# It's a fucking tower block you wankers. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336 "2008-03-06T16:09:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/1 "2008-03-06T16:09:18Z")
I thought we abandoned [these](http://www.primelocation.com/uk-property-for-sale/details/id/BHNH999000253) in the 70s? What the fuck are they thinking? In the short term this won’t affect me since it’s the other end of the city but there’s a lot of creeping crappy development going on round here lately. Gotta do some work now, maybe follow up in a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Omegaman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e480ec/32.png) [@Omegaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omegaman)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/2 "2008-03-06T16:19:20Z")
I don’t get it. Looks like apartments from the 1970’s. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/3 "2008-03-06T16:22:00Z")
Bwuh? Looks like your standard Toronto condo, only shorter. Not bad looking, either. (But what’s it doing in _Englannnddd…???_) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/4 "2008-03-06T16:24:36Z")
I second that it totally looks 70s – but what a steal! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/5 "2008-03-06T16:24:58Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] I don’t get it. Looks like apartments from the 1970’s. [/QUOTE] Yeah, that’s his point. British inner-cities are full of buildings that look just like that, and yet somebody is trying to charge 365,000 pounds for the privelege of living in another one. Of course, basically all property developers in the Home Counties are idiots. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/6 "2008-03-06T16:26:13Z")
Uh, what’s the rant again? Oh, I see Really Not All That Bright snuck in a post while I was typing. Huh, doesn’t seem like a big deal to me. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/7 "2008-03-06T16:29:06Z")
[QUOTE=Omegaman] I don’t get it. Looks like apartments from the 1970’s. [/QUOTE] But they’re being built _now_. Most of Milton Keynes _was_ built in the 70’s but it was all low-rise no more that three or four stories, lots of open space, parks and lots and lots of trees, many of which are now being cut down to make way for more houses in dense develoments. Or fucking tower blocks. I don’t like the look of the way things are going here. Time to move back to London maybe ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/8 "2008-03-06T16:32:40Z")
You know, I’ve shopped for apartments before. What I looked at is location, size, layout, access, workmanship, location, neighbors, ventilation, view and location. How the building actually looks on the outside? Who cares? ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/9 "2008-03-06T16:34:07Z")
It’s hard to tell from the picture, but those building look like 6 or 7 stories to me. Since Milton Keynes has grown a lot since the 1970s, that might be reasonable in the city centre now, rather than spreading to take over more countryside. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/10 "2008-03-06T16:35:10Z")
Five storeys isn’t “tower” by normal standards. Also, those aren’t 70s-looking, they’re _ironic_ 70s looking! They’re so _now_ darlings! They’re all the rage this season. Get one before they go out of fashion again. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/11 "2008-03-06T16:35:42Z")
You trying to tell me that’s not a model set up next someone’s model railroad? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/12 "2008-03-06T16:44:30Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Uh, what’s the rant again? Oh, I see Really Not All That Bright snuck in a post while I was typing. [/QUOTE] Message Board Ninja strikes again! Bwahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/13 "2008-03-06T16:55:52Z")
[QUOTE=Giles] Since Milton Keynes has grown a lot since the 1970s, that might be reasonable in the city centre now, rather than spreading to take over more countryside. [/QUOTE] Dispite what the blurb says it’s a way off from the (current) centre. And in fact most of the new development _is_ spreading out east and west over farms and stuff. The existing centre is pretty much fully built over already, which is why they’re resorting to building upwards. Until recently policy in MK was to not build higher than the tallest tree. The tossers in charge now (English Partnerships) are allowing and actually planning stuff that belongs in 1970s Croydon. And fucking traffic lights! (we like our roundabouts dammit). > [@jjimm](#): > > Five storeys isn’t “tower” by normal standards By MK standards it is. And these aren’t the tallest new buildings, just some of the ugliest. Sorry I couldn’t find a better picture, the cover of last weeks paper was an ad’ for those flats (excuse me, apartments) and basically the place looks like a prison. Google up _vizion Milton Keynes_ and you may find something more representative. Also, for anyone that cares they’re Barratt Homes. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/14 "2008-03-06T17:00:44Z")
OK, [that](http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/new-homes/south-east-england/buckinghamshire/milton-keynes/new-development/vizion/7392-487254.html) looks a bit more tower-blocky. I think if they looked like that, they’d be pretty cool. The other graphic, they look shite. Have they been built yet? If they’re [these](http://www.cotels.co.uk/vizion_apartments.aspx), then they look kinda modern and continental. ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Clanger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@Small\_Clanger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Clanger)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/15 "2008-03-06T17:36:48Z")
They are in the process of being built, the Google Earth co-ords are 52 deg\* 02’ 11.67" N 0 deg 45’ 41.46" W View from North-ish. Look like tower blocks to me. - does vbcode do degrees? And how do you enter them in GE? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/16 "2008-03-06T17:50:37Z")
Isn’t building up the environmentally better way to go? Rather than expanding out, with all the additional infrastructure and transportation costs? ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/17 "2008-03-06T21:41:31Z")
Looking at the pictures, I’m going to have to say that they are clearly asking too much. Those buildings can’t be more than 20 centimeters high. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/18 "2008-03-07T00:43:36Z")
[QUOTE=NurseCarmen] Looking at the pictures, I’m going to have to say that they are clearly asking too much. Those buildings can’t be more than 20 centimeters high. [/QUOTE] And for that money I’d want actual gardens instead of a Subbuteo pitch. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/19 "2008-03-07T03:40:10Z")
Where are the rotating knives? ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336/20 "2008-03-07T04:24:55Z")
[QUOTE=Small Clanger] - does vbcode do degrees? And how do you enter them in GE? [/QUOTE] [ALT] 167 gets me º [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-a-fucking-tower-block-you-wankers/440336.md?page=2)