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| vvhatsthatonyourback | Jan 23 2016, 11:42 AM Post #76 |
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Wait a minute. If it really was a volcano, wouldn't we have quarried it so much to make towns like Edinburgh and Dumbarton that it would no longer look like a volcano, like the actual volcanoes which no longer look like volcanoes near both those towns? I think we've been fooled by this volcano-looking lump of dirt. If it were really a volcano we'd have destroyed it already, not built a tiny forbidden tunnel through it. F^ck you, The Law. You're no volcano. Although, if I were in charge of the security services searching for the next threat to the world from insane megalomaniac terrorists, I know where I'd be looking first. |
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| Tom_Boland | Jan 23 2016, 12:22 PM Post #77 |
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Ok then it isn't a volcano. Well not anymore anyway. |
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| Conan the Destroyer | Jan 23 2016, 12:55 PM Post #78 |
I prefer it when we're pish
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I heard it had a delicious fondant centre underneath a crispy shell of volcanic chocolate yumminess. |
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| Naebody | Jan 23 2016, 01:36 PM Post #79 |
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I think it was a volcano up until the early 2000s, when it failed to exit administration and its assets were sold to a basalt plug set up for the purpose. |
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| vvhatsthatonyourback | Jan 23 2016, 05:41 PM Post #80 |
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In all seriousness, Wikipedia says it's a volcano so if anyone has other ideas, they should just update Wikipedia and I might change my mind. Again. |
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| Cobardon | Jan 23 2016, 07:36 PM Post #81 |
Uncle Smurf
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Yes, the geologist at the museum in Dundee has changed it several times to saying it isn't, but someone keeps changing it back. (It doesn't help that the official line from the Council contradicts him). That's wiki for you. An ignorant person with sufficient determination can overrule someone who knows better. Hey, it's all a matter of opinion. There's the scientific one and the court of public opinion one. But you take your pick. Edited by Cobardon, Jan 23 2016, 07:48 PM.
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| yasser | Jan 25 2016, 09:49 AM Post #82 |
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Cob, no surprises most Dundonians believe the Law is an extinct volcano. School kids in Dundee have been told this is the case going back to... well, as long as there has been schools.  I was also told at school that there was a big battle between the Scots and the Picts involving King Keneth MacAlpine near to where our school was. That's why we now have Kings Cross Circle and the Kingsway. Seemingly historians now cast some doubt on this but that's another story... |
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| Conan the Destroyer | Jan 25 2016, 10:37 AM Post #83 |
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I prefer it when we're pish
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The real question is - is this extinct non-volcano below sea level? Heard that one recently and it was pretty amusing. |
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| yasser | Jan 25 2016, 10:48 AM Post #84 |
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Do you mean sea level at high tide or low tide?...just wondering. |
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| Setenza | Jan 25 2016, 11:56 AM Post #85 |
Knitting with only one needle
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As well as being a volcano, I'm sure I read as a kid that there's a tunnel underneath, that takes you down into the centre of the earth where dinosaurs roam. |
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| Morvant's Finest | Jan 25 2016, 12:04 PM Post #86 |
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I'm admiring your persistence here Cob. The wikipedia articles contradicts itself, as it says in the 2nd line:
The description of a plug is (a)
So any teachers/online keyboard warriors/blokes down the pub should really just call it that in future! 
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| Naebody | Jan 25 2016, 12:07 PM Post #87 |
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Wait, Set. You're saying you're a volcano? This changes everything. |
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| Cobardon | Jan 25 2016, 12:10 PM Post #88 |
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There may have been a battle - though I think it's mainly folklore and I'm not sure there's much evidence other than that - but there certainly was a cross in the area. You can still see its base just beside Camperdown House next to the practice putting green. There's an interpretative panel just beside it too which would outline the history and any evidence for a battle if you'd like to visit. |
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| Tom_Boland | Jan 25 2016, 04:02 PM Post #89 |
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Need to be more specific. Is that before or after the ice caps melt. As it stands ATM, the Law is 174 metres above sea level according to the OS map of Dundee I have. |
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| Tom_Boland | Jan 25 2016, 04:14 PM Post #90 |
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Funny you should say that yasser. I've an old map of Dundee from 1901, and it shows the site of the battle to be roughly where the Tesco call centre is just North of the Kingsway. As you say McAlpine Road and all that. |
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