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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14625 on: March 24, 2016, 04:45:02 AM »
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14626 on: March 24, 2016, 06:28:58 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 04:45:02 AM
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)
That's... interesting unexpected.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14627 on: March 24, 2016, 07:32:13 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 04:45:02 AM
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)

Woah. That is so eerie sounding. I love it.
(Although if I lived there it would probably be really obnoxious)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14628 on: March 24, 2016, 07:54:12 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 04:45:02 AM
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)

Okay, that is super creepy.
...And seems like it might give one a headache after a while.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14629 on: March 24, 2016, 08:46:19 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 04:45:02 AM
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)

It could be worse! That skyscraper in London was melting cars!

(Although I suppose melting cars wouldn't stop you sleeping. Unless it happened to be your car.)
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« Reply #14630 on: March 24, 2016, 08:59:18 AM »
I'm told you get used to it after a while. Living in a city tends to do that to you (like how I grew up a mile from a large airport and now sometimes need a background drone such as the clothes drier running downstairs to help me get to sleep).
Also, someone used that sound to remix a song.

Quote from: Purple Wyrm on March 24, 2016, 08:46:19 AM
It could be worse! That skyscraper in London was melting cars!

(Although I suppose melting cars wouldn't stop you sleeping. Unless it happened to be your car.)
Yeah, I heard about that one. Seems us British can't quite get the hang of skyscraper construction. :))
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« Reply #14631 on: March 24, 2016, 09:31:22 AM »
That tower noise reminds me of nothing so much as a theremin. Or trance music.
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« Reply #14632 on: March 24, 2016, 10:10:43 AM »
That is very interesting. I do have this CD my dad's wife got of wind harps. Structures that were designed to "sing" in the wind. Most of them need a "very blustery day" to get going. Some only really come alive in a full gale or hurricane!
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14633 on: March 24, 2016, 10:22:23 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 04:45:02 AM
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)

Wow, that would annoy the heck out of me.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14634 on: March 24, 2016, 10:29:17 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 04:45:02 AM
A friend who lives back in my hometown of Manchester sent me a text last night saying "the [expletive] skyscraper is singing again".
Which means that this is happening. (That's the Beetham Tower, tallest building in Manchester and certainly the most vocal when the wind picks up.)
Whoa. That's pretty trippy!
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« Reply #14635 on: March 24, 2016, 10:53:07 AM »
It gets better! My friend just linked me to these: two twitter accounts the owners of the Beetham Tower set up, Angry Beetham and Happy Beetham, which they update whenever the thing starts sounding off. (or at least that was the plan, by the looks of it 'Angry Beetham' has taken on a life of its own)
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14636 on: March 24, 2016, 10:59:20 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 10:53:07 AM
It gets better! My friend just linked me to these: two twitter accounts the owners of the Beetham Tower set up, Angry Beetham and Happy Beetham, which they update whenever the thing starts sounding off. (or at least that was the plan, by the looks of it 'Angry Beetham' has taken on a life of its own)

These are both beautiful XD
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14637 on: March 24, 2016, 10:59:53 AM »
Quote from: SectoBoss on March 24, 2016, 10:53:07 AM
It gets better! My friend just linked me to these: two twitter accounts the owners of the Beetham Tower set up, Angry Beetham and Happy Beetham, which they update whenever the thing starts sounding off. (or at least that was the plan, by the looks of it 'Angry Beetham' has taken on a life of its own)

Somewhere someone is offering a sacrifice of yorkshires to appease their angry highrise overlord. It is known.
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Re: General Discussion Thread
« Reply #14638 on: March 24, 2016, 11:07:10 AM »
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« Reply #14639 on: March 24, 2016, 11:09:26 AM »
Quote from: Feartheviolas on March 24, 2016, 11:07:10 AM
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That's almost Y-90 levels of desolate.  Where IS everyone?
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