Tales of P&B Past

[Hedgecutter]

10 minutes ago, The Moonster said:

"Clyde Estuary" 

 

Peer reviewed by leading researchers in that particular field.

Thank you.

[Guest Moomintroll]

I don't think it was Dickson. 
The guy was just Stuart. (think the full stop was actually in his username)
He wasn't around for long, asked a few weird questions then fucked off. 
Dickson appears to have returned as Malky3. 
 

Stuart. Is still posting in the Junior Forum, Medda fan the poor wee lamb.

[DA Baracus]

Found it! Credit to the poster who made it (can't mind who but I'm sure someone will remind us all!).

[8MileBU]

Found it! Credit to the poster who made it (can't mind who but I'm sure someone will remind us all!).

JohnnyDun I think.

[throbber]

It was williemillersmoustache.

[vikingTON]

On 07/11/2019 at 11:42, Hedgecutter said:

Argument against – version #2 : It’s on the Clyde Riviera that's part of the Firth of Clyde, which is not the West Coast.  The West Coast breaks somewhere south of Ayr and starts again at the Mull of Kintyre.  Coastlines can have 30 mile long gaps in them.

- Greenock and most of the adjacent Clyde Riviera is located on the River Clyde, whose mighty torrent mixes with water from the stunning, fjord-like lochs as well as seawater in the vicinity of this great port and tourist hub of Scotland. Fairly straightforward stuff.

- It's clearly not found on the west coast of anything at all, what with it actually facing northeast across the river to Helensburgh and Ben Lomond. 

- The Firth of Clyde is the body of water that runs north/south from the turn of the river Clyde into the sea marked by the Cloch Lighthouse; the mainland towns from Inverkip down which sit alongside the Firth are located on the Clyde Coast.

- The west coast of Scotland is located about sixty miles west of Greenock at the same line of latitude. The no doubt delightful village of Otter Ferry, for example, is located fully forty miles or an hour and half journey west of the metropolis - yet even it only sits along Loch Fyne and not the western seaboard of the mainland. The west coast runs straight along the seaboard of Kintyre, mid-Argyll and then Lorne, facing the southern Hebrides throughout. There is no 'west coast' view of the southern Hebrides from Greenock because they are about 100 fucking miles away. 

Thanks for playing anyway.

[Hedgecutter]

1 hour ago, virginton said:

- Greenock and most of the adjacent Clyde Riviera is located on the River Clyde, whose mighty torrent mixes with water from the stunning, fjord-like lochs as well as seawater in the vicinity of this great port and tourist hub of Scotland. Fairly straightforward stuff.

- It's clearly not found on the west coast of anything at all, what with it actually facing northeast across the river to Helensburgh and Ben Lomond. 

- The Firth of Clyde is the body of water that runs north/south from the turn of the river Clyde into the sea marked by the Cloch Lighthouse; the mainland towns from Inverkip down which sit alongside the Firth are located on the Clyde Coast.

- The west coast of Scotland is located about sixty miles west of Greenock at the same line of latitude. The no doubt delightful village of Otter Ferry, for example, is located fully forty miles or an hour and half journey west of the metropolis - yet even it only sits along Loch Fyne and not the western seaboard of the mainland. The west coast runs straight along the seaboard of Kintyre, mid-Argyll and then Lorne, facing the southern Hebrides throughout. There is no 'west coast' view of the southern Hebrides from Greenock because they are about 100 fucking miles away. 

Thanks for playing anyway.

All subjective and irrelevant.

It's located on an estuary, which is coastal, on the west side of Scotland.

 

Eta:  Have to say that this new 'can't see the Hebrides' line is the most straw-clutchingly desperate one to date.

Edited November 13, 2019 by Hedgecutter

[vikingTON]

Last time I checked such tricky concepts like basic compass directions and miles were objective facts, swing and a miss.

[Hedgecutter]

To entertain the subjective side though, I'll just leave this here:

 

Name That Toon, anybody?

 

There's also West Coast Cinemas that runs only two properties; Greenock Waterfront & Dunoon.  I believe that the latter is adjacent to Greenock on the same line of latitude, is many a mile east of the delightful village of Otter Ferry on Loch Fyne and has no view of the southern Hebrides because they are "about 100 fucking miles away".

I suppose there's also the Greenock-based Clyde Coast Tourism website:

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Greenock is a town situated on the West Coast of Scotland and is approximately 40 minutes from Glasgow.

 

Considering that these are all resident Greenockian business owners, this is beginning to get embarrassing for VT.

Edited November 13, 2019 by Hedgecutter

[Newbornbairn]

[welshbairn]

44 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said:

Have to say that this new 'can't see the Hebrides' line is the most straw-clutchingly desperate one to date.

The West Coast doesn't start till St Kilda.

[Stellaboz]

"Clyde Riviera"

Groan.

[Ray Patterson]

Imagine losing yer rag because you refuse to admit Greenock is on the West Coast.

Minter.

[Miguel Sanchez]

See @throbber this is what it's like when you try and claim Bridge Street is in Glasgow City Centre.

[vikingTON]

2 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

Considering that these are all resident Greenockian business owners, this is beginning to get embarrassing for VT.

Just because a handful of business owners want to lay claim to a label doesn't make it factually correct champ. And I've got no idea why you even included West College Scotland as that had nothing to do with your nonsense point whatsoever.

Gutted for you.

Edited November 13, 2019 by vikingTON

[Hedgecutter]

1 hour ago, virginton said:

Just because a single hole-digging poster on a football forum wants to lay claim a label doesn't make it factually correct champ.

FTFY

The college just happens to pop up on the map when you type in West Coast, but then again, so does West Coast Woodfuels, West Coast Gas Services, West Coast Motors, West Coast djs, West Coast Stoves and  West Coast Tool & Paints in the adjacent areas.  So by 'handful', what you really mean is a number that goes into the double figures, these being local firms that evidently feel such a strong connection with the West Coast that they all chose to put it into their company names.  

Additionally, if you claim that the areas further down the Firth of Clyde aren't West Coast either, then we also have West Coast Taxis, West Coast Installations, West Coast Kitchens, West Coast Foods... (you can see a somewhat tiring theme here and it's not even half way through).

You'd have thought that the earlier examples would have been humiliating enough for you, this being after your previous attempts at arguing the more formal side of things also repeatedly crashed and burned.  Very clear to all that your tears are saltier than the coastal brines washing the Greenockian shores.

 

 

Edited November 13, 2019 by Hedgecutter

[Herman Hessian]

4 hours ago, Hedgecutter said:

It's located on an estuary, which is coastal, on the west side of Scotland.

d'you reckon Southend is on the South Coast of England if that's the case ?

I'm fully aware that no right-thinking individual gives a f**k where Southend is, but in the interests of consistency based on physical geography, like ?

[Hedgecutter]

2 minutes ago, Herman Hessian said:

d'you reckon Southend is on the South Coast of England if that's the case ?

I'm fully aware that no right-thinking individual gives a f**k where Southend is, but in the interests of consistency based on physical geography, like ?

You're talking about Southend-on-Sea, on the east side of England,  right?  

If so, then absolutely not.

 

[vikingTON]

1 hour ago, Hedgecutter said:

FTFY

 

No, you actually made a garbled, word salad instead. Try again; or better still, don't bother. 

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The college just happens to pop up on the map when you type in West Coast, but then again, so does West Coast Woodfuels, West Coast Gas Services, West Coast Motors, West Coast djs, West Coast Stoves and  West Coast Tool & Paints in the adjacent areas. 

So you admit that your back of a fag packet, 'map search' analysis included ridiculous false results - such as a college whose main campus in, err, Paisley, is not even remotely near a coast of any shape or form. 

Looks like we can safely file the rest of your 'contributions' to the debate in the bin where they belong then. Thanks for playing anyway.

 

 

[throbber]

VT argues that no one can taste the difference between original irn bru and the new stuff when blind folded so you can disregard anything he has to say about anything else.