Forth Rail Bridge
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View from Forth Bridge.
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Thats cool. Some of that scaffolding looked iffy. Tied together with rope. Wouldn't catch me on it.
Are they building another bridge nearby??
Are they building another bridge nearby??
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3rdforum wrote:Thats cool. Some of that scaffolding looked iffy. Tied together with rope. Wouldn't catch me on it.
Are they building another bridge nearby??
Yep, far side of the road bridge. There are hundreds of suspension bridges all over the world crossing salt water estuaries, yet it seems only our cables are being corroded by the salt air...they are keeping the old suspension bridge for public transport, buses and taxis etc once the new bridge opens.
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Their starting to paint that next week 
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So its ok for public transport to use the rusty bridge but the rich feckers will have the safe one?? Are you sure Maggie Thatcher hasn't made a comeback?
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3rdforum wrote:So its ok for public transport to use the rusty bridge but the rich feckers will have the safe one?? Are you sure Maggie Thatcher hasn't made a comeback?
Think it's more to do with weight...half a dozen or so buses will be lots lighter than hundreds of cars and lorries (and buses)
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Here's an artist's impression...
feckin' artist...he's made it look all sunny and lovely in West Lothian, but when you cross over to Fife it looks like it's in the middle of an ice age! (Bet he's from Edinburgh...wanker).
feckin' artist...he's made it look all sunny and lovely in West Lothian, but when you cross over to Fife it looks like it's in the middle of an ice age! (Bet he's from Edinburgh...wanker).
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If the old bridge is fecked knock it down, why keep a money burning heap of scrap metal, if it aint fecked, fix it, I’m in the second camp on this one, new bridge politically motivated, who wants to go to grey boring Fife anyway, purely built to let the Dalgety Bay lot escape back to sanity................ Then the great Scottish road (car park) system lets them sit for hours at the Barnton. (Kids when teenagers would say around teatime going down to the Barnton, asked them one day what was the attraction of going down to the Barnton, answer, there’s always an accident and its fun watching the drivers argue.......Kids.....).
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Adam Mint wrote:
If the old bridge is fecked knock it down, why keep a money burning heap of scrap metal, if it aint fecked, fix it, I’m in the second camp on this one, new bridge politically motivated, who wants to go to grey boring Fife anyway, purely built to let the Dalgety Bay lot escape back to sanity................ Then the great Scottish road (car park) system lets them sit for hours at the Barnton. (Kids when teenagers would say around teatime going down to the Barnton, asked them one day what was the attraction of going down to the Barnton, answer, there’s always an accident and its fun watching the drivers argue.......Kids.....).
...Kingdom to you matey...
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The Lone Ranger wrote:Adam Mint wrote:
If the old bridge is fecked knock it down, why keep a money burning heap of scrap metal, if it aint fecked, fix it, I’m in the second camp on this one, new bridge politically motivated, who wants to go to grey boring Kingdom of Fife anyway, purely built to let the Dalgety Bay lot escape back to sanity................ Then the great Scottish road (car park) system lets them sit for hours at the Barnton. (Kids when teenagers would say around teatime going down to the Barnton, asked them one day what was the attraction of going down to the Barnton, answer, there’s always an accident and its fun watching the drivers argue.......Kids.....).
...Kingdom to you matey...
Sorry, amended......
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The Lone Ranger wrote:
Think it's more to do with weight...half a dozen or so buses will be lots lighter than hundreds of cars and lorries (and buses)
You're ruining my political rant here Cam. Spend a week with me and I'll have you traversing the highlands raising an army to reclaim Edinburgh from the wankers!
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You're ruining my political rant here Cam. Spend a week with me and I'll have you traversing the highlands raising an army to reclaim Edinburgh from the wankers!
Hmmm...seem to remember someone doing that in 1746...whatever happened to him?
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He is on Ttf, Cam.
Rosythe Dock yard just over the way, great thread Cam.
Rosythe Dock yard just over the way, great thread Cam.
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Hmmm...seem to remember someone doing that in 1746...whatever happened to him?
Aye but Charlie was an Alcoholic Aristocrat...go for it,I say.
Dermo will join you...he will be your most fearsome fighter,like that crazy Irishman was for Willie Wallace in Braveheart
"It's my island"
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I shall arise and go now, and go to Caledonia,
And a small army raise there, of Brodie and O'Sullivan made,
9 redcoats shall I hang there, and watch each drop so slow,
And see Lizzie homeward to think again!
And a small army raise there, of Brodie and O'Sullivan made,
9 redcoats shall I hang there, and watch each drop so slow,
And see Lizzie homeward to think again!
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And you say others talk in riddles 
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Wait and see what Cam thinks!
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3rdforum wrote:I shall arise and go now, and go to Caledonia,
And a small army raise there, of Brodie and O'Sullivan made,
9 redcoats shall I hang there, and watch each drop so slow,
And see Lizzie homeward to think again!
Ye mad fecker!
...love it!
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No one studied Yeats then??
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3rdforum wrote:No one studied Yeats then??
Haha! Doesn't look like it. I thought the last line was out of "Flower of Scotland"!
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3rdforum wrote:No one studied Yeats then??
Is that a wine lodge
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He's a cheery fecker ain't he? The Lake IsleOf Innisfree (click on the "play" button).
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The Lone Ranger wrote:3rdforum wrote:No one studied Yeats then??
Haha! Doesn't look like it. I thought the last line was out of "Flower of Scotland"!
it was cos I couldn't get plagiarise the poem to make any sense
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And the wankers of Edinburgh were slayed...........Should have been the last verse.
I knew it was Yeats....I was just waiting to see if you said it was your own
I knew it was Yeats....I was just waiting to see if you said it was your own