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# allow me this


It ain't often my home town gets on the news

and nings all
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:26, archived)
# Just saw this on the BBC website.
It's like a large bonfire, apparently.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:43, archived)
# Thats cos Its mainly wooden
The structure should be ok, but everything on top is gonna go
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:44, archived)
#
someone's already said: "It looks as if the pier has collapsed on itself. Nothing is going to be saved."

'fraid it looks like it's ALL gone....
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:45, archived)
# Do you think this has anything to do with the great B3ta fire?
JS is a member of B3ta
JS comes from W-S-M

Shirley not a coincidence!
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:44, archived)
# Nobody saw me do it, you cant prove anything
Insurance job... bet my house on it
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:47, archived)
# Similar thing happened to a pub where I was brought up
Pub was run down for ages and finally derelict but it was a local treasure as The Who used to play there (or played there once - you know how local myth is). Anyway, developers bought it but couldn't do anything with it as all the plans involve knocking it down.

Low and behold, "squatters start a fire" and the whole place goes up. Completely gutted. Now there is a block of flats with balconys looking over the train station, the night club where people keep getting stabbed and the 1960s eyesore of a civic centre. Nice(!).
(I helped save b3ta! Joliet, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:52, archived)
# haha
sounds like a typical council development plan:

council inherits nice old building
council doesn't want to pay for upkeep
council lets it fall into disrepair
council condemns it as dangerous
council knocks it down
council sells land to developers
council votes for payrise for self

(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:06, archived)
# starngley similar to my old neighbours
50 years in their council house, reverts to housing association

Housing association make them move out 'temprarily' to modernise the flat
Housing association decide they can't be bothered to fork out for the work
Housing association rehouse lovely old couple in a shitty flat
Housing association sell flat for a fra\ction of its worth to shonky dodgy landlord
Our ceilings start falling apart
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:08, archived)
# I've seen this happen many times
Nice Old Buildings do cost a lot of money in upkeep, and councils do need to make their money somehow.

It's unfortunate, I really do wish there was a way to redevelop these buildings in a manner that keeps the original character.
(I helped save b3ta! Thinker, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:11, archived)
# They could keep the fucking facades
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:43, archived)
# Council planning committees are full of distant relatives of developers
Planning departments are full of distant relatives of architects
(I helped save b3ta! CanonCaliber A big bore, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:55, archived)
# grrrrrr
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:28, archived)
# Your now-burning house?
(I helped save b3ta! Thinker, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:05, archived)
# nings JS
I didn't know you were from Weston - you seem to have the full complement of fingers and brain
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:46, archived)
# We'll find out he was borrowing someone else's at some point, I'm sure.
(I helped save b3ta! Quijibo Esq. BSc. May contain traces of nuts, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:47, archived)
# We've all the got the full compliment of fingers
some more than others
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:48, archived)
# tahkcalb still up?
(I helped save b3ta! hanke murphy, I'm a mess, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:50, archived)
# Good, I hope the place burns to the ground!
/Sick of Somerset blog
/grumpy Monday blog
/Blog blog
(I helped save b3ta! Victor Meldrew, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 8:53, archived)
# heh
it a-piers to be on fire hyperlulz.

Ning all!

Hope y'all had a good weekend, i did, although was a bit sweaty.
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:11, archived)
# It was terribly warm, wasn't it?
But I've got 4 days of glorious "heavy rain" ahead, according to the BBC.
(I helped save b3ta! Thinker, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:13, archived)
# Yay, that'll be nice.
I'm not really built for sunny weather, come the ice-age i'll be laughing, but that might be a way off.
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:16, archived)
# I bet you're burning fossil fuels at an impressive rate
to bring this Ice Age sooner.
(I helped save b3ta! Thinker, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:19, archived)
# mwa ha ha haaaaa.
trouble is it'll get hotter before it gets colder. Oh well.

*lights the amazon rainforest with napalm
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:21, archived)
# I had to go to Lakeside
just so i was somewhere with air-con
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:21, archived)
# nice,
you from Essex then? My family's from Hornchurch/Romford
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:27, archived)
# somerset born (see above)
but in east London now
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:28, archived)
# Ahh cool
didn't know it was worth leaving town for!
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:32, archived)
# 'NINGS!
I remember when ours burnt down I was convinced there'd be a bounty of shrapnel under it!
:D
(I helped save b3ta! XLVII .uk, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:20, archived)
# that's what mr b3th said this morning
he's itching to get down there with a metal detector...
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 28 Jul 2008, 10:17, archived)
# I never made it
but was led to believe there was nothing there but our oier is southend .... a mile long!
(I helped save b3ta! XLVII .uk, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 10:36, archived)
# WESTON-SUPER- MARE!!!!!!!!!!!!
/Bottom
(I helped save b3ta! Mstandot I suppose I should post more often., Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:27, archived)
# Great Yarmouth!
Great Great Yarmouth!

/The Big Breakfast
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 10:16, archived)
# Yay! Me too!
I was half asleep this morning until I heard WsM mentioned on the news. Then I went out into the garden to see the huge tower of smoke, which wasn't there. Quite a few helicopters whizzing about overhead, though.
(I helped save b3ta! b3th Not shit. Not mod., Mon 28 Jul 2008, 9:58, archived)