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They had X amount of money to improve the city and they dump an oversized Ferris Wheel by the Thames???

― C*Taylor., Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

and it didn't half make the money back for sure.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

and Amber and Alice loved it and still talk of it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The London Eye

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/rob_brennan/London/EyeWest.jpg

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.saintcyr.com/photos/urban/images/London%20Wheel.jpg

― Ol' prune face (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

time for stevem to strike HIS sword on this thread maybe?

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

unless people would rather talk about here than on the original thread...

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread has been turned around by love.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

And nice pictures.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

has the Eye recouped it's cost yet? how much money does it make? and how much of that gets used for improving things?

questions questions but have you got an answer?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.pelczarski.com/gonutty/london/eye_frombelow.jpg

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hello darlin'

― Someone else (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

that one looks strangely erotic

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i'd ride it

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Now we all know you have to be easily pleased if you're a Londoner but this is just taking the proverbial biscuit and eating it. They have a chance to give the world's ugliest city something and a big wheel is the best they can do? How does a big wheel make a crap city better? Does it help Londoners see outside of London in some way and make them realise that London is not the whole of the British isles? I doubt it.

― C_Taylor, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Not very good really.

― C_Taylor, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Can you see it from where you are, C_?

btw, The Angel of the North.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:37 (twenty-one years ago)

How does a big wheel make a crap city better?

there's a reason they didn't put the wheel in edinburgh

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

It'd be on bricks within 15 mins...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.indulgencecharters.co.uk/images/london-eye-sunset.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:41 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a model airoplane stuck in the spokes, there...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a web for catching planes!

xpost!

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

and omg what a great photographer!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v323/kenjuggle/DCP_0008.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

xxpost and omg someone bit a chunk out of big ben!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Wish I had more of my from-the-pod shots online now.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I am pretty sure it has made it's original cost back, yes. Especially with the BA sponsorship to the original backers.

Something that the Millenium Dome will ever do (a building I dislike) or the Scottish Parliament (a building I love, but have to admit the expense of).

Ultimately, a pointless argument to start. But what can you expect from a character with a name beginning with "C".

― 3underscore (___), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:46 (twenty-one years ago)

go to the top of Arthur's seat - look, isn't edinburgh beautiful? oh the lovely castle, now, pan around, oh dear, what's all that crap concrete nonsense over there? Oh it's the other 80% of edinburgh.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Very Harsh to call that Porkpie. Edinburgh is a beautiful city, and is pretty much that way 90% of the direction you can see from Arthurs seat (mainly because since a central scheme was built, they were outlawed). If you look over dumbiedykes (see before), and the Uni campus, and it is all good architecture. I will sorely miss Edinburgh when I leave, and plan to return to live here in the future.

― 3underscore (___), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Ive been to Edinbucket twice now. I liked it both times.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

2underscore OTM - i love edinburgh.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:57 (twenty-one years ago)

yeh if idiot C had just revived an old thread about the Dome (very few fans of it, has to be said) he would'nt have found much disagreement.

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I like embra too! not as much as glasgow, but look over yr right shoulder - just plain nasty.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

excuse weird apostrophe placing

xpost

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:58 (twenty-one years ago)

(damn keyboard - sorry to downgrade you to 2 from 3, mr. underscore)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Millenium Dome

There were several pro-Domers when we did this, though...

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I still say an actual eye would be better. Same scale.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.daereth.diallink.net/movies/sauron.jpg

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

it must blink.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

And shoot lasers.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I know where you speaking about Porkpie - just talking about the maths! 40% of it is golfcourse and Duddingston (where I want to live, but need to get a London salary up here before I can, hence London!).

Best thing I saw about the London eye was a few years back, as an April fool, one of the newspapers said they were going to tilt it horizontal across the thames and turn it into a boat ride for the summer. Genius.

(oh - and no worries rob!)

― 3underscore (___), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck it, put the full set of facial features in and around the entire city.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, we're now flying over London which, as you can see, looks like a scary face".

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh yeah, did anyone else spend ages looking at the smirnoff ad in saturday's gueardian, trying to work out what they'd done?

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

What was it?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't tell me:

A bottle is positioned in front of a London horizon. Through the bottle, you can see ..... .. .. Edinbucket?

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Or a bucket in Edinburgh, positioned so you could see.... Lahnden?

― 3underscore (___), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/phil.and.andrew/angel%20of%20the%20north.jpg
We love you!

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that thing. I'm convinced that when the apocalypse comes Alan Shearer's going to ride it into space.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

They have a chance to give the world's ugliest city something

if London is the world's ugliest city to you, I have to conclude you haven't seen many cities in the american midwest.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

took me a while to spot the point of the smirnoff advert even though there was a huge clue in the text...

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

yep, we were the same, lovely photo though, we then spent the rest of the crossing trying to work out how they'd done it, and V came up with them taking a big pizza slice out

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

explain this for those of us who missed it

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

that would spoil it!

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, you had to be there

― Porkpie (porkpie), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

did anyone else spend ages looking at the smirnoff ad in saturday's gueardian, trying to work out what they'd done?

* raises hand sheepishly

(I'm an ex-Dumbiedykes resident, incidentally)

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v515/kenjuggle2/emilylondoneye.jpg

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

oh christ

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

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