windass

...should be the next manager of Liverpool. :tease:

Liverpool has more grade II listed buildings than any other city outside of Liverpool.

it does look a lovely city. People rate Leeds, but i hate the place!

reckon Liverpool has better buildings than Newcastle? Im not up on whats going on in your city. The sage here is fantastic. catches the light from the tyne bridge.:tease:

The talk about the new stadium has got me a bit wound up about the acceptance of mediocre architecture in this country. I've been working in an architect's office for 7 months now and what I'm finding is that clients and planning are, generally, in favour of traditional design instead of something new and contemporary.

 

For example I was asked to draw up a scheme for some 'luxury' flats in Peckham and I produced a design that was modern yet hinted towards the local vernacular. We were happy with it but we came back from a meeting with a planning advisor and were told that there was absolutely no way we would get it built, not a chance. I was a bit pissed off but have no choice to accept it. I have now worked the scheme through with input from the planning advisor and what we have ended up with is a horrible looking block that is supposed to look like a 'London Villa'. It doesn't, it looks awful and is further from suiting it's surroundings than the first scheme. The planner has ended up dictating the design of the building, if this is happening then why employ an architect? Just get a builder to do it.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love old buildings as much as I do contemporary ones, it's the constant longing to design something traditional that frustrates me. We live in the 21st century, not the 18th, 19th or 20th. Buildings should be designed to suit modern life and this is happening in other countries, the Dutch being a great example of how to bring good design into the mainstream.

 

Take housing as another example, planners tend to favour duo-pitched roofs over mono-pitch or flat ones. Pitched roofs are a waste of space and money, both in construction and energy bills. The reason traditional houses don't have flat roofs is because they didn't have the building technology to make them water tight and insulated to a high standard. Now we do, but we persist with pitched roof houses, it makes no sense to me whatsoever.

 

Over 80% of new homes fail to reach CABE's (Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment) standards, and soon a new Michelin-Star style rating system will be brought in to mark the standards of new houses. This is great news and hopefully one that will kick start a new generation of architecture in this country.

 

Anyway, rant over. It would be good to get some of your opinions on the subject as it's one that I am deeply interested and involved in.

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At the thought of me in a swimming pool?

 

Wow - you are forward!

its your gi cut. mmmhhhha

I went to a swimming pool once

i just had a wank.

he walked past me once in Bradford. he had this silly hat on, and wore nerdy clothes.he knew i recognised him from tv. gave me a cold look,like he did in brookside. what a tosser! :laugh:

What would this forum be like without windass' threads? I ask ya..

 

Duvet girl - but im one leg in one leg out.. I also hug my pillow for dear life as if someone is trying to steal it from beneath my head.

windass farts in bed :lol:

Duvet man myself. Sheets on holiday, but they are usually wringin wet by the morning as ive sweat the shit out of myself during the night.

i sweat in any bloody sort of sheet lol

I know its a taboo subject nowadays. But that old bird off the activia advert needs a fucking spade in her face.

 

Stick your bifidus regularis up your cunt you old trout.

id beat cilla black up. shes liverpudian! :yes:

im a sheet man. duvets get bleedin hot:telloff: whats your tog size? ;)

Windass is pissing himself laughing at us. My guess is that he's an Oxbridge professor of science or English.

my daughter would like your photo. she would think you were lush! :yes:

He's actually quite a good lad, met him a few times in town as he's a mate of a mate

he comes from pudsey,leeds

A chicken balti pasti from some rip off of greggs, didnt even have any chicken in it... and it was £2.

take it back! i held the q up sometime ago. got lots of tut tut. i made the office cunts wait.

...can't even take a shower, with a beautiful woman...without wearing your jeans!"

is that you adam ant?

What was the last thing you spent good money on and then found out was a load of shite?

 

Bought a DVD called The Last Legion the other day (it had pictures on the back of fire catapults and stuff), £9 fucking quid and it was MONUMENTAL shite, I actually feel a bit like a sex crime victim.

vicar teeth from joke shop! i gagged when i put it in my mouth :yes:

YEEEHAW!

 

Now all I need is a job.

 

I hear there's one going at Bolton Wanderers FC but apparently they expect the candidate to be hard-working so that's my chance gone.

well done..obviously got brains in liverpool! ;)

The mad geordie bastards :eek::(:whistle::yes::yes::yes:

im ganning down john lennon airport instead. :wow:

Its a shame you cant wave relatives off anymore. They changed the viewing lounge at Newcastle. all because of terrorists! :(:wallbutt:

 

Platty meet Ted Tucker......

i wouldnt like to meet you ted.

I could take him I reckon, hes one strange little child.

yeah hes a bit creepy.

I have a feelling all that cash wouldn't be so great when you know you have such a limited amount of time to enjoy it.

if it meant living in liverpool. id take the money. ;)

reckon hes puny for his age? hes 19 in real life.:yes:

mad as a bag of frogs or genius who has us all in the palms of his hands?

:thumbup:thanks for people who praised me! can i drown gayer first :yes: then the rest including tomR? :D

Did anyone watch this?

 

Great fight, I actually initially thought the ref stopped it prematurely but on watching the replays you can see it was right. I think I just wanted to see more cos it was good watching.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing that film being made on Gomez's life, sounds like he's been through a lot.

yeah brilliant! brilliant punching by khan. reckon he could have beaten eubank?..different weight i know!