Giant White Horse!

[Flying_Monkey]

Blyth power, eh? It's the wind turbines now - I can see them from the cliffs where I live. I am feeling all homesick now...

BTW, why is rust so bad? The rust is what makes the angel so stunning against blue skies. It is also symbolic (industrial decay etc.)

 

[wafflycat]

BTW, why is rust so bad? The rust is what makes the angel so stunning against blue skies. It is also symbolic (industrial decay etc.)

It looks like a decaying pile of shite. There's already so much decaying industrial shite around why add more to add to the sense of decay. I really, really don't like it. Never have, never will.

 

[wafflycat]

Blyth power, eh? It's the wind turbines now - I can see them from the cliffs where I live. I am feeling all homesick now...

Blyth power station is one of the major reasons I'm a huge fan of renewables. As a kid, even though I lived several miles away (as the crow flies), it was normal to be woken in the night from the sound of the trains taking coal to the power station. Then add in the huge *BOOM* from the power station... almost every night.. Give me wind turbines anyday. But the sight of those chimneys (two of them were over 500 feet high and two just under 500 feet IIRC) from miles and miles around. Whenever I was away at a dancing competiton of a weekend, usually up on the Scottish borders, seeing the power station chimneys was a sign you were not far from home.

 

[Arch]

I see the Angel of the North from the train, normally, once or twice a year (well, once each way, once or twice a year), on my way to Berwick or Wooler. On the way up, it's a sign that I'm 'nearly there', despite there being another hour of train journey! Funny, on the way back, it still feels like way up North, despite there only being an hour of train journey left....

It just serves to remind me how much of England there still is, north of York.

(I love it. I like the way it's obviously huge and heavy, and yet seems to be on the very brink of launching forward and gliding off....)

 

[tdr1nka]

If you think the horse is a bit bonkers, check this pic.
The pic was taken from the top of the soon to be unveiled 'tallest building on earth'(2,900 feet tall)in Dubai.
What made me laugh was the spectacular monument to sink plungers on the far right of the frame.

Apologies to those with vertigo.

 

[wafflycat]

So, any forummers who have been to Dubai... just what is the sink plunger in real life?

 

[tdr1nka]

I have a feeling it is a mosque? *googles away!*

 

[Aperitif]

I think it's a light hanging from the scaffolding!

It's a bit "Angle of the East" for my liking...

 

[wafflycat]

I think it's a light hanging from the scaffolding!

You could be right

 

[tdr1nka]

LOL!

It looks like one of those CCTV camera bubbles!

Oh how fantastically embarrassing!

 

[Night Train]

LOL!

It looks like one of those CCTV camera bubbles!

Oh how fantastically embarrassing!

It is so well positioned to be a giant sink plunger next to the road!

 

[MacB]

LOL!

It looks like one of those CCTV camera bubbles!

Oh how fantastically embarrassing!

you must have been more embarrassed than that

I suspect I would need clean underwear after a trip to the top of that tower

 

[tdr1nka]

you must have been more embarrassed than that

May I say I am as equally amused as I am pretty fuggin' embarrassed, McB!

You've got to admit there are some strange shaped buildings in Dubai.

 

[papercorn2000]

This one always gives me sweaty palms!

 

[longers]

I like the Angel of the North and when stood next to it was quite impressed to think that Leo Houlding had climbed it without ropes .

I like the sink plunger too but am not sure if I believe Papercorns Tennis Court isn't photoshopped.