Oswaldtwistle's gun shop - Page 4

Neil · 13-12-2005, 20:14

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Originally Posted by Gayle

Yet no one seems prepared to answer my questions

Do you, or do you not, think that a large illuminated sign which shouts 'GUNS' at you gives a good image of the town? If you were an out of towner coming to the theatre do you, or do you not, get a good impression of the town?

It is not as though we are in the centre of London. We live in the countryside. Shooting and countryside tend to go together don't you think? I have just been and and passes the 'sign'. It is not larger than many of the other signs in the town. To answer your question, No I don't think it gives a bad image to Oswaldtwistle.

Out of interest Gayle how many people mentioned the gun sign on your non-campaigning questionnaire you recently sent out?

geoff70 · 13-12-2005, 20:18

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Originally Posted by Gayle

All right, better luck this time.

ahhh!!! now i see what all the fuss is about ,yep its dodge city alright !!!! tsk tsk tsk

Gayle · 13-12-2005, 21:40

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Originally Posted by Neil

It is not as though we are in the centre of London. We live in the countryside. Shooting and countryside tend to go together don't you think? I have just been and and passes the 'sign'. It is not larger than many of the other signs in the town. To answer your question, No I don't think it gives a bad image to Oswaldtwistle.

Out of interest Gayle how many people mentioned the gun sign on your non-campaigning questionnaire you recently sent out?

a. it wasn't a question on my non-campaigning questionnaire
and
b. I'll ask a few people at my non-campaigning meeting at 3.45pm on the 15th December at Ossy Town Hall.

Neil · 13-12-2005, 22:32

Keep saying the 'non'. You never know who is reading this

chav1 · 13-12-2005, 23:13

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Originally Posted by Roy

** just wrote a reply, but am gritting teeth and had to erase it. Grrrrr sometimes I hate having to be liable for what I say on here.

/roy goes off to create an anonymous account for future use

ok someone ban roy for breaking the rules

chav1 · 13-12-2005, 23:13

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Originally Posted by Roy

** just wrote a reply, but am gritting teeth and had to erase it. Grrrrr sometimes I hate having to be liable for what I say on here.

/roy goes off to create an anonymous account for future use

ok someone ban roy for breaking the rules

joking of course

Doug · 13-12-2005, 23:44

Gayle what’s a non-campaigning meeting, and if your not campaigning what are you doing?

Doug · 13-12-2005, 23:45

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Originally Posted by chav1

ok someone ban roy for breaking the rules

joking of course

He's not Roy...............

I saw a twinkle in his eye...

garinda · 13-12-2005, 23:45

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Originally Posted by Neil

It is not as though we are in the centre of London. We live in the countryside. Shooting and countryside tend to go together don't you think? I have just been and and passes the 'sign'. It is not larger than many of the other signs in the town. To answer your question, No I don't think it gives a bad image to Oswaldtwistle.

A population of 26,OOO isn't living in the 'countryside'. Urban, bordering on the rural yes.

Your challenge is to photograph any other illuminated signs of the same size on Union Road, that extends at right angles from any shop front. Good luck as there aren't any.

Quite a lot of interest about the shops in our 'dieing' town. Thank you.

Doug · 14-12-2005, 00:00

At the moment only two of the 26,000 are expressing having a problem. It’s not my town I know, but we do have certain freedoms in this county and I think it’s important that majority rule is sustained. This is a business operating in the open and legally. Push to hard and the chap might just take away his sign, blackout his windows and operate beyond your scrutiny. Personally, I’d like to keep gun shops in the open….As you have pointed out there is a vermin problem in the town and it is semi rural and rural people uses air weapons to control vermin, rabbits and to scare off the occasional fox.

garinda · 14-12-2005, 00:15

I have no problem with this shop or what it sells, as I've said umpteen times already. I'm just very suprised it didn't need planning permission, as it would in many other parts of the country, especially when the powers that be have decided that apparently straight opposite is deemed a conservation area.

shakermaker · 14-12-2005, 00:51

to be honest; i travel past there on the bus a lot and i always without looking for it notice the GUNS sign jutting out; makes me sink into my bus seat and get very suspicious of one of the windows smashing to smitherines!!

what? too many Yosemite Sam cartoons? never!

Doug · 14-12-2005, 01:10

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Originally Posted by shakermaker

to be honest; i travel past there on the bus a lot and i always without looking for it notice the GUNS sign jutting out; makes me sink into my bus seat and get very suspicious of one of the windows smashing to smitherines!!

what? too many Yosemite Sam cartoons? never!

I think perhaps too much shaking of what your making cock. A few more early nights and a little less imagination might help, failing that you could always sit on the other side of the bus either that or take to wearing Kevlar, it can be fashionable and comes in a subtle range of desert pinks and jungle greens….

shakermaker · 14-12-2005, 01:17

did i say bus?? very sorry, i meant tank!
the bus was caught in Ossy crossfire last week you see.

a sight of my canon makes those gun-bearers run a mile

Gayle · 14-12-2005, 09:46

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Originally Posted by Neil

Keep saying the 'non'. You never know who is reading this

I know exactly who is reading this and I use the word 'non' with the same irony that you did.