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5 minutes ago, chrisp65 said:

 

Close, but no cigar I reckon. It’s sort of ‘modernism’ shopping centre and cinema complex, ‘in the style of’ brutalism.

You watch me be utterly wrong and its world renown as the first ever brutalist creation.  

It's Bulgarian national palace of culture

2 hours ago, chrisp65 said:

Nerd alert, I genuinely enjoy brutalism. I don’t really know much about New Street Station, but was it really brutalist?

I’ve had a bit of a google out of interest, and I’m not seeing any pictures of a brutalist railway station architecture. I even looked it up on Wikipedia and it names the architects but doesn’t suggest it’s brutalist. There’s a car park and an office block, they’re not really brutalist either they’re just shitty typical build. There is a brutalist signal box, it ain’t great, but it is deliberate intended brutalism.

Brutalism is gorgeous, anyone got any pictures of New Street as brutalism? Or are we just shorthanding shitty concrete 1960’s and brutalism as the same thing?

Walk past this everyday.

-4 Sunday morning in Sofia.

20° on Monday afternoon. We're all currently in the park and it's 'kin rammed.

Just now, rjw63 said:

Hitler on pervitin and bull's semen circa 1945.

1 hour ago, Rugeley Villa said:

Thanks lads means a lot 

Good going mate. You know you're better for it and that's main thing. 

Full fat coke seems abnormal to me at this stage in life. I just prefer the taste of zero it's my go to on school nights before the weekend. Then, I drink 8 litres of white wine and murder Bulgarian prostitutes.

1 hour ago, il_serpente said:

You're on the right track

Average medical debt in dollars?

Economic Left/Right: -6.5
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69

Slightly more left than I thought.

Just now, Follyfoot said:

Who makes jam

The jam pun didn't spread as well as you thought it would.

On 22/01/2024 at 16:24, MichaelB said:

On my next trip to Villa Park we're flying to Manchester. If I go to www.nationalrail.co.uk and search for a train journey from Manchester Airport to New Street Station on Saturday morning, I get a journey where I have to change train in Crewe. The total trip costs £54.40. There's a departure from the airport at 09.01 and arrival in Birmingham at 10.48.

If I split the trip in two, the result is different. Still I get a departure from Manchester Airport at 09.01 with arrival in Crewe at 09.39 and that ticket costs £5.90. If I search for the second part of the journey, I get a departure from Crewe at 09.49 and again with arrival in Birmingham at 10.48 and a ticket costs £16. So a total price of £21.90. It's less than half of what it costs if I buy a ticket for the whole trip at once.

Am I missing something here?

No, you're experiencing fare splitting and it's completely normal. What is also completely normal is train fares in the UK are bonkers.

20 hours ago, rjw63 said:

At LAX waiting to fly back to Blighty, it’s been an amazing trip and I’ll probably be boring you all with some pics in the Rogues Gallery at some point.

Glad you enjoyed it. After your initial anxiety. How much of the typical American stuff did you do? 

1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said:

There was a John Carew executed for the regicide of Charles I a couple of hundred years earlier too.  They must rise every now and then to do something historic.

That Newcastle penalty was historic...ally shite.

12 minutes ago, Seat68 said:

Sadly my mum didn't make it through the night.

Condolences. 

Filmed in Sheffield now. Cutlery munching ocelot bummers.

Entertaining TV.

Three matching used to be a tenner didn't it? 

41 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

My other half went to see family to scatter her nan's ashes yesterday, would have been her 90th birthday.

Didn't entirely go to plan. First one of the family slipped and spilt half of her own mum's ashes on the rug, scooped up as much of her as she could, but lots is going to end up in the vacuum.

Then, after gathering most of the family and going to the destination, they learned that scattering ashes isn't allowed there on Sundays. Fair enough, rules are rules, but people have travelled quite some distance and it'll be a nightmare getting everyone back together. So they ended up decanting her in to small bags and surreptitiously scattering a handful at a time. They basically got the family together to flytip nan. Finally topped off by her brother forgetting it was a stealth mission, standing in the middle of the grounds banging the bottom of the urn to get all the last bits out in full view of everyone before making a runner to the car.

She'd have found it **** hilarious from start to finish.

If we're talking about favourite vag....

Anyone else's mom text them early (on WhatsApp) because the networks will be busy later?

39 minutes ago, Stevo985 said:

I do this with everything. We’re having a party for my son as he’s 2 on Saturday. We started the shopping list about 2 hours ago. It was fine at first. 
 

Now we’re down to deciding which brand of orange juice to have and my constant answers of “it really doesn’t **** matter” are wearing thin. I stopped caring about an hour ago

The man from del monte...he say choose me.

Des Lynam

Dmitri Kharine

Bob Dylan

Warren Buffet

Gene Hackman 

Gail Platt?

9 hours ago, Xela said:

7 years since George Michael died  

Seems like last Christmas.

2 hours ago, Rds1983 said:

Their jawline slopes backwards and isn't a chin apparently. Same with gorillas. 

I've noticed they all look like that...

Do I need a punchline?