Comments on: Bright red UK Telephone Box in Barga

By: Barga14

Barga14 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:47:43 +0000

“Some have pointed to its British royal crest and asked what is Scottish about it”

“A red Telephone box is much more English , if anything.”

Strange, are there no red telephone boxes in Scotland and did I miss something? Is Scotland no longer in Britain?

By: rinaldicarlo

rinaldicarlo — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:34:54 +0000

I feel that the only way to make the offending telephone box really Scottish is to vandalise it by smashing its windows, urinating in it and ripping the phone out of it. As you can guess I do not think that it is apprpriate and does nothing for our heritage. A red Telephone box is much more English , if anything.

By: Frenchy

Frenchy — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:16:07 +0000

Has anyone considered dressing up the offending telephone box as Spike Lee and allowing those affiliates of the Italian WWII partisans to deal with it as they see fit?!

By: doggybag

doggybag — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:09:47 +0000

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson has made a U-turn over his support for a statue to military hero Sir Keith Park on Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth. Despite backing the campaign to honour the Second World War hero during his election campaign, the mayor has now said he has to withdraw his support for the scheme. Could it just be that once he became Mayor he found out just what is intended for Trafalgar Square's controversial fourth plinth - a statue of the Queen on horseback to be commissioned after the monarch's death.

By: Elliot

Elliot — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:14:06 +0000

Can I add my two lire worth? The phone box obviously strikes a jarring note; but it might be OK if it were only temporary. Trafalgar Square has an empty plinth which has hosted a range of temporary installations of varying artistic merit: some serious and others not. Nobody likes all of them and many people don’t like any; but all disappear before they get seriously annoying. In that spirit wouldn’t it be possible to dedicate the site to a kind of ever-changing gallery of outdoor objects with some connexion (or possibly not) to Barga? If one wanted to stick with the twinning theme one could have something in steel from Hayange to begin with, so the site would become a kind of outdoor galleria comunale. Just a thought…

By: rhazckal

rhazckal — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:07:39 +0000

Si …. è anche vero che chi no conosce l’inglese non ha capito una sega.

By: piangrande

piangrande — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:27:25 +0000

In risposta a “non ci sono parole”…

tutti qui abbiamo a cuore un comune interesse, ovvero fare ciò che è meglio per barga. La maggior parte delle persone presenti su questo website sono in grado di parlare inglese e hanno il diritto di esprimere la propria opinione riguardo a cosa per loro è meglio per Barga. Coloro per i quali la prima lingua è l’italiano hanno espresso la loro opinione in italiano. Tu sei la sola persona che fa problemi

By: Ms Befana

Ms Befana — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:44:47 +0000

Dear Sir,

I am writing to apply for the position of “Call Center Manager” as advertised in “The Scotsman” and on Barganews.com

I am currently self-employed and run a small airborne seasonal delivery service. I have been doing this job for a very long time but in the last few decades the competition from a red coated fat guy has increased drastically and therefore this year I don’t think that I’ll even have enough work to last me the night.

I believe my 300+ years of experience in the field qualify me for consideration. I look forward to meeting with you and discussing my qualifications in more detail.

Yours Sincerely,
Ms Befana.
55051 Barga – (LU)
Italia

Ps: If the call center doesn’t take of, but the deal with the Doctor goes through and hence the Red phone box becomes a Blue Tardis, then can you please consider me for the position of “assistant pilot”.

By: jjcarde

jjcarde — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:07:29 +0000

on the left you can see lockness lake

By: doggybag

doggybag — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 06:00:46 +0000

"Who knows a new mayor may turn out to be extreme in the opposite sense and I don’t think that would be good either given the current make-up of the town (i.e. most people have some link with immigration and a sizeable minority are now foreign e.g. English). It is worth noting that I think the mayor is in the last year of his final term."

piangrande - I notice that you have a Union Jack flag next to your name, meaning that your IP address is in the UK, so I expect that you are fully aware that as a Time Lord, the Doctor has the ability to regenerate his body when near death. To date, the Doctor has gone through this process and its resulting after-effects on nine occasions, with each of his incarnations having his own quirks and abilities but otherwise sharing the memories and experience of the previous incarnations: 1. First Doctor, played by William Hartnell (1963–1966) 2. Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton (1966–1969) 3. Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee (1970–1974) 4. Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker (1974–1981) 5. Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison (1981–1984) 6. Sixth Doctor, played by Colin Baker (1984–1986) 7. Seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy (1987–1989, 1996) 8. Eighth Doctor, played by Paul McGann (1996) 9. Ninth Doctor, played by Christopher Eccleston (2005) 10. Tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant (2005–)