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Post by tiddles on Mar 18, 2012 19:37:28 GMT 1
inverclydenow.com/news/local/6748-port-sculpture-to-be-unveiledI would stuff this garbage right up that old clown, Wilson's backside. I haven't seen this triumph of street art but I can see the state of the town and no amount of shite like this will improve it. Methinks a wee sniff about for some empty brown envelopes might be in order.
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 18, 2012 20:16:15 GMT 1
statues everybloody were....oh well the towns are sinking into dispair but we always have the statues...
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 18, 2012 21:21:33 GMT 1
I admit the statues beauty is rather subjective, but somehow I don't think the money spent on them would do anything to bring jobs or alleviate any of the other issues in inverclyde.
This money was never gonnae be spent on jobs, benefits or anything else of a similar nature, it was ring-fenced for this sort of thing.
Personally ah would have made the statues as big and as ludicrous as possible, at least that would have garnered the interest of the media from afar
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Post by rod2mc on Mar 19, 2012 12:39:07 GMT 1
If theres ever national/global crisis, dont worry, we've got statues!
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Post by myfindhorn on Mar 19, 2012 15:22:11 GMT 1
never notice that they are on route on the outside of town, and even if the odd visitor from the cruise ships do venture into town , they are on a one road town . As for the poor drivers who get into either end of our statues they will be forever on the merry go round trying to find a way out.
The road system in this town is a disgrace and surely the waste of petrol must be high with a one way system to hell, and as for pollution,!.........we have it all here, a great big pool of curruption and brown envelopes, more is the pity the council could not be as see through as the statues, for are they not the ones who allow such things to happen.
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 19, 2012 19:01:05 GMT 1
i think they should have statues to celebrate the amount of pound shops we have
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Post by tiddles on Mar 19, 2012 19:56:22 GMT 1
I think we should have one to commemorate the immense ego of Ian McKenzie MP (short for Muppet)
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 19, 2012 20:13:49 GMT 1
I think we should have one to commemorate the immense ego of Ian McKenzie MP (short for Muppet) Here you go  |
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Post by tiddles on Mar 19, 2012 22:00:06 GMT 1
Na, one of those might prove useful whereas, Undertaker will never be. It's very detailed but obviously American. To be honest, God help me, I see too many of them (professionally incidentally!!!!!)  |
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 19, 2012 23:09:46 GMT 1
Na, one of those might prove useful whereas, Undertaker will never be. It's very detailed but obviously American. To be honest, God help me, I see too many of them (professionally incidentally!!!!!) I thought of it more as a metaphor |
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 20, 2012 0:17:36 GMT 1
lets have a statue to david cairns....a big bronze shit
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Post by myfindhorn on Mar 20, 2012 0:34:08 GMT 1
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 20, 2012 0:49:50 GMT 1
it looks like one of those tiara's that the brides wear in BIG FAT GYPSI WEDDING
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Post by myfindhorn on Mar 20, 2012 0:57:56 GMT 1
thats what i thought
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 20, 2012 1:21:17 GMT 1
i think who ever decided on that statue must have been watching too much of that programme
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Post by bleach on Mar 20, 2012 9:05:04 GMT 1
They might have been better off using a bow off the wrecks of either the Jupiter or the Juno if they wanted to stick a ship's bow in the middle of the Port. Drove by the sculpture (or statue or whatever it is) the other night - I think it looks dreadful, like the others they fire up all over this godforsaken place.
More money wasted I would imagine. Why do they insist on erecting useless pieces of shit like this ?
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 20, 2012 9:19:25 GMT 1
They might have been better off using a bow off the wrecks of either the Jupiter or the Juno if they wanted to stick a ship's bow in the middle of the Port. Drove by the sculpture (or statue or whatever it is) the other night - I think it looks dreadful, like the others they fire up all over this godforsaken place. More money wasted I would imagine. Why do they insist on erecting useless pieces of shit like this ? Because a large tranche of the locals wouldn't have the intellect to appreciate something useful, or even recognise something useful. Because a large tranche of the locals prove that at every election by voting in such Fukwits as Mckenzie, cairns (blessed be his name), McNeil and the fukwiited coonsil. Because a large tranche of locals think you can polish a turd. |
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Post by myfindhorn on Mar 20, 2012 11:53:14 GMT 1
Bleach, them there pieces of shit, soon found out it was the only thing they could erect succesfully. However lets face it, after a few weeks we will all forget it is there and only the old ones will remember the shipbuilding days and, I am sure that the ribs of this foley says it all.
By the way it does look as though it came from Davy Jones's locker, as it did look like a ghost ship in the night, at least the skeleton of one.
Do you think Cairns will bless it !!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by rod2mc on Mar 20, 2012 15:34:24 GMT 1
There a video on youtube of a student who build s amasive snow cok in his mother front garden when shes away to the shops, good craic!
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Post by tiddles on Mar 20, 2012 16:19:49 GMT 1
I have been giving thought to the concept of turd polishing. It seems to me that this might be possible by doing the following:
Allow a large, steaming pile of faecal matter, human or otherwise to dry out and harden. Then take one of those excellent little Dremel micro-drills and gently abrade the surface. I feel certain that an acceptable degree of shite sheen could be achieved with a little care and effort.
NB Care must be taken to avoid shite flies which are common on material of this kind and rigorous hand-washing must take place after the exercise is complete.
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 20, 2012 16:34:03 GMT 1
I have been giving thought to the concept of turd polishing. It seems to me that this might be possible by doing the following: Allow a large, steaming pile of faecal matter, human or otherwise to dry out and harden. Then take one of those excellent little Dremel micro-drills and gently abrade the surface. I feel certain that an acceptable degree of shite sheen could be achieved with a little care and effort. NB Care must be taken to avoid shite flies which are common on material of this kind and rigorous hand-washing must take place after the exercise is complete. This rigorous handwashing, to what standard 1) big boy done it and ran away standard - labour party 2) it wisnae me guv - labour party 3) it wiz the previous administration whot done it - labour party 4) the complete davy cairns( akin tae sainthood) - labour party 5) - I'm as thick as shite and dont care as long as they pay me -mckenzie & mcneil plus labour party |
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Post by tiddles on Mar 20, 2012 17:32:53 GMT 1
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Post by tiddles on Mar 20, 2012 17:43:08 GMT 1
Oh yes Jamie, proud of the fitting out of the QE2 are you? You are probably too young to remember that far from fitting it out, the bloody thing got stripped of carpets, light fitting and anything else that wasn't nailed down and even then things got lifted. It was a disgraceful episode that was reported in newspapers and on TV around the world complete with a guy wandering across the street out side the drydock with a large roll of carpet under his arm. So, away and haunt a house you ill-informed loaf.
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 20, 2012 18:04:07 GMT 1
Being a portonian I'm more than have a passing interest in the town. But this imbecile takes the biscuit, despite actually liking this "statue" I fully understand that people may look at it in the passing but I do not think for one moment it will attract people into teh "toon centre" to spend their dosh in the multitude of bookies, food kerry-oot shops, charity shops and all the other pish that clutters up princes street etc masquerading as "shops". As tiddles pointed oot, who elected this person to speak for anyone whatsoever? |
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Post by tiddles on Mar 20, 2012 18:16:52 GMT 1
Odd that her three final words should be those, Port Glasgow is after all, Tesco Town
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Post by neartic on Mar 20, 2012 19:25:51 GMT 1
this karen wilson make the port better i am suprised there is anyone left, all you used to see in the tele was some body murdered or some body found dead because of drugs, the min they built tesco there the town was doomed,
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 20, 2012 22:05:01 GMT 1
our daughter and i passed that tiara of a sculpture today heading the braehead were there are no charity shops or pound shops...what a change.....that statue looks like fencing gone wrong.....
passed it again tonight on our way home and it wasnt even lit up...are they scared to light it up incase someone steals it for fencing off their garden........its bloody hideous
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Post by tiddles on Mar 20, 2012 22:44:09 GMT 1
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Post by linda wallace on Mar 20, 2012 22:49:26 GMT 1
jocky read that it was £25.000, imagine using that sort of money for something like that in this day and age
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Post by samfregreenock on Mar 20, 2012 23:24:22 GMT 1
jocky read that it was £25.000, imagine using that sort of money for something like that in this day and age Better than spending it on another ftba park or some such pish. £25000 is chickenfeed when it comes to funding such stuff, it really is a drop in the ocean No way was it going to fund jobs or anything like that. |
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