This morning.
The Famine statues, Custom House Quay, Dublin Docklands.
Dhaughton writes:
Maybe it’s just me being a curmudgeon but who in Dublin city council thought it was good idea to put those dire looking anti-terror planters surrounding the famine memorial?
I assume the designer chose that location because it’s wide open and exposed to the elements, which adds to the piece.
They looked crap on Mary Street [Dublin 1] and they look crap here…
FIGHT!
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See if we can get the statues moved to Stormont?
Is that what those statues are? Oh .!.
I thought they were some sort of RTÉ promotion for Operation Transformation. Just on that subject, how can a fitness program’s success be solely measured on weight loss when you are also building muscle which weighs twice that of the fat lost?
I’m asking for a friend obviously.
Did you ever see the whales on that show? They don’t have to worry about weight gain from muscle just yet, not when you have 50 kg’s of flab to lose.
Oh come on, that’s not fair. That is like those who are forever preaching at smokers. If quitting was that easy, nobody would smoke.
suger is scarily addictive
http://www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/blog/2016/07/21/sugar-addictive-probably-not-say-cambridge-neuroscientists/
It is easy to blame other things for peoples personal habits. Overeating is a learned behavior. It deserves no sympathy and/or acceptance.
@qwerty123 Have you ever had a weight problem?
Like everybody, I put on a few pounds from time to time. I weigh myself regularly and if get a bit fluffier, I put down the fork and do a bit more exercise.
What I don’t do is wait until I’m 16+ stone and then complain that I have a “problem” and blame the food industry for producing addictive food.
Currently, I am trying to get stronger and need to be in a caloric surplus. 3,300 calories, let me tell you it is very hard to get all that food in over a day.
But that is not everyone. Some people find it very difficult to lose weight and the food industry appears determined to poison us all with sugar.
Comfort eating and smoking are similar in that both reward the brain which why some people gain weight after they stop smoking. There is no one size fits all for either but the type of food people eat is crucial and that is why education is important.
Fat shaming is an alt Right trend which is just downright juvenile. It doesn’t work and it hurts people. The plain fact is, someone else’s weight is none of your (or my) business.
I agree on education, but it is really easy to lose weight. All down to calories, exercise and sleep. Comfort eating is a behavior that can be modified. Fat shaming doesn’t work, neither does fat normalisation. It would be like saying screw it, people are just never going to stop smoking, so let’s not bother trying, also we might hurt their feelings if we mention the negatives.
A: you’re not “asking for a friend”, you wanted to rant about something and somehow shoe-horned it in here.
B: Their goal is to cut fat, weight loss over an extended period is a pretty good metric for this.
C: They won’t be building muscle when they’re in calorie deficit.
I couldn’t agree more about how awful those planters look. I was appalled when I walked past there last weekend. It’s taken away from the elegance of the statues :-(
if they’re there as an anti-terror measure surely the sculptures are already providing a barrier.
If they’re for aesthetic reasons, god help us all.
Maybe the plants might explode in bloom in the summer
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2018/0124/935691-planters/
‘anti-terror planters’ hehe…I like that!
I quite like the planters themselves…
But why are they there?
What are they protecting from an “anti-terror” point of view?
Visually the place looks worse with extra trees/planters (whatever the design).
They have been removed from Henry st/Mary st and replaced by the more aesthetically pleasing ones like Grafton St. I’d imagine they were placed here cos they had nowhere else for them.
159 fatalities in 2017
http://www.rsa.ie/RSA/Road-Safety/Our-Research/Deaths-injuries-on-Irish-roads/
All motorists are potential terrorists.
The planters are there to reduce the chances of someone using a vehicle to deliberately kill a crowd of pedestrians (while at the same time leaving just barely enough space to allow an ambulance access). Unlike other more permanent features such as benches or bollards, planters can be moved with a forklift.
It’s easier than tackling the problem of the incremental killing of people every year.
There is a couple at the O’Connell Street end of Henry St too, they look like crap, and you could easily go around them, in fact cash collector security trucks drive up and down Henry street regularly.
They’re staggered, so you need to weave, which means you’re unlikely to be going at the kind of speed that could kill a few dozen people in seconds.
seem to be leeching rust onto the stone…they’ll mark the spot even when removed in coming months.
If you want to get rid of the planters, simply plant a few spuds in them. They will be hastily removed as soon as the crop comes up.
If you want to get rid of the planters, vote Sinn Féin. Hi-yooo!