Notre Dame Cathedral Fire

Trap junior wrote: The amount of fake sadness from Irish people in full swing.  When we were there for Euro 2016 feck all Irish fans went to see it and were only interested in guzzling pints in the Irish bars.

heighway2heaven wrote: Looks as though things aren't as bad as they could've been.  https://twitter.com/L0rdSum/status/1117897557428953089 Not as bad as the damage sustained from WWII, anyway.

UCDFAN wrote: Het-field wrote: Trap junior wrote: The amount of fake sadness from Irish people in full swing.  When we were there for Euro 2016 feck all Irish fans went to see it and were only interested in guzzling pints in the Irish bars. Anybody with an ounce of culture will be saddened by this. The metric system in France was introduced after the French Revolution of 1789 (year not time of day).  Anyone with a spark of cop-on would know that.

Was in Paris recently and didn't visit it, I also formed a new 7 a side team in January and called them Notre Damned, I take full responsibility 

what an absolute tragedy. my heart sank when i saw on the phone the first news reports last night. i couldn't watch the news coverage when i got home - it was just so devastating. i had a similar feeling the time isis destroyed the wonderful city of palmyra. fortunately nobody lost their life on this occasion.  thankfully it seems the rose stained glass windows are intact albeit damaged. i'm not a religious person but i still like to visit fabulous buildings of architectural or historical value...be they religious or not. i visited notre dame on a number of occasions, the last time being around a year ago. the north rose is just so captivating which still has the original glass from the 1250's  

Edited by colemanY2K - 16 Apr 2019 at 12:08pm

Poor Peter Beardsley. His house up in flames

Het-field wrote: I must say, I really don’t like the narrative that’s going around social media etc at the moment trying to minimise the impact of the disaster, as there are more important things to worry about than the destruction of a building. I cannot understand how some people can’t look at this from the cultural and heritage point of view, and the fact that the building will never be the same. It will be closed to the public for a long time and will deprive countless tourists, students, academics, members of the faithful, culturally interested folk who have no regard for religion of seeing much of what it had to offer for many, many years. I don’t believe you can mourn something inanimate. But while the American Beauty thing about the plastic bag is a bit lost on me, objectively Notre Dame is an extraordinary loss.

Trap junior wrote: Roberto Baggio wrote: Het-field wrote: I must say, I really don’t like the narrative that’s going around social media etc at the moment trying to minimise the impact of the disaster, as there are more important things to worry about than the destruction of a building. I cannot understand how some people can’t look at this from the cultural and heritage point of view, and the fact that the building will never be the same. It will be closed to the public for a long time and will deprive countless tourists, students, academics, members of the faithful, culturally interested folk who have no regard for religion of seeing much of what it had to offer for many, many years. I don’t believe you can mourn something inanimate. But while the American Beauty thing about the plastic bag is a bit lost on me, objectively Notre Dame is an extraordinary loss.   Its almost as if some people just don't give a dame They must be inSEINE

GB 1HughJarse wrote: colemanY2K wrote: what an absolute tragedy. my heart sank when i saw on the phone the first news reports last night. i couldn't watch the news coverage when i got home - it was just so devastating. i had a similar feeling the time isis destroyed the wonderful city of palmyra. fortunately nobody lost their life on this occasion.       thankfully it seems the rose stained glass windows are intact albeit damaged. i'm not a religious person but i still like to visit fabulous buildings of architectural or historical value...be they religious or not. i visited notre dame on a number of occasions, the last time being around a year ago. the north rose is just so captivating which still has the original glass from the 1250's       notre dame is such an important icon in human history. i sincerely hope france can restore the cathedral to its former glory.   A couple of private donors have already offered €100 million and €200 million to the restoration fund. No shortage of money there then.