Tourist signs

[Seil Sally]

Reading the Oban Times earlier, I noticed an article suggesting that Argyll and Bute council will be applying for planning permission to erect 6 signs on the waterfront of Oban telling visitors what visitors want to know. That sounds nice!
....but at a cost of 12000 POUNDS !!!??
Surely there is a local company that can successfully install a robust and appropriate sign for less than 2000 of the tax-payers pounds ??

[Eric the Viking]

Word has it that local signmakers won't get the gig on account of their poor spelling

If your so worried about tax payers money why don't you ask how much of the said tax dollars in "Common good fund" is being raided for the Fat useless councillor benevolent concert at Hogmany

[NickB]

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Maybe you're right Eric, though I heard it might be their incorrect use of apostrophe's that lost them the contract.

- N

[Eric the Viking]

It's a fair cop - Guv
Collared by the english police - (when I say english, of course it's the language I'm referring as opposed to the incomer variety - just in case you're thinking of going off on another strop)

[NickB]

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just in case you're thinking of going off on another strop

I have no quarrel with you Vikings. I am hoping for a berth on your Ark of Prosperity when the rising sea level begins to lap round my furniture.

- N

[longshanks]

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you Vikings. I am hoping for a berth on your Ark of Prosperity when the rising sea level begins to lap round my furniture.
- N

My dear Nick MacB
You appear to be having a a bit of a time in finding people who agree with your views at the moment and, please, don't take it that I am trying to add to your woes but I must, most gently, politely and without laying any "crudely baited traps" (bit pointless those as if they are crudely baited who on earth would fall for them?) disagree with you here.

Firstly I would not make any plans to retreat to Lec's much vaunted Arc of Prosperity. Its fallen apart ! Iceland has gone bust ! Ireland became the first European country to go into recession and its financial system is now in such a state that one of three things are about to happen:
1. The banks will be nationalised (unlikely as their liabilities are five times the GDP of Ireland).
2. All Irish banks will be merged by Act of Parliament into one bank.
3. The first will go bust, the Irish government will not be able to fulfill its foolish 100% guarantee of deposits so the IMF will be called in leading to an Iceland repeat.
And Norway ? Its Soverign Fund has halved in value YTD due to it being invested in equities (a lage percentage Russian) and its income is crashing with the unprecedented fall in oil prices.

Second you refer to the rising sea lapping round your furniture !!! Just how much has sea level risen around Scotland's coast in the last twenty years ???? Has anyone noticed a rise in sea level here in living memory ???

I hope you are not upset by this post and take it in the correct spirit; one of pointing a couple of flaws in your proposed survival strategy.

Hoping your back is better now.

Love
Long View (only 15% in equities since before Lehmans)

[NickB]

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Never an irony smiley around when you need one . . .

- N