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Cockwombles.......Out on a drive round Galloway wi my mum today we stopped at the Glen Of The Bar viewpoint on the New Galloway-Newton Stewart road (the queensway) and there must be near enough 200+ padlocks with pithy messages attached to the front of the viewing area, i stopped counting after 100. Why do folk do this?, it's no different than littering and boils my piss, cockwombles...utter ****ing cockwombles who deserve to be turfed over the edge.
Old pic above (before padlocks)
Last year up at Aviemore i noticed the same up at the Green Loch (Lohan Uaine) on the Ryvoan bothy path, why...why do this in an area of beauty?. Keep your tat in your pocket for ****s sake.
There...i feel better after a wee rant, or then again i'd feel even better if i take my battery grinder up and remove every ****ing padlock.
Agreed boils my piss to!!
People are dicks.
I'm impressed that you managed to hold the anger back for long enough to count to 100
Perhaps the one subject that stw could reach a consensus on?
Last year up at Aviemore i noticed the same up at the Green Loch (Lohan Uaine) on the Ryvoan bothy path
I've only see a few there and they are frequently removed.
Wasn't some bridge coming under structural stress because of the love locks?
Edit:
Saw a video in Prague with a team of guys cutting all the padlocks off Charles bridge - they were doing it in their free time.
There's a bridge in Bakewell from the carpark into town that has similar adornments.
Glen of the bar is about the dullest viewpoint you could ever dream of expressing your affections as well! 😂
Have it here in Bristol on Pero’s Bridge (a footbridge at the harbour side). Kinda cutesy for a while at the beginning but just looks shite now that there are hundreds of the shitty things rusting away.
I hate people who do that, they should lock them up and throw away the key
You should up the ante to make the other “lovers” feel inadequate.
Get the biggest, thickest bicycle D lock you can find and write on it
“Louise, every bruise was worth it, you crazy bitch!”
...in your own blood
Well someone obviously felt inadequate or was in the doghouse for shagging his wifes sister/mother/father as there was a 2 foot length of heavy duty silver chain and fist sized padlock threaded through the wire mesh...or perhaps it was a fetish game gone wrong?
Funnily enough I was there at weekend n thought the same thing.....
Glen of the bar is about the dullest viewpoint you could ever dream of expressing your affections as well!
I don't know, the bridge over the canal in Newbury is probably duller. It must be the derelict school and the back of the Slug and Lettuce that inspires people.
Turn removal of them in to a lock picking contest. Assemble the best lock pickerists from all over the globe and see who can pick the most locks. Proceeds from betting on the winner go to charity and quickest picker gets a massive novelty key.
I'm in.
It’s just litter. Depressing.
It's not just restricted to bridges, I found these when in the loo at the Old Mill in Pitlochry. I don't understand it on bridges, I really don't understand it in the public toilets of your local.
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It's as bad as the flowers, plaques and benches that litter our beautiful places in memoriam to someone.
The location of a beautiful moment no doubt Pik n Mix
Pero's bridge was built to commemorate a single slave called Pero. To stand for all the slaves trafficked through Bristol businesses.
Padlocks seem a bit off.
Because the galvanised I beam, stained softwood and wire mesh view point is such a thing of beauty.
Because the galvanised I beam, stained softwood and wire mesh view point is such a thing of beauty.
That was my thought before reading the post, "blimey, that's an eyesore and a half, WTF is the point of that, how is the view better at the end of a 30ft bit of permanent scaffold? Is this what the Barnett formula funds while we pay for our own prescriptions and tuition fees? To arms Comrades, we shall rebuild Hadrian's Wall and tell the ginger sunburnt* haggis worriers to pay for their own scaffold platforms and battered Mars bars".
Then realised it was about something else and struggled to GAF.
*assumes the weather in scotland is occasionally better than that photo implies and that scottish sunburn victims don't just occur south of Carlile.
Those stone stackers are 🛎 ends too!