Zen Garden

crashers · 03-04-2009 05:40PM #1

Ok so you know the new zen garden near the student bar? i looked into it the other day and it looks like people have been throwing money into it, just wondering is it like a wishing well type thing?

SRFC90 · 03-04-2009 05:55PM

It's a piece of crap is what it is.

gubbie · 03-04-2009 06:28PM

Its a "Hurray, just what we needed more concrete" yolk

bnt · 03-04-2009 08:02PM

Doesn't look finished to me...

MarlboroMan · 03-04-2009 10:27PM

i think its pritty cool but feel the money could have been better spent upgrading much needed facilities around campus like more bike shelters..... ???

33% God · 03-04-2009 11:36PM

crashers wrote: »

Ok so you know the new zen garden near the student bar? i looked into it the other day and it looks like people have been throwing money into it, just wondering is it like a wishing well type thing?

I don't reckon you're supposed to throw coins into it.

gubbie wrote: »

Its a "Hurray, just what we needed more concrete" yolk

I reckon they're going to put creepers up the side of it or something.

boneless · 06-04-2009 08:36PM

Biggest cat litter tray in the world as far as I can see.

Thomas_S_Hunterson · 06-04-2009 08:53PM

They needed to make a big hole in the books to justify fees.

Red Alert · 07-04-2009 12:25AM

They should've put a hot tub in the middle of it.

dyl10 · 07-04-2009 12:53AM

Red Alert wrote: »

They should've put a hot tub in the middle of it.

I would support this motion

Tom65 · 07-04-2009 10:21AM

Maybe it's more stable than the banks?

Also, there's a Zen garden in UCD? Really?

jimi_t · 07-04-2009 03:36PM

Zen Garden my arse. Anyone know how much it cost; it's surely a matter of public record.

Red Alert · 07-04-2009 05:17PM

I'd say it wasn't cheap... I'd say it'd definitely be available under an FOI request.

33% God · 07-04-2009 05:45PM

jimi_t wrote: »

Zen Garden my arse. Anyone know how much it cost; it's surely a matter of public record.

I heard the costs ran to billions.
It caused the recession and stuff.

18AD · 10-04-2009 11:33AM

A zen garden is a work of art that grows and changes. It's supposed to be raked fairly regularly and trimmed etc... so in this regard it'll probably be a total failure. But people throwing money into it is really in the spirit of zen. Well done.

Whelo10 · 10-04-2009 11:53AM

There were rumblings around the 2mil marker

My source is somewhat of a blur in my memory though

bored clever · 11-04-2009 06:45PM

€400000. Prove me wrong children, prove me wrong.

P_1 · 11-04-2009 09:02PM

Sweet devine jesus. What a godalmighty waste of money.

smk89 · 12-04-2009 10:35PM

I heard the zen garden caused the recession were "apparently" suffering.

Apparently AIB (the bad one) put a loan on it but the owners defaulted on it due to being retarded and in debt.

Personally what is the point of a garden of tranquillity located next to the student bar??? And there is a 1 in a million chance that anyone will ever use it

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