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

Undercoverguy · 2007-02-26 22:51:23

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…

26-02-2007 10:51pm

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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?
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 26-02-2007 10:54pm

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

good tho..

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#3 26-02-2007 10:54pm

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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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#4 26-02-2007 10:56pm

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Haha Better than Dubai!

The giraffe-only zoo, brilliant

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#5 26-02-2007 11:01pm

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

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#6 26-02-2007 11:11pm

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

shamrock idea holds merit.

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#7 26-02-2007 11:13pm

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Quick search

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#8 26-02-2007 11:17pm

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

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#9 26-02-2007 11:21pm

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"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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#10 26-02-2007 11:24pm

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

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#11 26-02-2007 11:31pm

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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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#12 08-03-2007 11:20pm

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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 09-03-2007 8:07pm

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Jesus H Christ why a shamrock????

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#14 09-03-2007 9:41pm

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

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#15 09-03-2007 10:15pm

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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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#16 10-03-2007 11:09am

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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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#17 10-03-2007 11:23am

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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

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

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#18 11-03-2007 12:35am

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

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#19 11-03-2007 11:56pm

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BopNiblets wrote:

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

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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#20 12-03-2007 1:52am

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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 12-03-2007 12:19pm

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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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