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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.


"Go this way!", it seems to be saying.

They're sprucing up The Shed down on the waterfront. Quite how day-glo eighties nostalgia bits 'n pieces tacked on the what it ultimately an aircraft hanger sans aircraft is an improvement is beyond me. It's an embarrassment! A disaster! A travesty! A tragedy!

I need to knock of the television news for a while...
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smudgeon said…
That sure is, er, "pink".

Are you sure it's not a post-modern installation referring to some made-up nonsense? Perhaps "man's inhumanty to man", or a response to "living in a post 9/11 society"?
31 August 2009 at 13:20
Anonymous said…
I like the pink chevrons! But, it is a bit strange and random...
31 August 2009 at 14:45
yamini said…
I like the shocking pink colour.
31 August 2009 at 14:57
Priyanka Khot said…
u do need to limit ur news viewing hours... I am glad to know that people of my fraternity behave equally annoyingly Down Under as well.
31 August 2009 at 17:42
Roddy said…
Looks like a brick storage shed to me.
Why the pink indicators, only the person who visualized them and possibly anyone they confided in will know. I'm sure someone does.
31 August 2009 at 20:42
Kris McCracken said…
Me, pinker than Cyndi Lauper's knickers!
2 September 2009 at 15:44
Kris McCracken said…
Yoork, it's the 1980s rearing its ugly head!
2 September 2009 at 15:44
Kris McCracken said…
Yamini, it is not one of my favourites.
2 September 2009 at 15:44
Kris McCracken said…
Priyanka, the morning news headlines is about all I see these days!
2 September 2009 at 15:45
Kris McCracken said…
Roddy, I blame drugs.
2 September 2009 at 15:45
Roddy said…
Some drugs were good, most mind numbing.
3 September 2009 at 12:43
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