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What should be done with the safe 50% of the SARK?

What should be done with the safe 50% of the SARK?

  • Saved and put towards the ultimate restoration of the ship

    Votes: 14 50.0%
  • Donated to homeless foreigners

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Burnt to heat an orphanage

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • Sold as scrap and the profits put towards cancer research

    Votes: 4 14.3%
  • Donated to the timber industry to lower overall timber costs to the average consumer by .00000000000

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Total voters
    28


TrevorDove

Member
Jan 4, 2004
739
Brighton
Barrel of Fun said:
How would the Heritage lottery fund be able to help under priveleged kids!?

The point is that instead of wasting all that money restoring what is effectively a bit of wood and iron the money could be spent on something more worthwhile.

When salvaging the wood they could create saleable items (Cutty Sark door stop anyone?) to flog to the Yanks which would in turn help fund something for the underpriveledged kids of the area - meaning that the Cutty Sark has made a difference rather than just sitting in the water not doing alot.

Anyone who harps on about losing Britain's Heritage should remember that we will still be able to see it on TV and stuff.
 




Les Biehn

GAME OVER
Aug 14, 2005
20,610
TrevorDove said:
The point is that instead of wasting all that money restoring what is effectively a bit of wood and iron the money could be spent on something more worthwhile.

When salvaging the wood they could create saleable items (Cutty Sark door stop anyone?) to flog to the Yanks which would in turn help fund something for the underpriveledged kids of the area - meaning that the Cutty Sark has made a difference rather than just sitting in the water not doing alot.

Anyone who harps on about losing Britain's Heritage should remember that we will still be able to see it on TV and stuff.

you are a disgrace
 






Barrel of Fun

Abort, retry, fail
TrevorDove said:
The point is that instead of wasting all that money restoring what is effectively a bit of wood and iron the money could be spent on something more worthwhile.

When salvaging the wood they could create saleable items (Cutty Sark door stop anyone?) to flog to the Yanks which would in turn help fund something for the underpriveledged kids of the area - meaning that the Cutty Sark has made a difference rather than just sitting in the water not doing alot.

Anyone who harps on about losing Britain's Heritage should remember that we will still be able to see it on TV and stuff.


Tourism is a HUGE money spinner for Britain. Not only visitors from abroad, but from British residents.

http://www.visitbritain.com/corporate/factsfigures/index.aspx

See it on TV!? :thud: Why leave home at all!
 




TrevorDove said:
The point is that instead of wasting all that money restoring what is effectively a bit of wood and iron the money could be spent on something more worthwhile.

You remind me of an old Harry Enfield character. "I mean football, what's that all about then? It's just a load of blokes kicking a ball around a field. What's the point of that?"
 


Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,278
Trevor, it is the underprivileged kids of the area who probably set fire to the ship in the first place.
 








TrevorDove

Member
Jan 4, 2004
739
Brighton
Pavilionaire said:
Trevor, it is the underprivileged kids of the area who probably set fire to the ship in the first place.

Probably because they were bored - the cash generated by the chopping up of the Sark would see they had a new skate park or something simular to keep them amused.

I can see only one winner at the moment from this fire, and that's the British public.
 


Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,278
You have my blessing, go in piece my child. If you can live with the guilt and the lies, that is.
 








Woodchip

It's all about the bikes
Aug 28, 2004
14,460
Shaky Town, NZ
TrevorDove said:
Probably because they were bored - the cash generated by the chopping up of the Sark would see they had a new skate park or something simular to keep them amused.

I can see only one winner at the moment from this fire, and that's the British public.
And nautical history means nothing? I suppose if HMS Victory and Mary Rose went up in smoke you'd be singing from the rooftops?!?!?!

We are a famous nautical nation, we need to remember the history that has made us so strong.
 






Nibble

New member
Jan 3, 2007
19,238
They should send all the immigrants back home on the remains. But it will sink? Well, they took that chance getting here didn't they? :p
 


dougdeep

New member
May 9, 2004
37,732
SUNNY SEAFORD
captainmorganrum said:
I am wearing a slightly charred yellow ribbon in commemoration.
:salute:

And nothing else? ???
 






Pavilionaire

Well-known member
Jul 7, 2003
31,278
Woodchip said:
And nautical history means nothing? I suppose if HMS Victory and Mary Rose went up in smoke you'd be singing from the rooftops?!?!?!

We are a famous nautical nation, we need to remember the history that has made us so strong.

Woodchip, we are also a proud fire-loving nation. What about the Great Fire Of London in 1666, the Windsor Castle fire of 1992 or the Millennium River Of Fire? In each case people turned out in their thousands to admire the flames.

Did Guy Fawkes die in vain? No, he died so that we the British people could annually celebrate our love of fire each and every November thereafter.

The Cutty Sark is a proud continuation of our peculiarly British love of fire, and long may this wonderful tradition, nay institution, continue.
 




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