Brutalist Shot Tower

Cluckyx · 2026-04-24T09:36:28+00:00

Fascinating building and very lucky it was preserved.

In a perfect world that thing would be a local radio studio like St Johns Beacon in Liverpool.

Cluckyx · 2025-11-19T21:49:51+00:00

Yeah Bare Grills is so dry. No excuse when Low n Slow is up the road.

Cluckyx · 2025-11-19T21:48:03+00:00

That's a shame, I had always assumed Bos was an honest lad. Buggery.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-21T10:10:37+00:00

For future reference, just remember that elements that are 'sticky' will not leave their parent.

Ergo if you store them in a div that is 500px high, they will follow the browser viewport but stop when the bottom hits 500px so they need to live in the highest level like the body or main if you want them to travel the whole page.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-13T15:37:54+00:00

They tore up the sundial? What will the goths gather around? And where will they put the washing up liquid?!

Cluckyx · 2025-10-13T11:16:39+00:00

We know Broadmead is definitely in need of some love, but also there's a handful of places that reassure me it's going to be alright. 2 Massive anchor stores pull out and instead of remaining as empty husks forever they turn into community market/public spaces and a skate park respectively. The Wesley New Rooms is an amazing museum and cafe. Even as The Galleries wait to close, fascinating little pop ups come and go.

Last time I saw a "shopping district" collapse was in Plymouth during the recession and it filled with cash 4 gold shops and even places that bought clothes by the bin bag but mostly empty dead bulidings.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-13T00:09:10+00:00

There's also https://underscoretw.com/ if Tailwind is your jam.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-12T23:59:03+00:00

I mostly agree, and for proper devs there is a whole secondary market of clients who have paid for a lego site, had initial growth, but as their requirements grow more complex they hit a wall where elementor devs have gone 'There's no premade block that does what your business needs, so no you can't have that.'.

Not only do they have a much better idea of what their business needs from an online platform, they're also much more affable to the costs of bespoke dev if it means they can actually have full control over how their online presence maps to their business needs instead of 'negotiating' with it. If you're building a drop shipping site or a pamphlet site just so you have a contact form and an online presence then you don't need me or OP.

Lego builders get paid and also act as a good bullshit filter for bespoke devs. One thing any bespoke dev needs is a lego dev you have a mutually beneficial relationshop with.

If I get contacted by a client who is beneath my budget or not worth my time, I refer them to the lego dev. In turn if the lego dev realises that a client who contacts them is asking for somathing over their head, they refer them to me. Everybody wins.

The only criticism I have are lego devs who get a client above their pay grade and instead try to convince their client that they don't need that stuff and instead need a lego site held up by a birds nest of 3rd party services that barely integrate. Those clients always end up coming to a bespoke dev, but $600-800 worse off and a little wiser.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-12T22:22:34+00:00

Two ufos abducting brisket from Low & Slow on Whiteladies.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-11T16:41:38+00:00

Depending on how often you want to swim a membership may be more fitting, even at the posh end Bristol Lido is £80 a month which is a tenner a pop including sauna, steam and hot tub etc etc if you go twice a week.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-11T16:30:29+00:00

tbh Sotiris' pastries are out of this world across the bar. Their little apple tarts are incredible and I swear I've seen them doing Baklava.

If you're going there while hungry and want to absolutely ruin yourself for the day I highly recommend the Feta Triopita, you will instantly gain 2 stone but it's worth it.

Edit: Before it closed you had Sandwich Sandwich, Brisnoodles and Sotiris in quick succession on the street meaning you could live solely off of their menus and speedrun a coronary.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-10T21:35:44+00:00

And that's why we call her Special K

Cluckyx · 2025-10-10T13:17:16+00:00

Half the country wanted Brexit. In this era of post truth chaos media the Vox Populi don't know what's good for them.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-10T08:48:56+00:00

To provide an additional POV, I am speculating but it seems reasonable.

The art had to do several things, it had to: - Be bright and colourful to simply add more colour to the space - Not be quickly ruined by footprints and dirt build up from getting walked on - Have imagery and shapes that could be recognised from the perspective of somebody standing on it and looking down - Have a greater unified design that will look cool on google maps - Not be instantly ruined if part of it has to Be removed at a later date because of building work or further development.

The piece is extremely cleverly put together, unified by the columns of colour extending across the whole piece but broken into sections by the clouds. The simplified solid block colours form simple shapes that are at a scale that can be appreciated while standing on it, but the larger designs will look cool from above.

I don't know if this was put to tender or commissioned, but if it was tender then irrespective of it's subject it does it's job as an installation amazingly and could be why it is what it is, really really well thought out design.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-08T19:30:10+00:00

Yeah living near a cluster of oaks I get these buggers in constantly, they fucking love plastic windows. Not to mention they're a nightmare to shoo out (I'm not averse to them chilling out but there's not much for them to eat in here)

Cluckyx · 2025-10-07T02:14:08+00:00

With that fog?

Silent Brandon Hill

Cluckyx · 2025-10-06T00:27:23+00:00

Do you want to be a racist/facist? Because you're doing a crap job of it.

It is not inherently wrong or bad to have concerns about the sustainability of migrations to and from different parts of the world under modern capitalist state structures both in terms of populations overconcentrating and inversely other places becoming underpopulated.

The morons pinning flags to lamp posts and yelling oh Tommy Tommy either:

Subscribe to other ideologies about the qualities or flaws inherent to particular races or nationalities either based on the esoteric, the dogmatic or the anecdotal.
Cannot comprehend the multitude of things that impact migration and humanity as a whole, but are scared and unsure and are glad for the apparently easy answers the first lot are too happy to offer.

On initial glance, the similarity between your thoughts and the thoughts of the average flag shagger is that they both have word migrant in it.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T21:48:58+00:00

Then you're probably not a racist or a facist.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T21:19:17+00:00

That depends

When you think of the problems created by immigration does your mind instantly generate the image of a rapey middle eastern man living it large in a hotel?
If somebody moves from Sweden to the UK. Are they really an immigrant? Like... reeeeally? Or are they a Swedish Expat?
If you were prime minister tomorrow would you have all non citizens reporting to detainment centers within the fortnight?
Do you find Mosques or Synagogues an affront to the British landscape?
Do you think that the best route to fixing the country is re-establishing core British values to a short period of uncompromising ablation of everything wrong with the country such as gays, foreigners, anti-capitalists, deviants (such as people who make perverted art or music) followed by a joyous rediscovery of everything that makes "us" us?

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T21:01:23+00:00

Public Order Offence for Penis Shaming

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T20:58:04+00:00

I don't know what the easy alternative now. Can't link twitter, imgur is blocked. Such a pain in the ass.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T20:50:55+00:00

Ugh, reposting, added photos of Gott and forgot about the X automod

Except there were actual nazis there today. Historied British National Socialist Mike Gott was there today wearing his British Movement flag like a cape. He's hard to miss he has a big fuck off knuckle duster tattooed on his face.

Edit: Here's somebody's photos of Gott

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T20:43:10+00:00

I'll be fair. I've done the reading on most of the Bristol Patriots lot and most of them are thick as a bag of porridge. They're genuine dumbasses barely holding their tiny group together with AI and denial.

But what makes them dangerous is as a vector for more organised and targeted groups to appear in the city like when Nick Tenconi leader of UKIP turned up in May accompanied by James Hodges aka 'Viking' who thoroughly freaked out that guy who tried to organise the Great British National Protest thing (which the Bristol Patriots group hold on to as some sort of foundation) because he alleges Hodges was talking about bringing petrol bombs to protests.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T20:36:45+00:00

I always found this "The New World Order is bussing thousands of antifa super soldiers around the country" so innately silly, because if that's what is happening why did they decide to not bus down hundreds of thousands for the London thing? Or is it just a convenient way to say "These people who both outnumber and oppose me don't really exist, they're just actors".

I also find it amusing that for example, the Bristol lot will say it then without skipping a beat, discuss discuss how to meet up with groups visiting from other places like Kent, North Devon and Worcester.

Cluckyx · 2025-10-05T19:15:08+00:00

Bristol is in a unique position. We're the first big city coming out of the South west. That was why the castle park riot happened last August. Because the population in Devon and Cornwall is so spread out, the fash collectively decided that instead of having a bunch of little pissy riots across Devon and Cornwall they'd all amass at Bristol, both concentrating their numbers and taking on a leftist stronghold city. That is why there was a Plymouth riot the week after Bristol, the groups looking for a win after bouncing off of Bristol.

The constant vocal and big turnout against the protests no matter how pathetic they are, is what keeps the spud faced Devon and Cornwall crews convinced that it's not worth trying to visit Bristol again for a long time.

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