Random Daily Banter

[CXRAndy]

View: https://x.com/i/status/2028296506525311136

 

[Ian H]

When I see photos like this, I'm starkly reminded that:

1) It was only 21 years after WW2
2) Poverty was very widespread
3) I was alive (2yo for this date)

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Probably one of the reasons my parents moved to London.

 

[First Aspect]

When I see photos like this, I'm starkly reminded that:

1) It was only 21 years after WW2
2) Poverty was very widespread
3) I was alive (2yo for this date)

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Also only 5 years before your car was built. Amazing.

 

[Pblakeney]

When I see photos like this, I'm starkly reminded that:

1) It was only 21 years after WW2
2) Poverty was very widespread
3) I was alive (2yo for this date)

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Just look at the lavish lifestyle of Boomers.

 

[Beebo]

A pity I can't tag Cake Stop's RJSterry...

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Just seen it in real life.
It’s ugly.
The bit on top is worse than the bottom half.

 

[briantrumpet]

Just seen it in real life.
It’s ugly.
The bit on top is worse than the bottom half.

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It would be a saving grace if the ugly top half were able to descend/ascend on the vertical poles, which ought to be hydraulic rams. No other excuse for the design, as far as I can see - the top half looks like the worst of 1960s architecture. I might ping it over to RJS via Instagram.

 

[briantrumpet]

That's how you accept a lifetime achievement award.

 

[BoldonLad]

When I see photos like this, I'm starkly reminded that:

1) It was only 21 years after WW2
2) Poverty was very widespread
3) I was alive (2yo for this date)

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I was 19 then 😊

They were the good old days, child poverty is much worse now.

 

[briantrumpet]

This made me laugh. Repeatedly.

https://bsky.app/profile/rmcelreath.bsky.social/post/3mg5cv54nzk2y

 

[briantrumpet]

It would be a saving grace if the ugly top half were able to descend/ascend on the vertical poles, which ought to be hydraulic rams. No other excuse for the design, as far as I can see - the top half looks like the worst of 1960s architecture. I might ping it over to RJS via Instagram.

Interesting little exchange from (architect) RJS, late of Cake Stop. Apparently it was supposedly based on the futurist Antonia Sant'elia. TBH, if this is what I'd asked for and got the actual building (which RJS said might have suffered by being built to fixed-price contract, so finished not being as the architect envisaged), I'd be more than a little peeved.

I don't buy RJS's argument that the only person who should be judging it is the person who commissioned it: architects must know that their output is going to be judged by everyone who has no option but to see their work, and for decades into the future.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

This made me laugh. Repeatedly.

https://bsky.app/profile/rmcelreath.bsky.social/post/3mg5cv54nzk2y

It's the way they don't break their fall in any way. Comic genius, much like the infamous 'Only Fools and Horses' scene where Delboy falls through the bar.

 

[Pross]

Interesting little exchange from (architect) RJS, late of Cake Stop. Apparently it was supposedly based on the futurist Antonia Sant'elia. TBH, if this is what I'd asked for and got the actual building (which RJS said might have suffered by being built to fixed-price contract, so finished not being as the architect envisaged), I'd be more than a little peeved.

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I don't buy RJS's argument that the only person who should be judging it is the person who commissioned it: architects must know that their output is going to be judged by everyone who has no option but to see their work, and for decades into the future.

I would say his take is reasonable - don't judge the building, judge the taste of the person who commissioned that building (only they can judge if it is what they envisaged getting). I think that part of the problem is also that some architects (and engineers) working at concept stage either don't inform their client of realistic costs of their visions or, if they do, don't appreciate the likely full construction cost themselves.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

I am fairly sure several people called BS on this story on one of the threads. Seems it most certainly was. The Telegraph making sh1t up to promote its deranged agenda, who would have thought!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...ricated-story-banker-struggle-pay-school-fees

 

[First Aspect]

I am fairly sure several people called BS on this story on one of the threads. Seems it most certainly was. The Telegraph making sh1t up to promote its deranged agenda, who would have thought!

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2...ricated-story-banker-struggle-pay-school-fees

Perhaps the minor fee increases may it less plausible, but I know someone who came into about £500k after tax last year, but at a cost of a reduced salary for 5 years or so (and by "reduced" we are probably talking about £150k). Said person has three kids, and the ex also earns a six figure salary. This person was devastated because somehow this would make it hard to afford their share of private school fees for all of them.

These people really do exist.

 

[midlandsgrimpeur]

Perhaps the minor fee increases may it less plausible, but I know someone who came into about £500k after tax last year, but at a cost of a reduced salary for 5 years or so (and by "reduced" we are probably talking about £150k). Said person has three kids, and the ex also earns a six figure salary. This person was devastated because somehow this would make it hard to afford their share of private school fees for all of them.

These people really do exist.

In which case, it probably condemns the lack of journalistic integrity and vigour shown even more. A bit of basic research rather than just fabricating a story would have been the better course of action.