There is a poll running on Facebook regarding the Big Screen in Market Square. Here is the latest so far:
Q. Do you think the big screen is a total waste of space and money?
A. 78.95%
Q. Do you think the big screen is a vital asset to our town?
A 21.05%
total votes cast = 38
Whatever the outcome, the world is being told that we have a big screen in our Market Square and there is no such thing as bad publicity.
Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It's a bit of a stupid poll - there should be middle categories in there. Nobody in their right mind would say it is 'vital', even screen supporters. I'd suggest something such as:
A) A total waste of space and money
B) Doubtful, but it may have some small value if used correctly
C) Indifferent
D) A positive asset with great potential
E) A vital asset to our town
Having two options is pointless - I might as well start one up saying 'Humans: Good or Evil. Vote".
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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Not as easy to answer that one truthfully, Phil, as one might imagine. As well as the odd Saint, there are genuinely evil people around. Even in Dover.
True friends stab you in the front.
Unregistered User
If someone asked do you want a gift of a £500k Big Screen, what would be the answer?
Watty
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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It wouldn't fit in my lounge!
True friends stab you in the front.
Exactly, PW. Job done.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Phil. #2 = A
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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I`ll elaborate on the above again. I think any council would accept the offer of a big screen, and I`m in agreement with what PaulW is saying, but like at home or other people`s house`s, and equally outside in the street, I find a TV very obtrusive, and I wonder if there are any other`s like me who want to go on holiday and get away from it all, including having the BBC ramming the news headline`s down your throat 24 hours a day. If you come to see that, then why not stay at home and watch what you want to. Sorry, but I`ll say it again, that TV booming out lower`s the whole tone of the area.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
I support PaulW in this, but share your dislike of TV - I don't watch much - only really catch what's on when the kids/Old Man are watching and I flit in and out. Radio, however, is different. Love it!! Radio 3,4 and 7 especially. But I suppose a humungous radio in market square wouldn't be acceptable...?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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facebook polls are a bit like petitions, people just sign anything.
if there is a waste of money box to tick even better.
colin
i can hardly hear it, doesn't boom to me.
Watty, if someone asked me what would I do with the gift of a £500K big screen what would be the answer?
Much the same answer that I gave to a pupil today who asked me if I watched Eastenders.
'Do I look like the sort of person who would watch Eastenders'.
£500k so what.
Why should the poor have a monopoly in bad taste??
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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bob
you must admit that paul the fuhrer makes a valid point.
dover has a history of turning things down.
years ago we turned down a load of free money, something like "assisted area status".
it looks like we will lose the hospital money.
i am quite surprised that the government were not told where to stick the seachange grant.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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Radio would be fine Bern, with a variety of music, but keep the waffling DJs, phone in`s, hourly news, stupid advertising off it. You can converse with each other on this with no distraction`s and the thought that you`re being listened to.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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Cost to the taxpayer between installation and 2012, nearly 120K. Hardly a 'free' gift.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Howard, As I have tried to point out elsewhere there is no such thing as free money.
It's your money and my money sequestrated in income, local, company, value added etc. etc. tax which someone thought they could spend better than you or I could.
Bob
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i think that you are missing the point bob.
of course we all pay taxes(other than non doms) to the governments of the UK and europe.
we wave it away with a tearful goodbye.
the trick then is to get some of it back.
government and EU grants are everywhere, one can be aloof and not go for any or have common sense and grab anything going.
Howard, no. When offered the screen one should say that it's a crap idea and the money should be given back to whichever bunch of suckers paid for it (through tax reduction wherever).
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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bob
would you say the same to the hospital and seachange money?
once a reputation is gained, then money stops being offered.
And I dread to think what Dovers reputation is, frankly.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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talking to people outside the image is one of intransigence.