Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Wed Aug 08, 2012 9:30 pm  

Standee wrote:

didn't know your family read RLFans

What wit!

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:25 am  

Yeah, York Minster's crap.
I mean, it's too old (built in the 1200's), it's too big and completely out-of-date (one of the largest genuine Gothic cathedrals in the world) and you can see the foundations of Roman and Saxon buildings in the crypt that they have never been bothered to tidy-out.
You can walk where Emperor Constantine walked.
Pfft, rubbish innit?

Whereas, Liverpool's cathedral was designed by a bloke who was better known for his power stations and the red phone box.
But, at least his grand-dad knew a bit about Gothic.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:07 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Yeah, York Minster's crap.
I mean, it's too old (built in the 1200's), it's too big and completely out-of-date (one of the largest genuine Gothic cathedrals in the world) and you can see the foundations of Roman and Saxon buildings in the crypt that they have never been bothered to tidy-out.
You can walk where Emperor Constantine walked.
Pfft, rubbish innit?

Whereas, Liverpool's cathedral was designed by a bloke who was better known for his power stations and the red phone box.
But, at least his grand-dad knew a bit about Gothic.

Not only where Constantine walked but also where he was crowned (if that's the right term for a Roman Emporer)

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:27 am  

Him wrote:

Not only where Constantine walked but also where he was crowned (if that's the right term for a Roman Emporer)

Yeah, didn't want to brag too much BUT, as the capital of the Empire was wherever the Emperor was ... and, as Constantine was declared Emperor when he was in York ...(you can see where this going, can't you?) York was once, albeit briefly, the capital of the Roman Empire.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:41 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Yeah, didn't want to brag too much BUT, as the capital of the Empire was wherever the Emperor was ... and, as Constantine was declared Emperor when he was in York ...(you can see where this going, can't you?) York was once, albeit briefly, the capital of the Roman Empire.

And look what happened to the Roman Empire. It's all Yorks fault.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:57 am  

Ovavoo wrote:

And look what happened to the Roman Empire. It's all Yorks fault.

Of course we did. We brought it down, the whole damn thing. They came from south of Doncaster, they weren't welcome.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:33 am  

I love the people of West Yorkshire invading and settling in the shire and on the coast of East Yorkshire.........Not!!!

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 9:33 am  

Ovavoo wrote:

And look what happened to the Roman Empire. It's all Yorks fault.

Aye, that Constantine, what a duffer ... short-termist thinking, that's what let him down..
Founded Constantinople, which remained the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for a mere thousand years.
If only he'd thought ahead.

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:02 am  

El Barbudo wrote:

Founded Constantinople,

Aaaaahhhhh Constantinople, Always reminds me of the Black & White Minstrel Show on the wireless (yes children, they really did black up to appear on radio)

"Constantinople - C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E"

[John_D]

Re: Happy Yorkshire Day everyone : Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:14 am  

WIZEB wrote:

I love the people of West Yorkshire invading and settling in the shire and on the coast of East Yorkshire.........Not!!!

Settling? No, they're all comforts. Comfort day