Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Hope on April 26, 2016, 06:11:08 PM
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36138203
In these days of wide-spread ownership of watches and other time-keeping technology - are the chimes actually necessary?
Could £29 million over 3 years be better spent?
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Of course £29 million could be better spent - on the NHS for starters, though it wouldn't go very far. However, Big Ben is so ingrained in the national (and to some extent international) psyche as an instant symbol of/shorthand for London specifically and England generally that there's no chance of scrapping it. Won't happen.
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When I saw the title NO BOngs - I thought it was going to be about something else entirely.... :(
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So did I. 8)
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Spliffs are OK, right?
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Let's keep the bongs, and some cakes 8)
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Good idea, as long as you don't make a hash of it.
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Spliffs are OK, right?
As long as you don't inhale, Jeremy.
A chap called 'Bill' once advised he took this approach (which kind of misses the point I'd have thought).
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Pipe anyone?
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When I saw the title NO BOngs - I thought it was going to be about something else entirely.... :(
I had a feeling folk might, which is precisely why I used the 'b' word - it had been used in a radio news broadcast - as opposed to the 'p' word. Why not have a bit of fun at other posters' expense? ;)
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News reports encourage all kinds of shocking behaviour.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=73V2g1tYVqk
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-36138203
In these days of wide-spread ownership of watches and other time-keeping technology - are the chimes actually necessary?
Could £29 million over 3 years be better spent?
It's a major tourist attraction and the clock itself is of some historical significance, so it's probably fair-enough.
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I wouldn't like to see Big Ben go, it's a historical landmark, just like Nelson's Column and the lions in Trafalgar.
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I wouldn't like to see Big Ben go, it's a historical landmark, just like Nelson's Column and the lions in Trafalgar.
Yes - like you and LA I'm not really seeing a problem with this.
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We all know a lot of money will be spent but the government wastes money all the time, and hides it, so why not? How boring our landscape would be without these iconic buildings.
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I wanted a whole range of clocks in our home that ranged from bongs to cookoos.
My husband the spoilsport won't hear of it, says it will drive him nuts specially as the cookoo clock I really wanted, went off every 15mins and seemed to lack an off switch for night time :(
He threatened to shoot it if I got one :-[
I like old noisy clocks.
Like grandfather clocks with a loud and serious sounding tick/tock that does the Westminster chimey thing every 15mins.
I call it, atmospheric the other half describes it as just a lot of racket.
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Old noisey clocks are much better than the new fangled silent electric ones, IMO.
But in our household I'm outnumbered, so no bongs for me :( :-[ :'(
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Dear Hope,
The bongs are priceless, part of who we are, I had prepared a whole new thread on what makes your city, your city because of this thread but the damn gremlins on this forum lost it, it was a beautiful opening OP, sort it out Gordon >:( >:( :(
Gonnagle.
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Are bongs priceless? What if it was 200 billion? I grow old and wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled, would it make that much difference if it was a recording?
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Ah - J. Alfred Prufrock.
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Wasn't he the boss of the FBI?
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Wasn't he the boss of the FBI?
only if he dared to eat a peach
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Dear Sane,
A recording, sorry something soooo wrong about that >:( >:(
Gonnagle.
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Dear Sane,
A recording, sorry something soooo wrong about that >:( >:(
Gonnagle.
With you Gonners. This boards full of Palestines.
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Dear Sane,
A recording, sorry something soooo wrong about that >:( >:(
Gonnagle.
Why? It's just a sound. Was talking to a friend last night about all the stuff you carry round and at base very little of it matters. For 3 years we will have little actual bongs.
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Dear Trent,
Not Palestine's, atheists, who from now on I will be renaming Auditors. ::) :PP
Gonnagle.
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Dear Trent,
Not Palestine's, atheists, who from now on I will be renaming Auditors. ::) :PP
Gonnagle.
Why is that, given that disagree on this? Why make a lazy incorrect generalisation?
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Dear Sane,
See the smiley, no look again, see it now, good, it was tongue in cheek stuff, no more, no less, you Auditor ::)
Tell me old friend, if we stop believing in Santa will the sun not rise tomorrow.
Gonnagle.
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I wanted a whole range of clocks in our home that ranged from bongs to cookoos.
My husband the spoilsport won't hear of it, says it will drive him nuts specially as the cookoo clock I really wanted, went off every 15mins and seemed to lack an off switch for night time :(
He threatened to shoot it if I got one :-[
I like old noisy clocks.
Like grandfather clocks with a loud and serious sounding tick/tock that does the Westminster chimey thing every 15mins.
I call it, atmospheric the other half describes it as just a lot of racket.
:(
Old noisey clocks are much better than the new fangled silent electric ones, IMO.
But in our household I'm outnumbered, so no bongs for me :( :-[ :'(
You and I would get along just fine Rose, I don't even like ticking clocks, the clocks wouldn't be doing the striking, I'd be doing the striking; any striking clock wouldn't be striking for very long here.
My wife has a kitchen clock of her own choice, she was away for three weeks recently, I had the mechanism, changed professionaly while she was away, it's now silent and it's radio controled as well; I always think why have anything else than radio controled timepieces when you think most of them only cost a few pounds more than the others and they give the right time for most of the time, all without having to fluff about with them.
ippy
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I don't like intrusive sounds either ippy but I suppose if one is used to it, they don't mind or even notice. I grew up with my parents' big chiming clock which chimed on the hour and half hour and thought nothing of it. It now sits in another room and doesn't work, I have no clocks that work atm! Apart from alarm clocks and only my husband uses one of those, once a week if he is not awake before it goes off. I am happy with a watch to tell the time - I'm told even that is outdated as everyone finds the time on their mobile. They'd be out of luck with mine which says it is ''Mon 13-8 13:26''...don't know how to change it. Hee hee, I don't care, have diary and calendar.
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I don't like intrusive sounds either ippy but I suppose if one is used to it, they don't mind or even notice. I grew up with my parents' big chiming clock which chimed on the hour and half hour and thought nothing of it. It now sits in another room and doesn't work, I have no clocks that work atm! Apart from alarm clocks and only my husband uses one of those, once a week if he is not awake before it goes off. I am happy with a watch to tell the time - I'm told even that is outdated as everyone finds the time on their mobile. They'd be out of luck with mine which says it is ''Mon 13-8 13:26''...don't know how to change it. Hee hee, I don't care, have diary and calendar.
I do have an electronic diary at work and it is useful, but I could never be without a paper one. I always have an A7 diary for notes and useful numbers/info. It is small but I can fit it in my jacket pocket so it goes everywhere with me.
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I've had the same watch for ten years. Rely on it completely to keep track of time - if I'm washing up or got my hands full with shopping I don't want to have to drop everything to hunt out my mobile or find the nearest clock.
I do have an old school alarm clock just in case I sleep in, which I rarely do.
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Good to hear there are others out there who, like me, don't rely on clocks. Let's hear it for diaries (I have a pocket/handbag diary and a calendar). and watches!
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I rely on my memory for dates. That snd bits of paper shoved in my bag.
Funnily enough I'm always forgetting stuff or getting double booked.
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Hee hee, me too. However I put that down to me being scatty about some things.