Sad loss:

[renault12ts]

BBC News - Glasgow School of Art: Fire crews battle to save building

 

[Dieselman]

Why a loss, it will get refurbished the same.

 

[219]

Thankfully , much of it has been saved . I feel for the students who may have lost vital work .

I'm on this weekend , so may well end up there .

 

[rf065]

Why a loss, it will get refurbished the same.

Maybe they could call on your expertise to refurbish all the works of art that were destroyed?

Russ

 

[Dieselman]

Maybe they could call on your expertise to refurbish all the works of art that were destroyed?

Russ

Sorry to dissapoint the Scotch Bretheren that have "liked" your post, but the article and O/p specifically talked about the Macintosh designed building, not the students work.

Nice try though Russ...

 

[crockers]

I thought Scotch was an alcoholic beverage. I think the indigenous population are called Scottish or Scots.

 

[renault12ts]

Why a loss, it will get refurbished the same.

It may get restored...but from new wood. It will not be the same...it will only look the same.

 

[rf065]

Sorry to dissapoint the Scotch Bretheren that have "liked" your post, but the article and O/p specifically talked about the Macintosh designed building, not the students work.

Nice try though Russ...

I'm not talking about the students work, you obviously have no concept of this building or it's contents and their significance. Neither do you know the collective term for Scottish people, no surprise there though.

Russ

 

[grober]

Putting it into a car context. Its a bit like that 300 SL that was trashed by a BMW 1 series a few days back. Sure it can be repaired but it will never be quite the same car again.- Except of course that the 300SL would have had to have been the only one ever built.
In an ever changing world people crave a degree continuity and stability. That's why iconic objects are revered rightly or wrongly. The Glasgow Art School building was a vibrant functioning expression of one artist's vision of the world. I know Charles Rennie Mackintosh isn't everyone's cup of tea but still an irreplaceable loss averted.

 

[del320]

Sorry to dissapoint the Scotch Bretheren that have "liked" your post, but the article and O/p specifically talked about the Macintosh designed building, not the students work.

Nice try though Russ...

Yet again, proof that there's no troll like and old troll.

As with most of your snide, sarcastic and smug output, you again show yourself to be a humourless, arrogant, ill-informed Philistine, who has lived their life in the shadow of others with normal inter-personal attributes.

The patina of a hundred years of use, student graffiti, and the mellowed materials of original construction can never be replicated or restored.

 

[rf065]

Yet again, proof that there's no troll like and old troll.

As with most of your snide, sarcastic and smug output, you again show yourself to be a humourless, arrogant, ill-informed Philistine, who has lived their life in the shadow of others with normal inter-personal attributes.

The patina of a hundred years of use, student graffiti, and the mellowed materials of original construction can never be replicated or restored.

Your overthinking this, it's simply a building that would be a national treasure if it had been built in London. Because it's north of the border, it's a hidden secret to Dieselman and most others in England. A bit like everything else that's Scotch, as he would say.

Russ

 

[markjay]

Aha.... a linguistic dispute... good

My understanding is (OK, I Googled it) that 'scotch' means 'of Scotland' and is normally used when referring to abstract or inanimate objects rather than to people - the latter should be referred to as 'Scots' or 'Scottish' or 'Scotsmen'.

So here's the phylosophical question for DM - is 'brethren' an abstract concept, or a term describing a group of people....?

 

[Dieselman]

What a bunch of old Bore's you are. No excuses for that comment, you really are.

My point was simply that the building has been partly damaged, not destroyed. Some works of art MAY have gone, but there will be new ones to replace the ones that cannot be restored.

The World is ever changing, You need to look forward, not backward.

 

[ChrisA]

Aha.... a linguistic dispute... good



So here's the phylosophical question for DM - is 'brethren' an abstract concept, or a term describing a group of people....?

Bretheren...... here we go, a religious topic

 

[renault12ts]

Bores? Maybe. You Sir are a boor.

 

[ChrisA]

boor
bɔː,bʊə/Submit
noun

a rough and bad-mannered person.
synonyms: lout, oaf, ruffian, hooligan, thug, rowdy, bully boy, brawler, rough, churl, lubber, philistine, vulgarian, yahoo, barbarian, Neanderthal, primitive, savage, brute, beast, monster;

 

[rf065]

Bores? Maybe. You Sir are a boor.

You're far too polite.

Russ

 

[del320]

What a bunch of old Bore's you are. No excuses for that comment, you really are.

Wayward apostrophe there. Your sentence makes little sense.

Do you wish to add to it?

 

[Steve320]

So, assuming a YES vote in the forthcoming vote for independence, and given the divisions already setting in in advance of it, will Scotland still be allowed access to this forum, or like the pound will they have to forego it forever?!?

 

[219]

Well , it is a WORLD wide web