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Railway Lunacy from Your Country Your Call

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    #32
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    You're missing the point, if you want to go somewhere nice and landscaped, i.e. completely un-natural, stay in the Green or go to either the Peoples Gardens or cross the Liffey to the War Memorial Park.

    So what makes a good park now is aesthetics and fakery ?


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    #33
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,475 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    JHMEG wrote: »
    Even Stephen's Green is far nicer and has more to see than the PP..

    "Nicer" in what way, it feels cramped and busy and compact. Now I like it but the PP is so much nicer, more open and feel less "stuffed full of junk"


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    #34
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    Sorry, but if the PP was outside a city it'd be called a field. Some of use just expect more from our Parks.


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    #35
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,475 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    JHMEG wrote: »
    Sorry, but if the PP was outside a city it'd be called a field. Some of use just expect more from our Parks.

    to be totally fake and engineered?


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    #36
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    to be totally fake and engineered?

    Aside from the grass there's nothing natural about the PP. Do you think the Garda HQ was grown from a seed that arrived on the wind?


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    #37
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    You're hilarious JHMEG, you obviously can't see the wood for the trees ! You obviously have no understanding of what constitutes a field.


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    #38
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,475 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    JHMEG wrote: »
    Aside from the grass there's nothing natural about the PP. Do you think the Garda HQ was grown from a seed that arrived on the wind?

    yes of course I do and the presidents house got was planted the day the state was founded as a 2 bed cottage. :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


    How about an answer that doesn't make you sound like a 6 year old. You know perfectly well what I meant by "fake and engineered" in regards to Stephens Green.


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    #39
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    Ara lads relax. It's not my fault it's shíte, and that I have higher standards than ye :D


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    #40
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    Bloody modernist.


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    #41
    FlameoftheWest
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    JHMEG wrote: »
    Sorry, but if the PP was outside a city it'd be called a field. Some of use just expect more from our Parks.

    That's the issue really. As for it being wild well I can only assume the people who call it wild have never been in the wild. It's an aristocratic version of "the wild".


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    #42
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    FlameoftheWest wrote: »
    That's the issue really. As for it being wild well I can only assume the people who call it wild have never been in the wild. It's an aristocratic version of "the wild".

    Or "the wild" but with stabilisers still attached.


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    #43
    Jip
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,418 ✭✭✭Jip


    It is what it is, there you go again with your sweeping generalisations Flame. By their nature people who use the park regularly are well aware of what the 'real' wild is like.

    There's not pleasing you two, it's either not sanitised enough for you, or else not 'proper' wild, you don't seem to know what you want.


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    #44
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    ...:cool: although there are those Irish natives who think anything outside their own usual pint will decry this as weird.
    I have been derided as such on wikihow for some of my own ideas. Still I have persisted and some of my articles have a following. For instance see here:

    http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Video-of-Your-Model-Railway-Onboard-a-Carriage-With-a-5Th-Gen-Ipod-Nano

    I have been derided for other articles I posted like this, but it has paid off in the end and my articles are being read!

    Best of luck dude


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    #45
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users Posts: 24,475 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    FlameoftheWest wrote: »
    That's the issue really. As for it being wild well I can only assume the people who call it wild have never been in the wild. It's an aristocratic version of "the wild".
    JHMEG wrote: »
    Or "the wild" but with stabilisers still attached.

    and what would you lot know about "wild" anyway. There is no-where in ireland apart from maybe the remotest Island that is truely wild.

    Everywhere is managed, no where has the correct original vegetation or animals left fully intact and there's very very few places you can go and be more than 3-4km from a road.


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    #46
    parsi
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    The Phoenix Park is similar to Berlin's Tiergarten - large green areas that are interspersed with the odd formal building. The Tiergarten isn't a formal park (with flowers and manicured lawns) but is very popular for walking, running and communal picnics.


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    #47
    Ernest
    Registered Users Posts: 444 ✭✭Ernest


    I must agree with other contributors who criticise the Phoenix Park. It must be one of the dreariest urban parks I have ever visited.


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    #48
    Stark
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    JHMEG wrote: »
    I grew up beside Lough Key Forest Park. Phoenix Park has virtually nothing by comparison.

    Lough Key's a boring old ****hole compared to the Amazon rainforest.

    ⛥ ̸̱̼̞͛̀̓̈́͘#C̶̼̭͕̎̿͝R̶̦̮̜̃̓͌O̶̬͙̓͝W̸̜̥͈̐̾͐Ṋ̵̲͔̫̽̎̚͠ͅT̸͓͒͐H̵͔͠È̶̖̳̘͍͓̂W̴̢̋̈͒͛̋I̶͕͑͠T̵̻͈̜͂̇Č̵̤̟̑̾̂̽H̸̰̺̏̓ ̴̜̗̝̱̹͛́̊̒͝⛥



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    #49
    JHMEG
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭JHMEG


    Is that the one in Talla, just off the Old Bawn? ;)


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    #50
    Judgement Day
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    Well, they just keep on coming - thank God the competition's finally over. Have a look at this one. :Dhttp://proposals.yourcountryyourcall.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?c=D284E307-BEF9-4396-AF6E-14009EAB8647&idea_id=04E11FCA-93E0-4D14-BC02-1C4C960DD5FD#comments


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    #51
    thomasj
    Registered Users Posts: 4,791 ✭✭✭thomasj


    Ernest wrote: »
    I must agree with other contributors who criticise the Phoenix Park. It must be one of the dreariest urban parks I have ever visited.

    I disagree. to me its one of the few places in this city that you are reminded of the property mess that will cost us for decades. touching the park, would have been the last straw for me!

    I would walk through it come rain or shine with the music in the ears constantly.to me its a fairly serene place!


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    #52
    me_right_one
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    You're looking at things backwards Judgement day. The new NRA idea is the coming thing


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    #53
    expectationlost
    Registered Users Posts: 11,772 ✭✭✭✭expectationlost


    arn't we lucky we have you guys to protect us from railway lunacy, wheres would we be without you, my heros!


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