It's not large enough to qualify as parkland - even if it was fully grassed over, there's only room for widely separated clusters of daisies, as opposed to trees or shrubs. It would be just about big enough for a 2 snapped off Plane trees in gravel pits just big enough for doggies to defacate in as well as a derelict merry-go-round (complete with used needles). That's "Urban Regeneration" as opposed to parkland.
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It's not large enough to qualify as parkland - even if it was fully grassed over, there's only room for widely separated clusters of daisies, as opposed to trees or shrubs. It would be just about big enough for a 2 snapped off Plane trees in gravel pits just big enough for doggies to defacate in as well as a derelict merry-go-round (complete with used needles). That's "Urban Regeneration" as opposed to parkland.
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I said, "piece of parkland" actually.
Great to see you're doing so remarkably well in your relentless quest to be totally wrong as often as possible.
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What a strange post from you.
Far from 'waving my willy'
I was simply correcting Cobbles' bizarre assertion that a stretch of green space linking two adjacent park areas couldn't be described as a "piece of parkland."But thanks for underlining my point anyway, even if the language you used was rather needlessly crude.
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No need to get sarky: it just seemed a really odd thing to say - like you hadn't bothered to read the thread before piping up.
Still, it's good to see the general bad tempered tone of this thread being maintained.
Who's next?
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And she's off again!There are willies all over this thread.
_angel_ :No Stirring Opportunity Knowingly Missed!
Precisely. Urban seems to have degenerated into a playground for:
- Those who seem to get some sort of kick out of pathetic, sub-playground points scoring
- Those who are simply (and openly) trolling
- Those who get their rocks off by following other posters around the boards simply to abuse them
- The simpletons who can only ever see two categories - black OR white, for OR against - and are pathologically incapable of seeing any middle ground
- Those who seem to get some kick out of rehearsing the same argument time and time and time again (often at intervals of only a few days) starting from a position which assumes the previous debate has never happened
- Those who couldn't even spell "logic" ...
It's all got a bit fucking:
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Precisely. Urban seems to have degenerated into a playground for:
- Those who seem to get some sort of kick out of pathetic, sub-playground points scoring
- Those who are simply (and openly) trolling
- Those who get their rocks off by following other posters around the boards simply to abuse them
- The simpletons who can only ever see two categories - black OR white, for OR against - and are pathologically incapable of seeing any middle ground
- Those who seem to get some kick out of rehearsing the same argument time and time and time again (often at intervals of only a few days) starting from a position which assumes the previous debate has never happened
- Those who couldn't even spell "logic" ...
It's all got a bit fucking:
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There only seem to be extremists on this thread, the frothing at the mouth pro-cars, cars are great public transport is crap and the frothing at the mouth against any form of road vehicle that is petrol powered.
Both are as mad as each other.
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But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Precisely. Urban seems to have degenerated into a playground for:
- Those who seem to get some sort of kick out of pathetic, sub-playground points scoring
- Those who are simply (and openly) trolling
- Those who get their rocks off by following other posters around the boards simply to abuse them
- The simpletons who can only ever see two categories - black OR white, for OR against - and are pathologically incapable of seeing any middle ground
- Those who seem to get some kick out of rehearsing the same argument time and time and time again (often at intervals of only a few days) starting from a position which assumes the previous debate has never happened
- Those who couldn't even spell "logic" ...
It's all got a bit fucking:
You missed out;
"- those who leg it from a thread rather than answer a simple question and then cross-post on other threads about how decadent the board has become"
co-op
But....but cLoWnFiSh....
Fancy a go in mine:
It looks like it'd fly ok, but I'm not so sure about it's landing capabilities.
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hiraethified
Don't forget the extreme stirrers!
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Not according to your post:
I'm certainly not "frothing at the mouth" over cars - they're ruddy useful things actually - although I think the balance of the supposed 'right' to drive and park cars is seriously overstated.
When people start glibly trotting out demands that grass be concreted over just so the precious l'il car tyres don't have to suffer a bump or two, then that's where I think perspectives are being lost.
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You don't live round here so you don't know. Where are people supposed to park cars if the houses don't have driveways and garages?????
Putting proper tarmac for cars to be parked would save the pavement being knackered by people driving all over it. Is it *really* better to knacker up a pavement?
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I don't recall specifically referring to your exact neighbourhood, although the general point is that endlessly increasing car use and growing multiple car ownership is unsustainable, has a hugely negative environmental impact and is unfair on those who can't afford a car.
I'd say it's better to work towards not having so many cars in circulation that communal green spaces end up being to constantly concreted over.
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Don't you think it's a tad unfair on people in council houses that weren't designed to have drive ways? And people in terraces for that matter.
Tbh it's not car ownership per se that's the problem, it's the amount of usage the cars get. Another good reason to encourage more parking facilities, esp park and ride.
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Plastic Paddy
I haven't really got a Hummer, mine's an R32, which I guess Co-Op would find barely less objectionable.
I've been in a couple though and you're quite right, the cabin seems strangely claustrophobic given the external dimension.
I've heard that that's because there are loads of spaces to fit armour in the military version that the "civilian" version leaves as voids, and that limits cabin space.
But that is quite possibly, bollocks.
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hiraethified
So your solution is to keep on building more and more car parking spaces at the expense of losing yet green space, and encourage more and more polluting cars on the roads?
What happens when you've paved over every possible space and we're all living in a sea of concrete and cars?
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Hardly. I didn't suggest 'concreting over green spaces' it's only a tiny bit of grass and the pavement is simply not designed for cars being driven over it. A bit of simple commonsense is all that's needed. I get pissed off when cars park on pavements and pedestrians can't get across. I am a pedestrian for fucks sake!
Like I said car ownership isn't the problem, it's the amount the car actually gets used and for which journeys.
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You just said you want to encourage more parking spaces, and that would involve more grassland being concreted over to provide it. And the more car spaces you provide, the more car usage you encourage.
And the more car usage you encourage, the more parking spaces you need. Etc etc.
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When a cars parked it's not being driven though is it? Have you got something against park and rides?
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