XPost: comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: lars@beagle-ears.com   
      
   On 2025-12-11, Daniel James  wrote:   
   > On 11/12/2025 04:12, c186282 wrote:   
   >> ... they just run lots of pipes on the outsides of the thick stone   
   >> walls. Works, but you'd never get away with that in modern   
   >> commercial buildings. Things have to look all neat and tidy.   
   >   
   > Have you SEEN the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris?   
   >   
   > ... or the Lloyds Insurance building in London, for that matter.   
      
   I seem to remember hearing that there was an English building code that   
   REQUIRED outside pipes for water (and sewage?) so that they could be   
   easily thawed with a blowtorch when they froze in the winter?   
      
   --   
   Lars Poulsen - an old geek in Santa Barbara, California   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)