The Gateshead Millenium Bridge is pretty cool.
It's better than that fucking wobbling failure of engineering they installed in London at any rate.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:21, 3 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

I like the Royal Border Bridge as well.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:21, Reply)

Can handle 133% more vomit, Breezer and gunt than the london one, too ;)

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:23, Reply)

It's just superior in every way.
Plus it has lovely lighting that changes every few seconds.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:24, Reply)

In every way except for location.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:27, Reply)

Damn us with our cheaper cost of living and good, clean air.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:30, Reply)

I smoked for 21 years, I think that clean air would be wasted on these wrecked lungs.

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:33, Reply)

you do know there's a reason it's cheaper up there don't you?

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:33, Reply)

Oh, don't get me wrong, there are huge disadvantages to the north as well (most notably the current economic climate).
I like London as a place to visit, but I could no more live and work there than I could seal my own arsehole up. The sheer griminess I feel after a day out in the capital is horrible.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

When I were a lad
we used to come up to town to go to Kensington Market and we always used to remark upon the black bogies we'd have on the way home afterwards. With our 8' Bauhaus posters and gig bootleg cassettes.

London is fucking grubby. That said since they cleaned it up St Paul's looks amazing - or did until the Dale Farm overspill set up there.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

I miss Kensington Market Monty.
There's a particular smell of incense that always reminds me of that place.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:41, Reply)

Yup.
I loved it there.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:42, Reply)

Me too.
it's scary in some way we are so similar, in other, so different, there's a sitcom in this me thinks.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:44, Reply)

Same here, but in reverse.
the green stuff is pretty and the air is nice, but after a while I get a kind of cultural/social agoraphobia as I slowly realise how far I am form all the amenities and people of London.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:41, Reply)

Same.
When you want some quality foreign food and all you have is the Taj Mahal or Wong's fucking Garden or a shit doner....you know it's time to go back to London.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:43, Reply)

Yup, or when you want a bus more than once every 2 hours
or the ability to just wander into town and know there's something going on.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:45, Reply)

*London fives*

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:50, Reply)

You do realise that if you lived outside London you might actually have some money left over at the end of the month don't you?

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:55, Reply)

The engineering was sound.
It was the people that failed.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:23, Reply)

Yeah, people that failed in engineering.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:24, Reply)

No, it was never going to fall down
it was just that one lot of people failed by crying because i wobbled a bit and they got scared and another lot failed by giving into them and not telling them to MTFU or use another bridge.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:33, Reply)

Bridges shouldn't wobble unless they're in an Indiana Jones film and made from rope and wood, though.

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:35, Reply)

Or at that treehouse place we went to!
Those bridges were awesome!
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:36, Reply)

They were cool, yes.
But were designed specifically to do that.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

I thought al had been on them and broken them

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

No, but it was great when it did wobble.
Towers shouldn't lean, but Pisa does alright out of the deal.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

*puts finder on nose, points*
I even though of using the Piza analogy.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:38, Reply)

I prefer Pisa, as it is the actual name of a real place.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:42, Reply)

Yeah, you bloody idiot Quixote.
*whistles*
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:42, Reply)

Fuck you Scarpe.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:43, Reply)

Fuck off Boyce.
I nearly put pizza.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:43, Reply)

Why not?
They should have just kept it and made a feature of it, it was perfectly safe it was just scardy cats like you that didn't like it.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:37, Reply)

Yeah, they absolutely should.
If they are suspension bridges supported in a certain way. It's to do with offcentre support or something. There's one in Shrewsbury that does it. Just outside London people people don't go off like screaming marys about it.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:44, Reply)

This^

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 6 Dec 2011, 17:45, Reply)