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why is the main gateway into trinity so bloody small??

  • 18-11-2009 12:21pm
    #1
    Drawing Dead
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭


    why can't they open the whole gate rather than just that little cubbyhole? or if they want small gateways why not one going in and one going out? pisses me off having to wait those few seconds before i can walk through!


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  • #2
    Sonic_exyouth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 538 ✭✭✭Sonic_exyouth


    Drawing Dead wrote: »
    why can't they open the whole gate rather than just that little cubbyhole? or if they want small gateways why not one going in and one going out? pisses me off having to wait those few seconds before i can walk through!

    Why not go in one of the several other gates?


  • #3
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    They open it up when they have special dignitaries coming in.
    I saw it opened a few times for diplomats cars driving through.

    Its about:
    • Crowd control
    • Aesthetic from outside
    • To instil awe when you enter from the outside to the front square
    • To keep the closed feeling in front square


  • #4
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    To keep the riff raff out obviously.


  • #5
    Grimebox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,997 ✭✭✭Grimebox


    enda1 wrote: »
    They open it up when they have special dignitaries coming in.
    I saw it opened a few times for diplomats cars driving through.
    [/LIST]

    Its opens almost every night for a car or two and im pretty sure they're not diplomats


  • #6
    andrew
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 3,372 Mod ✭✭✭✭andrew


    It's Tradition. And you should never question tradition.


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  • #7
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    Just squeeze in with the other person, and take the opportunity to grab some ass.


  • #8
    Running Bing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,841 ✭✭✭Running Bing


    Because its not Bellfield tech.






















    :P


  • #9
    electrogrimey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,791 ✭✭✭electrogrimey


    Running Bing wrote: »
    Because its not Bellfield tech.

    Funny that people are giving out about not being able to get into TCD quickly enough; you normally hear that about getting out of UCD.
    :P


  • #10
    robototitico
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭robototitico


    It adds to the charm for the tourists.


  • #11
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    Be grateful you aren't in a sprawling mass of a university, with no real entrance or exit like UCD. TCD has a very elegant front arch and the giant door adds to it if you ask me.


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  • #12
    phlegms
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭phlegms


    To keep those unruly Catholics out.


  • #13
    BERNHARD GOETZ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11 ✭BERNHARD GOETZ


    Great thread, more like this please.

    I love all the 'me-toos' at the bottom chiming in with their stale witticisms.


  • #14
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    BERNHARD GOETZ wrote: »
    Great thread, more like this please.

    I love all the 'me-toos' at the bottom chiming in with their stale witticisms.

    'Me-toos' are part and parcel of the internet sonny.


  • #15
    Prof.Badass
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭Prof.Badass


    BERNHARD GOETZ wrote: »
    Great thread, more like this please.

    I love all the 'me-toos' at the bottom chiming in with their stale witticisms.

    Stale?

    I'll have you know, getting sly jabs in at the architecture of ucd is the cutting edge of trinity humour (a subtle brand of humour only the enlightened intellectual elite can appreciate).


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