Lust for peat; Bronze Age road destroyed for potting compost

MadsL

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/bronze-age-road-in-midlands-turned-into-potting-compost-1.2368920

Is there nothing that the Ireland's lust for peat will not destroy. First the clusterfuck of the failure to protect raised bogs and now this international disgrace.

For a nation supossedly connected to the land, there's scant evidence for respect of either the land or its heritage. Shameful.

Excuses?

Notavirus.exe

Bronze Age people never did anything good for me.

Their roads were sh1te anyway.

Balmed Out

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057484501

The Backwards Man

You can't burn roads.


Not in a stove with a back boiler inanyways.

strelok

it can be older than the roman roads all it wants it's still ****e. the roman roads were impressive and bloody useful, this is a load of sticks laid one after the other over some dirt

Notavirus.exe

strelok wrote: »

this is a load of sticks laid one after the other over some dirt

Cowboys...

My name is URL

MadsL wrote: »

For a nation supossedly connected to the land, there's scant evidence for respect of either the land or its heritage

The only way Irish people are connected to the land is in how they can exploit it for a quick buck. Nothing new there. That whole romantic idea of being 'connected to the land' is just marketing bull**** to make it easier for the exploitation to happen

Shur look at the levels of littering and vandalisation that goes on in this country compared to most other European ones.

Most people don't give a fcuk about the land they live on in any way other than what they can sell it for. History is to blame for that. Generations of people didn't have land to call their own, take pride in or have respect for, and this is the result

zanador

We're to blame for that, not history, we're the ones in charge now. But do go ahead and do that most irish thing of blaming others for our own shortcomings. Preferably the Brits but the Germans will do in a pinch.

Nodin

MadsL wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/bronze-age-road-in-midlands-turned-into-potting-compost-1.2368920

Is there nothing that the Ireland's lust for peat will not destroy. First the clusterfuck of the failure to protect raised bogs and now this international disgrace.

For a nation supossedly connected to the land, there's scant evidence for respect of either the land or its heritage. Shameful.

Excuses?

It's the lust for money, rather than the lust for peat. The usual mentality of "sure what good is it anyway?" employed when dealing with anything from things like this to wildlife to their fellow human beings.

MadsL

Notavirus.exe wrote: »

Bronze Age people never did anything good for me.

The Bronze Age was characterised by development of agriculture, animal domestication, and the adoption of permanent settlements. So if you enjoy bacon, have a pet and live in a settled domicile, yeah, they did some good things.

wil

"A well regulated Landscape, being necessary to the horticulture of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bare Bogs, shall not be infilled."

Witcher

Wasn't it found that there was nothing new that could be learned from examining these roads? Numerous similar roads have been found and examined.

I recall someone linking a journal article in the past on a thread about this stating the above.

MadsL

Strider wrote: »

Wasn't it found that there was nothing new that could be learned from examining these roads? Numerous similar roads have been found and examined.

I recall someone linking a journal article in the past on a thread about this stating the above.

Is that a reason to turn it into potting compost? But sure, if the Journal said it...

Buona Fortuna

strelok wrote: »

it can be older than the roman roads all it wants it's still ****e. the roman roads were impressive and bloody useful, this is a load of sticks laid one after the other over some dirt

I think our council is bronze age then.

strelok

wil wrote: »

"A well regulated Landscape, being necessary to the horticulture of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bare Bogs, shall not be infilled."

you magnificent bastard

MadsL

Buona Fortuna wrote: »

I think our council is bronze age then.

Brian Boru, he fhixed the road!

Witcher

MadsL wrote: »

Is that a reason to turn it into potting compost? But sure, if the Journal said it...

Journal article meaning academic journal.

Nodin

Strider wrote: »

Journal article meaning academic journal.

Don't suppose ye have an aul link?

MadsL

Strider wrote: »

Journal article meaning academic journal.

Link?

Witcher

Nodin wrote: »

Don't suppose ye have an aul link?

MadsL wrote: »

Link?

Was months ago, I'm not in the business of bookmarking links about Bronze Age roads lads:pac: I remember having a look out of passing interest.

Might not even have been here I read it, only mentioned it in case someone else recalled seeing it.

MadsL

Strider wrote: »

Was months ago, I'm not in the business of bookmarking links about Bronze Age roads lads :pac:

Might not even have been here I read it, only mentioned it in case someone else recalled seeing it.

Your vague memory of a thread and a posted link is a compelling argument. You win.

Nodin

Strider wrote: »

Was months ago, I'm not in the business of bookmarking links about Bronze Age roads lads:pac: I remember having a look out of passing interest.

Might not even have been here I read it, only mentioned it in case someone else recalled seeing it.

Fair enough. As long as you didn't turn the thing into compost.

Witcher

MadsL wrote: »

Your vague memory of a thread and a posted link is a compelling argument. You win.

Take or leave it I don't care, Jesus you'd swear I'd something invested in it or there was a prize for being right :pac:

Nodin

Strider wrote: »

Take or leave it I don't care, Jesus you'd swear I'd something invested in it :pac:

.....how do we know you aren't some crazed gardener intent on growing bronze age stuff using the compost from the road?

Guy:Incognito

The bronze agers really should have bucked up their ideas. With a bit of hard work and effort they could have finished first and been the gold ages.

MadsL

Strider wrote: »

...there was a prize for being right :pac:

There isn't? Fuck, what's the point of "the internet" then? I thought we were supposed to "win the internet".

Boards is a lie. Official.

Samaris

wil wrote: »

"A well regulated Landscape, being necessary to the horticulture of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bare Bogs, shall not be infilled."

Speaking of winning the internet...

wil

Samaris wrote: »

Speaking of winning the internet...

All is fair in turf and war:)