'what is the point' things in your town

[SoapyShowerBoy]

I give you the Maidstone Marker £63,000



The three dimensional towering structure uses interactive, low wattage LED lighting which measures wind speed


..........rrrreeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllly.

The lamp post next to it has more intrinsic visual beauty

[elster]

I believe the main (remembered) use of this structure was for the massacre of Jews.

Cliffords Tower, York.

[Famous Graham]

Waits for a Reading denizen...

[Poledriver]

Pointless, expensive piece of rusting future scrap!

[ShadownINja]

The upright one can't even be used to make calls. Can't remember how much the council wasted.

[mrmr96]

The "Wote Street Willie" in Basingstoke.

[mrmr96]

Poledriver said:

Pointless, expensive piece of rusting future scrap!

Isn't that a low-rent version of this?

[militantmandy]

Edinburgh Council building with "eveyman" statue. I nominate both!

[militantmandy]

militantmandy said:

Edinburgh Council building with "everyman" statue. I nominate both!

[Andy Zarse]

mrmr96 said:

The "Wote Street Willie" in Basingstoke.

The Horsham fanny, AKA Shelly Fountain, would look good next to the Wote Street Willy. Shelly's a squirter by the way.

Curiously, I'm in Horsham and off to Basingstoke later this morning...

Edited by Andy Zarse on Friday 17th July 10:26

[Tycho]

Famous Graham said:

Waits for a Reading denizen...

Too many 'what is the point' things to list....

Possibly the only thing with a point is Sweeny Todds.

[Poledriver]

Tycho said:

Famous Graham said:

Waits for a Reading denizen...

Too many 'what is the point' things to list....

Possibly the only thing with a point is Sweeny Todds.

+1

[Oily Nails]

I win! Houses of Parliament

[Carfiend]

ShadownINja said:

The upright one can't even be used to make calls. Can't remember how much the council wasted.

I don't know I think that looks ok. All the War of the Worlds Sculptures in Woking I think are a nice novelty as well.

Stops every town centre being the same.

[elster]

Oily Nails said:

I win! Houses of Parliament

No you can't blame the current shower of sh!te and the past 100 years of MPs on the building.

That is one stunning building, it was built for a purpose that it should still be used for. power corrupts!

[Silverbullet767]

The Big Idea.

A failed science centre costing the taxpayer £14 Million.

Opened in 2000, amassed debts of over £400,000

Turf covered roof, it looks like the bloody teletubbies live there.



Can anyone outside of London (millennium dome) beat that waste?!

[selwonk]

B of the Bang. In the process of being dismantled as we speak.

[Ewan S]

Poledriver said:

Pointless, expensive piece of rusting future scrap!

I dunno, the view from the top is nice and the glass floor that you can stand on is kinda cool too. Shame it costs £7 to go up it.

[SoapyShowerBoy]

^^^^^^^ can someone remove that photo it is making me dizzy!!!!

[shirt]

B of the Bang was a good idea in principle, its just the firm who built it were crap.

The most pointless thing in manchester is that big yellow pencil on wilbraham road in fallowfield. i still have no idea why its there, google doesn't even know!