Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Steve H on August 20, 2018, 09:36:54 AM
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You'll always find some joyless fusspot to object to any activity, however innocent.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681
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Er ... ? ???
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Hmmm.....some kind of expansion or details would be helpful.
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You'll always find some joyless fusspot to object to any activity, however innocent.
I take it a joyless fusspot has objected to your innocent activity?
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Buggerybollocks - forgot to include the link! OP edited, and here it is as well. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681
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Buggerybollocks - forgot to include the link! OP edited, and here it is as well. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-45146681
I find this a bit odd. In a landscape where there are ancient cairns it makes sense, but not elsewhere. Landscape changes all the time.
It is a bit annoying that it is usually just for the perfect 'gram shot, but that fashion will pass.
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What a stupid craze, if those rocks fell on a child, for instance they could sustain a serious injury, if not worse. :o
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What a stupid craze, if those rocks fell on a child, for instance they could sustain a serious injury, if not worse. :o
Sigh.
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Sigh.
You might not take that attitude if a young relative of yours was hurt, assuming you have any young relatives.
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What are the odds of that happening?
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What are the odds of that happening?
From the photos those stacks don't look well balanced, so I would have thought the odds on them falling on someone were quite high.
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Most of these aren't very high anyway - I've seen a few and tried it myself, and it is quite hard to get more that 4 or 5 to balance.
Saw the pics of Orkney, a place I know well and have visited several times. Ironically piling rocks on other rocks works there: Skara Brae being an example (and if you ever go to Orkney don't miss it).
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"The first rule of the environment is leave no trace," he said. "If we educated people to understand that philosophy I think then people would have second thoughts about making a personal statement with a rock stack."
Yes well if we did that we wouldn't build houses. Numpty.
Anyway these are all over the place on Lanzarote - no-one ever seems to get injured. I think your worries are unfounded LR. Anyway shouldn't responsible parents be watching their children?
Ah a far cry from my halcyon youth when you could go out all day on your bike, swim in the local pond, eat apples for lunch nicked from a strangers garden, catch stickleback with a net and return home at dusk to parents who didn't seem to realise you'd been gone.
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Very appropriate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFrdqQZ8FFc
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Very appropriate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFrdqQZ8FFc
Never seen that one before, and I thought I'd seen everything by the Pythons. No Cleese, I notice, so it must be from the last series, after he left to do FawltyTowers.
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From the photos those stacks don't look well balanced, so I would have thought the odds on them falling on someone were quite high.
It's a few stones stacked on top of one another, not a cut-throat razor. The chances of harm coming to anyone are minuscule.
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It's a few stones stacked on top of one another, not a cut-throat razor. The chances of harm coming to anyone are minuscule.
If you say so. But that aside, they still look a mess.
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Most of these aren't very high anyway - I've seen a few and tried it myself, and it is quite hard to get more that 4 or 5 to balance.
Saw the pics of Orkney, a place I know well and have visited several times. Ironically piling rocks on other rocks works there: Skara Brae being an example (and if you ever go to Orkney don't miss it).
I liked the picture of Skara Brae, the rock piles blend in well there too.
I've never seen any on beaches that I have visited (or not noticed them), but the concept of doing it carefully is an attractive one. Drawing them appeals to me too, I can do that from photographs and add background.
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Most of these aren't very high anyway - I've seen a few and tried it myself, and it is quite hard to get more that 4 or 5 to balance.
Saw the pics of Orkney, a place I know well and have visited several times. Ironically piling rocks on other rocks works there: Skara Brae being an example (and if you ever go to Orkney don't miss it).
Really really really really really want to go to Skara Brae.
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Really really really really really want to go to Skara Brae.
Hopefully you'll get there one day, Rhi: the archaeology is stunning and there is quite a lot of it.
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Really really really really really want to go to Skara Brae.
Me too. https://www.visitorkney.com/listings/history/skara-brae-skaill-house
I keep thinking about those rocks piled up, visualising the colours, shadows, texture. I'm gonna draw them.