Those silly Spaniards wouldn't be silly enough to push it, would they?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

You can't have EU members going to war, for God's sake! What would the neighbours say?

[PSRB]

[Maz]

[NOT Nicosia. Now banned.]

themselves every summer.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

I don't feel comfortable giving an opinion until Jorge has told me it is okay.

[7evens]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

can be relied upon - The sun.

[Free SL]

their economy that they can't afford to lose.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Free SL]

[Snin]

pickets at te airport easyjet desks for people flying to spain, fires in braziers , will be lovely

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Snin]

[Snin]

:cry:

[PSRB]

every cloud

[NOT Nicosia. Now banned.]

I highly doubt the average Spanish chap will miss the usual hoards of drunken English in drag fully living up to 'the English disease' moniker. Good people the Spanish really.

[PSRB]

I would suggest they will miss us, a lot. That's not materialism, that's just living day to day

[Dorset Gooner]

attention, same as Argentina did recently with the falklands.

Neither place would make much differrence to us but what can you do when the people that live there want to stay with us.

I'm not talking to you by the way

[Snin]

a tower block imo....

http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/09/benidorm-skyscraper-built-w ithout-an-elevator/ (http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/09/benidorm-skyscraper-built-without-an-elevator/)

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Intempo tower blunder sees Benidorm skyscraper built without a working lift

News: the builders behind this two-tower 47-storey skyscraper in Benidorm, Spain, have forgotten to include a working lift.

Spanish national newspaper El Pais has reported that one of Europe's tallest residential skyscrapers, the 200 metre-tall Intempo tower in Alicante, has been built without a working elevator above the 20th floor.

Designed by Spanish architects Roberto Perez Guerras, the skyscraper features two symmetrical towers that are joined at the top with an inverted cone-shaped structure.

It was originally designed with 20 storeys, but developers later decided to extend it to 47 storeys - offering 269 homes. However they neglected to allow the extra room required by a lift ascending over twice as far.

This news comes as a further embarrassing blunder for the architects and construction team - following countless problems experienced during the project.

The project suffered its first setback in 2009, when the construction company involved went into liquidation. Later, an elevator fell with 13 people trapped inside and ambulances were unable to reach the site because vehicle access had been removed to save costs.

In 2008, the architects described the project on its company website as "a symbol of a new architectural philosophy". The company said: "its features of comfort, design and elegance set a standard for the future of architecture and the city of Benidorm".

"A majestic building, that will mark a before and after in architecture and town-planning in Spain," said the architects.

The architects have since resigned from the project. The Intempo Tower is due for completion in December 2013, although it remains unclear how the missing elevator will be resolved.

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[Maravilloso Marvo]

Tourism is worth ¤50-60 billion annually for Spain. It is the second highest foreign tourism receipts after America.

I know for a fact that local people would love the tourist destinations to remain for locals. But equally they are very aware of what tourism has given them as a county and what taking it away from them would do.

[Free SL]

[Berni]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Ocado are doing cartons of fantastic veal jus, have you seen them? Absolutely brilliant for sauces.

['Neg]

[NOT Nicosia. Now banned.]

http://images.smh.com.au/2011/04/26/2325980/art_British-Tourists-in-Drag-200x0.jpg

http://assets.vice.com/content-images/contentimage/no-slug/c036e2f17eaafc9b808fd6310599f5b2.jpg

[Free SL]

didn't want it to be hundreds of millions and have quoted billions.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

They might switch the water off, or something.

[Berni]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Red N White Army]

[Ashberto]

[PSRB]

, bar staff, bouncers, brewers, hoteliers, chambermaids, etc, etc

[Free SL]

a few euros goes a long way to getting things done.

[Ashberto]

[Snin]

[Free SL]

[Snin]

:-)

[Berni]

****, but y'know?

Spain, by contrast, has policemen in silly hats and...errr...that's it.

Mind you, they're all probably on EPO, so they'll be able to run away that much faster

[TRENT COLTON]

[Snin]

[NOT Nicosia. Now banned.]

Create a disgusting slum like **** bowl that's falling apart with 90% of the housing not fit for human living standards. Hence plenty of work to be done. Intriguing idea. :thumbup:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

Why do you keep avoiding the fundamental parts of your argument?

[PSRB]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

Mind you, the Type 45 is a ridiculously good piece of kit.

[Rich]

Given that we don't have a carrier we'd have to fly some long missions from the UK. And we might send 4 aircraft over, tops.

And maybe some helicopters from HMS Ocean.

[7evens]

I think I'd rather face a viper than be attacked by a wolf :rubchin:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I mean, we wouldn't want to be credible or anything, would we?

[PSRB]

[Ashberto]

Dads yelling on the touchline, and hoofing it up to the big lad isn't the best way to develop talent.

[PSRB]

not to mention every other nationality

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I've stopped reading about our military equipment. It's all too depressing.

[7evens]

Spain ???

[Snin]

break them imo..

[NOT Nicosia. Now banned.]

Honestly you can't go on holiday without the English disease rearing it's ugly head. I honestly don't know any other ethnicity on the planet that cross dresses in such numbers. It's staggering really.

[PSRB]

[Ashberto]

Why would anyone ever take you seriously when you're coming out with ignorant, clueless, made-up nonsense like that?

[PSRB]

or something like that

[Snin]

as we decided they were out of date...so replaced them with nowt but the yanks still like em...and they sold us some duff apaches in return...then we have the non working nimrod replacement... our military is seriously run by a bunch of old blundering feckwits

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

[Maravilloso Marvo]

[Snin]

tbh... it would be like when castro sent over the criminals from cuba.. let em have the rock imo

[The Tony]

Don't the Spanish take like a 2 hour siesta in the afternoons? Silly lot didn't think it through imo

[PSRB]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23 327101 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-23327101)

apart from the 2020 bit http://www.awimb.com/images/smiley_icons/ohwell.gif

[Maravilloso Marvo]

So I tried to keep it it in simple, yet nonsense terms to see if he could agree that he was heading in the wrong direction that English tourists brought nothing but pain to the quiet and peaceful spaniards.

[Dorset Gooner]

[Snin]

and you say the brits are weird ? have you read about the taliban and northern alliance battles ? more like a drug addled bum off with lots of drugs, cross dressing and bit of killing tbh

[7evens]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[PSRB]

[Snin]

we will have to buy it off the scots free army...

[Berni]

[Herbette Chapman - aged 15]

sportsman have been using for the last twenty years (remember when they were nothing but small, greasy bullfighters c? )

Anyway, all that is required here is a big dry slap from Johnny Bullddog-*******s and they'll all go scampering back to the comfort of mammy's tit

[PSRB]

would be stupendously daft

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Ashberto]

progressive stuff like teaching them to play with a straight bat either. The most brutal euro-imperialists of them all, probably.

[Snin]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lcbrsufupw1qd7jego1_500.jpg

[Ashberto]

[Maz]