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Topic: blow up the millenium dome!
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Karen Elliot
Operative |
posted November 30, 1999 04:31 AM
 
has anyone read sorry meniscus by Iain Sinclair? its a rant against
the millenium dome that ghastly white swolen pregnant belly of
shite
recommended background reading for anyone living outside
britain
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 08:27 PM
I've had a sneaking suspicion that blowing up the millenium dome has
been the government's plan all along.
After spending three years building a gargantuan semi-disposable
folly against public opinion, and using the taxpayers money to pay
for it, the ultimate fuck off to the citizens of this fair isle
would be for them to sell advance tickets at £30 a pop and then blow
the damn thing back to hades before anyone can get in to find out
what a waste of space it is. It would be the ultimate sacrifice to
the gods of capitalism and would doubtless ensure immortality for
the current cabinet.
And lo, they did fear the coming of the Blair-child.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted December 01, 1999 08:58 PM
I'm probably in a minority here, but I rather like the whole idea of
the Millennium Dome. Yeah, it's a fairly crass corporate temple, but
I like follies and pointless architecture. Public art and sculpture
can only improve and de-homogenise the landscape. Charging 30 quid
for a look is a bit of a liberty, though. I'll probably go down to
take a look sometime next year.
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ianjones
Myrmidon |
posted December 01, 1999 09:25 PM
I'd pay to see the Millenium Dome blown up in the sense that a
bicycle tyre is blown.
It would swell like fast mo pregnancy then burst it spikes
heavenward.
Probably.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 01, 1999 09:46 PM
Mmm, I reckon it's a half-buried Chaosphere...
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grant
Operative |
posted December 02, 1999 02:37 PM
Giant pokemon egg.
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70sman
Operative |
posted December 03, 1999 09:38 AM
Now THAT would be cool.
A Japanese giant monster style battle
above London on December 31st!
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 02:39 PM
It's a big zit on the face of London.
They should have just piled
the 850 million pounds up in fivers and set fire to it. That would
have been much more entertaining.
Especially if Blair was tied to
a stake at the top...
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Cochese
Operative |
posted December 05, 1999 02:49 PM
Well, I known it's an old passe argument but I would have rather the
millenium dome was spent on stuuff like hospitals and the homeless
and improving life all round the country rather than just some huge
masterbation fantasy for politicians trying to convince themselves
that they aren't worthless zits on the face of humanity, you know,
actually doing some good rather than just building a big TEMPORARY
STRUCTURE that in 50 years time will be hideously unsafe...Oh yes,
very fucking inspiring I don't think.
New Years Eve: In a pub.
With friends. Or similar. really don't need to build a big tit by
the thames. Still, too late now.
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted December 06, 1999 10:02 PM
There was a quote in The Independent over the weekend from Robert
Thirkell, a producer of a BBC documentary on the Dome that's showing
this week.
He claims the Dome is widely slagged off because "the public
don't have the conceptual framework to understand it".
i.e it's nothing to do with a government quango spending £758
million on a sub-ikea structure the majority of the British public
said they didn't want (in a poll conducted by the G-ment
themselves).
Adam Wishart, another producer on the same program, said "when
James Cameron was making Titanic everyone assumed it would be a flop
because no-one had seen the finished product."
This mataphor amused me no end. Wasn't Titanic a gargantuan
bucket of shite. Titanic is only regarded as a success in that it
made shedloads of cash for it's producers.
Twig dispairs....
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