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| Mittonsmate Rank: Jasper | The Brum Eye posted on: 10/26/2003 10:42:07 PM According to today's Sunday Mercury, a fortnight from now there's going to be a 60-metre ferris wheel in Centenary Square (that's the height of 12 double-decker buses!). It will have 42 gondolas, each seating 4 to 6 people, and each ride will last 15-minutes. How cool is that? |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 10/26/2003 11:16:50 PM It will be in Brum untill the new year, I am going to have a look in the morning. |
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bounder
chairman of the board Rank: Ozzy |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 10/27/2003 9:59:32 AM saw something remarkably similar up by star city as i was passign it on the M6 yesterday. is the ferris wheel on tour? |
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Mittonsmate
Rank: Jasper This message was updated on 10/27/2003 11:22:54 AM by Mittonsmate |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 10/27/2003 11:20:32 AM quote: No, the Centenary Square wheel (square wheel?) has been shipped in fom Paris, where it was the centrepiece of the French millennium celebrations. Probably reeks of garlic. |
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rotunda pants
villa, but nice with it Rank: Ozzy |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 10/31/2003 8:09:25 PM For adults to go on it, it will cost £5. Kids, £3. So if I was to take my good lady and saucepan lids for a ride on the eye, it will cost me £16! Robbing bastards. I could take them all to the pictures for that, and get popcorn, and have at least an hour and a half's entertainment, instead of fifteen minutes in a glass box looking at the NIA's roof. Why are these wheels all called 'eyes', anyway? Is there one in Tokyo called 'The Jap's Eye'? |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 10/31/2003 10:04:21 PM It will be worth the money for an unprecidented view of Saltly gas Works. A better and cheaper day out is to go to the big Island with the James Watt beam engine at the top of the M6 and feed the rats, a thing I am going to do on Sunday. |
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sheldonphil
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The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/1/2003 2:16:58 PM the best view in town is from any high rise in the nechells area obvious contenders are dovey tower and any other high rise from the bloomsbury estate god loves ya nechells, be proud! |
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Mittonsmate
Rank: Jasper |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/1/2003 7:05:52 PM Just had a look at it and it's bloody big! I pity the poor bloke who's got to turn the handle. Or maybe they're going to use a team of super-fit hamsters. |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/3/2003 11:36:40 PM Yeah but the Brum Eye's nothing compared with the Brum Collapsing Scaffold Tower round in Ethel Street. Fantastic! Strewth, us pensioners have never had so much fun since the man in the old Bull Ring used to invite folks to smash the rock he was holding with a sledge hammer. Them were the days - now that was entertainment. Two of my pals copped it today as we all raced down Ethel Street - just as they released the final wall bracket a lovely gust of wind caught it. Whack! Cheerio Ethel and Gladys. That Eye's a disaster waiting to happen let me tell you. Centenary Square's cursed anyway. Look at what happened to that pile of plastic modern art b@££@*&s that the kids set fire to. No good will come of it, mark my words. |
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Nap1st
Rank: Toyah |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/3/2003 11:54:41 PM I saw the scaffolding go up going to work and fall down on Lunch hour |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/4/2003 12:04:54 AM I heard a woman from an office above Pizza Hut being interviewed on Radio WM, they said how did people in your office feel when they saw it, and she said 'well of course a lot of people were crying'. CRYING!!!??? A bit of scaffolding falls down and people are crying? I mean, ok, a bit of a pain for the two people who hobbled off to the hospital X-Ray department in the ambulance but... you know...it was hardly September the flaming eleventh! Like er.. crying when some scaffolding falls down? Get the firemen over from New York somebody... we need a rally or something to get us all back on our feet again..... crying ..... |
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NH350Ariel
old hand Rank: Ozzy |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/4/2003 12:10:53 AM I have seen documentation that defiantly points to welsh involvement in the " one tower" atrocity, Bomb the bastards, |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/4/2003 12:20:21 AM Right then ... Cardiff Mary up the bingo is a dead woman. The words out. |
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Nap1st
Rank: Toyah |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/5/2003 10:28:53 AM you wouldn't have got people crying in our office, they'd have gone "look look, its about to come down". I remember some bloke throwing himself off the bridge down from paradise circus, everybody was having a look, going look at that. |
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DrVeraJenkins
old dear Rank: Jasper |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/6/2003 11:16:34 PM Well I was genuinely disappointed this morning because I did take me youngest grand daughter into town on the 9 this morning to see the site of the one tower collapse, but there's no visible signs at ground zero. You wouldn't even know there'd been a major disaster there only days before. So our council workers ain't all bad after all. But we did see the BrumEye. It's like a lovely big flower. I bet you can see right into some of those hotel rooms in the Hyatt. I'm going to book up on that basis alone. I'll wait till Cliff's at the indoor arena. |
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peakyblinder
old hand Rank: Chinny |
The Brum Eye
replied on: 11/7/2003 7:14:03 PM I was a couple of blocks away from the WTC in NYC when they came down. I didn't cry. |
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