+Doc+

Does this actually symbolise a drug pusher in the area of urban myth?

GlesgaKiss

Could be anything! We did it at our high school and we weren't drug pushers! Could be anyone doing it for a laugh.

powerwrx

iTrader: (11)

as far as i know it a mark of respect for someone who has died

Markus

Urban Myth in these parts is that it symbolizes the location of a drug dealer who will supply you with heroin.

Dedrater

How do you find out where he lives, I assume he doesn't put his address on the sole?

Chip

I always thought it meant you were entering a council estate.

Chip

+Doc+

How do you get up to see the sole?

belliott69

iTrader: (3)

in some cultures its a mark of respect for people to chuck your trainers over where you died .

Markus

Probably the same culture where it's ok to kill someone because "He looked at me hard"

Jamie

The meeericans and Mexicans plus them chavs from liverpool manchester do it when they get capped.

RESPECT innit aye

f8rdy

I think its a sign that there are bullies in the area

GlesgaKiss

Could be a sign people aren't needing their trainers anymore?

RRH

How about when people throw their bags of dog sh** in to trees rather than finding a bin? Similar?

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

What about a tyre on a lampost ?

Jamie

They must not like you

RRH

Oi! editing my post! lol

J4CKO

iTrader: (1)

never understood that, go to the trouble of bagging a turdley and then attach it to a fench, thus making a biodegradable lump of poo into a permanent feature !

Jamz3k

This is our local shoe tree!
Panoramio - Photo of Shoe Tree

Dedrater

I see that all the time in Erddig where I am, bags knotted to fences and gates, I would love to see someone do it, just so I can try get into there mind set and ask them wtf are you doing.

I can only guess they do it because there is lack of bins, but at the end of the day it is a National Park, so most wouldn't want them there anyway.

Really pisses me off!

53

iTrader: (41)

I thought it indicated the buoyancy of an area being a Plimsoll Line .

Jamie

It is ok i am a liverpool football supporter

scud8

iTrader: (1)

Our local National Trust land has dog-c**p bins everywhere, so it can't be National Trust policy not to have them.

BTW How is Erddig these days? I grew up in Marchwiel and we used to love riding our bikes up and down the side of the valley. Lots of scuffed knees and bruises though.

Jamie

Where do you live bravo2zero ?

Dedrater

I guessed it wasn't policy, Alyn Waters and Bonc yr Hafod have a few aswell, but I have a personal dislike to them, eyesores.

Erddig will most probably be the same as when you left Scud, the only downside is they have put tons of gravel down the main paths to create walking routes with, imo, just makes the place 'urbanism' which is another thing I hate.

I don't suppose you remember the penknife gang?

Dedrater

Oh and by the way Marchwiel Hall is up for sale, 2.5million.

Comes with the paintball, cricket pitch, two houses and 200 acres of land, including the lake and woodland.

Bargain!

Jamie

Is that a welsh thing Dedrater

Dedrater

What, lakes and woodland?

Yes

scud8

iTrader: (1)

I still own a strip of land somewhere nearby. A few years ago the council were trying to put a gypsy camp there (in a field next to the reservoir), so John Bell (who owned the field at the time) divided it into small plots and sold it to all the villagers - making it uneconomic for the council to do compulsory purchase orders for each small plot. My parents who still lived there at the time bought one for themselves and one each for me and my brothers. It worked - no gypsy camp. Bell kept the grazing rights.

2.5 million sounds like a bargain - I'll start saving!