What's so great about Old Buildings?

[pablo42]

More or less silly than your grammar? We all make mistakes when posting to forums but you seem to be turning it into an art form.

now now Kevin...

These two guys get so personal, it's only a matter of opinion. I thought they were two cantankerous old guys, but I don't think they are. Funny.

[kevin]

now now Kevin...

These two guys get so personal, it's only a matter of opinion. I thought they were two cantankerous old guys, but I don't think they are. Funny.

He started it Miss!

[pablo42]

He started it Miss!

We had a saying in the Army, don't mess with the snipers. I was a sniper.

Just have patience, they'll bob their head up...

[kevin]

We had a saying in the Army, don't mess with the snipers. I was a sniper.

Just have patience, they'll bob their head up...

I'd have been a good sniper - I've endless patience in waiting for the opportune moment for payback!

[pablo42]

I'd have been a good sniper - I've endless patience in waiting for the opportune moment for payback!

Ha, life's too short Kevin. I stopped paying back when I was a boy. I'm a great believer in what goes around comes around. People get paid back from the most unlikliest places. If you do someone harm, someone else will do you harm. That's my creed. It generally works for me, cept for the lottery.

[Spike]

I still think they are HORRIBLE, that just my opinion though.

[kevin]

Ha, life's too short Kevin. I stopped paying back when I was a boy. I'm a great believer in what goes around comes around. People get paid back from the most unlikliest places. If you do someone harm, someone else will do you harm. That's my creed. It generally works for me, cept for the lottery.

Depends. I can let an ENORMOUS amount go and it's rather hard to upset me - you really have to work at it. But once I do get wound up there's not much I won't do - angry as much because they've managed to upset me rather than because of what they've done.

Example - which I might have mentioned before. A builder working on the next house damaged part of my roof and it was letting a little water in. After 12 months of complaints he'd done nothing about it. Found out he lived on an estate about two miles away. Printed off two hundred posters with the heading (name changed):

John Williams - builder, roofer, plasterer and part-time John Wayne impersonator (cowboy). Then gave details about my gripe.

Went round at 6.00am on a Sunday morning and pasted an A3 version of the poster across his works van, and dropped A4 versions through all 200 letterboxes on his estate. By 9.00 he was banging on my door threatening me - ended up with him locking himself in his van!
By 9.00am on the Monday he had two men around to finally repair the damage.

The story isn't really relevant to this thread, except as an example of how long it takes to upset me.

Not likely to happen on a forum though - just enjoy sniping occasionally.

[pablo42]

Depends. I can let an ENORMOUS amount go and it's rather hard to upset me - you really have to work at it. But once I do get wound up there's not much I won't do - angry as much because they've managed to upset me rather than because of what they've done.

Example - which I might have mentioned before. A builder working on the next house damaged part of my roof and it was letting a little water in. After 12 months of complaints he'd done nothing about it. Found out he lived on an estate about two miles away. Printed off two hundred posters with the heading (name changed):

John Williams - builder, roofer, plasterer and part-time John Wayne impersonator (cowboy). Then gave details about my gripe.

Went round at 6.00am on a Sunday morning and pasted an A3 version of the poster across his works van, and dropped A4 versions through all 200 letterboxes on his estate. By 9.00 he was banging on my door threatening me - ended up with him locking himself in his van!
By 9.00am on the Monday he had two men around to finally repair the damage.

The story isn't really relevant to this thread, except as an example of how long it takes to upset me.

Not likely to happen on a forum though - just enjoy sniping occasionally.

Ha, love it Kevin. Magic.

[pablo42]

I still think they are HORRIBLE, that just my opinion though.

Spike, just think of your namesake. I think that's funny.

[Waterways]

Now I think that's a great building.

The Matalan people, a Liverpool company, were to build the Brunswick Quay Tower. It would have been built by now, before the CC. The governments chief architect commended it.

If built it would have been a catalyst for buildings around the south docks, and attracted high quality buildings. It had the reverse effect. many top developers avoid Liverpool because of it. The developers were taken through the hoops for years, which costs, and got nothing in the end. Developers do not like argumentative, difficult councils.

Now the council have said they will approve tall buildings in the south docks. The developers still own the land, which is vacant and idle. They may be waiting for a Labour council and resubmit with slight amendments. The Lib-Dems turned it down, so will always reject anything similar to save face. The developers were talking of excavating parts of Toxteth Dock and realligning the quays to expand the developments. Water attracts people, something which Peel can't understand.

[pablo42]

I never knew anyhting of that WW. Thanks.

[kevin]

Spike, just think of your namesake. I think that's funny.

I'm still trying to make sense of Partsky's post:

'I was brought up in Fazakerley, over the road from the Spike',

Do those two know each other?
:rolleyes

[pablo42]

I'm still trying to make sense of Partsky's post:

'I was brought up in Fazakerley, over the road from the Spike',

Do those two know each other?
:rolleyes

I thought it was a place. Maybe it is Spike. But why would you admit you know him.



Just kiddin' Spike.

[Waterways]

This design for Brunswick Tower is typical of his borrowed and simplistic 'one idea' approach (coo, it looks like a wind surfer - how appropriate! - it's by a river you know) and adds nothing to the immediate surroundings (the effect on the immediate micro-climate would have been disastrous and the landscaping is monstrous) or the immediate neighbourhood. Also, it would have nailed forever the Brunswick Dock gates.

That is absolute nonsense!!! Go to the link on the tower I gave and the governments chief architect's report is there commending it. The site was ideal, where the Liverpool escarpment tails away, and at a bend in the river. Perfect location for an iconic tower, which he highlighted. The building would not be fat as the site is not that big.

I have seen the plans. The building was to look like a sail - Liverpool does have a maritime history, and this was one of the few buildings ever built in the city which reflected the maritime heritage.

You have attempted to discredit Simpson. He got to the semi-finals of the World Trade Centre replacement. He is a world-renowned architect. And he was educated in Liverpool, so local connections.

The Brunswick Quay Tower was an iconic design and when these proposals come up you do not reject them - especially a poor city like Liverpool.

[Waterways]

More or less silly than your grammar? We all make mistakes when posting to forums but you seem to be turning it into an art form.

I do have the knack.