does it matter if its chalked or carved, looks carved to me,
Daft yoofs.. looks like its just chalk to me ?
uploaded by Ben Fitzgeralddont know if this is anything to with them
The green lichen on the edges of the lower half of the letters makes it look prety much scratched in, to my mince pies at least.
either way its not really on. must be a bit sad to go to font and graffiti etc when there so much great bouldering to be done.
Quote from: dave on April 11, 2010, 09:55:54 pmThe green lichen on the edges of the lower half of the letters makes it look prety much scratched in, to my mince pies at least.Forgive my ignorance, or lack of understanding, but surely the lichen would take months to grow, rather than minutes?To me it looks like chalk, but it's still a pretty stupid thing to do.
Quote from: Drew on April 11, 2010, 10:34:48 pmQuote from: dave on April 11, 2010, 09:55:54 pmThe green lichen on the edges of the lower half of the letters makes it look prety much scratched in, to my mince pies at least.Forgive my ignorance, or lack of understanding, but surely the lichen would take months to grow, rather than minutes?To me it looks like chalk, but it's still a pretty stupid thing to do.Lichen takes YEARS. You can date the last ice age from the size of a lichen patch.
Obviously i'm not suggesting lichen has grown on top of it, that would be blatantly idiotic. What i meant is there is lichen on the rock which will have had to be scratched through, hence the green edging.
I don't care if it was on chossy rock, I don't care what the perpertrators use to justify their actions.There are pictures out there of people vandalising rock in Font from Cardiff Uni Climbing club.The pictures don't tell a story to make it "ok", they tell a story saying that it is perfectly legitamate to vandalise rock.If this happened on ANY rock in the peak the purpotrators would have been hung drawn and quartered by now.What are these vandals going to think is ok to do next? What else are they going to tag with grafiti on their next trip?Rather than hearing why they thought vandalism was ok, (I can't be bothered with 1/2 hearted excuses for something that is 100% wrong), I would have prefered to hear how they were going to deal with it and make amends.Purpotrators, hang your heads in shame.
The pictures don't tell a story to make it "ok", they don't tell a story saying that it is perfectly legitamate to vandalise rock.
There's no undo button.
I'd be interested in how many quarry faces/mining tunnels bobkatebob has indirectly vandalised, such as by laying a patio or choosing to drive on a paved roads.Wangy(ex-CUMC)
that's a bit like accusing someone of supporting Israel's Zionist agenda for using a computer with Intel Inside
a little perspective is required hereWangy
Nope we are talking about pictures of someone vandalising font rock with Cardiff Uni Clubs name.great embasadors for the club and Uni arn't they? Worst of all, great embasadors for climbers from the UK
what you did was wrong full stop
Quote from: Paul B on April 12, 2010, 02:39:43 pmwhat you did was wrong full stop Firstly, I didn't do anything. I'm no longer part of CUMC or have anything to do with the incident! I was merely stating personal opinions.Secondly, you are still lacking perspective here! "Man writes name of climbing club at back of disused mining tunnel" - not clever, but then neither is getting on your high horse and making it out to be crime of the century. Get a life.Wangy