Some of the letters and answers are hilarious.
https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/pageletters.html
Also this:
The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell (2002)
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#142If that's too scary for you, you could always look at "Pylon of the Month" https://www.pylonofthemonth.org/ The website was set up by an Englishman, of course, because that's what us British do best: quirky and underwhelming. I heard a fund manager in the energy sector the other day who said that PotM was the thing that fascinated listeners most. Spoiler alert: January's pylon is from Cadiz in Spain, has its own Wiki…
> because that's what us British do best: quirky and underwhelming
Yup. We're a bit crap and we know it. And that's just fine.
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the topic of Appreciation Societies , I'd like to add the World Bollard Association which has brought me much joy. https://twitter.com/WorldBollard As an aside, what's today's preferred alternative Twitter/X frontend, now that nitter.net seems to have shut down?
In London, some bollards have been made out of recycled cannons. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxdJrqV0l4c
You generally find this where ever cannons have been. I've seen in NZ, UK, France, Malta, etc
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#144If that's too scary for you, you could always look at "Pylon of the Month" https://www.pylonofthemonth.org/ The website was set up by an Englishman, of course, because that's what us British do best: quirky and underwhelming. I heard a fund manager in the energy sector the other day who said that PotM was the thing that fascinated listeners most. Spoiler alert: January's pylon is from Cadiz in Spain, has its own Wiki…
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#145I love this. Texts appear both coherent yet utterly random: > Satan's heat-image can sometimes be seen here and it has recently been proven that all of the earth's insects were born just inside the metal door.
It reminds me strongly, in places, of Peter Greenaway's 'A Walk Through H':
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-a-walk-through-h-t...
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
And also this gem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundabout_Appreciation_Societ... which got its meme explosion from a calendar of 12 roundabouts, here is the latest 2024 edition: https://dullkev.com/product/roundabouts-of-the-world-2024-ca...
On the topic of Appreciation Societies , I'd like to add the World Bollard Association which has brought me much joy. https://twitter.com/WorldBollard As an aside, what's today's preferred alternative Twitter/X frontend, now that nitter.net seems to have shut down?
Thank you to all upvoters, the parent comment has brought me to 1000 Karma, some 12 1/2 years later :)
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#147Slightly off topic but I recently discovered to my surprise London has a now disused railway for the dead https://www.london-walking-tours.co.uk/secret-london/london-...
So (a) it's not exactly a disused railway, because the trains of the dead used the same tracks as those of the living, which are still in use, although the dead did have their own dedicated stations and their spurs at either end, and (b) it's a shame it wasn't called the Necropolitan Line.
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If a search engine were to penalize ads, I bet a lot of those old sites would surface. The old web was an "amateur" web, people created sites to share content they were excited about, not to monetize it (or to allow a platform to monetize it). If search engines also make most of their money from advertising, they have a big conflict of interest. We need an open source search engine owned by a non-profit organization…
> If a search engine were to penalize ads, I bet a lot of those old sites would surface. Maybe using an ad blocker to build a list of "websites that serve ads" (in addition to domains those ads are served from), and using that list to filter out results from an existing search engine API (like Duck Duck Go) would get you part of the way. But you'd probably need to search really far before you start finding sites that…
Kagi partially does that. I lt shows how many trackers a result has on its results page and lets you boost or downgrade domains in your search results.