Midlands Council to start sending borderline abusive text messages to land manatees
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Your mum is so fat when she fell down the stairs everyone else thought Eastenders had finished early.
I'm pretty sure it's in the style of a fig roll, with the viscous centre running through the centre.
Stoke Council have a long running rivalry with Stafford council on who could fritter the most taxpayers money on the most asinine of ideas. But this spark of brilliance must surely make Stafford their bitch, £10K on 500 text messages?
Stoke Council, House of Monkeys, I applaud you.
I'm not sure. People with deeply engrained habits might benefit from reminders about them. Maybe. It's very difficult to break long established habits and replace them with new ones.
The effect on my health coupled with finding out that my genetics puts me at a higher risk of various fatal things (including obesity) was enough for me. if I maintain a decent level of fitness, I'll probably have a normal lifespan. If I don't, I probably won't. Also, quality of life matters. So, months of better eating and more exercise and I'm in far better shape and, more importantly, I've established it as a habit. My BMI is 25.5, but that's better than the 32.5 that it was and muscle forms a higher percentage of my weight now. My centre of mavity is slowly moving upwards
Had a good moment yesterday - I put on an old T-shirt and it was too small on my chest, shoulders and arms. I've been putting time and effort into upper body strength and it was pleasing to have an objective effect of it. The subjective effect is what really matters, though.
If anyone else here is looking to get into better shape, start exercising. Just do what you can do - you're not competing against anyone else. It's entirely about you and your life. Exercise is bloody marvellous. It's good for you and if you do it hard it'll get you high and improve your mood as well. Nothing else you can say that about. You body makes the good drugs!
It pales into insignificance when compared to the Hanley "regeneration" project. Stoke council very obviously "planned" it solely on the basis of which artist's impression looked prettiest to them, because there hasn't been the slightest hint of any thought about functionality. A "bus station" that's a nice sculpture but doesn't work as a bus station. Removal of most of the ways of getting into the city centre, to be replaced with some pretty pavements. Which don't have any drainage, so they turn into a slippery sheet when it's raining and will be an ice rink when it's cold enough. Roads that are the same as the pavements, without curbs. Must be "fun" being blind in Hanley now.
They should have found someone who plays city sims and paid them a few grand to plan the redevelopment. They would have done a much better job because they would have some understanding of how a city works.
If I had the power, I'd give serious consideration to appointing a pack of stray dogs to be Stoke council. They'd be useless, but they'd be cheaper and waste less money.
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My bass player is a bus driver and he can go round in a 1 mile circle 10 times before finding somewhere to park to pick up passengers. His thoughts "It's great if you don't have to put buses in it".
Angilion you talk as though you're from Stoke - are you?
what is it can only find some vauge picks, whats the probem with it?
Manchester Piccadilly bus stop is the best idea, it's just a big pavement island with a one way road around it (double laned) that only buses enter, ****ing dozens off them, park get of new people get on leave. simple and efficient.
I am. Oddly, I like the place. It's rubbish, but it's home.
I've seen bus jams outside the new "bus station" sculpture. It's so bad that it's genuinely impossible to move buses through it fast enough. I asked a bus driver I know what he thought of it. The expression on his face was eloquent. It was the same sort of expression you'd have if you came home to find that 3 cows and a donkey had kicked your door in and used your sofa as a toilet.
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That's the problem with Hanley bus station - it's not simple and most importantly it's not efficient. It's not even safe.
It's far too small. At best, it's half the size it needs to be. There was enough space, but the council decided that the best use of about 2/3rds of the available space was a piazza where elegant people could stroll in the glorious sunshine and sit on the sculptured seating to sip their lattes and discuss art. Lovely. Just the job for a freezing, rain-soaked depressed inner city area.
The size also means that people and buses use the same space because there's no other choice. That isn't safe.
The entrance isn't large enough and doesn't have an adequate road system feeding to it. There are bus jams. Really. Queues of buses waiting to get into the bus station. I'm not joking. It's ridiculous, but it's true.
The exit is even worse. You wouldn't believe how they've structured the exit.
Basically, think about the basics of how a bus station functions and design the opposite - that's the new bus station.
It looks good. Form over function. They've done the whole redevelopment project solely on appearance with utter disregard to functionality. The whole thing is worse than useless, but the bus station is the swirly turd decoration on the faecal cake that is the redevelopment project.
The only functionality they considered was how to prevent people from getting into the city centre. I don't know exactly why they chose to do that, but that's what they did. You can't get a train in - the train station is a couple of miles away. You can't get a bus in - the bus station is a joke and there are few if any bus stops in the city centre. You can't drive in because the road system is deliberately awful (to stop people using it) and there's nowhere to park. You can't get in very well with a taxi because they're not allowed to go to parts of it and there's very limited access for pick up and drop off points. Business has been gutted in the city centre because customers can't get to the businesses in anything like a convenient way.
They had a fortune to work with and they made something worse than the worn out ramshackle dump it was before. That's an achievement of sorts, I suppose.
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Thread needs to get back to taunting oversized mammals
Be quiet, fatty.
I had to pop into Argos one day and I spent a while on google maps trying to figure out how to get in, park and get out.
You are absolutely right, it is blinking impossible to get in there without a good ten years knowledge of all the back roads.
Even while I lived there I only found two spots where you could reasonably park and walk in, now it's an epic trip involving huskies, a sled with three weeks rations and a helicopter backup team on standby.
You can in fact get closer to Hanley city centre on a canal barge than I can get by car. The only city more isolated by provincial political idiocy was Berlin at the end of WWII.
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The most ridiculous thing about that statement is that it's only very slightly exaggerated. I hadn't considered canal barge in my list of ways in which you can't get into the city centre (because I'm not living in Victorian times), but it is now a serious contender for the least inconvenient way to get into the city centre. There is a working canal fairly close by.
I had expected them to bodge the job, but the degree to which they have done so is startling even to me. They were supposed to spend the fortune on promoting the city as a regional centre designed to attract customers and therefore businesses from the whole region. They claimed that was what they were doing and they're still claiming that's what they're trying to do. Yet they've done exactly the opposite, sending an already depressed urban area into sharp decline from an already bad state. I'd seriously consider some sort of conspiracy, but I think utter incompetence is a more likely explanation.
yep, never put down to malice, what can be explained by stupidity