The Notre Dame

[halewood pete]

1 hour ago, moof said:

Nah, it’s perspective. Feel sadness for the art that’s been damaged (the vast majority of which was saved, thankfully), and for the french people who feel a symbolic/cultural connection to such a stunning historical site that has stood for over 800 years as the “soul” of their capital. 

 

The roof and spire can be rebuilt, the rest of the building seems pretty much fine. Nobody was hurt. The people trying to turn it into global grief porn can fuck right off. People who visited france once, twelve years ago, crying it in, all performative mourning for social capital. And the media milking it for all it’s worth, while ignoring... well, any number of substantively more important things. As if we don’t have bigger problems to deal with. 

Spot on.lets get our priorities right and help the starving and homeless in the world

[stringvest]

15 minutes ago, moof said:

I know you were around when it was in the planning and development stage so I can understand why it might hit a little closer to home for you

 

Precisely.

[Leyton388]

The outpouring is OTT and taking the piss. It's only a fucking building and no one was killed. €600m donated already when over 80 people were killed in grenfell, lost their homes and got fuck all help. 

 

National emergeny fuck off. 

 

 

[Bjornebye]

I can understand people being a bit upset given its history etc but fuck me the money already being fronted is a disgrace. 

[Elite]

4 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I can understand people being a bit upset given its history etc but fuck me the money already being fronted is a disgrace. 

Nothing like a bandwagon for the cretins to jump on.

 

There's a few on my FB, with it as their profile picture.

[Bjornebye]

1 minute ago, Elite said:

Nothing like a bandwagon for the cretins to jump on.

 

There's a few on my FB, with it as their profile picture.

You are kidding ? Fucking hell. 

 

 

[Leyton388]

10 minutes ago, Elite said:

Nothing like a bandwagon for the cretins to jump on.

 

There's a few on my FB, with it as their profile picture.

The unfriend button is a great invention.

[Scooby Dudek]

Tax dodging, explotative cunts being hailed as philanthropic hero's annoys the life out of me. 

Shame they don't care as much about people.

[Elite]

10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

You are kidding ? Fucking hell. 

 

 

#prayforquasi

[Trumo]

10 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

You are kidding ? Fucking hell. 

 

 

 

Oh it's true, it's damned true! I've seen a couple of knobheads on my own Facebook feed putting tricolores on their profile pic just like they did when the Paris shootings happened.

[Dougie Do'ins]

1 hour ago, 3 Stacks said:

Great historical and cultural landmark and a shame it's been damaged, but to be honest it's maybe not even in the top 5 of nicest churches I saw when I travelled around southern/western Europe.

 

Also, see how I made this about me? That's what most of the sad people on social media are doing. It's really not that big a deal in reality.

You OK hun ? xx

[3 Stacks]

2 minutes ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

You OK hun ? xx

It was only 8 years ago that I had a picture taken of me in the cathedral. So no, I'm not ok. Let me grieve.   

[Dougie Do'ins]

21 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

I can understand people being a bit upset given its history etc but fuck me the money already being fronted is a disgrace. 

Just to be clear. That €600m was from about four wealthy donors. Just wait till the peasants start chipping in.

[Bjornebye]

16 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

It was only 8 years ago that I had a picture taken of me in the cathedral. So no, I'm not ok. Let me grieve.   

Pray for 3 Stacks. 

 

 

[Lee909]

I see it looks like private business, the EU and France may foot the bill while the Catholic Church sits on vast wealth. Cause the kids living under the poverty line are less needy of the money

[Champ]

3 hours ago, Dougie Do'ins said:

Why should the difference in wealth between the two depend on who foots the bill for the respective buildings ? They were/are both privately owned. In fact, I'm didn't Lizzy and here people came up with a way of cleverly dumping some of her buildings onto the us via the National Trust but she and her clan get to have exclusive use of them ? 

 

Anyway, It'll be interesting to see how much the Catholic Church stumps up towards the cost of of repairs for this.

Apologies. I wasn’t saying there is any difference. It just seems like another case of the rich managing to get even more out of the rest of us

[Lee909]

29 minutes ago, 3 Stacks said:

It was only 8 years ago that I had a picture taken of me in the cathedral.   

And here it is

 

[3 Stacks]

13 minutes ago, Lee909 said:

And here it is

 

I do possess some of his romantic and sympathetic qualities.

[Dougie Do'ins]

8 minutes ago, Champ said:

Apologies. I wasn’t saying there is any difference. It just seems like another case of the rich managing to get even more out of the rest of us

No need to apologise. Anyway, I've just looked into who owns and who's responsible for the building and found THIS.

 

Seems it's upkeep was/is from charitable donations. Wonder if the Pope has found his cheque signing pen ?

[Guest]

This thread has grown to four pages long and it's the media that are making a big deal of it? Fuck this thread. I'm off to Ze Liverpool Vay.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The real tragedy here, which I may never quite get over, is the word "The" in the thread title.

[Bjornebye]

"My people call me Mr Touchdown"

 

 

 

[VladimirIlyich]

57 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

The real tragedy here, which I may never quite get over, is the word "The" in the thread title.

Le Notre Dame.

[SilverSong]

Homeless dying, families using foodbanks yet they're sending millions for a building.