lordloveaduck
Well-Known Member
- Location
- Birmingham
The Shard is a CON. It's just a tower block with a sheet of glass placed over it at an angle. I'm sure Everest would have given them a cheaper quote or even a BOGOF on the glass.
£25 to look out of the window!
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Fnaar
Smutmaster General
- Location
- Thumberland
Do they give you a glass of wine for your £25? A glass of Shard - onnay, maybe?
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Sent mobile phone stylee
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Sent mobile phone stylee
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Same here, but just saying' like though, because in that darkness, you could be almost anywhere.
Would probably have tried to flog them an alarm system at the same time...
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Why is it whenever you post I'm reminded of that brummy Harry Enfield character who was always saying "And I am considerably richer than yow!"
£25 is easily more than I spend on food for a week....
With regard to the height, it's all relative. The highest point in York (by planning law, I believe) is the Minster Tower, which is only 60m high - but from the top you're higher than anything else for about 40 miles I reckon and York is laid out before you beautifully. On the other hand, that costs £6 to go up, so it's about the same, metre for metre. No lift in the Minster though, just 275 steps....
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Well, next time you're up the Tower, wave in a vaguely northeasterly direction at my flat....
(I can just make out figures going round the top...)
(I can just make out figures going round the top...)
Mad Doug Biker
Just a damaged guy.
- Location
- Craggy Island
Well, next time you're up the Tower, wave in a vaguely northeasterly direction at my flat....
(I can just make out figures going round the top...)
Arch is armed with her binoculars at all times (even in bed), so that she can spy on who's there at a moments notice.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Sadly. I can only see the Tower when sitting at my table. From bed, I'd need some sort of mirror/periscope....
I've never actually liased and waved to someone up there, but with mobile phones and them knowing which way to look, it would be doable!
I missed something exciting once. I went out for some shopping and saw a SeaKing fly low overhead, heading, I thought, for the hospital. Did my shopping, came out of the supermarket, saw it flying back again. Found out later they'd had to winch a man off the Tower after he had a heart attack, and couldn't be got back down the stairs on a stretcher. I'd have had a ringside view!
Together with the binocular storage comment on the "mobile phone storage" thread, I now have a completely inappropriate image of young Arch.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
Young? Young?
You utter flatterer...
You utter flatterer...
The Jogger
Legendary Member
- Location
- Spain
Just seen on the BBC breakfast news that it'll cost £25 to go up to the 69th floor of the new "Shard" building in London!!!
It'll be open to the public to go and have a gander from February next year by all accounts.
I'd like to go up it, and fully understand making a charge, but chuffin' hell, £25!!!???
Yeah but...............................
It's the only way I was going to get to talk about imagining things in your cleavage without earning (& deserving) a slap.Young? Young?
You utter flatterer...
Nihal
Veteran
Now you've gotten into trouble,NormIt's the only way I was going to get to talk about imagining things in your cleavage without earning (& deserving) a slap.
