r/Scotland • u/abz_eng ME/CFS Sufferer • 1d ago

Casual Scotland’s oldest electricity pylons pulled down

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c9djlp85n62o
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u/Bad_Hippo1975 Caustic, Not Agnostic 1d ago

Wow... they stood for nearly 100-years. Impressive. Truly, they have served us well.

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u/AppointmentDry9660 1d ago

I'm from the US (incoming expat this year) so I just assume everything built from the ground up, in the last century is kinda junky and wastefully built on the cheap.

I wish we built structures in the US like this on the regular. Like damn, Scotland seems so solidly and proudly built from what I've seen.

P.s. y'all are probably all my long lost cousins based on my heavily Scottish ancestry. I know I'm probably just a starry eyed US expat, but it feels like home even just visiting. Thanks for having such a lovely country and I can't wait to have a beer with more of you!

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u/XiKiilzziX I HATE ICELAND 1d ago

I'm from the US

y'all are probably all my long lost cousins based on my heavily Scottish ancestry.

Clockwork.

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u/CJThunderbird 1d ago

Sees something happening in a country not the US, immediately tells you about how it works back home. Also clockwork.

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u/Ok_Net_5771 1d ago

Without fail

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u/susanboylesvajazzle 1d ago

Immigrant, not ex-pat.

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u/iamabigtree 1d ago

Oh god another 'I'm Scottish really' yank. You're American. Deal with it.

Also; nobody cares what the US does or thinks.

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u/total-blasphemy 15h ago

Literally no one cares about your ancestry. Please, for the love of god, do not be loud and insulted when people laugh at you for trying to insist we are all related.

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u/AppointmentDry9660 13h ago

Yeah I'll try not to be loud on a text based website the internet, thanks for the advice.

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u/total-blasphemy 13h ago

Were you born that dense or are you making a special effort today?

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u/AppointmentDry9660 13h ago

Oooo sick burn bruh

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u/total-blasphemy 13h ago

So it's congenital. Bad luck, pal.

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u/AppointmentDry9660 13h ago

I'm not your buddy, guy!

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u/DundonianDolan Best thing about brexit is watching unionists melt. 1d ago

That's a solid pylon, barely flexes when it hits the ground!

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u/AppointmentDry9660 1d ago

You must construct additional pylons

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u/abz_eng ME/CFS Sufferer 1d ago

Nearly antiques

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u/EVRider81 Square slice? don't mind if I do.. 1d ago

Is this removal of older pylons an ongoing thing? Where I lived in Renfrew, there was a pylon on parkland near our house.. Streetview shows it's no longer there..

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u/sambeau 18h ago

Tom Scott has an interesting video explaining why we need to move a lot of pylons. The grid needs to be reconfigured to take into account the change from power stations to wind farms.

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u/Torgan 18h ago

There's a video of some of the early pylons being constructed which is interesting.

https://youtu.be/mVYL9TQJCE4?si=ktOwceB6H52B2JFe

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u/Kalle287HB 11h ago

I bet that the new ones won't last 10 years.