My home town
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The vistas of Mansfield, as seen from my local park.
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OK. Not Gosport, but a mere ferry ride away and Cowes is trying to out-do Gosports utter patheticness…..I am sure you won't have been following the jaw droppingly interesting saga of the new Cowes Chain Ferry, but you may find this amusing....I am sure you can fill in the dots....
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Gosport "craftsmen"
About 2 years ago, we had new gates made and installed. I am fixing up some gate automation at the moment. And noticed that one of the 6 strap hinges had been installed like this…..
The other 5 were correctly done - how on earth does anyone think that that's a good job…..(luckily it's the middle hinge of three, so the least important to have been done correctly)....
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Is the hinge up the wrong way or screws being used?
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Gosport "craftsmen"
About 2 years ago, we had new gates made and installed. I am fixing up some gate automation at the moment. And noticed that one of the 6 strap hinges had been installed like this…..
The other 5 were correctly done - how on earth does anyone think that that's a good job…..(luckily it's the middle hinge of three, so the least important to have been done correctly)....
That's nothing. I was working with a window fitting team and I witnesses a window fitter fit a window the wrong way around so the handles were on the outside.
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Is the hinge up the wrong way or screws being used?
The hook should be facing up to support the strap hinge….Yeah and the screws are shite, I ordered 60 coach screws today to sort that out too
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Fascinating. My great grandfather was a cooper.
Had to smile when the narrator talks about 'modernizing' in 1828. In a country with roads built by Rome I suppose it's not that long ago. -
http://thetab.com/uk/leicester/2016/05/16/gosport-awful-place-i-chosen-grow-9783
I feel the same way about my hometown, Jackson, Mississippi, USA that the writer of the article feels about Gos Vegas. Jackson is a morass of abject poverty, crime (per capita often among the highest murder rates in the country during my childhood), proud, steadfast ignorance, fucked-up priorities, stupidity, corruption, incompetence, self-defeat, urban decay, stagnant economy, and is in some ways a cultural vacuum (while in others, a cultural oasis: see below).
But there are some great folks there and I wouldn't trade having grown up there, with a back yard bordering woods full of creeks and trails, the ability to walk or ride to school, great food ("cosmopolitan" enough to have sushi there when I was very young), great local music, from native blues (check out this documentary available in the US for Amazon Prime streaming; I got to experience places therein like the Subway Lounge, a blues juke joint opened in the basement of the city's first black-owned hotel, before it was condemned) to a decent symphony (I believe that may be gone now). And, New Orleans–still my favorite cultural outpost--and Memphis were just a few hours drive away. And about an hour away in Delta, Louisiana, you could buy booze at age 18 (that has since changed). Oh, and you could drive at age 15, permit at 14.
A lot of good people remain there trying to stick it out because the place has its merits, chief among them its people. But is also has its problems, chief among them its people. Jackson, like the rest of my home state, in many ways can't get out of its own way and realize its nascent potential.
The way I put it is, it's a good place to be from.
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Ha, @mclaincausey I thought I recognized your name—I'm from Jackson, too. I think we've got some mutual friends.
Regarding your description, I couldn't really say it any better. The place has a lot of issues and drives me absolutely crazy on a regular basis, even though I haven't been back in probably five years (since my parents moved to AL). My friends who stay there to contribute to the greater good… man, I just don't know how they do it, haha. I got the fuck out of there as soon as I graduated from high school.
Yet, as you said, so many good things. I'm very glad I'm from there, and very glad I'm currently not there.
