Oh Happy Day for Mr DZ

[martint235]

So it's finally arrived and I'm sure Dellzeqq is already burning rubber to get to Stratford to be at the front of the queue!

The Orbit aka Kapoor's big red tower thingy will open today

Here

 

[snorri]

"If its loops were straightened out it would be taller than the Eiffel Tower"

 

[dellzeqq]

a monument to the 91 miners who died in Mittal's mines in Khazakhstan?

 

[mangaman]

"If its loops were straightened out it would be taller than the Eiffel Tower"

If all the pretentiousness in it were turned into Coke (official sponsors of The Games) cans they would stretch from Droitwich to Skegness and back - twice apparantly

 

[martint235]

Apparently it will be £15 to climb the tower. Once again the powers that be seem utterly determined to screw up the Olympics for the ordinary person!

 

[Archie_tect]

If it was elegant and beautiful I could accept it but it looks like a badly designed chemical works silo.

What is it for?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

London's very lucky to have such a fine piece of art, the rest of us will just have to put up with the disappointment that we can't see it from where we are.

 

[Aperitif]

Apparently it will be £15 to climb the tower. Once again the powers that be seem utterly determined to screw up the Olympics for the ordinary person!

Powers? How polite. Greedy, duplicitous power mad reptiles is probably how the 'final story' will pan out. By then, Seb Coe will be Mayor of London and Boris will be Prime Minister. Anyone see the sad pictures of Athens in the Grauniad earlier this week?

Sorry that the Tower doesn't Mittal of our expectations. It might look better in the middle of Hyde Park.

 

[martint235]

I quite like it but I object to having to pay £15 in order to be able to climb it. By comparison it is just short of 5 euros to climb the Eiffel Tower (or about 50p in today's money ) oh ok just over £4 really.

 

[Aperitif]

I quite like it but I object to having to pay £15 in order to be able to climb it. By comparison it is just short of 5 euros to climb the Eiffel Tower (or about 50p in today's money ) oh ok just over £4 really.

Maybe you could stand around the Olympic Park offering piggy-backs for a quid, BigM - that would give people an eyeful!

 

[asterix]

London's very lucky to have such a fine piece of art, the rest of us will just have to put up with the disappointment that we can't see it from where we are.

Very tactfully put!

 

[Cheddar George]

Give it a chance, it might look quite impressive when they have taken all that scaffolding down.

 

[Aperitif]

What it is clearly crying out for is scaling at night without using the stairs.

That will be a niche caper.

 

[Aperitif]

It has to be on the list for base jumpers to have a go at.

Maybe a fixed wheel ride up the stairs...using a 'low cog'?

 

[martint235]

It has to be on the list for base jumpers to have a go at.

We could have all gone round for a go one Friday night apart from the fact they've closed the Greenway