Notre Dame cathedral

[chrisb]

The Notre Dame Cathedral fire altered the Paris skyline - CNN

 

[Osvaldo de Banfield]

A true disaster and a giant lost for the humanity.

 

[MAAC0]

Well. It's a grand disaster and I am sad, but there are people starving and nobody seems to care, but for a Cathedral they are donating over 500 M€ …

 

[jan.didden]

Don't you wish the hunchback had given up smoking?

Jan

 

[jan.didden]

Well. It's a grand disaster and I am sad, but there are people starving and nobody seems to care, but for a Cathedral they are donating over 500 M€ …

Good point. How much have you donated to the poor this year? And how much have you spend on diyaudio this year?

Jan

 

[JMFahey]

What do starving people have to do with this cultural/historical disaster?

So not repairing that Cathedral will stop the World Hunger or something?

Speak about

World military spending totaled more than $1.6 trillion in 2015

(In can´t even imagine the current value) and *that* might have some influence, anything less is irrelevant.

 

[scottjoplin]

Well. It's a grand disaster and I am sad, but there are people starving and nobody seems to care, but for a Cathedral they are donating over 500 M€ …

It is a disaster, I'm not sad, but I have no personal connection to it.
When Windsor Castle went up in flames I thought it was an impressive sight and the sort of thing that should happen to castles

 

[jan.didden]

Yes, great wars have been fought to just get the same effect ;-)

Jan

 

[radiosmuck]

All is not lost, they saved the crown of thorns.

 

[jan.didden]

It should be interesting to see whether the Yellow Vests will succeed blaming Notre Drame on Macron.

Jan

 

[Bigun]

Well. It's a grand disaster

not really. The Twin Towers was a disaster, Grenfell was a disaster, this was just a fire.

 

[gpauk]

Yeah, it's a shame, very sad. But - it's just a building. It can be repaired. No one died, is the main thing.

 

[jan.didden]

I wonder whether the Brits would say 'it's just a building' when Big Ben would burn down.

I think many French would gladly give their life it it would undo this.

Jan

 

[scottjoplin]

The Palace of Westminster is more likely to fall down. By the way Big Ben is a bell, " The bells the bells"

 

[tapestryofsound]

What do starving people have to do with this cultural/historical disaster?

So not repairing that Cathedral will stop the World Hunger or something

Perhaps you might like to read this:- HuffPost is now part of Oath

 

[Bigun]

I wonder whether the Brits would say 'it's just a building' when Big Ben would burn down.

5th November.

 

[jan.didden]

Guy Fawkes?

 

[poynton]

Let's hope that when (if) they do rebuild the cathedral, they install an automatic sprinkler system.

Had one been installed, the damage would ot have been half as bad.


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[Bonsai]

Its a beautiful and iconic building that's c. 850 years old - I can understand why the French are upset about this. If Westminster Cathedral burnt down, there would some pretty unhappy Brits around that's for sure.

However, if the houses of Parliament burnt down (as some MP's have warned could happen), you can bet there would be a mighty cheer across the land (and elsewhere as well).

 

[gpauk]

I wonder whether the Brits would say 'it's just a building' when Big Ben would burn down.

I think many French would gladly give their life it it would undo this.

Jan

I would say the same for any building, anywhere. It's sad, but if no one died, it can be rebuilt if we want. Buildings are inanimate, just man made things, in the final analysis.