ya sometimes people fuck with mail boxes, but its mostly kids, I remember when I was a teenager one of my friends made a pipe bomb by tearing up fireworks and pouring the powder in a small pipe, he drilled a fuse into it and everything, He then lit it and put it in a person's mail box, like you said, the kind that is way in front of the house. I was there when he did it, I was telling him this sounds like a bad idea, but he had already made it, so he was going to use it. He lit it and we ran like hell, one of the scariest noises I'd ever heard. The cops eventually showed up because I'm sure that scared the shit out of people. At least no one got hurt, and all they had to do is replace the mail box, and they might have lost some letters.

[@tully3711th]

UK fire hydrants have the marker with a H. Two numbers, the top number is how many feet from the marker and the bottom number I’d the size of the water main.

[@jeraldkimball494]

There are some places in America that billboards have been banned because they are considered to be an eye sore.

[@donnamiley6778]

One yall have that I saw on a documentary is the electric boxes. We don't have those.

[@TheMetatron333]

I pronounce it “patriotic.”

[@lissaweers346]

in north Ga you will see sign for see rock city on everything you can think of all the way from Atlanta to Chattanooga

[@avidrdr5640]

The water tanks are filled by pumping water into it as part of the local treated water supply system. Then, gravity feeds the demand.

[@cam121375]

I have a fire hydrant by my house, but the bad thing is it doesn't work, and a lot of them don't, when there was a fire, they had to bring in huge pools of water to use, they haven't worked for a long time, and god over the yrs I lived here there were about 3-4 fires around us...I think they keep them for people to feel safe, or just it would cost a lot to get rid of them!

[@jimmy_wang_]

How long have you lived in West Virginia?

[@diggity1039]

I think every Perkins has a massive flag.

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

WE PUT FLAGS OUT FOR HOLIDAYS: 4TH OF JULY, VETERAN'S DAY, MEMORIAL DAY WHICH ARE "PATRIOTIC". DECORATIVE OR FOOTBALL TEAMS FLAGS ARE MORE COMMON.🇱🇷🇵🇷🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

"GOOD FENCES MAKE FOR GOOD NEIGHBORS" ROBERT FROST👍👍👍👍👍