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pcernie
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belchingmatt
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They already have faster and more reliable speeds than a lot of people in rural locations. They should accept the design or go without.
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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rustybucket
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Two thoughts: - Who got paid by whom?
- Kensington & Chelsea? I'm not being funny but it's hardly the bloody Hanging Gardens of Babylon, is it? Crawl out from up your own a*seholes, you status-worshipping pseuds.
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ProfessorF
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Ah, a proponent of the 'race to the bottom' are we?
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rustybucket
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No - just not a proponent of the 'race up the bottom'.  _________________Jim
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jonbwfc
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Surely it's not beyond the wit of man to 'disguise' the cabs to make them more fit into the local environment? They don't have to be oblong grey blocks.
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rustybucket
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I thought they were green  _________________Jim
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Linux_User
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If you do that for Kensington then you can do it everywhere else too. I don't see why Kensington should get preferential treatment.
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JJW009
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In 50 years time when BT want to take them away and replace them with a microscopic magic dot, there will be outrage that they've become a historic part of the local scenery and should be preserved.
Like the red phone box.
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l3v1ck
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belchingmatt
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In Kensington & Chelsea each year there is an exhibition called Masterpiece. Basically the finest of everything on display and for sale. It is held in the grounds of the Royal Chelsea Hospital and consists of many large temporary buildings. Now by themselves the buildings are plain, modern and reasonably unobtrusive, except maybe perhaps for their size. The council will not grant a permit for the exhibition unless the buildings are made to look in character. This is the result: 
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If one is diving so close to the limits that +/- 1% will make a difference then the error has already been made.
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forquare1
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Speaking of rural locations, what about all those pylons that create an eyesore in our great British countryside?
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bobbdobbs
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Are they an eyesore or must we keep the countryside in a permanent state of stasis based on a prewar ideal. _________________Finally joined Flickr
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belchingmatt
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There was a competition last year for a new design of pylon. Won by a Danish company iirc.
When people complain about blights on the landscape, perhaps I'll pay more attention when they give up cars, electricity, trains, running water, and perhaps everything else that requires infrastructure.
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forquare1
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Perhaps not an eyesore, but certainly not things of beauty, or in keeping, IMO. And this is my point. These grey boxes are needed to support the infrastructure. Put them in and get on with it. EDIT: Or is this all very much "not in my backyard"...?
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