Posted by: Sydney Meriwether, Glasgow on 11:02am Mon 8 Sep 08
I don't see any reason why SPP should feel the need to distance themselves from this nonsense - it's quite obviously the actions of idiots and SPP are NOT idiots, they are concerned community activists.
Tis stupid act does highlight a major concern though: that of how can any Go Ape development at Pollok Park be realistically protected - [bold]12-foot high security fences topped with razor-wire perhaps[/bold]... now that would be a lovely site from the Burrell!!!
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Sydney Meriwether
[italic]The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters![/italic]
I don't see any reason why SPP should feel the need to distance themselves from this nonsense - it's quite obviously the actions of idiots and SPP are NOT idiots, they are concerned community activists.
Tis stupid act does highlight a major concern though: that of how can any Go Ape development at Pollok Park be realistically protected -
12-foot high security fences topped with razor-wire perhaps... now that would be a lovely site from the Burrell!!!
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Sydney Meriwether
The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters! Posted by: Sydney Meriwether, Glasgow on 11:21am Mon 8 Sep 08
BTW would the 'Reader Alex Glass' who took the photie in today's 'opinion' section be the same 'Alex Glass' who sat on the council Planning Committee and voted through the Go Ape plan... [italic]if it is[/italic] then did he do it on 'council time', whereby we would have a situation where Glasgow taxpayers are paying for photographs to appear in the Evening Times???
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Sydney Meriwether
[italic]The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters![/italic]
BTW would the 'Reader Alex Glass' who took the photie in today's 'opinion' section be the same 'Alex Glass' who sat on the council Planning Committee and voted through the Go Ape plan...
if it is then did he do it on 'council time', whereby we would have a situation where Glasgow taxpayers are paying for photographs to appear in the Evening Times???
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Sydney Meriwether
The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters! Posted by: Travis1234, Glasgow on 11:50am Mon 8 Sep 08
Free Tibet!
Free Pollok Park!
These bams are pathetic! Watch out Glasgow, theres a hippie crime spree coming!
Free Tibet!
Free Pollok Park!
These bams are pathetic! Watch out Glasgow, theres a hippie crime spree coming!
Posted by: Travis1234, Glasgow on 11:51am Mon 8 Sep 08
Free Tibet!
Free Pollok Park!
These bams are pathetic! Watch out Glasgow, theres a hippie crime spree coming!
Free Tibet!
Free Pollok Park!
These bams are pathetic! Watch out Glasgow, theres a hippie crime spree coming!
Posted by: Stewie Griffin, Glasgow on 12:25pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]Sydney Meriwether[/bold] wrote:
BTW would the 'Reader Alex Glass' who took the photie in today's 'opinion' section be the same 'Alex Glass' who sat on the council Planning Committee and voted through the Go Ape plan... [italic]if it is[/italic] then did he do it on 'council time', whereby we would have a situation where Glasgow taxpayers are paying for photographs to appear in the Evening Times??? -- Sydney Meriwether [italic]The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters![/italic] [/quote] Or the same Alex Glass who spends most of his time on the Hidden Glasgow website spouting GCC propaganda?
Sydney Meriwether wrote:
BTW would the 'Reader Alex Glass' who took the photie in today's 'opinion' section be the same 'Alex Glass' who sat on the council Planning Committee and voted through the Go Ape plan... if it is then did he do it on 'council time', whereby we would have a situation where Glasgow taxpayers are paying for photographs to appear in the Evening Times??? -- Sydney Meriwether The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters!
Or the same Alex Glass who spends most of his time on the Hidden Glasgow website spouting GCC propaganda?
Posted by: Grumpy Gordon, Doon by the Clyde on 12:37pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]Sydney Meriwether[/bold] wrote:
BTW would the 'Reader Alex Glass' who took the photie in today's 'opinion' section be the same 'Alex Glass' who sat on the council Planning Committee and voted through the Go Ape plan... [italic]if it is[/italic] then did he do it on 'council time', whereby we would have a situation where Glasgow taxpayers are paying for photographs to appear in the Evening Times??? -- Sydney Meriwether [italic]The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters![/italic] [/quote] Cindy,
Does it matter when he took it - I think it's a pretty picture.
I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.
Perhaps you might want to see him 'birched' for doing so.
Cindy - cooncilers have lives too where thaty are perfectly entitled to do what they like (take yer SNP boy in with the AK47) - be that taking photos or firing a machine gun.
[bold]They aint just robots for you to gripe at all day fae yer library computer.[/bold]
Grumpy.
Sydney Meriwether wrote:
BTW would the 'Reader Alex Glass' who took the photie in today's 'opinion' section be the same 'Alex Glass' who sat on the council Planning Committee and voted through the Go Ape plan... if it is then did he do it on 'council time', whereby we would have a situation where Glasgow taxpayers are paying for photographs to appear in the Evening Times??? -- Sydney Meriwether The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters!
Cindy,
Does it matter when he took it - I think it's a pretty picture.
I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.
Perhaps you might want to see him 'birched' for doing so.
Cindy - cooncilers have lives too where thaty are perfectly entitled to do what they like (take yer SNP boy in with the AK47) - be that taking photos or firing a machine gun.
They aint just robots for you to gripe at all day fae yer library computer.
Grumpy.
Posted by: Stewie Griffin, Glasgow on 12:42pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote]I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.[/quote]
What kind of things?
I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.
What kind of things?
Posted by: Sydney Meriwether, Glasgow on 12:49pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]Stewie Griffin[/bold] wrote:
[quote]I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.[/quote]
What kind of things? [/quote] [italic]Yes, what kind of things[/italic]... and would this be related to them doing [italic]things[/italic] that they are "perfectly entitled to do what they like"?
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Sydney Meriwether
[italic]The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters![/italic]
Stewie Griffin wrote:
I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.
What kind of things?
Yes, what kind of things... and would this be related to them doing
things that they are "perfectly entitled to do what they like"?
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Sydney Meriwether
The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters! Posted by: RapidAssistant, Glasgow on 12:56pm Mon 8 Sep 08
Free Pollok Park?? From what exactly?
The hippies totally failed 13 years ago in their bid to stop it being cut in half by a motorway (lets face it - far worse than turning a section of it into an adventure playground).
So what's their problem?
Free Pollok Park?? From what exactly?
The hippies totally failed 13 years ago in their bid to stop it being cut in half by a motorway (lets face it - far worse than turning a section of it into an adventure playground).
So what's their problem?
Posted by: Pete, Glasgow on 1:19pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]RapidAssistant[/bold] wrote:
Free Pollok Park?? From what exactly? The hippies totally failed 13 years ago in their bid to stop it being cut in half by a motorway (lets face it - far worse than turning a section of it into an adventure playground). So what's their problem?[/quote] You're on dodgy ground there mate.
A while back I asked how many of the SPP brigade now happliy use the M77 between Dumbreck and Cowglen. Got into all sorts of trouble then. Good luck.
RapidAssistant wrote:
Free Pollok Park?? From what exactly? The hippies totally failed 13 years ago in their bid to stop it being cut in half by a motorway (lets face it - far worse than turning a section of it into an adventure playground). So what's their problem?
You're on dodgy ground there mate.
A while back I asked how many of the SPP brigade now happliy use the M77 between Dumbreck and Cowglen. Got into all sorts of trouble then. Good luck.
Posted by: mulross, Glasgow on 2:19pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]Pete[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]RapidAssistant[/bold] wrote:
Free Pollok Park?? From what exactly? The hippies totally failed 13 years ago in their bid to stop it being cut in half by a motorway (lets face it - far worse than turning a section of it into an adventure playground). So what's their problem?[/quote] You're on dodgy ground there mate.
A while back I asked how many of the SPP brigade now happliy use the M77 between Dumbreck and Cowglen. Got into all sorts of trouble then. Good luck.[/quote] The folk campaigning against Go Ape in Pollok are hardly a "bunch of hippies" and I would reckon that very few of them were involved in the M77 campaign. The M77 campaign is irrelevant to o Ape in Pollok, but just seems to provide a convenient excuse to slag off people who actually care about what happens to their city by those who are incapable of caring about anything apart from their own selfish little lives.
Pete wrote:
RapidAssistant wrote:
Free Pollok Park?? From what exactly? The hippies totally failed 13 years ago in their bid to stop it being cut in half by a motorway (lets face it - far worse than turning a section of it into an adventure playground). So what's their problem?
You're on dodgy ground there mate.
A while back I asked how many of the SPP brigade now happliy use the M77 between Dumbreck and Cowglen. Got into all sorts of trouble then. Good luck.
The folk campaigning against Go Ape in Pollok are hardly a "bunch of hippies" and I would reckon that very few of them were involved in the M77 campaign. The M77 campaign is irrelevant to o Ape in Pollok, but just seems to provide a convenient excuse to slag off people who actually care about what happens to their city by those who are incapable of caring about anything apart from their own selfish little lives.
Posted by: Pete, Glasgow on 2:42pm Mon 8 Sep 08
Y'see.
Posted by: Sydney Meriwether, Glasgow on 3:58pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]Stewie Griffin[/bold] wrote:
[quote]I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.[/quote]
What kind of things? [/quote] Looks like Grumpy Gordon has taken the huff!
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Sydney Meriwether
[italic]The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters![/italic]
Stewie Griffin wrote:
I have it on good authority that Steven Pucell has also, on a number of occasions - taken photos of things.
What kind of things?
Looks like Grumpy Gordon has taken the huff!
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Sydney Meriwether
The Darling of Glasgow's economic forecasters! Posted by: RapidAssistant, Glasgow on 4:18pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]Pete[/bold] wrote:
Y'see.[/quote] Of course. Not that they don't have a valid argument whether it be a motorway or whatever - I was just making the point that the damage caused by this development is a drop in the ocean caused by what the M77 and everything that went with it did to Pollok Park.
Pete wrote:
Y'see.
Of course. Not that they don't have a valid argument whether it be a motorway or whatever - I was just making the point that the damage caused by this development is a drop in the ocean caused by what the M77 and everything that went with it did to Pollok Park.
Posted by: R Gyle, Glasgow on 4:52pm Mon 8 Sep 08
Why the surprise at the vandalism at Aberfoyle?, it is just a pre-emptive strike prior to the vandalism about to be inflicted in Pollok Park by Glasgow City Councillors.
Why the surprise at the vandalism at Aberfoyle?, it is just a pre-emptive strike prior to the vandalism about to be inflicted in Pollok Park by Glasgow City Councillors.
Posted by: SPAMALOT, southside on 9:05pm Mon 8 Sep 08
[quote][bold]RapidAssistant[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]Pete[/bold] wrote: Y'see.[/quote] Of course. Not that they don't have a valid argument whether it be a motorway or whatever - I was just making the point that the damage caused by this development is a drop in the ocean caused by what the M77 and everything that went with it did to Pollok Park. [/quote] What you on about the M77 is huge success would suit you better to get your diper changed because it seems to be wringing
RapidAssistant wrote:
Pete wrote: Y'see.
Of course. Not that they don't have a valid argument whether it be a motorway or whatever - I was just making the point that the damage caused by this development is a drop in the ocean caused by what the M77 and everything that went with it did to Pollok Park.
What you on about the M77 is huge success would suit you better to get your diper changed because it seems to be wringing
Posted by: celtic4, United States on 10:14pm Mon 8 Sep 08
Found something else to complain about Sydney?
Sydney Meriwether
Darling of none.
Found something else to complain about Sydney?
Sydney Meriwether
Darling of none.
Posted by: trench, possilpark on 8:04am Tue 9 Sep 08
the go ape thing....put the ones who have already decided to take the gift which was presented to the glasgow residents in one of the harnesses.put them up the trees and dedicate a brass plaque on the area where they will be hunging from ,with the words....here hings diddy number 1 theif, stole the gift that wizny theirs.....corruptio
n rules.
the go ape thing....put the ones who have already decided to take the gift which was presented to the glasgow residents in one of the harnesses.put them up the trees and dedicate a brass plaque on the area where they will be hunging from ,with the words....here hings diddy number 1 theif, stole the gift that wizny theirs.....corruptio
n rules.
Posted by: trench, possilpark on 8:23am Tue 9 Sep 08
typo error...it should read...hanging from.
typo error...it should read...hanging from.
Posted by: RapidAssistant, Glasgow on 9:23am Tue 9 Sep 08
[quote][bold]SPAMALOT[/bold] wrote:
[quote][bold]RapidAssistant[/bold] wrote: [quote][bold]Pete[/bold] wrote: Y'see.[/quote] Of course. Not that they don't have a valid argument whether it be a motorway or whatever - I was just making the point that the damage caused by this development is a drop in the ocean caused by what the M77 and everything that went with it did to Pollok Park. [/quote] What you on about the M77 is huge success would suit you better to get your diper changed because it seems to be wringing[/quote] Diper is spelt DIAPER. Get yourself an American dictionary.
And I use the M77 every week.
SPAMALOT wrote:
RapidAssistant wrote: Pete wrote: Y'see.
Of course. Not that they don't have a valid argument whether it be a motorway or whatever - I was just making the point that the damage caused by this development is a drop in the ocean caused by what the M77 and everything that went with it did to Pollok Park.
What you on about the M77 is huge success would suit you better to get your diper changed because it seems to be wringing
Diper is spelt DIAPER. Get yourself an American dictionary.
And I use the M77 every week.
Posted by: max, Glasgow on 9:56am Tue 9 Sep 08
[bold]It's a pity that people here seem to have lost sight of the issue. I would never condone vandalism but it seems hardly surprising that when the public exhaust all legal means to stop a project in their city which seems to be breaking the law itself that they would resort to this sort of thing.
As someone who opposes the commercial development of Pollok's North Woods I wonder why 'Go Ape' seems to have been given such an easy time by the press. Every time this story comes up the Council is interviewed, the protesters are interviewed, but nobody seems to see fit to ask 'Go Ape' themselves how they feel as an 'enviromentally friendly' company about 5000 protesters, building on an important archeological site, felling trees and going against the wishes of both the landowners and the National Trust. Why has no-one put these points to them?
The answer would presumably be 'no comment'...[/bold]
It's a pity that people here seem to have lost sight of the issue. I would never condone vandalism but it seems hardly surprising that when the public exhaust all legal means to stop a project in their city which seems to be breaking the law itself that they would resort to this sort of thing.
As someone who opposes the commercial development of Pollok's North Woods I wonder why 'Go Ape' seems to have been given such an easy time by the press. Every time this story comes up the Council is interviewed, the protesters are interviewed, but nobody seems to see fit to ask 'Go Ape' themselves how they feel as an 'enviromentally friendly' company about 5000 protesters, building on an important archeological site, felling trees and going against the wishes of both the landowners and the National Trust. Why has no-one put these points to them?
The answer would presumably be 'no comment'...
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