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Social Skills Book

Hebridean Al

Which is exactly what you said in paragraph two of the preamble. Been a while since I've visited, but the site just gets better and better! Great work.

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Endless Halls

Ystafell Fwyta

Hebridean Al

Imagine the scores in a game of Welsh Scrabble.

Location: North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum)  Gallery: The Castle and the Asylum

Pit Of Oblivion

Hebridean Al

It's probably unhelpful to point out that ALL the sheep are black. Just easier to do on a white background, I suppose. I'm not suggesting any kind of racial prejudice was in play. It's just maybe significant when there's that "black sheep of the family" bullshit saying which seems to persist in my archaic environs. Just a thought.

Location: Pennhurst State School  Gallery: The Sadness

Tap Bells and Mouth Gags

Hebridean Al

When I said 'discuss' I wasn't that serious. I just wondered what kind of gag existed which wasn't mouth-related. Curiosity has always been my downfall. Thanks though.

Location: Glenn Dale Hospital  Gallery: Vines

See You Dying

Hebridean Al

Glad I'm not "the only smart one." Even I can't manage that level of arrogance, and ignorance.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Building 93 (Infirmary)

Slowly Sinking

Hebridean Al

A wonderful picture of a tragic subject. You have to ask yourself why nobody sees the importance of preserving these venerable vessels: it's horrendously expensive though, I suppose.

Location: Staten Island Boat Graveyard  Gallery: Wrecks

Chapel

Hebridean Al

Amen, whatever it was.

Location: Roseville State School  Gallery: Open Sores

Writing on the wall

Hebridean Al

That's a good bit more impressive than even the most elaborate of "tags". If the world has to tolerate vandalism at all, let's have literate vandals!

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Building 7 (Medical Building)

Social Skills Book

Hebridean Al

Sorry, bud. Looks like I could do with a browse through it myself. I'll check on Amazon...

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Endless Halls

Flooded Hallway

Hebridean Al

But it's hard to tell.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Flooded Hallway

Hebridean Al

I think I suffer from PMS.
(Possibly Missing Seasons).

It snowed today, incidentally. Might be Winter...

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Flooded Hallway

Hebridean Al

Jo, I'll be moving back to a part of the world which actually has seasons as soon as I can, I do remember them and treasure that memory. However I suspect you don't understand irony, but that can be cured to an extent by the purchase of a dictionary, so don't give up, flower. You'll get there.

That's "flower" in the sense of blossom or bloom, incidentally, rather than "that which flows," and therefore a sort-of back-handed compliment rather than an outright insult... which is not my intent at all.

Glad you like where YOU live! And maybe it's me who doesn't understand irony.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Toilet

Hebridean Al

Nice to see Turbozute's interests are as international as my own, but I'd query how a metal toilet bowl could be used to slash wrists. Bit difficult to smash a metal toilet, I'd have thought. Doubtless he knows better.

Location: Fuller State School and Hospital  Gallery: Disturbed

The Evil One

Hebridean Al

He put the "Usual" into "The Usual Suspects."
Discuss.

PS I love the film, apart from Pete Postlethwaite's Indian accent... if that's what it is.

Location: Dixmont State Hospital  Gallery: Departure

Flooded Hallway

Hebridean Al

Sorry, that was a bit stroppy. It was my fault that I didn't express myself properly in the first place.

Sketch, matey - a "moderate" climate would be great if it didn't mean grey and wet! That's more-or-less all we get out here. Very slightly colder in Winter, though!

~Me, I'm sorry to have to admit I nicked it from Len Deighton, but I'd hate to be accused of plagiarism.
It is a useful phrase, all the same!

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Circumference

Hebridean Al

Amazing.

Location: Linton State Hospital  Gallery: Deep Breaths

Flooded Hallway

Hebridean Al

Pudster, yes, it was a dullard-style observation. However, derelict buildings here are usually also pretty cold, though I understand other people have a warm season called 'Summer', and under those conditions (i.e. warmth) their derelict buildings might well stink even more than do ours.

I truly apologise for my lack of ignorance.

Location: Kings Park Psychiatric Center  Gallery: Buildings 39, 138, 139

Social Skills Book

Hebridean Al

Sketch, you don't work at a Hebridean airport do you? Just wondering...

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Endless Halls

Facade

Hebridean Al

Sorry.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Gatherings

Sludge Monster

Hebridean Al

Serrena, you can spell and punctuate, which is a delight for the reader. Just using entirely the opposite word to that you intended does not require a correction - if I knew you meant "dry" so did most people - and I'm seriously foreign.

Thanks for the capitals and commas!

Location: Isolation Hospital  Gallery: Flooded

Nuclear View

Hebridean Al

They look like the same cooling towers used here (UK, rather than specifically Western Isles!), but not with our much mistrusted nuclear power industry.

Location: Linfield Industrial Park  Gallery: A Walk in the Park

Chamber Of Chamber Pots

Hebridean Al

And in this instance I use the word "done" in the sense of "written."

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors

Chamber Of Chamber Pots

Hebridean Al

Get JK Rowling in there; equipped with that typewriter and title she'd knock out "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Chamber Pots" in a matter of minutes.
Or has she done that one already?

Location: Broadacres Hospital  Gallery: Meet the Neighbors

Social Skills Book

Hebridean Al

I wonder if it's still in print... I have a couple of colleagues who might benefit...

Location: Foxboro State Hospital  Gallery: Endless Halls

Theater Floor

Hebridean Al

And a hug, which is nice.

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Mental Floss