Another reason why I <3 Scotland
I been listening to a lot of BBC Radio Scotland lately.
I like the music programming, and there are news stories like this one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24907190
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Plans to end a long-standing tradition of placing a traffic cone on Glasgow's iconic Duke of Wellington statue have been dropped after a massive backlash.
Glasgow City Council wanted to raise the plinth as part of a £65,000 project to refurbish the monument, which stands outside the Gallery of Modern Art.
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The council had said that raising the height would end a practice which projected a "depressing image" of Glasgow and would save the £10,000 cost of removing the cone 100 times a year.
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The point was made, and I agree, that it would not stop the practice but would, in fact, just get more people hurt....
When I first heard the story, I pictured a statue of a guy standing in a heroic pose. The fact that that he is seated on a horse (and that the horse, too, gets cones put on its head, sometimes two) makes it even more hilarious (or it does if you are me).
I like the music programming, and there are news stories like this one:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24907190
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Plans to end a long-standing tradition of placing a traffic cone on Glasgow's iconic Duke of Wellington statue have been dropped after a massive backlash.
Glasgow City Council wanted to raise the plinth as part of a £65,000 project to refurbish the monument, which stands outside the Gallery of Modern Art.
...
The council had said that raising the height would end a practice which projected a "depressing image" of Glasgow and would save the £10,000 cost of removing the cone 100 times a year.
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The point was made, and I agree, that it would not stop the practice but would, in fact, just get more people hurt....
When I first heard the story, I pictured a statue of a guy standing in a heroic pose. The fact that that he is seated on a horse (and that the horse, too, gets cones put on its head, sometimes two) makes it even more hilarious (or it does if you are me).