The Brighton Wheel
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I love Brighton. Sea air. Walks along the Pier. Fish 'n' chips. Even the bastard seagulls that make @faoileag look tame.
And so Brighton decided some time ago that they wanted a wheel. Like the London Eye but smaller. And so it was built just by Brighton Pier.
Now, I'm not averse to the Brighton Wheel as a concept. The London Eye is quite pleasant an experience, I'm told. But they sort of did the Wheel wrong, I feel.
Firstly, it runs along the beach, meaning that looking right as it's going forwards means you see sea and a fat lot else. Looking forwards is beach, back is beach and left is buildings and houses and central Brighton. It's not like it's running out over the sea which might have been interesting.
But that's not the bit that made me go WTF.
Not even the pre-scripted commentary from "comedy genius Mr Steve Coogan" is especially problematic, actually. I mean, I haven't spent good money on this but I assume that Steve won't be terrible. If it's a 'big deal' enough to put on their website, it's probably not terrible, right?
No, the problem is the map of things you can see from the Brighton Wheel. They give you a fancy map you can print off of things you can see while on the Wheel.
The abundance of churches and general touristy crap, fair enough. But why in Hell's name would I want to see Shoreham fucking Power Station from Brighton Wheel?
It's not a particularly nice power station, nor is it particularly iconic in the way Battersea was. But it's actually on the list of things you can tick off to see from the Wheel.
Then again someone thought putting the Brighton Wheel itself on the list of things you can see was a good idea...
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it's like the ISpy books!
Did you find it while searching for attack vectors in the kids area of the site (in between hacking antivirus of course)?
Don't worry, I wont troll you much longer
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Actually it's amusing for a change
As for the map they proudly link to it when you happen to be watching the site at the right time.
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is that right time just after 3:45 when kids have got home from school to watch power rangers attack vector power force?
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Now you're just making me feel old because I grew up watching Power Rangers the first time around
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So did I. But we must mock the young mercilessly, for soon they will be smart enough to mock us, the knaves! keep them down with our tongues as sharp as knives!
When you wrote TRON to defend SMF from the MCP, did you foresee the events that would cause in the avast mainframe? did you know that the other programs had stopped believing in the users? is that why you instilled such a strong belief in TRON? Is the REAL reason Avast accused you of hacking them that the Brighton Wheel was where you used the weefees to put TRON on their network and hack them? You sir are a brigand!
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I'm not old enough to have written TRON the first time around
But damn yes I am a brigand. Just don't call me brillant.
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"This image or part can not be reproduced without express permission of the Brighton Wheel."
Good thing you didn't inline it. How would you get permission from a ferris wheel anyway?
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Presumably you'd ask the owner.
And yes, it's a damn good thing I didn't inline it because then I'd have gotten @apapadimoulis into trouble, except he's convinced it'd be OK.
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Damn, I can't like this post. Have a +1.
Btw, I was only quoting the website. I don't find Steve Coogan especially funny.
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And yet there was a poll of people in this country that voted him as one of the top x British comedians or somesuch bullshit. I think it was Channel 4 viewers, so anything's possible.
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I'm not Roman (and no I won't mispronounce that again either Bwian), I just couldn't remember how many were in the show, because they do shit like "Top 23..." shows because they only really wanted to do a top 20 but they didn't want to leave anyone out.
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Now you're just making me feel old because I grew up watching Power Rangers the first time around
I'm assuming that most of us did. I was dead center in the target demographic when that came out.
Anyways, they probably should have hired Gary Barlow instead.
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Gary Barlow? How about good old Uncle Rolf?
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I have no idea who either are, I just hear that name a lot in the one British podcast that I listen to.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/madeinengland/rolfharris/
I'll say it "hasn't been updated for a while"....
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I was dead center in the target demographic when that came out.
I was dead center in the target demographic for the pink ranger.
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I was dead center in the target demographic for the pink ranger.
Mmmm... I'd morph her pterodactyl, if you know what I mean.
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Filed under: When did this become a game of Whose Line Is It Anyway?
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Is he cute?
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Maybe it was yellow who's a man, I can't remember now.
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This is the pink ranger I remember watching:
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Watching. Is that what you call it?
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And the one I was referring to as well.
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So yeah, Google the actors that played the red and yellow rangers if you want to destroy your childhood.
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yellow rangers
both of the yellow rangers or just the one that died?
the living yellow ranger has a forehead larger than texas....
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I didn't know that there was a second one, but I only followed the original series.
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I didn't know that there was a second one, but I only followed the original series.
Power Rangers is worse than Transformers for spinoffs and reinventions
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Can you see the set of this weekend's Doctor Who from the Brighton Wheel? (I can't remember if they were in Brighton, or if the railroad sign was for Brighton.
Filed under: I never miss a chance to get up and dance and necro a thread.
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Considering I thought they were in Bristol... I doubt they would be visible from the Brighton Wheel.
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Bristol, Brighton, I don't even know where those are or how far apart they are any more than you knew how far apart Dania and Alachua are before I said this. :)
I wasn't going to go back to see where they were; I assumed it was Brighton because it gave me an excuse to necro a thread.
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About 150 miles, since you asked.
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About 150 miles, since you asked.
I can't imagine why you think I did. :)
BTW did you find my easter egg yet?
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I can see the Brighton wheel from my office window. I've never been on it though, a tenner seems a bit steep. If it was only a fiver I might consider it.
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But why in Hell's name would I want to see Shoreham fucking Power Station from Brighton Wheel?
Because it's a phallic symbol. People likes those.
Anyway, why anybody would like the North Sea or English Channel is beyond me. Unless you have a penchant for grey, of course.
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I was close to dragging @Arantor on it last week, buuut I am afraid of heights and I thought I spare him having his hands crushed as a hysteric woman holds onto him for dear life.
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having his hands crushed as a hysteric woman holds onto him for dear life.
he should take it like a man and only make fun out if after a while
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He would. He's quite the playful brat.
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Because it's a phallic symbol. People likes those.
Anyway, why anybody would like the North Sea or English Channel is beyond me. Unless you have a penchant for grey, of course.
I have seen the English Channel at various shades of blue. It DOES happen.
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But why in Hell's name would I want to see Shoreham fucking Power Station from Brighton Wheel?
It's for the people who like Sim CIty.
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Arantor:
But why in Hell's name would I want to see Shoreham fucking Power Station from Brighton Wheel?It's for the people who like Sim CIty.
I don't know what that means but have a like anyway because it sounds funny.
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I have seen the English Channel at various shades of blue. It DOES happen.
Maybe I'm spoiled because I can see the Mediterranean from two sides of the office.
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I don't know what that means but have a like anyway because it sounds funny.
I'm glad it sounds funny because the explanation is extremely dull.
Buildings in Sim City (a game) usually look pretty, even power stations.
Buildings in real life... not so much. I suspect this is especially true in Brighton :P.
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Maybe I'm spoiled because I can see the Mediterranean from two sides of the office.
QFConfirmation.
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Maybe I'm spoiled because I can see the Mediterranean from two sides of the office.
pics or it didn't happen.