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Zen Garden

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  • 03-04-2009 5:40pm
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    crashers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22 ✭


    Ok so you know the new zen garden near the student bar? i looked into it the other day and it looks like people have been throwing money into it, just wondering is it like a wishing well type thing?


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    SRFC90
    Registered Users Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭SRFC90


    It's a piece of crap is what it is.


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    gubbie
    Registered Users Posts: 2,134 ✭✭✭gubbie


    Its a "Hurray, just what we needed more concrete" yolk


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    bnt
    Registered Users Posts: 13,009 ✭✭✭✭bnt


    Doesn't look finished to me...

    Death has this much to be said for it:
    You don’t have to get out of bed for it.
    Wherever you happen to be
    They bring it to you—free.

    — Kingsley Amis



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    MarlboroMan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭MarlboroMan


    i think its pritty cool but feel the money could have been better spent upgrading much needed facilities around campus like more bike shelters..... ??? :(


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    33% God
    Closed Accounts Posts: 338 ✭✭33% God


    crashers wrote: »
    Ok so you know the new zen garden near the student bar? i looked into it the other day and it looks like people have been throwing money into it, just wondering is it like a wishing well type thing?
    I don't reckon you're supposed to throw coins into it.
    gubbie wrote: »
    Its a "Hurray, just what we needed more concrete" yolk
    I reckon they're going to put creepers up the side of it or something.


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    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    Biggest cat litter tray in the world as far as I can see.


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    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    They needed to make a big hole in the books to justify fees.


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    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    They should've put a hot tub in the middle of it.


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    dyl10
    Registered Users Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭dyl10


    Red Alert wrote: »
    They should've put a hot tub in the middle of it.

    I would support this motion


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    Tom65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,685 ✭✭✭Tom65


    Maybe it's more stable than the banks?


    Also, there's a Zen garden in UCD? Really?


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    jimi_t
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    Zen Garden my arse. Anyone know how much it cost; it's surely a matter of public record.


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    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    I'd say it wasn't cheap... I'd say it'd definitely be available under an FOI request.


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    33% God
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    jimi_t wrote: »
    Zen Garden my arse. Anyone know how much it cost; it's surely a matter of public record.
    I heard the costs ran to billions.
    It caused the recession and stuff.


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    18AD
    Registered Users Posts: 1,821 ✭✭✭18AD


    A zen garden is a work of art that grows and changes. It's supposed to be raked fairly regularly and trimmed etc... so in this regard it'll probably be a total failure. But people throwing money into it is really in the spirit of zen. Well done.


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    Whelo10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33 ✭Whelo10


    There were rumblings around the 2mil marker

    My source is somewhat of a blur in my memory though


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    bored clever
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭bored clever


    €400000. Prove me wrong children, prove me wrong.


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    P_1
    Registered Users Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    Sweet devine jesus. What a godalmighty waste of money.


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    smk89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    I heard the zen garden caused the recession were "apparently" suffering.

    Apparently AIB (the bad one) put a loan on it but the owners defaulted on it due to being retarded and in debt.

    Personally what is the point of a garden of tranquillity located next to the student bar??? And there is a 1 in a million chance that anyone will ever use it


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