safathome wrote:This is just outside Taunton looking towards Tiverton - cant miss it really - dont you agree ?
Actually, no...I don't agree. Admittedly my eyesight ain't the best, but what the **** am I supposed to be looking for? Take pity on an old idiot and edit your screen shot with the offending vegetation circled or something.
CapitolLimited wrote:Some of these issues are very insignificant, but it doesn't take a "replica" vs "simulation" stance to understand that trees don't just grow into concrete structures
Actually......
and if you harness the power of Google/Bling/Ask Jeeves/any other past or present search engine you'll find thousands of images showing trees and other plants growing through/in/across concrete or any other man made material. Argue all you like with the likes of us in here, but Mother Nature will beat you.
So.... we have insignificant issues being complained about---define insignificant.
Whilst to most of us the issues Steve has mentioned from time to time are trivial, for one knowing an area intimately they may well have a greater impact. Nothing wrong with that, just as there's nothing wrong with somebody moaning about badly rendered pointwork in a route--we all have our own wee 'pet hates'.
CapitolLimited wrote:Quite alarming how many people have a vested business interest in JT where even picture sharing is shamed in favor of "silence" as it's quite clear some of these people have a hand in JT's pockets.
Am I the only one to see the irony in somebody with your user name posting about commercial interest? (come on Ash, see the joke...OK, substitute one vowel with another to get the full effect)
Secondly, have you any proof that there are members with a 'vested interest' posting in here? as far as I can see there's only one with a declared interest/connection to JT having made any comments, those comments NOT being defensive about the standard of the route. Personally my connection with JT goes as far as owning a handful of their routes and locos, and living in the same city as somebody who has done work for/with them. Also, where has the fact that a picture has been shared been shamed?
If you, or even Steve, would care to cite your most favourite of wonderfully made routes, and give me a couple of hours I'll wager I can find a couple of dozen faults with it---possibly mostly insignificant ones to yourself but faults none the less.
CapitolLimited wrote:Shame to see that UKTS is turning into RWA in terms of a sugar-coated community where criticism gets you banned over there.
Can you show me where somebody who has passed criticism has been banned? There's nothing wrong with criticising things, in a constructive manner of course, but what does get folk a 'holiday' from posting (not a ban) is how they react/respond to replies to their criticisms, or criticising ad nauseam at every available opportunity in a less than polite manner. Of course there'll be conflicting viewpoints on any reported *error* and of course there are providers who are perceived as being faultless and defended vociferously (blindly?) no matter what, but as long as things remain a discussion and not a playground squabble nobody gets a ban. Your post could be read as getting close to being a candidate for such a 'hoiliday', being largely conjecture, not backed up by any evidence, and potentially libellous as well as insulting.
