[Closed] What is it with this forums lefties?

Ernie, I can hear the Merlins from here....

*Goosebumps*

A left wing fighter (right wing featured in this photo, however):
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Cant fail to see the left wing in this photo but it's the right wing getting all the attention but it's not News International its a stringbag
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Leftie car
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Do you need a right wing at all?

Polikarpovtastic

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Mountain biking underpass an' shiz.

That is ****ing amazing Kunstler !

EDIT : I just it seen again - that landing ain't real 😕

Second footy ground looks like Accrington Stanley, no idea of the first one though, guessing it could be a scottish team with that sort of crowd.

My lot sent Oxford down when Accrington got back in the league, complete reversal of fortunes I believe from about 1963

Spot on TT, second pic is the Fraser Eagle Stadium in Accy.
Nice ground, good atmosphere.

And the first ground is indeed in Scotland.
Here's a clue - you could get there on your 'Bad Motor Scooter', oh yeah.

hamishthecat - Member

Polikarpovtastic

Innit?
They always remind me of the US GeeBee racers, all engine, not much else.
Did much better than expected against the Axis though. HOW brave must the pilots have been to take on much more modern aircraft in one of those?

I believe they were actually replaced in service in some theatres by these:
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Here's a clue - you could get there on your 'Bad Motor Scooter', oh yeah.

That'll be:

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What an album cover.

Ernie - sorry you had the magic ruined. I felt the same way when I watched Tamara Drewe.

oh i do like a good concrete thread!

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fantastic stuff.

Check out the sky blue wafters on Sammy Hagar 😀 :

Actually, that's not my favourite album cover. I've always appreciated the subtle depictions of human warmth.

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Aw, that's nice - dad taking his daughter out for a birthday drink.
How thoughtful.

I've always liked this one - such nice, clean boys:
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I'd post the album cover of Millie Jackson sat on the bog, but I don't want to get banned just yet....

ahwiles - Member
oh i do like a good concrete thread!

fantastic stuff.

Concrete looks soooo much better in black and white than colour!

It doesn't happen often but TJ is wrong!!

There was always meant to be an office structure or development there. There are other M8 junctions and flyovers that were never completed though. Eg the Junction to Bishopbriggs, Inner Glasgow ring road down high street to gorbals...I could go on but you'd get bored.

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It doesn't always go to plan on the motorway.
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Or the velodrome.
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I've been trying to find some info over the last couple of days about a housing development I remember from Cheetham Hill in the 70's.

Memory plays odd tricks and I thought the place had been called the Queen Elizabeth or Queen Mary flats.
However, it appears to have been this place, Kennet House, which was built in 1933 (one of the first in the country?) and demolished in 1978:
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Think these may be from an architects model:
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You can really tell the difference between this and the later brutalist stuff, far more 'Art Deco' type touches.

I remember being shown this place just as it was being demolished.
My parents told me that it had been designed to look like a ship from ground level, and even though it was in a bit of a state, I remember it being quite spectacular - certainly nicer than Collyhurst, Monsal or 'Fort Ardwick'.

Although it would appear to be a pretty important building I can only find a few references to it on the net.

A thread about the place on Aidan O'Rourke's old site [url= http://www.aidan.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=21 ]here[/url].

Anyone remember the place, or better still have some more photo's?

Whilst looking, I've also come across these sites, some of you might like: 😀
[url= http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=501265 ]Skyscraper City's [/url]thread on Britain (the Manchester stuff starts about page 79, I think!).

[url= http://www.manchestermodernistsociety.org/ ]The Manchester Modernist Society. [/url]

Anyway.
Back on topic............this is what happens when you list dangerously to the left - or [i]"port side"[/i] as they would have us call it.

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Er, Ernie, isn't that the front of the canoe, or 'Pointy End' as I believe it's called in the trade?
So it's actually leaning to the right?

That's your suppressed subconscious fascist tendencies coming out right there, that is.

Anyway.
Back on topic............

interesting cbike - I could have sworn I was right but a quick google explained it. It sure looked like a roadway and was empty for 20+ years. Every day is a school day

Er, Ernie, isn't that the front ......

WTF...... I think you're right 😯 Good grief, I can't tell my arse from my elbow concerning nautical issues 😕 I'm sitting here philosophising on aquatic contentions which I clearly know nothing about. Oh the humiliation of being an incurable landlubber 😐

......having said that, I know a badly parked boat when I see one

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I suppose one of the most influential left wingers in my life was Steve Heighway. I'd choose him over Wes for a pint in the pub any day.

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I give you the Southgate estate Runcorn, knocked down about 20 years ago, only saw it once shortly before it was demolished but could see it should have been great. These estates were ruined by bad building work and social policies that stuck all the dregs together. Now living in Germany I find apartment living fine.

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Just been reading the Zappa thread and retreated here for comfort

More on lefty construction methods

pretty good picture of a flyover in Cuba over its only motorway. One day they hope to get the train onto it.
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which might be about the time they are able to afford mechanical mowing of the roadside verges
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Boy could Fidel do with a swift dose of Cameron and Osborne to get that country kicking