Library Square Bollard

europerson

Does anyone know what happened the bollard, which appears to be broken, on the edge of Library Square? It's just opposite the GMB.

Ag marbh

europerson wrote:

Does anyone know what happened the bollard, which appears to be broken, on the edge of Library Square? It's just opposite the GMB.

The greenkeepers done it

Stargal

I thought it was taken down so it was easier to access the grass that it's protecting - if you look you'll see that a lot of it has been dug up/replanted/something gardeny recently so I figured they took down the bollard so they could get some kind of gardening equipment in to do the work.

That's possibly the clunkiest sentence I've ever written in my life.

ilovemybrick

well if you had been not paying attention during the Dining hall steps hustings (im easily distracted!) you would have seen the cherry picker being used as a platform from which limbs were cut off the tree there. the bollard was hit originaly and was then removed. it is to be re-welded in the next week or so according to gerry the coolest security guard in the world. also the churning up of the ground under the trees is done for reseeding and is carried out by an engine not much larger than a big lawnmower.

europerson

Thanks all. I look forward to it being welded.

europerson

ilovemybrick wrote:

it is to be re-welded in the next week or so according to gerry the coolest security guard in the world.

How come it's still not done? It's starting to bug me.

I've some superglue if you'd like to borrow some.

europerson

EduMyth wrote:

I've some superglue if you'd like to borrow some.

No thanks, Donal. I have some superglue. You don't happen to have a welder in House 6, by any chance?

ApeXaviour

europerson wrote:

How come it's still not done? It's starting to bug me.

Jeeze, you're one for your order arent ya? I can just imagine a dirty toilet with a broken toilet-roll-holder would just about send you over the edge.

Screaming europerson in cubicle wrote:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

europerson

ApeXaviour wrote:

Jeeze, you're one for your order arent ya? I can just imagine a dirty toilet with a broken toilet-roll-holder would just about send you over the edge.

Well, I just like the bollards in College. I'm not really a neat person.

europerson

europerson wrote:

No thanks, Donal. I have some superglue. You don't happen to have a welder in House 6, by any chance?

No dice.

ilovemybrick

EduMyth wrote:

No dice.

hes looking for a welder not dice.

Crash

I used have a welder in the back room - unfortunately we sold it off...sorry.

Sorry, should have added a picture.

No dice.

europerson

We'll just have to wait for the Buildings Office to do it so.

Agent Smith

is that the Worst of your problems?

europerson

agent smith wrote:

is that the Worst of your problems?

No, I have several three-hour problems looming next week.

EmmB

there's a welder in the parsons

europerson

EmmB wrote:

there's a welder in the parsons

Onwards, to the Parsons Building!

fluppet

europerson wrote:

Well, I just like the bollards in College.

They'd be nicer if they were given a new coat of paint, don't you think?

europerson

fluppet wrote:

They'd be nicer if they were given a new coat of paint, don't you think?

Most of them are well-painted, are they not?

I was down at the Buildings Office today and they're refurbishing some of the lamp-standards.

ApeXaviour

europerson wrote:

Most of them are well-painted, are they not?

Can I lock this thread please...? seriously, I feel like passing out everytime I read it. That's how boring it is.

Oh and matt, fyi the iams has great toilets

Stargal

No way, keep it going, it's hilarious! Ahh bollards... what can't they do...

cuckoo

ApeXaviour wrote:

Oh and matt, fyi the iams has great toilets

Deadly toilets indeed.

MaxBax

really nice toilets indeed. if i wanted to have sex in some toiletes in trinity, it would most likely be them.

Pet

The Lloyd building also has really nice toilets, but they're not quite so out-of-the way as the ones in the IAMS..

And yes, this is a terrible thread. Why don't we talk about the colour of the cobblestones while we're at it? I'd say they're a blueish-grey, with marbling on some and metamorphic features on others, and about 70% blackness.

MaxBax

ah i wouldn't go into the lloyd. i'd get lost.

Pet

Ah you would. Plus it's far less unsettling than the IAMS.

cuckoo

Pet wrote:

Ah you would. Plus it's far less unsettling than the IAMS.

Ah, now, the iams isn't at all unsettling. There's the cool model of the weire-phelan structure, and the bench behind it which i've seen ppl take naps on. that's how not unsettling the place is, ppl take can sleep there!

Edwardius

stargal wrote:

No way, keep it going, it's hilarious! Ahh bollards... what can't they do...

lock threads. This is why we need a good damn war on this planet. Clear up the cobwebs. Come on people. How about the "boards deathmatch". We'll all meet up at front square at half twelve tomorrow and fight it out. Last man standing wins a can and some form of trophy, possibly a limb from another contestant. Let the wars begin! God I'm so bored.

Pet

Make love not war.

Edwardius

Think the lloyd tops the iams in the toilet stakes. You deliberately stretch out the time it takes to take a **** so you can bask in the luxury. Especially when on a guinness hangover, although you need to lie down after a guinness **** so the jacks could be equipped with some sort of mattress (in the outer room) and nubile young virgins could waft cool air over you with palm leaves whilst feeding you grapes and something to ease the pain. oooooh.

ApeXaviour

stargal wrote:

Ahh bollards... what can't they do...

Ah good, I see you've found alternative uses for them then.

Pet wrote:

Why don't we talk about the colour of the cobblestones while we're at it? I'd say they're a blueish-grey, with marbling on some and metamorphic features on others, and about 70% blackness.

Bloody geologists.

cuckoo wrote:

There's the cool model of the weire-phelan structure

Ah yes, the weaire-phelan obstruction. I'm sorry but a lobby is supposed to have space like. I was under the impression they were gonna plonk that outside. Dennis Weaire: author of his own wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Weaire (check the history near the top, quite funny, somebody wrote in pppppooooooooohhhh then erased it 1 minute later, wuss)

John

Dead Ed wrote:

Think the lloyd tops the iams in the toilet stakes. You deliberately stretch out the time it takes to take a **** so you can bask in the luxury. Especially when on a guinness hangover, although you need to lie down after a guinness **** so the jacks could be equipped with some sort of mattress (in the outer room) and nubile young virgins could waft cool air over you with palm leaves whilst feeding you grapes and something to ease the pain. oooooh.

Those toilets are in the swipe access areas.

Edwardius

John2 wrote:

Those toilets are in the swipe access areas.

The IAMS is good too. I'll give it a four star dumpability rating. I was gonna do it like this: **** but it'd look like I wrote the word "C.U.N.T." (I actually did)

John

Dead Ed wrote:

The IAMS is good too. I'll give it a four star dumpability rating. I was gonna do it like this: **** but it'd look like I wrote the word "C.U.N.T." (I actually did)

IAMS and Lloyd are probably the two best toilets on campus. Worst is probably the ones in JCR with their insanely tiny cubicles or the one in House 6 on the same floor as the bookshop that wobbles when you look at it.

cuckoo

Pet wrote:

Make love not war.

That's hot.

(couldn't resist..)

Nietzschean

yeah great toilets they are, ones in the hamilton always seem to look dirty......

John

Nietzschean wrote:

yeah great toilets they are, ones in the hamilton always seem to look dirty......

Have you ever seen the ones in the basement with white stains on the cubicle walls and written in marker beside it: "I jacked off here" (or something to that effect).

MaxBax

yeah that's gross.

europerson

ApeXaviour wrote:

the iams has great toilets

I know.

This thread is great! I'm telling you, no toilets could come up to the standard of Foster Place. I agree: the Goldsmith Hall toilets are scarily small.

Edwardius

Nietzschean wrote:

yeah great toilets they are, ones in the hamilton always seem to look dirty......

And flood regularly, and stink. I don't like having to kick dead junkies out of the way when I wanna expel some waste either. Would benefit from a jolly good napalming.

MaxBax

i was in the toilets in the buttery the other day and there was a homeless looking dude in their shaving.

Time Magazine

Gotta agree with europerson on the Foster Place thing. I'll upload a photo of the quality of those carpeted toilets when I get a chance.

John

Angry Banana wrote:

Gotta agree with europerson on the Foster Place thing. I'll upload a photo of the quality of those carpeted toilets when I get a chance.

Carpeted toilets? Because that's not gross at all. Mis-aim/splashing + carpet = ew

Crash

Beat me to it John.

Time Magazine

Not at all. The one I refer to is a single cubicle with its own sink and towel (no hand-driers here!). It's very neat and tidy. The bigger non-cubicle toilet/bathroom is tiled.

It's really quite peculiar, the cubicle is right beside the main toilets. Maybe it's meant for staff or something.

But talk about swanky.

Nietzschean

emm? it might look nice, but odds are that carpet's been pissed on sooo many times...... from using 'staff' toilets they are the worst culprits for pissing all around the ground(maybe yer aim gets worse with age?)

cuckoo

Angry Banana wrote:

Not at all. The one I refer to is a single cubicle with its own sink and towel (no hand-driers here!).

what kind of towel? because i think a towel could be kind of icky. i like those roller towel things, that you pull down to get to 'new' towel.

hand dryers make me impatient - and one cycle is never long enough to get my hands properly dry if they're 'push button' models so i end up having to push the button again and then half of that cycle is wasted. the models that activate when you hold your hands under them seem to break down a lot, and also there's a tendency to stop/start.

individual paper towels make a place messy, can run out and feel sort of wasteful.

John

Use your trousers to dry your hands.

Crash

I use my boxers. portable towel, AND I get to go commando for the rest of the day!