
Building work announced for Westminster Abbey
What is it with these people, that they can't leave anything alone . I realise that the type of person who rises to these positions are vain glorious fools who think they know better than everyone else. Then once they have done their 'Doing Good'
They look around at our great buildings and monuments and feel they deserve something similar, to seal their legacy, 'make their mark' and show they actually existed outside of their court of lickspittles, fuckwits and dancing fools.
They can't have a new one ( I mean face it, who would put up a statue or monument to any of the fuck wits we've had since WW2, I think even Churchill was short changed by the little men out of spite that they could never measure up, he should be in St Paul's between Nelson and The Duke of Wellington.)
So if they can, they clear away the old, to put up their iconic buildings designed by architects of same vain glorious bent as themselves. Buildings they will never try work in or try to let (Gherkin), buildings that will seem like mayflies to St Paul's , Westminster Abbey, The Monument, Nelson's Column.
If they can't get rid of them, they try to block them from view, they are old, we are new, you must listen to us, then they get upset when we tell them to fuck off.
They hate Portland Stone, Bath Stone, they hate sweeping crescents, they hate high ceilings and Georgian terraces, they hate medieval craftsmanship because it's better than they could do themselves.
So if they can't get a new building or a monument, what's next, additions: a new wing of a museum, a new court inside a museum ( where control was so slack they didn't realise they were using the wrong fucking stone until it was finished, or did they?) or perhaps a new rich cunts estate next to the Royal Hospital whose design suggests that the architect would actually really have liked to go and piss on Wren's grave 24/7.
Can somebody tell me why architects hate Christopher Wren so much?
So now they want to put a 'corona' ( this is a crown like structure and not a pissy beer) on top of Westminster Abbey.
No! leave it the fuck alone, you interfering meddling fools. I am no opponent for change, but change for the sake of change is stupid or to some how 'mark your place' is akin to carving your initials on Stonehenge.
The phrase is I believe "We are only seeing so far, because we are standing on the shoulders of giants" Well you're not, you are standing at their feet poking them with toothpicks, they do not even notice you and you would not like it if they did.
Rant ends.
Addendum:
Got a bit carried away there, add something I feel strongly about to a bout of depression, not a good combination.
Re-reading the article, it seems this is not a done deal.
The Dean said "I don't think we would go against the bulk of public opinion. If there was an adverse reaction, I expect we would drop it."
So it's possibly this was only a PR exercise to get a reaction and get The Abbey back in the news, during the summer holidays and tourist season.
If it was "You Bastards"
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