O Time Thy Pyramids by GYØ Kieran!, Tøm, GYØ Daryl, Adam, GYØ Ben, GYØ Neil, GYØ James, GYØ George, GYØ Jordan, GYØ Chris
October 8th, 2007 3:12 PM
Tom
I'd been intrigued by this task ever since the first time I saw it, then dropped it because I was a mere level 2 player. But seeing as we moved up the ranks, we thought about this task again. We discussed the task repeatedly over Skype until we ended up with the one solution. Enter GYØ, and the Helpful Great Yarmouth Sands. Yes, we were going to dig ourselves a labyrinth, and we did. Recruiting many new GYØ, and in turn SFØ, members in order to complete this, and by Friday we had a list of around 15 people who would be present at some point in the day. 11 of us turned up, 9 of us actually helped. So, if Brett or Storer are reading this, you suck for not arriving! Anyway, Sunday morning, Ben and Tom meet each other at 8:30am, and walk around to find a prospective site for our labyrinth. Carrying spades over their shoulders, they found a good spot.
Ben
Well, the first thing I noticed was Tom's misspelling of "LABYRINTH" - the "LABIRYTH" of terror plagued Tom until the end of the day. Bwahahaha.
I can't really add much to the points other people have made - we certainly fended off those twats pretty well though! It was a great day, even if I do have a VERY bad back now :(
Daryl
I might not have got down as early as Ben, Tom or Neil but I still got down there earlier then most others. I got really bored and I was getting moaned at a lot. So i found my spot and drove James away from it and began construction. a gigantic hole of which I could pass off as some sort of trap (A cunning plan indeed). The hole seemed very helpful as after I hit stones and couldn't go any deeper, a gang of chavs with wet toilet paper had shown up. As Tom, Adam and the others dealt with them I hid in my hole(don't know what chavs are? don't worry, It's mainly a British thing). After completion it may have been sad to loose my huge hole but it was all for a good cause: TO BURY TOM! He seemed quite annoyed to be buried, so i reminded him the privilege he had been given to WASTE MY HOLE which took around 30-40 mins to dig. But overall I think the blisters were worth it. True that nearly everyone starts their work experience tomorrow (including me) but still it was a huge triumph.
Adam (Greg)
It appears by the text left here by Tom that he wants me to write about sexual innuendos and chavs. Im taking it that this refers to today's events and not just the subjects in general. In that case, if you are sitting comfortably, we shall begin. Now then digging a hole in the ground in the shape of a Greek labyrinth shouldnt be hard to do but going 5 minutes without making a sexual innuendo of the matter is a much more difficult task. "Oh Daryl I want to come in your hole". "Oh Neil go and shovel behind Tom". "Adam can you come in between Chris and Kieran". Honestly for a bunch of 15/16 year olds people might have thought we were ... well .. a bunch of 15/16 year olds. It was quite funny though it had to be said and it kept us all laughing. By the time out innuendos had run out we needed something else to amuse us.
Enter chavs. They had spied us digging on the beach on thought we were "freaks" and they are chavs so they are obviously perfectly "normal". They went to the toilet and to get some loo roll and then they added water to create a kind of ammunition. Luckily they totally missed us all the time and made complete prats out of themselves. They failed to see that seven people with spades would probably hurt them if they continued. They went away defeated and then came back and decided to kick all our bags, signs and coats off the wall we were using as a storage space and made themselves feel big by telling us we were fat. Neil and I just kept "laughing" at them and then we really wound them up by giving them a round of applause every time they said something "witty". They finally left and you will be able to see photos of them when Ben uploads them.
Kieran
WHOOP-WOPP-WOOP-WOOP.
James
Neil
A fun day was had by all, even me-shock horror stun!
Jordan
Askew
Chris
George
Timeline:
8:30am - Tom and Ben arrive with 2 spades, dig small amounts of trench
9:30am - Neil arrives, finds awesome way to dig, and smoothes out tunnel sides
10:30am - Daryl arrives, two more shovels and a trowel
10:40am - Chris arrives, more digging
10:50am - Adam arrives (subject to debate)
11:00am - Askew and George call confirming details, Askew arrives shortly after
11:30am - Askew, Chris go off for lunch
12:00pm - Kieran, James and Jordan arrive, do a LOT of work in a short space of time
12:40pm - Askew, Chris FINALLY get back
1:30pm - George arrives, digging levels at all-time high
2:30pm - People begin to drift away (Askew)
3:00pm - Chavs come and ruin everything (almost)
4:00pm - Completion, all knackered etc, fun with burying Tom and Neil
Highlights of the day:
Daryl's hole
Burying Tom
The end!
And finally, we posed for a nice group photograph...
Then they turned nasty...
Eight hours, and many shovelfuls of sand and shovelfuls of blisters later, we arrive from the maze o' doom victorious. The minotaur is slain. Huzzah!
UPDATE SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER
Well Neil and I were ... out and we decided to go and see the site of the labyrinth. Shock Horror! It was still there and in really good nick in fact. Kids were playing in the sand and our signs were still actually there!
It was so nice to see that our hard work hadn't gone to waste. It was also really nice to see kids were running around it and enjoying it as well as actually wanting to know what it is. It was a week afterwards and it had rained quite heavily as well.
Waheey!
All done, in Daryl's hole. Neil was taking this so he wasnt in it.
Frodo
Shortstuff with a spade... look, he has to reach up to lean on it!
Ben
Musing
Neil
There was a lack of photos of Neil so we have this one of Neil and Amputec the robot
Daryl's Hole
Daryl's hole was massive by the end of the day
Lazy Bum!
He came, drunk a slush puppy with some mustard in it, ate a bum-shaped novelty rock item and did very little digging Chris
Farmer Adam
"Get outta my lahhhnd!"
Kieran
Phwoar I know .. its the hair
Askew
What a fucking slacker. *smashes Askew's mobile*
Jordan
Jordan, hard at... work. Ahem. "What the... bloody hell, you were serious weren't you?"
George
Digging religiously (haha, pun. Because he was at church before he arrived. Haha.)
Sign language
All signed up!
The "before" shot
No hole just yet
Start
"So this is where we start, yeah?"
Half an hour in
... and this is all Tom and Ben had done.
Look, it's an inanimate carbon rod found in the sand
And then there were three
Neil came along and provided a good hand-dig method
Progress thus far
And this is where we got to... an hour and a bit in?
Tom looking grave
... even I'm ashamed of that title.
Hi ho, hi ho
With five of us now, labyrinth production rate was up 75%!
More progress
Beginning to take shape now, with one of the inside curves almost completed
The beggining
Well ... it was when I got there at about 10am
The Hole!
Omigosh!
Plans plans plans
Daryl attempts to look at the plans
Hmmm
Daryl "supervises" work as it continues
Put it away
Builders arse! Anyway .. work continues
The first curve complete
Huzzah! Only 5 more to go -_-
Sexy ...
James looking sexy with Ben in the background
What a beast
Adam is working
The group
L-R Jordan, Kieran, Daryl, James, Adam, Ben, Neil and George with Tom at the bottom
ATTACK"
You know .. why not pummel Tom with spades
Daryl
Daryl did a good job of digging and got quite deep, as we can see
TOM!
No no I said you mother was ....
Dig for Victory!
Tom digging to find those magic 250 points "I can see Level 7 .. it calls"
The plans
Cunningly borrowed from the task picture.
Adam dig!
Dig dig dig ... blisters .. dig dig
ITS DONE!
Omg it looked much better than this but its v difficult to get a good overview standing on a viewing platform holding the camera in the air
Epic!
We thought Labyrinth .. Greekness .. epicness .. epic poses for all
omg stabbed
Adam and George and Tom
Daryl
Daryl's hole wore him out
ok ...
Tom ends up with his head on the other side of the hole
chuck it!
Chuck sand in Tom's face ... like you do
and...
thus Tom ends up head-first into a hole
Adam
Adam has a spade! Stay away
Ok ...
Why not bury Tom? You know
Tom ...
trying to escape .. he makes funny faces
!!
Quickly pass me the spade. Tom couldn't escape
Hmm
Why was I the only one trying to dig Tom out?
Go me!
George "Yeah I wouldnt mind being burried" Yeah right! We had to try and drag him there
But Im Claustrophobic
George runs off screaming "But Im claustrophobic!"
Omg TV
Omg we are on TV awesomesauce
Jenny!
I wouldn't ask if I were you
Tom has seen the signs
they say... "BEWARE OF MINOTAUR".
Daryl
Daryl working hard - he brought along 2 of our 7 total spades!
Chris
... who turned out to be pretty useless, but worked for a solid hour and a half. Every little helps.
James
... in the gayest top... which eventually got removed *shudders* EDIT by Adam: *shudder* in-fucking-deed
Kieran
Who did a hell of a lot of digging. Good on him!
Blue skies
Not a cloud in the sky!
1 1/2 curves complete
Getting there, slowly but surely
Pac-Man
Daryl and Adam doing their best Pac-Man impressions
Buried
... the breasts got built later
Askew
Hiding from the camera
Even MORE progress
Lots done, tiring work
Ominous
That "blue sky"? Where the heck did that go? EDIT by Adam: Holland!
Onlookers, and MAJOR progress
Unfortunately, we had no aerial shot, as it was impossible without a chopper of some sort.
Diggin' in the trenches
Left to right: James, Tom, Kieran, Jordan, Neil, George, Daryl (not pictured: Ben (photo taking), Chris (slacking), Askew (hiding))
Almost done
We had almost finished!
Fending off the idiots
Download FLV
We must tell you now that we do not know these people at all - really, we don't. It's just Britain. Oh well.
Still there!
This is Sunday 14th October. And the Labyrinth, is still there!
Not dug in vain
It lives on.
Omigosh!
Even the signs survived!
Signs!
This one too!
Not too much damage
Still pretty deep!
Fun for all!
The children on Yarmouth enjoy the fruits of our labour.
Chav-ness
Even reminders of their complete and utter failure remain.
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It varies, from Over head height of Daryl's hole, to Around waist height at some parts.
There's a trick to laying out labyrinth plans (even the one in the task pic was probably drawn that way originally) and by the looks of how you were following the diagram to dig, you guys didn't do the trick. Which means you went the route of hard core work. Nicely. Done! And quite well documented.
That "not-quite-overhead" shot gives us a pretty good sense. And the epic poses are good too.
Congratulations, you've done GY0 proud. Is it still there?
Yeah, you guys need to work one of the more distant pictures into the proof somewhere!
As for that video: more of the classy, dry British wit we've all come to expect...
I'm just glad to see it got done! I was just thinking yesterday about this task and why it hadn't been completed yet, and here it is! Well done!
yarmouth seems to have a thing or two going for it yet this summer.
it almost looks like a henge...
Man, you kids rock. If I ever make it out to the UK, I should stop by Yarmouth.
Vote!
Not sure if it's still there, We'll have to check later today.
Ah, it reminds me of being 15 myself, building crop circles in the field behind my house in the dead of night with a couple of friends, then being shot at by the angry farmer...
Good times! Have a vote! (As if you didn't have enough points already!)
Long live UK0!
Awesome!!! I've been wanting to do this task for a while! I'm glad someone has completed it. Great Job!
I didn't get a chance to check back today because the bus was late, but it's been raining today, so if it is still there, it'll've taken heavy damage...
Points for minotaur. Points for being teenagers. Points for a well executed plan.
This warms my little Classics major heart. The trap hole? Brilliant.
well. thanks. Everyone else got annoyed because i wasn't helping with the rest of the track
I had a right to be annoyed, bury me in the hole...
Looks like it took so much work, nice job! I would've voted even if you didn't all have cute British accents.
That's probably just Tom and/or Adam they talk posh I don't know exactly why.
The funny thing is that Tom wanted, and I quote: "to get ONE TASK that will impress SPAR [now Innk Mea]".
And he's one of the few on the first page that hasn't voted.
Bwahahaha.
Anyway, thanks for your votes, guys. We did work hard in the name of SF- and GYØ.
Curses, we'll have to try a little harder then ;)
Updatage! And it was still there!
Yays!
GYZero lives on!
I'm voting for the little kids playing in it. I hope many more people got to enjoy it during its week long+ existence! Thats exactly the kind of thing I'd be thrilled to come across on a beach. Good work.
Cheers!!! That's amazing, thank you so much for completing this.
Good thing you were kept safe from the Minotuar...
What a day! I quite like the "Beware of Minotaur" sign. :) A shame you couldn't get a shot from above, but it looks like a lot of work went into the digging. How deep did it end up being?