http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: If I didn't know better... en Thu, 21 May 2026 15:07:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272511 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 19:11:01 +0000 gembo 272511@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Lollipop? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272492 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 15:21:08 +0000 MediumDave 272492@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@earthowned I did not and I -- wholeheartedly -- approve</p> <p>This almost makes me want to join Facebook... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272487 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:42:27 +0000 cb 272487@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Maybe that's "lesser-known Burns" and not "lesser-known works"? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272480 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 14:10:42 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>'The Cock Of The North' - Planted in 1874 as a phallic symbol to the English invaders, the M74 Penis Trees are a true icon of Scottish culture.</p> <p>Featuring in a number of the lesser-known Burns works, they sit resplendent on the south face of Tewsgill hill.</em></p> <p>Now I'm no historian, but there is some considerable date confusion there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272479 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:57:51 +0000 rider73 272479@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i remember seeing something about Disney artists (and the rest) try and get some penis shaped motif in every movie / cartoon they draw- its like an insider joke.<br /> i'll try and find it when not at work computer (!!!) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272477 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:45:21 +0000 earthowned 272477@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@MediumDave - did you know there is an M74 penis tree appreciation society:</p> <p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Cockofthenorth/" rel="nofollow">https://www.facebook.com/Cockofthenorth/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272476 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 13:39:32 +0000 MediumDave 272476@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not just England. </p> <p>For example there's a particularly well-shaped sitka plantation near Abington which makes me snigger every time I go down the West Coast on the train.</p> <p>You can see it from the motorway too but the view is not quite so good. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272461 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:04:44 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272461@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Dougal</p> <p>Cerne Abbas? I had a snooze on that one fine summer's day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272460 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:01:39 +0000 unhurt 272460@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Romans liked to make models and put wee wings on them. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272458 Mon, 15 Jan 2018 12:00:08 +0000 dougal 272458@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Similar motifs adorning entire hillsides in Englandshire. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272425 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 20:07:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272425@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Am I the only person who'd be quite comfortable with that window? Used to be a standard decorative motif back in the day. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272421 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 18:17:06 +0000 gembo 272421@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@greenroofer, you can't NOT see it now and it is nearly the only thing you see apart from as @jdanp says, the sofa. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272415 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 17:16:21 +0000 jdanielp 272415@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Greenroofer I spotted the awfully patterned sofa straight away. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272414 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 16:36:00 +0000 Greenroofer 272414@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's taken me 24hours and a second look at this to realise what @ejstubbs had against this conversion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272387 Sun, 14 Jan 2018 10:26:56 +0000 gembo 272387@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, they really did not think that through. Just banged on with the conversion. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272376 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:35:09 +0000 Snowy 272376@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My sides are actually hurting </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272375 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:23:17 +0000 ejstubbs 272375@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm not sure about £300K flats being described as "luxury" the flat I used to live in is valued at £295K these days but I wouldn't describe it as "luxury". It's perfectly nice, and well situated in Dean Village, but it's a bog standard three-bedroom flat in a block built about 25-30 years ago. Nice outlook from the sitting room but a poky kitchen and the third 'bedroom' was, well, you wouldn't have got much more than a bed in to it (I used it as an office).</p> <p>I've long had my doubts about conversions of non-domestic property. Ever since I saw this on an online estate agent's site, in fact:</p> <p><img src="https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4706/38964460594_7f91821105_z.jpg"></p> <p>(And in case you're wondering, not that's not a photoshop job, it was a genuine photo which was supposed to attract punters. The web page is still online <a href="http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32891423.html">here</a> if you don't believe me.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272364 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:05:14 +0000 gembo 272364@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS two out of three ain't bad </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272362 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 21:02:55 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272362@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo</p> <p>Because they are written by someone who loves both life and language? Because Jeeves and Bertie are the oddest odd couple in literature? Because in your heart you believe yourself to be an Edwardian buck about town? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272355 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:10:24 +0000 gembo 272355@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS, the drones had a pool? I thought they just chucked bread rolls at each other?</p> <p>Perhaps you can explain why Gembo a wee nyafff who went to the Johnstone high loves the Jeeves stories of Wodehouse. Less keen on blandings or his Nazi sympathies </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272354 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 20:02:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272354@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was a trapeze over the pool in the Drones Club was there not what what? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272352 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:46:06 +0000 gembo 272352@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fecking predictive text</p> <p>Should have read</p> <p>Old swimming pools and err, prisons</p> <p>Drumsheugh and Arlington in Glasgow both private member's baths and both gave trapezes though no one swinging on the trapeze. Swinging elsewhere? Who can say </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272351 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:40:46 +0000 chdot 272351@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“old swing pools and we”</p> <p>Ooh you do have a way with words.</p> <p>Opaque too.</p> <p>And bizarrely suggestive. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272340 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:08:47 +0000 gembo 272340@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>These old Victorian public schools built because of the threat from Prussia that was educating it's working classes look quite sturdy still, though their roofs often not in best Nick. Or maybe 'Nik. Still one or two of them not yet sold for flats. Council often sells to lowest bidder (if that bidder hasn't linked planning permission to their bid). My old office which was a villa gifted to the authority went for twice one of those schools but was close to JK's house. One or two others sitting with low numbers and indeed several new build high schools under occupied. </p> <p>Similar story with old churches, old swing pools and we, old prisons </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18521#post-272339 Sat, 13 Jan 2018 17:53:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 272339@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'd say one of 'us' is behind this seditious piece;</p> <p><a href="http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/01/12/edinburghs-being-destroyed-by-developers/" rel="nofollow">http://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2018/01/12/edinburghs-being-destroyed-by-developers/</a> </p>