Nothing

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 3 Feb 2008 1:39 pm

Wow - that's some talent... Now the million dollar question is: is it the talent of Paris Hilton, or the engineers at TC-Helicon?

Boy this thread may be about nothing, but the sad truth is that it says something when someone puts up a thread titled "nothing" and contains no initial comment, and it winds up dragging out 21 pages long so far.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 3 Feb 2008 3:22 pm

Nothing is much deeper that you realized!

Nothing is profound too.

Duane Reese · Post by **Duane Reese** » 3 Feb 2008 3:30 pm

Boy I won't argue that!

Scott Shipley · Post by **Scott Shipley** » 4 Feb 2008 2:11 am

Nothing's changed?

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 4 Feb 2008 8:17 am

Nothing gets in our way for long.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 4 Feb 2008 2:57 pm

Hear nothing, see nothing, say nothing...

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 5 Feb 2008 9:50 pm

You have the first three chimps, "Hear No Evil", "See No Evil", and "Speak No Evil", but you're missing the fourth chimp, "Do No Evil." He has his hands over his balls.

Jeremy Threlfall · Post by **Jeremy Threlfall** » 6 Feb 2008 4:19 am

Hey, Mr Brookes - I've just been reading your restoration thread. Big job. And here you are fooling around in the humour section.

HAVEN'T YOU GOT NOTHIN' BETTER TO DO?

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 6 Feb 2008 7:23 pm

By the time I've struggled with the traffic on the Bay Bridge in the evening, and breathed in all that pollution, I just like to sit down and see who I can upset on the Forum...

Colby Tipton · Post by **Colby Tipton** » 7 Feb 2008 4:51 pm

By the time I get home from work I don't feel like doing nothing, except sitting and reading about nothing.

Richard Sevigny · Post by **Richard Sevigny** » 7 Feb 2008 6:38 pm

Alan F. Brookes wrote:By the time I've struggled with the traffic on the Bay Bridge in the evening, and breathed in all that pollution, I just like to sit down and see who I can upset on the Forum...

Nothing to it. Mention Robert Randolph or the Dixie Chicks. Or start a discussion about even temper vs just intonation

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 7 Feb 2008 6:46 pm

It's a lot easier than that. I'm a Brummy (born in Birmingham, England), as is BasilH and a few others on the Forum. We're renown worldwide as shytstirrers....

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 8 Feb 2008 6:06 am

Who's that "Anorak" presuming to speak for ALL of us "goat-stirrers"
Any mention of Hornby Double 'O' will set him off.
Nothing too it !!

Forget the stirring, I have, and frequently use, a "Vitriolic pen"
It's sheathed at the moment as there's nothing to write home about..

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 8 Feb 2008 6:25 am

So are you two telling us
that there is NOTHING
in Birmingham, England???

basilh · Post by **basilh** » 8 Feb 2008 6:30 am

Since we've both left, there's NOTHING to go back to..
The last time Alan was here HE saw nothing and remembers it quite well.

As I'm now living in Tamworth, when I look towards Brum (Colloquialism for Birmingham)I invariably see nothing..

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 8 Feb 2008 8:46 am

There's very little of the Birmingham I was brought up in left. In my neighborhood they've razed every single house, and what's left is worse than the Luftwaffe ever achieved. There's absolutely NOTHING.

Steve Norman · Post by **Steve Norman** » 8 Feb 2008 9:25 am

you guys know what I did with my keys?

Archie Nicol · Post by **Archie Nicol** » 8 Feb 2008 3:29 pm

Alan; `neighborhood`? You've been gone too long.

Arch.

Ray Jenkins · Post by **Ray Jenkins** » 8 Feb 2008 3:39 pm

Banjo players.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 8 Feb 2008 6:25 pm

Ray Jay really hit on nothing... at least for b0b!

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 8 Feb 2008 6:55 pm

Archie Nicol wrote:Alan; `neighborhood`? You've been gone too long.

This is me in 1947, merrily strolling back to the kitchen after feeding the chickens in the henhouse (behind me to the right).

This is me in the same place 2005. Yes, they're the same three trees. Everything else is gone.

This is my old Jag, parked outside my house in 1970

This how the street looks now...

No, you can't go back. There's nothing to go back to.
...as a final note. I went back to the same spot last February and they'd even pulled down the three trees.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 8 Feb 2008 11:19 pm

Executive decisions made by
those with no connection to a place,
often amount to nothing,
replacing something useful to someone,
with what now amounts to nothing for everyone.

Your Local Council
moving you forward into tomorrow,
Kicking and screaming, like it or not.

Nothing Welcomes You Into The Future

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 8 Feb 2008 11:42 pm

David L. Donald wrote:...Your Local Council moving you forward into tomorrow, kicking and screaming, like it or not.

The Birmingham City Council has caused more damage to Birmingham than the blitz ever did.

Having built all those houses in 1919, they found out that there was a design flaw 70 years later. So they bought up all the houses by eminent domain, evicted the occupiers, and demolished the entire estate. Then they sold the land to a developer who plans to build much smaller houses on the site, which are priced so high that the original owners can't afford to live in the neighbourhood they were brought up in, given the miniscule compensation the council paid them for their properties. Someone must be getting very rich on this project.

David L. Donald · Post by **David L. Donald** » 9 Feb 2008 12:03 am

Alan F. Brookes wrote: ....they found out that there was a design flaw 70 years later.
...Someone must be getting very rich on this project.

Yes and there are at least 2-3 council members on that short list...

Only 70 years of people living there for the 'flaw' to surface HAH.
Only when SOMEBODY could make money 'correcting' it.

Out with The Council
a new Brummy sweeps clean...

Nothing continues by leaps and bounds.
Seems for these creeps...
People are Nothing...

Alan Brookes · Post by **Alan Brookes** » 9 Feb 2008 12:56 am

The "design flaw" was that they built the houses in sections offsite out of reinforced concrete, then they bolted them together onsite and poured concrete into the seams. In time the metal bars rusted and the houses started coming apart at the seams. Ironically, there were several cures proposed by engineers. They didn't have to pull down the entire estate; they just chose to do so. None of the houses ever collapsed or was ever in any danger of doing so. I had to fly over to help my mother move out of the house she had been living in since a child, into an apartment building, where she knew none of the neighbours.