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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Just been along the m9 for the first time in ages and got to grangemouth and what greeted me?
2 huge metal horses heads at the side of the motorway,i mean wtf do they represent and more to the point is this more of the taxpayers money being wasted on fuck all?  |
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Not plonked on the side if a motorway though. It's the Helix project at the canal and it's estimated to attract thousands of visitors. I'll certainly be one of them when it's done. Looks stunning. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think it's money well spent.
There maybe people hungry, homeless and living in poverty but one look at the big mad heids and the world's a better place.
'mon the Kelpies  |
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"I think it's money well spent.
There maybe people hungry, homeless and living in poverty but one look at the big mad heids and the world's a better place.
'mon the Kelpies "
You could say that about any form of expression though. What's the point in football when there are people hungry. What's the Olympics all about? And music? Feck that, put the guitar down and get a real job there are people starving!
And don't get me started on books! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think they're amazing.....controversial I know in this day and age but I think art must always have a place in our culture and I think they enhance the environment. Its furra peepel an' 'at.....innit?.....  |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"Not plonked on the side if a motorway though. It's the Helix project at the canal and it's estimated to attract thousands of visitors. I'll certainly be one of them when it's done. Looks stunning. "
They said thousands would go to the Bannockburn weekend ............ |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know people who have travelled to to the area specifically to see them. "
Exactly. I know not everyone gets art and I am the first to think wtf at some of the stuff I have seen in galleries but all I thought when I saw these for the first time recently was that they are awesome. Come up the M1 past " The Angel of the North" surely that stirs some emotion too?? |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
Glasgow |
"I know people who have travelled to to the area specifically to see them.
Exactly. I know not everyone gets art and I am the first to think wtf at some of the stuff I have seen in galleries but all I thought when I saw these for the first time recently was that they are awesome. Come up the M1 past " The Angel of the North" surely that stirs some emotion too??"
I'd be astonished if anyone ever specifically travelled to see the Kelpies or the Angel of the North or the Clydesdale overlooking the M8.
Drive past and look? Yes, but make a special trip? Ah hae ma doots.
BTW. The Falkirk Wheel is well worth a trip to see. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Just been along the m9 for the first time in ages and got to grangemouth and what greeted me?
2 huge metal horses heads at the side of the motorway,i mean wtf do they represent and more to the point is this more of the taxpayers money being wasted on fuck all? "
Aren't you the little ray of sunshine? |
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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago
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I've watched them from being a hole in the ground to what they are now. They were fabricated a mile away in Falkirk by a local company and paid for by money from Europe.
I think they are a great piece of engineering and they look good too, just wish they'd hurry up and finish the rest of the helix park  |
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By *ndykayMan
over a year ago
Falkirk |
"I know people who have travelled to to the area specifically to see them.
Exactly. I know not everyone gets art and I am the first to think wtf at some of the stuff I have seen in galleries but all I thought when I saw these for the first time recently was that they are awesome. Come up the M1 past " The Angel of the North" surely that stirs some emotion too??
I'd be astonished if anyone ever specifically travelled to see the Kelpies or the Angel of the North or the Clydesdale overlooking the M8.
Drive past and look? Yes, but make a special trip? Ah hae ma doots.
BTW. The Falkirk Wheel is well worth a trip to see."
I'm sure some enterprising person will run trips between the kelpies and the wheel along the canal soon too |
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By *omma49Man
over a year ago
GLASGOW |
About 20 years ago, a monstrosity, was put up overlooking the old A1 Motorway on Tyneside, the Angel of the North, at the time it cost £1,000,000 for a steel sculpture, supposedly based on the sculptures body- well it was a monstrous waste of taxpayers' money, then and now- overlooking a bloody motorway is just ridiculous  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"About 20 years ago, a monstrosity, was put up overlooking the old A1 Motorway on Tyneside, the Angel of the North, at the time it cost £1,000,000 for a steel sculpture, supposedly based on the sculptures body- well it was a monstrous waste of taxpayers' money, then and now- overlooking a bloody motorway is just ridiculous "
And they never even painted it.....!! "Outraged of middle Scotland." As said previously, some get art and some dont.
We all have an opinion and thats a good thing. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know people who have travelled to to the area specifically to see them.
Exactly. I know not everyone gets art and I am the first to think wtf at some of the stuff I have seen in galleries but all I thought when I saw these for the first time recently was that they are awesome. Come up the M1 past " The Angel of the North" surely that stirs some emotion too??
I'd be astonished if anyone ever specifically travelled to see the Kelpies or the Angel of the North or the Clydesdale overlooking the M8.
Drive past and look? Yes, but make a special trip? Ah hae ma doots.
BTW. The Falkirk Wheel is well worth a trip to see."
Open mouth, widen eyes and prepare to be astonished then!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I think they're amazing! Whether they're art or not remains to be seen but as a statement, they're brilliant! They're going to be a great centrepiece for the Helix once its finished.
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By *adgeeMan
over a year ago
Sw Scotland |
"I've watched them from being a hole in the ground to what they are now. They were fabricated a mile away in Falkirk by a local company and paid for by money from Europe.
I think they are a great piece of engineering and they look good too, just wish they'd hurry up and finish the rest of the helix park "
For the last 12 months I've been working in the east and travelling from the west. Passing by twice a day I too have seen them rise is stature. I think they look great, however, maybe the £1M or whatever they cost could maybe have been better spent. Nonetheless they do look awesome and I hope they do attract sightseers to the area |
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"I've watched them from being a hole in the ground to what they are now. They were fabricated a mile away in Falkirk by a local company and paid for by money from Europe.
I think they are a great piece of engineering and they look good too, just wish they'd hurry up and finish the rest of the helix park
For the last 12 months I've been working in the east and travelling from the west. Passing by twice a day I too have seen them rise is stature. I think they look great, however, maybe the £1M or whatever they cost could maybe have been better spent. Nonetheless they do look awesome and I hope they do attract sightseers to the area "
As a fellow traveller, from the west to the east I too watched the construction progress. For a industrial central belt, the Clydesdale, big heeds, pyramids are all visions of art worth creating.
Ars gratia artis |
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