# đź—Ľ What have we got to rival the Spinnaker Tower? **URL:** \ **Category:** Reasonably serious discussion\ **Created:** [6 October 2016 10:47 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239 "2016-10-06T10:47:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 24
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2018 12:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/462 "2018-11-08T12:45:54Z")
[https://twitter.com/SeeSouthampton/status/1060512959422742528](https://twitter.com/SeeSouthampton/status/1060512959422742528) ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [8 November 2018 13:04 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/463 "2018-11-08T13:04:17Z")
Hamble isn’t Southampton, good for a piss up. ---
**Author:** ![Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/goatboy/32/167_2.png) [@Goatboy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Goatboy)\ **Post date:** [19 April 2019 15:44 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/464 "2019-04-19T15:44:55Z")
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**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 18:50 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/465 "2019-05-15T18:50:57Z")
Until the City has more access to the waterfront it’ll be a fragmented City with no centre or heart. Its needs a heartbeat. ---
**Author:** ![Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cobham-saint/32/99252_2.png) [@Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Cobham-Saint)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:02 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/466 "2019-05-15T19:02:10Z")
It’s a successful working dock. Should we just close it all down so you can sip a Lambrini cocktail in a nautically themed Spoons in the new Old Dock Quarter? ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:04 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/467 "2019-05-15T19:04:23Z")
It’s a port for a start, what about the Royal Pier? ---
**Author:** ![Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cobham-saint/32/99252_2.png) [@Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Cobham-Saint)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:08 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/468 "2019-05-15T19:08:28Z")
Oh for fucks sake, docks, port, whatever - stop being a dick for the sake of it can’t you? As a local nipper we called them the docks. Can’t remember if you were actually brought up locally. And what exactly about the Royal Pier? Just chuck a random point in as per all your usual rants… ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:10 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/469 "2019-05-15T19:10:12Z")
Well what’s the story there and intention? ---
**Author:** ![Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cobham-saint/32/99252_2.png) [@Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Cobham-Saint)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/470 "2019-05-15T19:38:15Z")
What the fuck are you on about? Don’t talk in riddles of one weird sentence - explain what you mean or what you want to know. It might head off half of the beefs you create. Btw I’d blow up the Royal Pier it’s been no use to anyone for at least 40 years. Turn it into yet more expensive flats and retail units? What do you think? You seem to have an opinion, or do you? Share it, it’ll make this less painful. ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:40 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/471 "2019-05-15T19:40:52Z")
That’s Southampton wrapped up right there. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:54 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/472 "2019-05-15T19:54:57Z")
Last time the Pier was in operation it had a Beefeater on it. Is that the kind of thing you’re after? ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 19:57 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/473 "2019-05-15T19:57:51Z")
It sums up our ambition, nothing, zip, fuck all. ---
**Author:** ![Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/cobham-saint/32/99252_2.png) [@Cobham-Saint](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Cobham-Saint)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:02 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/474 "2019-05-15T20:02:23Z")
Again a useless random comment that adds nothing or moves the discussion along. I’m pretty sure you do this on purpose. Why? That’d be a psychoanalyst’s dream unravelling that one. Edit: Oh, and answer all the questions. You’re keen to point it out when others don’t. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:04 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/475 "2019-05-15T20:04:03Z")
You were saying… > **[Plans for Southampton to become a UK City of Culture are to move a step forward](https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/17641004.plans-for-southampton-to-become-a-uk-city-of-culture-are-to-move-a-step-forward/)** > > PLANS for Southampton to become a UK City of Culture are to move a step > forward. ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:08 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/476 "2019-05-15T20:08:15Z")
It seems they want money to bring people in, it doesn’t work like that, you have to have some things in the first place that interest people. We have traffic lights and ocean village… ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:19 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/477 "2019-05-15T20:19:10Z")
Your point was about ambition. Today it was announced that Southampton are vying for a prestigious award that should help regenerate and improve the city, if Liverpool is anything to go by. Besides, I hardly think you’re qualified to assess the ambition of others when you’re not ambitious enough to address the content of the posts you’re replying to. Baby steps, Barrington. Baby steps. ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:20 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/478 "2019-05-15T20:20:18Z")
Didn’t we go for something with them down the road a while back? Best shoe shop in Hampshire or something? ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:23 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/479 "2019-05-15T20:23:09Z")
I don’t know, Barry, but I feel you should inspect this diagram. ![image](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/2X/2/2526345a94b88ea200d09011a69fc893815b67c1.png) ---
**Author:** ![Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/barry-sanchez/32/76_2.png) [@Barry-Sanchez](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Barry-Sanchez)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:23 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/480 "2019-05-15T20:23:50Z")
> **[Rival cities 'unite' for culture bid](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-21822466)** > > Portsmouth and Southampton vow to put their differences aside and unite in their bid to become the UK City of Culture in 2017. ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [15 May 2019 20:25 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239/481 "2019-05-15T20:25:03Z")
Old news, mate. We’re more ambitious now. [Previous page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239.md?page=23) [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/what-have-we-got-to-rival-the-spinnaker-tower/1239.md?page=25)