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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 04:34 PM
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anyone watching twin towers come down tomorrow morning ?!?!
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 04:35 PM
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What made you ask might do.
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 04:38 PM
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LOL,
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 04:51 PM
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Is there actually anywhere you can go to watch? I assume it will all be taped off for 3000 miles!
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 04:54 PM
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Is there actually anywhere you can go to watch? I assume it will all be taped off for 3000 miles!
Meadowhall have set something up, but will probably charge for the privelidge,
Is there no where on the hills close by?
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:29 PM
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Is there actually anywhere you can go to watch? I assume it will all be taped off for 3000 miles!

best not leave the house then
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:31 PM
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i heard that this was going to happen and was going to post to ask if anyone in the area will get some pics
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:36 PM
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what time are they coming down?
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:42 PM
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Its going to look bare int it when they come down
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:45 PM
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3 in the morning i think
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:47 PM
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Rather sleep and watch it on TV later tomorrow!
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 05:50 PM
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I would if i wasnt off to a gig all day from 1pm. Sod getting up at that time!
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 06:00 PM
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coming down at 3am.meadowhall are opening a couple of car parks to watch from. concord park is somewhere else you can see them from,or the top of wincobank.
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 06:04 PM
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shouldnt be coming down anyway, theyre a landmark!
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 06:12 PM
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Originally Posted by DangerousBryan
coming down at 3am.meadowhall are opening a couple of car parks to watch from. concord park is somewhere else you can see them from,or the top of wincobank.
would you want to be in wincobank at 3 in the morning
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by danneth
would you want to be in wincobank at 3 in the morning
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 07:54 PM
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a few pics of how they are at the moment

http://www.flickr.com/photos/astanai...121346/detail/
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for those that can't get or can't be arsed going to see them. they will be screening live from 2.30 here
http://www.itvlocal.com/yorkshire/
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 08:29 PM
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u all missed it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNhxa8aBZXc
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 08:30 PM
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All that hard work in building them and they fall in seconds At least Fred Dibnah did it with some respect! lol
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 08:50 PM
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just been past, there all nicely lit up with about 4000 floodlights now wonder we just had a power cut shutting all the roads already i dont know where the viewing area is at meadowhall i couldn't see anything
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 08:52 PM
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Are you going to see it Danneth? TBh i was saying fuck getting up, but now i kinda wish i was, but im on the bacardi
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 08:53 PM
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ye i was in two minds, but gf hassling me to take her and now brother wants to go as well, im hoping it sways when they bring it down and wipe the viaduct out which has just taken 7 years to strengthen
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Originally Posted by danneth
just been past, there all nicely lit up with about 4000 floodlights now wonder we just had a power cut shutting all the roads already i dont know where the viewing area is at meadowhall i couldn't see anything
4000 floodlights and you cant see anything, You got Stevie Wonders eyes
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 08:55 PM
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4000 floodlights and you cant see anything, You got Stevie Wonders eyes

there on the towers you cunt, not the viewing area
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 08:58 PM
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Originally Posted by danneth
ye i was in two minds, but gf hassling me to take her and now brother wants to go as well, im hoping it sways when they bring it down and wipe the viaduct out which has just taken 7 years to strengthen
Im hoping they have got their measurements wrong and wipe the whole of Dee dar dummy land out
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 09:08 PM
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closer to rotherham/barnsley then most of sheffield
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 09:10 PM
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Originally Posted by danneth
closer to rotherham/barnsley then most of sheffield
Yeah but theres hills between us to 'deflect the force'
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 09:12 PM
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LOLOL

anyway no point you gong lee im sure you see this kind of thing daily
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yea i hope it flattens meada hall lol...things might pick up in alhambra then
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Old Aug 23, 2008 | 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by danneth
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anyway no point you gong lee im sure you see this kind of thing daily
Aye im always having to pull me shody work darn!
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