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31 minutes ago, Paul Kersey said:

It often does. Preston bus station and The Barbican in London are two great examples.

The flats at the barbican are stunning (from the outside anyway) and the whole complex is a really interesting way of configuring urban construction projects. We could do with more like it. 

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3 minutes ago, NotThePars said:

Brutalist architecture is much better than a lot of the new build monstrosities you see these days. 

Bit of a bold statement, but I quite like the Gala Fairydean grandstand. 

The Galashiels taxi drivers were probably nipping everyone's heads about it in 1964.

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Almost tempted to start an architecture thread...on Brutalism, I attended a conference on this in Dundee in 2007. A lot of love for Gillespie, Kidd & Coia. For me though the big thing is St Peter's Seminary, Cardross. Beautiful building, brutalist.

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sadly left to ruin.

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43 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

I don't like nature programmes.

Here are some plants or animals in slow motion while an old man whispers rapturously over them. So?

You must have missed all the sex and violence in them. 

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5 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said:

I don't like nature programmes.

Here are some plants or animals in slow motion while an old man whispers rapturously over them. So?

Thought it was just me that was a heinous ignoramus.

Folk coo and ahh over them like loons. I appreciate it's cool that the lesser-spotted hairy-arsed tarantula rides into battle on the back of the screaming bovril parrot, but I can understand the concept without actually seeing it happen myself in slow motion HD over the course of an hour.

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1 hour ago, BFTD said:

Thought it was just me that was a heinous ignoramus.

Folk coo and ahh over them like loons. I appreciate it's cool that the lesser-spotted hairy-arsed tarantula rides into battle on the back of the screaming bovril parrot, but I can understand the concept without actually seeing it happen myself in slow motion HD over the course of an hour.

This screaming Bovril parrot you sold me. It's dead....

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4 minutes ago, tamthebam said:

This screaming Bovril parrot you sold me. It's dead....

The Norwegian Blue? Beautiful plumage!

No wonder it's dead. It was ridden by a tarantula. You'd be dead too.

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Maybe it’s just my nostalgia but the one nature documentary that sticks in my head is the one that showed chimpanzees hunting and eating monkeys - chimps were seen as clever and cute and funny, they were in the OG Tips adverts and Michael Jackson had one as a pet. Then along comes this documentary and basically shows that they are bloodthirsty ruthless fucking maniacs. Most of the big documentaries that I see now just show things like that lizard escaping from the snakes and stuff like that. It’s nice to watch but it doesn’t advance our understanding.

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