Resonox
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 24, 2012, 21:36
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tjj wrote: Resonox wrote:
Not much of a rumble if everyone wants to get on to old biddies taking pictures but not the louts taking a piss.....treat 'em all as the desecrators they are!
Biddies being a unisex description in this case I take it.
As is "louts"...why?
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tjj
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 24, 2012, 21:51
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Resonox wrote: tjj wrote: Resonox wrote:
Not much of a rumble if everyone wants to get on to old biddies taking pictures but not the louts taking a piss.....treat 'em all as the desecrators they are!
Biddies being a unisex description in this case I take it.
As is "louts"...why?
As you ask - you mean 'biddies' as in either gender so I guess you must mean 'old' as in ... well, any age really, if you are taking photos. Where does that leave the many people who have contributed photos to this site. Are they all desecrators too?
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 24, 2012, 22:18
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tjj wrote: As you ask - you mean 'biddies' as in either gender so I guess you must mean 'old' as in ... well, any age really, if you are taking photos. Where does that leave the many people who have contributed photos to this site. Are they all desecrators too?
Can I be a biddie then? Postie's definitely one. Or are we louts? I'm confused.
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drewbhoy
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 24, 2012, 22:29
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Does 'at make me an old biddie lager lout.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 24, 2012, 22:30
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drewbhoy wrote: Does 'at make me an old biddie lager lout.
Deffo.
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drewbhoy
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 24, 2012, 22:32
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Excellent, Simple Minds tomorrow SC.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 24, 2012, 22:47
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Excellent, enjoy!
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nigelswift
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Edited Feb 25, 2012, 12:13
Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 25, 2012, 13:10
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It's my guess that 99% of people that climb on standing stones don't realise they shouldn't - which puts the blame squarely on the guardians. Yes there are sometimes notices saying don't but they don't say it clearly enough so that no-one can miss them. The French on the other hand -----
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=non+aux+climbing&hl=en&biw=981&bih=415&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=f9jqHKEkpuiTCM:&imgrefurl=http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/archives/2010_06.html&docid=T25OAN4TkGBOHM&imgurl=http://www.funkypancake.com/blog/media/Non%252520Aux%252520Climbing%252520sur%252520les%252520Megaliths-thumb-300x225.jpg&w=300&h=225&ei=dM9IT_zzNcKw0QW7m62_Cw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=80&vpy=90&dur=7320&hovh=180&hovw=240&tx=144&ty=200&sig=113067750595775751893&page=1&tbnh=104&tbnw=119&start=0&ndsp=13&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0
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Sanctuary
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 25, 2012, 13:37
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nigelswift wrote:
Yes I think there's a certain amount of truth in that Nigel. Kidz taken with parents who are there just for a day out but have no real interest have no reason to question anything so it becomes a playground...did it myself over and over as a kid. It is really down to the guardians as you say to provide wardens on the larger sites along with sign boards with decent and obvious notices on the 'lesser' ones as a minimum.
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Rhiannon
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Re: Climbing on Standing Stones
Feb 25, 2012, 13:55
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But surely people who engage their brains / actually give a monkeys don't need signs, because not clambering all over 4000 year old places is kind of obvious like not nicking daffodils from parks or running about in churches or not letting your children run riot and annoy everybody.
And people who do those things / let their children do them, don't care about signs.
Won't we have to put up with signs being everywhere, which somewhat detract from the ambience wouldn't you say.
I'm not so sure about the sign thing, though i don't know what the alternative is. But it seems like trying to reduce everythign down to the lowest common denominator. I feel like there's too much of that today as it is.
I mean I quite like things like this
http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/post/56314/lambourn_sevenbarrows.html
for their retro value. But they're a bit distracting, plonked in a barrow. And they're a bit like a poster that says 'post no bills'. And I really don't know if they have any effect.
At the big sites like Stonehenge and Avebury, and Silbury for that matter, it would help if the media actually were consistent with what people are seen doing. Because when people climb there, they really properly climb. It's not really the same as parking your arse on a sarsen while you eat your sandwiches. Or is it? Surely that's not so bad, it is a stone after all. Is this whole thing partly to do with wanting less oikish behaviour so Civilised Visitors can enjoy the sites in peace? Is it the climbing aspect. What are people's feelings on sitting I wonder.
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