“black smoke means the vatican fuel/air mixture is too rich
white smoke means the vatican is burning coolant, likely due to a blown head gasket”
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New Pope openly criticises Trump and his eye-lined Salcious Crumb. That’ll do for me.
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Now it makes sense ! Haha!
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Laura loomer is absolutely batshit crazy
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Her head is almost completely plastic too.
There were a few ‘alt right’ women who appeared around 5/10 years ago but most disappeared. She seems the most resistant to flushing.
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Weird, thought the MAGA crowd would love him, he apparently turned a blind eye to whole heaps of kiddy fiddling and beasting, that’s presidential behaviour right there
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Absolutely, but it probably applies to all the pope nominees
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In other news…
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That park looks so bad 
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Proper bargain basement job that.
We need a Woodward UK. When do we want it? 20 years ago.
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For me, it’s not so much whether it’s a good skatepark, but the fact that it’s a skatepark at all. In a school. If the kids learn there and get into skating, there’s a bigger, better, multi-storey skatepark down the road.
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Imagine the health and safety loopholes and funding they would have had to jump through just to get anything built? It’s probably a miracle anything got done. Fair play I say. Looks like a basic beginners section in most parks, which is what you’d expect.
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Regardless of design, I’d have been buzzing for that at school. Appreciate the standards are higher now so it looks pants in comparison but it’s still a good thing
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It’s a massive leap forward when you consider the minds that have to be changed to allow something like that in a school. Just to get a school to be more progressive and look at other sports that are not football/rugby/hockey/netball is a major achievement
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It’s a good idea, executed horrendously
Disagree that it’s a bad park or executed badly. Being built in a school I imagine it’s woven into their PE curriculum. So a place that has open space to get to grips with the basics of pushing, dropping in, kickturns and progress through different height/steepness of ramps is conducive to learning to skate.
I’m saying this as someone who used to teach skateboarding lessons but on the educational side I imagine a place where its feasible to implement achievable and incremental progress milestones in the teaching of skateboarding, rather than something dotted with ledges, hips, flatbars, etc, fits the function much better.
@anonymity feel free to check me on any of this as you’ve got the scholarly credentials, insights and whatnot.
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Why does it have a mini Aaron Loreth style West Park quarterpipe?
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That makes sense, unless they could already skate then not many of these kids will be able to ollie which renders those kinds of obstacles fairly useless.
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Do they still have those benches in UK schools? Could lean one of those into the bowl. ‘This week’s lesson is boardslides’
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Haha, it does kinda look like a friendlier, redder version of West Park.
Based off the photos on Betong’s website that transition looks about as steep as the coping’d end of the bowl, albeit slightly taller, so I’d say probably to add another stage of progression in terms of obstacles whilst also adding variety and making the design more interesting?
