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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby NastyNickers » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:47 pm

Fuck that’s huge.

It wasn’t so long ago they said it needed huge restoration.
How sad.
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Vam » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:47 pm

Stooo wrote:Image

Huge fire at Notre-Dame! :yikes:


:shake head:
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Fletch » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:50 pm

Is that scaffolding near the top?
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Middens » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:50 pm

Yes, just seen Notre Dame on fire on the news, terrible.
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Vam » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:55 pm

Fletch wrote:Is that scaffolding near the top?


Not sure, Fletch. But it's looking increasingly and irreparably bad.

I have some very precious memories of sitting on those famous steps in Montmartre :bawlin:
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Stooo » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:56 pm

The spire has gone... :shake head:
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Vam » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:59 pm

Stooo wrote:The spire has gone... :shake head:


the roof too...
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby NastyNickers » Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:59 pm

Stooo wrote:The spire has gone... :shake head:


This is what Twitter is good for. Unfolding live events. Always go straight to twitter for them.

It looks like it’s absolutely gutted.

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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Helena » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:00 pm

Stooo wrote:The spire has gone... :shake head:



Just caught up :bawlin:

That beautiful building...
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Fletch » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:02 pm

Vam wrote:
Fletch wrote:Is that scaffolding near the top?


Not sure, Fletch. But it's looking increasingly and irreparably bad.

I have some very precious memories of sitting on those famous steps in Montmartre :bawlin:


Paris police said the fire is believed to have been started by an accident related to the renovations underway at the cathedral
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Vam » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:12 pm

Fletch wrote:
Vam wrote:
Fletch wrote:Is that scaffolding near the top?


Not sure, Fletch. But it's looking increasingly and irreparably bad.

I have some very precious memories of sitting on those famous steps in Montmartre :bawlin:


Paris police said the fire is believed to have been started by an accident related to the renovations underway at the cathedral


... and in my shock and disbelief at the news, I got my cathedrals mixed up :oops: ... I've sat on the famous steps of the Sacré-Cœur.
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Middens » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:15 pm

It survived wars and revolution.
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Fletch » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:20 pm

Oh well, religion is dying out in the west anyway...

:doomed:
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Fletch » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:33 pm

Sajid Javid reveals he could have become a drug dealer

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ldren.html

but found being a Tory MP was more lucrative...
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Re: Random Stuff # 28

Postby Middens » Mon Apr 15, 2019 6:50 pm

Trumpsplaining to the French.

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