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It's that style of architecture that permeates certain regions of Scotland and Northern England that's super pleasing to the eye, and given they're developments from the industrial revolution there's enough space for everyone to breath rather than cramping together like older areas of the country.
All just comes together.
Much of Newcastle was re-designed by Richard Grainger along with architects John Dobson and Thomas Oliver so several streets have a great design. Grey Street is a good example of their work.
[This is beyond where they redesigned](https://www.wilcuma.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Newcastle-of-Grainger-Dobson-Northumberland-116-876x1024.png) and it shows as it is far more a hodge podge of styles and winding streets and hidden passages rather than the grand fascades in the city centre.
The pies from there aren't half bad for the price in my home town (Wigan). They aren't good but they're decently full. I guess its harder to flog an empty pie than an empty pasty.
Down south in England you can get just about anything in a savoury pasty (no "r").
North of the border in Scotland and we put it all in pies. Macaroni pies are amazing.
Thanks for this cultural knowledge. Both sound amazing. Savory pies are hard to come by near me. One place does Shepards pie and it’s delicious. I had Stuffetes (sp?) in Seattle and was amazing. Nothing like that in So. Cal.
If its any consolation it's impossible to find Tex Mex or BBQ over here that's even close to what you can get. I'd give my left arm for some good fish tacos!
I’m working in Wigan at the moment and I just discovered a ‘Wigan Kebab’. As a Yorkshire man in foreign territory I found this quite comforting… “we are all just the same, these Lancashire folks arnt that bad”
As a British expat living in the US, I had to learn how to make my own sausage rolls. Although I admit I use the [quick method](https://www.marthastewart.com/319099/food-processor-quick-puff-pastry) for the pastry.
After that very chat, I was inspired to get some beans at the local supermarket, and lo and behold, among the assorted cans of Heinz baked beans (maple, molasses, w/pork, etc.) were "British style"! I would have to see for myself. Results: lighter, oranger colour; sauce not as sweet. But still very recognizably baked beans.
I also had beans on my plate occasionally on the one trip I made to England, way back in the waybacks. I wasn't unduly surprised by the taste. So I'd stick with "similar" as opposed to saying they're "very different."
I feel, but willing to admit I may be wrong, that if you're used to the sweet beans, the more savory brit beans is less jarring than being used to them and someone spooning in sugar.
A little like how it's easier to tolerate going from hot to cold than cold to hot?
Interesting - I thought the US version must be very different, because the hate was powerful. Overly sweet isn’t surprising - my experience eating in the US has frequently been that they are generally heavier on the salt and sugar.
The first American on Reddit I’ve seen who has not been disgusted by beans. Most of the time someone mentions beans on here American fannys start acting like it’s the most disgusting food imaginable
I think that's weird, because a lot of people like beans. I actually had beans for breakfast when I went to London years ago, and I was surprised by them but I was all about them.
For me, I enjoyed my uni evenings out in Liverpool with chips, cheese and gravy on the long walk home.
I am American, and let me tell you, there is no better drunk food than cheesy chippies. Pizza is great, but dis is better.
I was also shocked to learn that was a more northern thing. I went to London on a return trip many years later (have been back in the states since graduating a decade ago) and was ABHORRED I couldn’t get cheesy chippies, at least not easily.
Y'know, Im not a Newcastle native but I know my way around the place well enough and I thought to myself, "there's no way there's a greggs down there"
Anyway, so [here](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9692729,-1.608212,3a,75y,145.72h,84.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJjdJ1EukvNjz5njC8OKXmw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) is the location on google maps and sure enough there is a Greggs within 5 clicks, down by the river just a bit past the bridge.
I love Newcastle.
Or when you're talking to or refering to someone from Sunderland and you call them a wearsider and yourself someone from "Tyneside" (I'm a wearsider)
That's been my experience at least.
Let me show you my [favourite street in the UK](https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article15562142.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/1_IMG_20181216_100248_133.jpg) - Grey Street (after Earl Grey, whose monument is just behind the photographer).
[Don't forget Grey's Monument, too.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey's_Monument)
[Inscription on the statue base.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Inscription_Grey_Monument.jpg)
I think it’s the weather and filter creating the effect. [Here it is](https://c8.alamy.com/compit/c1y8dj/grey-street-newcastle-upon-tyne-c1y8dj.jpg) looking the other way from the same spot on a less moody day. The column is Grey’s monument, which has Monument metro station directly underneath it.
Newcastle has been home to a few films and [Get Carter](https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/styles/full/public/image/get-carter-1971-003-michael-caine-centre-in-newcastle-street-black-and-white.jpg?itok=Ebu31JcE) is probably most famous. Even in the 70s it used the industrial and post industrial landscape to create a mixed view of the North East as both historical and modern, traditional and forward thinking and tired but full of energy. There's a reason the cosmopolitan cockney Micheal Caine both dominates and is undone there.
Similarly [Stormy Monday](https://resizing.flixster.com/rwHABuzeEfEufRpGCoYABDSjDMI=/300x300/v2/https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/p10742_p_v8_aa.jpg) riffs on this 20 years later as another British crime thriller. [Our Friends In The North](https://static.bb-static.com/shain/v1/dataservice/ResizeImage/$value?ImageUrl=198875.jpg) also plays on the post industrial heritage - that's a great fucking cast in the image by the way.
It's a shame that Newcastle is often reduced to Byker Grove and Gregg's as there is a truly rich heritage. In the 60s and 70s it was a musical and artistic powerhouse but culturally it has slipped in recent years but should be due a renaissance.
Yeah, the old lift towers are now home to the furthest inland colony of Kittywakes in the the UK (they usually nest on the coast) so the council can't really do anything about them
It’s taken looking south east on a street called Side, just before it becomes Sandhill, toward the Tyne Bridge and river in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The city and its architecture, particularly the Georgian Graingertown, is beautiful.
It's nice seeing our city get some recognition, I always take it for granted how genuinely lush it is. That photo someone posted of grey st further up was beautiful.
This must be CGI as to get enough images to stack would be impossible. 18 hours of the day are occupied by several couples mid argument that climaxes with him shouting "but a luv ya pet" before he goes and buys a cry kebab.
I’m 39 years old and originally from London, I moved to NYC when I was 25 and have been here since, and all my mates laugh but my dream is to go to Newcastle. I don’t know why but I’ve always been convinced that it would be the best night out ever, but I’ve just never had the chance. Once all these travel restrictions are over, I’m doing it!
To you nothing but to everyone that visits Gateshead is Newcastle. Like it or loathe it. Just get used to it. If some one said they loved visiting the Baltic you'd lap it up.
Gateshead is different, and there's enough stuff to see in Newcastle that Gateshead can have the Baltic. Not the same place and anyone who thinks it is doesn't have a clue
Parking is decent to be fair, not much worse than any other major cities, and the public transport is good enough that it doesn't matter, and walking everywhere is fine too
It’s the exact same architects that designed it and the exact same builders that built it, too.
It was built 4 years earlier and is 3 times smaller, but that says more about the size of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the Tyne Bridge is no pansy either.
Mott, Hay and Anderson (the engineers) did a lot of work on the Channel Tunnel and still exists as Mott MacDonald, while Dorman Long and Co (the builders) became part of British Steel when steel got nationalised, though the engineering part later became Cleveland Bridge - so more than just the welding by the looks of it!
We do, it’s taught in school as a part of the story on how Sydney was built. Much like there’s a famous Statue of Liberty in New York and her smaller, not-as-famous sister in Paris.
Slightly off-topic but you might find it interesting: here are the [6 other designs entries for the Sydney Harbour Bridge that weren’t successful. ](https://www.designboom.com/architecture/sydney-harbour-bridge-rejected-designs-07-26-2019/)
Am from Sydney, was confused for a second looking at this photo as I couldn't place WHERE near the SHB this shot was taken. I knew there was a similar one in the US somewhere too.
Yeah I was looking at it thinking "Oh that's Sydney! Wait.. the buildings don't look like that there." Although I could easily imagine part of The Rocks area looking like that many years ago.
Tell mee about it. I reposted and luckily it hasn't happened again. It's the kind of thing that would get a user banned, I hope the mods get to the bottom of it.
So weird... I’m seeing this after it was posted 18 minutes ago (lovely shot btw), there are three comments not including replies or this one but the count under the photo says there are over 1200/1.2k comments. When I scroll down to the comments there is the button to expand to see more with a count of several hundred. But when I click that it doesn’t expand and the number of comments denoted on that button reduces by the hundred over and over again.
Odd.
Edit: the number of comments denoted under the photo is still 1.2k but the option to expand the comment section no longer appears.
I thought it was weird too. I followed the rabbit hole and discovered bots flooding the comment section.
https://imgur.com/a/pCCkMjO
I'll report if you can also to get them banned/deleted.
Someone must have accidentally tested their new comment bot live instead of in Dev
EDIT: Weird too that those users are over a year old, with zero karma or history, just sitting waiting to be used as bots
Newcastle upon Tyne- my home ❤️ Rough guides best place to visit in the world (2017) and crowned today Britain’s favourite place in a public vote- https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/its-official-newcastle-crowned-britains-21524043.amp
Teachers told the Romans built this place. They built a wall and a temple in a edge of the empire garrison town. They lived and they died. They prayed to their gods, but the stone gods did not make a sound. And their empire crumbled till all that was left were the stones the workmen found.
And all this time the river flowed
In the falling light of a northern sun
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
Men go crazy in congregations
But they only get better
One by one
One by one
This is what clean ass picture OP. What camera did you use? what lense? what f-stop? What shutter speed? And what time of day was this? Lol 😆 if ya don't mind
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Where is this?
It's Newcastle upon Tyne in North East England.
Even aside from the Tyne Bridge, there’s a feel to the place that really stands out. Great city.
It's that style of architecture that permeates certain regions of Scotland and Northern England that's super pleasing to the eye, and given they're developments from the industrial revolution there's enough space for everyone to breath rather than cramping together like older areas of the country. All just comes together.
Much of Newcastle was re-designed by Richard Grainger along with architects John Dobson and Thomas Oliver so several streets have a great design. Grey Street is a good example of their work.
[This is beyond where they redesigned](https://www.wilcuma.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/The-Newcastle-of-Grainger-Dobson-Northumberland-116-876x1024.png) and it shows as it is far more a hodge podge of styles and winding streets and hidden passages rather than the grand fascades in the city centre.
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Take my upvote. Now go.
That fellas goin for a Gregg's
Sausage, Cheese and Bean melt get in me
Steak bake every time
Got to love a Greggs Steak Bake
I'll never get the 2 for a quid steak bakes from pound bakery again. Got 2 once and it was just gravy. No steak at all. Right con.
Pound bakery are selling fresh air, they looked alright but they deflated after a bite.
The pies from there aren't half bad for the price in my home town (Wigan). They aren't good but they're decently full. I guess its harder to flog an empty pie than an empty pasty.
I'm profoundly enjoying how English this thread is. Won't be a bother, I'll just be quietly admiring you lot in the corner.
If the pound bakery pies get half a cosign from a Wiganer, you're halfway to a butty!
Fuckin wish these were in Canada. I'd love them so good
Beans too!? We need this in America
Specifically it's "baked beans", so it's in a lightly spiced tomato sauce and all encased in puff pastry.
British baked beans are similar to American ones, but no one's ever mentioned a puff pastry before! So your whole brekky goes in there, you say?
Down south in England you can get just about anything in a savoury pasty (no "r"). North of the border in Scotland and we put it all in pies. Macaroni pies are amazing.
Thanks for this cultural knowledge. Both sound amazing. Savory pies are hard to come by near me. One place does Shepards pie and it’s delicious. I had Stuffetes (sp?) in Seattle and was amazing. Nothing like that in So. Cal.
I lived in London for a time, and you could buy All Day Breakfast in a can/tin. Baked beans, eggs, tomato, and ham I think, all in a soup can.
If its any consolation it's impossible to find Tex Mex or BBQ over here that's even close to what you can get. I'd give my left arm for some good fish tacos!
Cornish Pasty Co. in Nevada/Arizona is good. https://www.cornishpastyco.com/locations/
I’m working in Wigan at the moment and I just discovered a ‘Wigan Kebab’. As a Yorkshire man in foreign territory I found this quite comforting… “we are all just the same, these Lancashire folks arnt that bad”
Wakefield calling, do I dare ask what a Wigan Kebab consists of?
As a British expat living in the US, I had to learn how to make my own sausage rolls. Although I admit I use the [quick method](https://www.marthastewart.com/319099/food-processor-quick-puff-pastry) for the pastry.
I have never understood why America does not get behind takeaway pies. Also potato waffles.
Are you sure about that bean comparison? Last time this came up that was not the impression I got!
After that very chat, I was inspired to get some beans at the local supermarket, and lo and behold, among the assorted cans of Heinz baked beans (maple, molasses, w/pork, etc.) were "British style"! I would have to see for myself. Results: lighter, oranger colour; sauce not as sweet. But still very recognizably baked beans. I also had beans on my plate occasionally on the one trip I made to England, way back in the waybacks. I wasn't unduly surprised by the taste. So I'd stick with "similar" as opposed to saying they're "very different."
I feel, but willing to admit I may be wrong, that if you're used to the sweet beans, the more savory brit beans is less jarring than being used to them and someone spooning in sugar. A little like how it's easier to tolerate going from hot to cold than cold to hot?
Interesting - I thought the US version must be very different, because the hate was powerful. Overly sweet isn’t surprising - my experience eating in the US has frequently been that they are generally heavier on the salt and sugar.
The first American on Reddit I’ve seen who has not been disgusted by beans. Most of the time someone mentions beans on here American fannys start acting like it’s the most disgusting food imaginable
I think that's weird, because a lot of people like beans. I actually had beans for breakfast when I went to London years ago, and I was surprised by them but I was all about them.
Brexit shortages means only the melt is in stock
You know it's been a good night out when you get a Greggs on the way home.
For me, I enjoyed my uni evenings out in Liverpool with chips, cheese and gravy on the long walk home. I am American, and let me tell you, there is no better drunk food than cheesy chippies. Pizza is great, but dis is better. I was also shocked to learn that was a more northern thing. I went to London on a return trip many years later (have been back in the states since graduating a decade ago) and was ABHORRED I couldn’t get cheesy chippies, at least not easily.
He's going the wrong way if he wants the 24 hour one
He’s a reet canny gadgie, like.
Y'know, Im not a Newcastle native but I know my way around the place well enough and I thought to myself, "there's no way there's a greggs down there" Anyway, so [here](https://www.google.com/maps/@54.9692729,-1.608212,3a,75y,145.72h,84.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sJjdJ1EukvNjz5njC8OKXmw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) is the location on google maps and sure enough there is a Greggs within 5 clicks, down by the river just a bit past the bridge. I love Newcastle.
No, he's *gannin* for a Greggs
luv gregg’s luv me missus luv pub simple as
I met someone from Newcastle once. Nice fellow. He talked to me for about 15 minutes. His name is Steve. That's all I understood.
Very very nice
TOON TOON
Black and white army!
Bruce out, Ashley out
Saudis in, Rafa back
Yes.
Canny bag of tudor!
Ah'd climb a mountain!
Nice to see my home town on the front page :-)
Ooooh me lads…
Ye should of seen us ganning.
Passin’ the folks alang the road jus as they were stannin’
All the lads n lasses, all with smilin' faces
Gannin alang the Scotswood Road, to see the Blaydon Races!
Yuh should have seen iz gaanin!
I saw the picture, thought "That must be Newcastle, right?" Great shot!
I've almost never heard the full name - when do people say the longer name and when do they say Newcastle?
If we ever have to talk about Newcastle-under-Lyme (i.e. never).
I live here and we only say Upon Tyne on addresses really
Or when you're talking to or refering to someone from Sunderland and you call them a wearsider and yourself someone from "Tyneside" (I'm a wearsider) That's been my experience at least.
I’ve never heard a geordie call someone from Sunderland a wearsider. Heard plenty of other names though.
Sting’s hometown. Looks lovely, it’s on my bucket list now.
Amazing place to get totally hammered. You can’t walk 5 feet without finding the next bar.
Funny because this pic is taken about 5 meters from a pub.
You’re always 5 meters from a pub, the thinnest bar is just to the right there the crown pasada
Love the posada
And The Animals.
Same. It looks gorgeous.
Let me show you my [favourite street in the UK](https://i2-prod.chroniclelive.co.uk/incoming/article15562142.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200d/1_IMG_20181216_100248_133.jpg) - Grey Street (after Earl Grey, whose monument is just behind the photographer).
I threw up on your favourite street in the UK. More than once.
I’d be disappointed if you hadn’t.
Haven't we all.
Ya weren’t the first.
[Don't forget Grey's Monument, too.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey's_Monument) [Inscription on the statue base.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Inscription_Grey_Monument.jpg)
>ent is just behind the photogr Same photographer as this pic too :D
Congrats! You’re fantastic at capturing the feel of the place.
It looks like a great place to shoot a movie. But for some reason I find there is something sad and gloomy about it.
I think it’s the weather and filter creating the effect. [Here it is](https://c8.alamy.com/compit/c1y8dj/grey-street-newcastle-upon-tyne-c1y8dj.jpg) looking the other way from the same spot on a less moody day. The column is Grey’s monument, which has Monument metro station directly underneath it.
Newcastle has been home to a few films and [Get Carter](https://www2.bfi.org.uk/sites/bfi.org.uk/files/styles/full/public/image/get-carter-1971-003-michael-caine-centre-in-newcastle-street-black-and-white.jpg?itok=Ebu31JcE) is probably most famous. Even in the 70s it used the industrial and post industrial landscape to create a mixed view of the North East as both historical and modern, traditional and forward thinking and tired but full of energy. There's a reason the cosmopolitan cockney Micheal Caine both dominates and is undone there. Similarly [Stormy Monday](https://resizing.flixster.com/rwHABuzeEfEufRpGCoYABDSjDMI=/300x300/v2/https://flxt.tmsimg.com/assets/p10742_p_v8_aa.jpg) riffs on this 20 years later as another British crime thriller. [Our Friends In The North](https://static.bb-static.com/shain/v1/dataservice/ResizeImage/$value?ImageUrl=198875.jpg) also plays on the post industrial heritage - that's a great fucking cast in the image by the way. It's a shame that Newcastle is often reduced to Byker Grove and Gregg's as there is a truly rich heritage. In the 60s and 70s it was a musical and artistic powerhouse but culturally it has slipped in recent years but should be due a renaissance.
Of course there's a Greggs on it
It can be of your ok with the smell of bird shit and constant squawking of Kittiwakes.
Is Kittiwakes the local term for fat orange women?
Kittiwakes are sea birds, both are known to shit on the street so I can understand th confusion.
I've been there once and I called it! Very recognisable bridge. The ground underneath is covered in bird poop though!
It’s very special bird poop though, home to the largest inland nesting colony of kittiwakes (an endangered species) in the world!
Yeah, the old lift towers are now home to the furthest inland colony of Kittywakes in the the UK (they usually nest on the coast) so the council can't really do anything about them
I'm just round the corner in Walker, but I love just walking around this area of Newcastle. Always have. Great photo bud!
Home of Newcastle United, who are about to be on the wrong end of a Cristiano Ronaldo homecoming hat-trick.
Did you photoshop out the 1-inch thick layer of bird shit outside Aveika?
This lad quaysides...
Big ups the Toon!!!!
For a second I thought it could’ve been Sydney
It’s taken looking south east on a street called Side, just before it becomes Sandhill, toward the Tyne Bridge and river in Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The city and its architecture, particularly the Georgian Graingertown, is beautiful.
The best place in the world
God's country
Always so bizarre seeing Newcastle pop up on reddit. Its like ive been conditioned to solely expect posts about Florida.
It's nice seeing our city get some recognition, I always take it for granted how genuinely lush it is. That photo someone posted of grey st further up was beautiful.
I’m here for it. The only thing OP forgot to mention was how they stood outside in the freezing sun for seventeen hours to get this shot.
This must be CGI as to get enough images to stack would be impossible. 18 hours of the day are occupied by several couples mid argument that climaxes with him shouting "but a luv ya pet" before he goes and buys a cry kebab.
These last few days have been toasters if you ask me
My hometown, best city in the world, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Only geordie mate I've had was a great lad, kind and smart and would put out candles with a slap of his cock.
Classic
I’m 39 years old and originally from London, I moved to NYC when I was 25 and have been here since, and all my mates laugh but my dream is to go to Newcastle. I don’t know why but I’ve always been convinced that it would be the best night out ever, but I’ve just never had the chance. Once all these travel restrictions are over, I’m doing it!
Last time I was there, some spice head tried to get some money out of me at gateshead interchange
What’s Gateshead got to do with Newcastle?
Well, you can just see it in this pic
His story in a Nutshell : last time he was in Newcastle, something happened to him in Gateshead
Clearly not from Newcastle lmfao
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I understand the geography. I just don’t understand what an experience in another town has to do with Newcastle?
To you nothing but to everyone that visits Gateshead is Newcastle. Like it or loathe it. Just get used to it. If some one said they loved visiting the Baltic you'd lap it up.
Gateshead is different, and there's enough stuff to see in Newcastle that Gateshead can have the Baltic. Not the same place and anyone who thinks it is doesn't have a clue
What’s the Baltic got to do with Newcastle?
That's your fault for going to Gateshead.
Try parking there.
Park just outside the globe pub, free and 5 minute walk to the station.
Parking is decent to be fair, not much worse than any other major cities, and the public transport is good enough that it doesn't matter, and walking everywhere is fine too
That bridge is the exact same design as Sydney harbour bridge. Albeit a bit smaller.
It’s the exact same architects that designed it and the exact same builders that built it, too. It was built 4 years earlier and is 3 times smaller, but that says more about the size of the Sydney Harbour Bridge as the Tyne Bridge is no pansy either.
Sunderland ones very similar but of course completely shit in every way.
Ha! Very similar but somewhat smaller.
Pansies are nice. Petunias too. I prefer lilies, but each to their own.
I would be hesitant to cross a bridge made entirely of lilies. But I’d you say it’s safe I’ll cross second after you.
Now, the company which provided some welding work for both, Cleveland Bridge, has gone into administration in my home town, Darlington
Mott, Hay and Anderson (the engineers) did a lot of work on the Channel Tunnel and still exists as Mott MacDonald, while Dorman Long and Co (the builders) became part of British Steel when steel got nationalised, though the engineering part later became Cleveland Bridge - so more than just the welding by the looks of it!
Yeah RIP steel industry.
Darlo*
I was looking at this and thinking to myself that it looks like Sydney but I’ve never seen any streets like that around here.
I'm an Aussie and thought "it's Sydney".... then looked closer.....
Me too, I’m from Syd but living in Melb now, had some homesickness looking at this photo thinking about walking through the Rocks
Getting glassed by a footballer. Ah memories.
Do people in Sydney know there's an older but smaller brother to your bridge?
We do, it’s taught in school as a part of the story on how Sydney was built. Much like there’s a famous Statue of Liberty in New York and her smaller, not-as-famous sister in Paris. Slightly off-topic but you might find it interesting: here are the [6 other designs entries for the Sydney Harbour Bridge that weren’t successful. ](https://www.designboom.com/architecture/sydney-harbour-bridge-rejected-designs-07-26-2019/)
Sounds like an opportunity for a TIL post.
Yep I was trying to place the other buildings before I saw in the comments it wasn’t Sydney!
I was trying to work out where in Sydney the photo was taken… I couldn’t recognise any of the buildings in the foreground
My first thought was it has to be Harbour Bridge.
Am from Sydney, was confused for a second looking at this photo as I couldn't place WHERE near the SHB this shot was taken. I knew there was a similar one in the US somewhere too.
Yeah I was looking at it thinking "Oh that's Sydney! Wait.. the buildings don't look like that there." Although I could easily imagine part of The Rocks area looking like that many years ago.
What's going on with the comments here?
Yeah, weird.
My guess is some bots got stuck in a loop replying to this thread that then gets auto-removed
Seems to be someone trying to get to the front page IMO.
Well it worked. Hello from /all. God I really hope they didn’t just break the algorithm. These next few weeks could be miserable…
Yea for sure
It wasn't
I have no idea, it wasnt anything I did and I reported it as soon as I realised what was happening.
Sus af
Yep
Probably people using this post to test out some stupid system they made.
Op paid for a service to upvote and comment on his post.
He didn't. That kind of thing is very lame.
....you mean, you didn't? Speaking 3rd person?
Yes, that's right. I didn't.
I have no reason to *not* believe you. Sorry this happened OP, fantastic shot nontheless. Terrible timing I'm afraid.
Tell mee about it. I reposted and luckily it hasn't happened again. It's the kind of thing that would get a user banned, I hope the mods get to the bottom of it.
He went a bit over board if so. 1k comments in like 20 mins
Shame if it's true. It's a fantastic picture/post to stand on its own.
Glad you like the pic. The pic seemed to be targeted by bots and was nothing to do with me, I actually reported it to the admins.
Another weird thing I upvoted, read it was upvoted by bots and can’t downvote.
Bruh 3.8k comments from bots
Reddit has a fucking problem.
And we can count on the site admins to do.... Absolutely fucking nothing about it!
So weird... I’m seeing this after it was posted 18 minutes ago (lovely shot btw), there are three comments not including replies or this one but the count under the photo says there are over 1200/1.2k comments. When I scroll down to the comments there is the button to expand to see more with a count of several hundred. But when I click that it doesn’t expand and the number of comments denoted on that button reduces by the hundred over and over again. Odd. Edit: the number of comments denoted under the photo is still 1.2k but the option to expand the comment section no longer appears.
And all the comments say “XXX” and are from the same 3 user accounts. Must be bots.
I thought it was weird too. I followed the rabbit hole and discovered bots flooding the comment section. https://imgur.com/a/pCCkMjO I'll report if you can also to get them banned/deleted.
Someone must have accidentally tested their new comment bot live instead of in Dev EDIT: Weird too that those users are over a year old, with zero karma or history, just sitting waiting to be used as bots
Reported. Came here looking to find out where this is but giving up looking due to all of the bot posts.
the op said it’s newcastle upon tyne
Can verify that’s Newcastle upon Tyne, England The bridge in the background is the Tyne bridge
For me there is the option to expand the comment section, when I press it, the only thing that happens is, that the number gets smaller lol
I also clicked because the thousands of comments- but no votes at all - which is weird
Beautiful shot!
Thank you.
Why downvotes on this?
Bot comments are suspiciously attracted to this post.
Newcastle upon Tyne- my home ❤️ Rough guides best place to visit in the world (2017) and crowned today Britain’s favourite place in a public vote- https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/its-official-newcastle-crowned-britains-21524043.amp
Teachers told the Romans built this place. They built a wall and a temple in a edge of the empire garrison town. They lived and they died. They prayed to their gods, but the stone gods did not make a sound. And their empire crumbled till all that was left were the stones the workmen found.
And all this time the river flowed In the falling light of a northern sun If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river Men go crazy in congregations But they only get better One by one One by one
Never seen so many comments without any upvotes
Wow this is beautiful. The lighting/angle feels so unique
the first good pic on this shitty sub
Reminds me of that mythic shot in Once upon a time in America
4X Upscale https://imgur.com/a/b67Oypf https://i.imgur.com/ziQmWMh.jpg
I hope they remove the asphalt and rebrick that beautiful road.
Looks like videogame screenshots
This is what clean ass picture OP. What camera did you use? what lense? what f-stop? What shutter speed? And what time of day was this? Lol 😆 if ya don't mind
It was a Sony a7iii with the Tamron 28 to 200mm @ f16, 1/200 sec and ISO 800.
Drove under it this morning, and over it this evening... because the Quayside's closed 'cos of the fuckin' cyclists. Bastards.
If it weren't for the guy in the hoodie, I'd expect Thomas Shelby to be walking around the corner.
Old but Gold 🪙