tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post4436434698975758879..comments2024-03-18T15:08:44.116+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Fine Art…? Not Here, Comrade…!JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-9453263348513406722008-06-23T08:02:00.000+01:002008-06-23T08:02:00.000+01:00"there is now a pic of hte statue on the Echo page...<I>"there is now a pic of hte statue on the Echo page..."</I><BR/><BR/>Yes, hideous isn't it? Someone commented on the paper that it ought to be sold for its scrap value. It's hard to disagree. <BR/><BR/>Just not for the barking mad 'reasoning' of the workers!<BR/><BR/><I>"It's ugly, but far from the ugliest erection from the 1960s along Victoria Avenue."</I><BR/><BR/>I hear the Civic Centre itself is not exactly a thing of beauty, except to fans of 60's concrete....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-86165756345585311942008-06-22T17:42:00.000+01:002008-06-22T17:42:00.000+01:00So bloody utterly stupid and wholly typical of the...So bloody utterly stupid and wholly typical of the incompetent money-wasting moronic goons who run Southend Council, who will always find a way to neglect doing what needs to be done (several important construction or reconstruction projects spring immediately to mind), instead deciding they'd better bung some money to their consultant mates to draw up an unrealisable programme that will have to be scrapped and replaced by another one drawn up by the same consultants. Ad infinitum.<BR/><BR/>(And there is now a pic of hte statue on the Echo page: http://www.echo-news.co.uk/display.var.2350139.0.0.php?act=complaint&cid=1674843_<BR/><BR/>It's ugly, but far from the ugliest erection from the 1960s along Victoria AvenueDominichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00145734042272196687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-41096764364107455302008-06-19T23:44:00.000+01:002008-06-19T23:44:00.000+01:00That is one of keeping the herons awayThat is one of keeping the herons awayBill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-50583360898345837032008-06-19T17:28:00.000+01:002008-06-19T17:28:00.000+01:00Heh! Beats me...I think someone in the council PR ...Heh! Beats me...<BR/><BR/>I think someone in the council PR department drew the short straw when talking to the 'Echo' over this.... :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-79937230025928118102008-06-19T16:32:00.000+01:002008-06-19T16:32:00.000+01:00"It is in an appropriately landscaped area next to...<I>"It is in an appropriately landscaped area next to the pond."</I><BR/><BR/>The mind boggles. What form of landscaping do they consider to be an appropriate setting for a sculpture depicting a rape?patentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00602962323262055007noreply@blogger.com