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Sweet Jebus! Is This Real?..... Dublin?!?

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  • 26-02-2007 11:51pm
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    Undercoverguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭


    So on a google adventure in work today (Ah stresses of an IT guy lol) I came accross this! I couldnt believe my eyes!!! :eek:

    Is it real? :confused:
    If so, How come i'm only hearing bout it now lol :)
    I been living under a rock or something :rolleyes:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaSLNBOphpE

    BTW Mods, I know its YouTube link but its not a stupid joke or anything, genuine info thing i want everyone too see and get these opinions on, :cool:


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    #2
    smcelhinney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,127 ✭✭✭smcelhinney


    not real. viral marketing campaign for some real estate website, cant remember which it was.

    good tho..


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    #3
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Nope, it t'aint real. Threads like these ones were plentiful a few months ago and caused a bit o' fuss.:)


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    Victor McDade
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Victor McDade


    Haha Better than Dubai!

    The giraffe-only zoo, brilliant :D


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    #5
    Minto
    Registered Users Posts: 1,767 ✭✭✭Minto


    Awwwww......I wanted to move there! Ah well!


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,724 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    it almost sounded real...then they went on about submarines and giraffe-only zoos....

    shamrock idea holds merit.


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    #7
    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Quick search


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    #8
    KTRIC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭KTRIC


    Absolutely no reason why this couldn't be built to be honest. What about the palm islands in Dubai !!!


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    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users Posts: 33,043 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    "Ready in just three years"

    "Howth 2 - An exact replica of Howth on the southside"

    OP - you weren;t really taking in by that were you?

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    to be fair, a lot of people fell for it when it first surfaced


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    Victor McDade
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Victor McDade


    Ikky Poo2 wrote:
    "Ready in just three years"

    They wont even manage to get Lansdowne ready in 3 years, what chance an island?!?


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    Steffano2002
    Registered Users Posts: 5,918 ✭✭✭Steffano2002


    Ikky Poo2 wrote:
    "Ready in just three years"
    If they hadn't said that it could have been an awesome hoax!


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    #13
    nightfox
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭nightfox


    Jesus H Christ why a shamrock????


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    Plug
    Registered Users Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    Its fake advertising to attrack polish.......


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    #15
    Bob the Builder
    Registered Users Posts: 2,919 ✭✭✭Bob the Builder


    40million tons to cover an island that big...ur joking!

    and in three years? presuming that they'll need to have the island shaped in 1yr, if the building takes two years...

    40million tonnes of material on an unsteady surface, to be laid and shaped in a year? Good Hoax!


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    Rb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Mossy Monk wrote:
    to be fair, a lot of people fell for it when it first surfaced
    This is true.

    Great advertising/marketing ploy though, really did its job.


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    Saruman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    In fairness it looks well done. Though eh... having ultra bright green lights to outline the shape of a shamrock that can be seen from space.. well thats hardly very green at all :D

    Before it started playing i thought it was going to be a promo for the proposed move of the port to Balbriggan and the reclamation of all that land which would double the city centre :D


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    BopNiblets
    Registered Users Posts: 3,579 ✭✭✭BopNiblets


    If you need to ask if that's real, get off teh internets, you won't survive. :p


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    Wertz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    BopNiblets wrote:
    If you need to ask if that's real, get off teh internets, you won't survive. :p


    Seriously.

    Anyone who even considered that that might be a possibility should just remove themselves from the genepool...or contact me about real beach front property I have for sale in cavan...


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    brianthebard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    KTRIC wrote:
    Absolutely no reason why this couldn't be built to be honest.

    In Dubai they have rich rich princes who decide to take it upon themselves to create new wonders. In Ireland we have an incompetent government that wastes money at every turn.


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    #21
    MikeHoncho
    Registered Users Posts: 1,747 ✭✭✭MikeHoncho


    Its a viral for Funda.ie if im not mistaken. Probably the best viral to come out of this country. I emailed them when it originally came up just telling them it was hilarious and got a kind of a nod and a wink back from them. Very good. they even put ads in the papers about it and a fake planning application to back it up. Very clever.


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