Aye, tis true, they’re behind in their rent! Sorry Redwolf!
The “E” word comes to mind when you read stories like this, hard negotiation its called.
Greed?
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A 1500% increase in rent. The phrase “short and curlies” springs to mind.
I imagine that the SBC will attempt to justify this huge demand on the grounds that if they built a block of luxury flats on the chunk of land currently occupied by one of the Eye’s supports, they could make a lot more than a single megaquid.
I don’t see how they could put flats on the area where the wheel stands - it’s right in the centre, next to a public park.
Howeveer if they moved the wheel futher along towards the east, it’d give a whole new outlook, and might get back people who have been on it before. 
I’m just glad to see that other countries are infested with greedy money mongers.
Glad I got my ride in '00. I was bummed they closed the Mill. Dome, but I guess it made sense.
Did you enjoy the Dome, Emm? I never met one person who thought it was worth a can of beans, including people who got in for free and still felt mysteriously ripped off.
I don’t think Cran understood the dome either.
Well, to put our visit in context…
We’d been in the UK for 10 days, had one full day left and had to compromise between the interests of 2 adults and 4 kids…that can be tough.
The Dome was the thing everyone could live with.
And, in fact, from the standpoint of 8 to 13 year old kids, it was a place to run around and look at weird stuff like the giant boy, the computers that could morph you into another ethnicity, the walk-through body, and…our favorite–the cave-like and mysteriously soothing chamber where you could completely zone out while strange otherworldly music bing-bonged and surreal characters juggled glow-in-the-dark balls.
Interesting thing though…what the kids refer to most about the trip to the Dome is the woman’s voice on the tube, incessantly repeating, “This train terminates at Stratford.”
For a moment there I had a mental image of what it must be like inside Cran’s head…
Anyone know how to get coffee out of a keyboard and monitor when it’s been splurged in there under considerable pressure?
While the Eye is quite striking, and I know the kids are looking forward to it, it’s the one site in London I’ve been dreading…I’m quite intensely acrophobic, and haven’t been looking forward to explaining that to a bunch of fearless sixth graders when they ask “why aren’t you riding too, Mrs. Nickel?”. 
Seriously though…I hope they don’t have to close it over something so petty. Lord, people will do anything to make money, won’t they?
Redwolf
Swap them with the bosses when he goes to lunch?
…worked for me,
Denny
invert keyboard, gentle heat will usually do the trick.
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English landlords, rent increases, eviction, …
I wounder…
“Oh father dear, the day will come
when in answer to the call
All Irish men of freedom stern
will rally one and all
I’ll be the man to lead the band
beneath the flag of green
And loud and clear we’ll raise the cheer,
Revenge for the London Eye”
Somehow it’s just not as lyrical when the English are doing it to themselves.
I don’t even know what it is.
The London Eye
Thanks much!
Compulsory purchase is always a possibility.