Off Topic Hull FC having a good day

Being serious about that, a while ago there was a programme about a new gridiron stadium they were building in America. They use a formula for the best angle for the incline of the seating to give the optimum view to the people furthest away. They then applied it to the Colosseum and it was virtually the same. Which meant more people had a good view than many stadiums built 2,000 years later. Then they did a computer simulation of an evacuation of the stadium and were amazed to find that it would have cleared in roughly the same time and that more spectators would be 100 yards clear of it I less time than the new one.

 

Ah, but was it earthquake proof ?

 

The Collosseum has never fallen victim to one. Wonder what the KCOM will look like in 2,000 years? No doubt there will still be a large area full of potholes next to it for the Fair.

 

I shudder to think.

 

Didn't he have trials at Forest ?

 

I've never been to Rome but I've been to the Olypic stadium in Berlin .
Its looks fantastic and looks like it could stand there for hundreds of years

 

But it won't. That is the way of things nowadays unfortunately.

 

And you can drink in your seat...I loved it!

 

Well the Third Reich was supposed to last for a thousand years...


It is impressive though. I did the stadium tour a few years back. Also the Bauhaus Museum. Understandably there's not a lot of iconic buildings in Berlin remaining from that time.

 

Rome's the easiest place in the World to get to. In fact, many people end up there when they were really wanting to be somewhere else. I blame people for trusting SatNav's that say "follow the road ahead".

 

Yeah it's an odd mix from what I remember .

 

I once asked for some cigs in italian:
Venti cigarette Winston, e una scatola di cherini.
Which translates to: twenty cigarettes Winston and a box of matches.
I never learned the words for please, shame really because the bloke told me to 'feck off'

 

As was white rule in Ian Smith's Rhodesia(now Zimbabwe). "There will be no majority rule in Rhodesia and other African countries for a thousand years"). He was Prime Minister of Rhodesia when I lived in South Africa for a couple of years in the mid 60's.

 

We visited the Bauhaus Museum in Berlin a few years back, to find that out our bedside lights bought in Bonus' to our surprise were the double of some in the Museum.

 

Which was nice

 

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I dont think they will alter the exterior facade.
Its iconic

 

Both of them, he just said they were the same.

 

I saw Bela Lugosi when I was there.



But he was dead...







True story.