- Location
- St Albans
I'm glad someone else likes the Barbican, I thought I was the only one
NWR Silly little things that delight you
- Thread starter G. W o l f f
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- Location
- London, Europe
I love the Barbican - and the sheer willpower it took to build it at the time. Visionary at a time when that part of London was a bomb site. One can discuss and debate the relative merits of these kinds of places - they certainly bring about a certain Hauntology - but when I was a student I lived in Sheffield near the Park Hill Estate. I thought it was horrible, but got speaking to a woman who had lived there and she described how it was the first time she had running water and an indoor toilet.
- Location
- England
Would have been better off keeping it as a bomb site.
- Location
- London, UK
I suspect the Barbican is a bit like Milton Keynes. An experiment that is not often loved by outsiders but is very much liked but the people who live there.
- Location
- England
Watching south park again for the first time in at least a decade. Forgot just how unbelievably offensive and hilarious it is.
- Location
- Staining
You may have thought iPhone tracking was invented to keep tabs on your kids. In fact, when you reach a certain age, you understand that it’s a tool used by kids with young children when on holiday in order to hunt down the grandparents so they can dump the little ones with you and head off for an unencumbered drink or three.
- Location
- London, Europe
Maybe this is the real reason oldies have "burners" instead of iPhones.
- Location
- London, Europe
Attritional football matches. This Roma v Sevilla is a perfect deomonstration of occasion over spectactle. Will probably end 0-1 on penalties. Lovely
- Location
- London
A council has been shamed into doing something about potholes via a creative means.
Someone has gone around drawing penises around the holes, to highlight that they were still there and in need of attention.
Apparently, it’s an effective way to sort things out as they were fixed within days – despite being a problem for a year before that.
Someone has gone around drawing penises around the holes, to highlight that they were still there and in need of attention.
Apparently, it’s an effective way to sort things out as they were fixed within days – despite being a problem for a year before that.
- Location
- Manchester
The guy doing this goes by the name of Wanksy I believe!
- Location
- London, Europe
When my wife comes back from South Africa stocked up on booze and biltong.
- Location
- Edinburgh/Bordeaux
The little book exchange boxes found in parks and other public spaces.
I dropped off 20 or so French books we 'inherited' recently today and noticed an English language reference book on Wine Marketing from the early 2000s.
I dropped off 20 or so French books we 'inherited' recently today and noticed an English language reference book on Wine Marketing from the early 2000s.
- Location
- London, England
I found the zero alcohol lager of the same name far more offensive.... It was worse than Kaliber!
- Location
- England
Gosh that brings back memories. Whatever happened to Harp, Hofmeister etc etc. so many appalling things that I was mislead into drinking in my youff.
- Location
- Deep South of Cambridgeshire
- Location
- London
On the radio this afternoon
“This is the BBC news, I’m Justine Greene… A four foot lizard which can run on her hind legs like a T-Rex is on the loose in Cumbria.”
“This is the BBC news, I’m Justine Greene… A four foot lizard which can run on her hind legs like a T-Rex is on the loose in Cumbria.”
- Location
- London
Post-Lacanian theory
- Location
- London
Recalling the days when tube tickets were a thing my anecdotal experience is that women were worse offenders than men.
- Location
- England
When you spend all day navel gazing, sooner or later you end up ripping it out.
- Location
- Lillehammer
Reading about the railway line from Locarno to Domodóssola, I came across the following passage: "The line is operated by the Ferrovie Autolinee Regionali Ticenesi, which uses an unfortunate acronym."
- Location
- Staining
Don’t let it put you off! We took the train last year to get over to the Ascona jazz festival and it’s a great journey.
- Location
- Cheshire
In that vein I recall (probably apocryphal) unfortunate urls for a business called Pen Island. And back in Italy, an electricity company called PowerGen Italia.
Sorry
Sorry
- Location
- Winchester, UK
Bread, cheese and wine. Okay, so it's just a Reeve baguette, some smoked cheddar and a worryingly advanced 2010 Maison Roche de Bellene Morey VV, but what a gustatory delight.
- Location
- London
This Zappa-esque secular chorale comes from noted flugelhorn man Chuck Mangione’s 1968 concept LP The National Gallery Performing Musical Interpretations of the Paintings of Paul Klee.
I can’t provide a starker health warning than that.
I can’t provide a starker health warning than that.
- Location
- London, Europe
Going for a morning walk in summer before most of the world is out of bed. Had a beautiful stroll across Blackheath and through Greenwich park at 6am. Feeling very righteous.