Comments on: Burn them all! http://thegurrier.com/2005/09/22/burn-them-all/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:47:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Kesey http://thegurrier.com/2005/09/22/burn-them-all/#comment-11 Kesey Sat, 24 Sep 2005 11:06:54 +0000 http://thegurrier.com/2005/09/22/burn-them-all/#comment-11 Fuck, I hadn't heard about the robbery. The whole business just fits in with the general soul-withering awfulness of this O'Connell Street "makeover". Once the street was merely shabby, now it resembles a mortuary slab with a giant hypodermic needle sticking out of it. The lighting is too harsh (a pitiful attempt to make this by-the-numbers urban desert dramatic) making the place feel empty and exposed at night. To add to the alienation, the squared-off trees resemble the little green plastic shrubberies one sees in a butcher's shop window. The Commies used to build shit like this: the Celtic Tigers share the same lack of concern for the human element and same surfeit of ideological smugness as those old regimes; hopefully, they will end up sharing the same unmarked quicklime pits. Fuck, I hadn’t heard about the robbery. The whole business just fits in with the general soul-withering awfulness of this O’Connell Street “makeover”. Once the street was merely shabby, now it resembles a mortuary slab with a giant hypodermic needle sticking out of it. The lighting is too harsh (a pitiful attempt to make this by-the-numbers urban desert dramatic) making the place feel empty and exposed at night. To add to the alienation, the squared-off trees resemble the little green plastic shrubberies one sees in a butcher’s shop window.

The Commies used to build shit like this: the Celtic Tigers share the same lack of concern for the human element and same surfeit of ideological smugness as those old regimes; hopefully, they will end up sharing the same unmarked quicklime pits.

]]> By: Gurrier http://thegurrier.com/2005/09/22/burn-them-all/#comment-10 Gurrier Fri, 23 Sep 2005 16:00:44 +0000 http://thegurrier.com/2005/09/22/burn-them-all/#comment-10 You ask for matches, I'll ask for petrol. You ask for matches, I’ll ask for petrol.

]]> By: Arsela Undress http://thegurrier.com/2005/09/22/burn-them-all/#comment-9 Arsela Undress Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:19:13 +0000 http://thegurrier.com/2005/09/22/burn-them-all/#comment-9 This is why my birthday \ Christmas present requests for a flamethrower are ignored. This is why my birthday \ Christmas present requests for a flamethrower are ignored.

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