Good. I watched Eddy Burback’s [recent video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN63DDD9Y04) about the Las Vegas sphere (well worth watching) and the whole concept felt horribly dystopian and unpleasant.
It fits right in in Las Vegas but it has no place in the UK.
Ah the Woke London Council strikes again, the developers offered to give blackout blinds to the local residents, what more do they want?? /s
I think the overall concept of the sphere is pretty cool and aesthetically pleasing to me but I’m glad this is the end result. This wasn’t the right location for it, Vegas is a city already known for its bright lights and showmanship.
Are they trying to claim that they couldn’t make a going concern of a normal venue that fit into the area? That they had to build what was essentially a massive advertising hoarding to make money?
It’s for the best, nearly every essential service is on it’s knees and we don’t have anywhere near enough housing for our unsustainably large population.
We really didn’t need a colossal light polluting monument to hubris.
Before you tell me that the money wasn’t going to be used to build hospitals anyway, regardless of who was funding this it was still going to take up a huge amount of land and resources in our capital city.
The tourism excuse doesn’t work either. London isn’t Vegas, people come to England to see one of the most influential countries in history, and buildings that are older than some religions, they don’t come here to see a glorified fucking billboard.
They actually believe that the reason it was rejected is because of “politics” rather than because it’s a huge glowing orb in front of people’s houses. Money is one hell of a drug.
Ah yes, please spare a thought for the struggling American corporation Madison Square Garden Entertainment, who (not living there) feel that residents concerns about constant light pollution are paltry in comparison with their generous offer of blackout blinds. /s
It was a billboard with a stage, it won’t be missed.
What’s even funnier than the fact that Britain languishes behind other first world countries in developing itself into a world-beating place is watching brits cheerfully celebrate its decline as some sort of great achievement.
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Good. I watched Eddy Burback’s [recent video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN63DDD9Y04) about the Las Vegas sphere (well worth watching) and the whole concept felt horribly dystopian and unpleasant.
It fits right in in Las Vegas but it has no place in the UK.
Ah the Woke London Council strikes again, the developers offered to give blackout blinds to the local residents, what more do they want?? /s
I think the overall concept of the sphere is pretty cool and aesthetically pleasing to me but I’m glad this is the end result. This wasn’t the right location for it, Vegas is a city already known for its bright lights and showmanship.
Are they trying to claim that they couldn’t make a going concern of a normal venue that fit into the area? That they had to build what was essentially a massive advertising hoarding to make money?
It’s for the best, nearly every essential service is on it’s knees and we don’t have anywhere near enough housing for our unsustainably large population.
We really didn’t need a colossal light polluting monument to hubris.
Before you tell me that the money wasn’t going to be used to build hospitals anyway, regardless of who was funding this it was still going to take up a huge amount of land and resources in our capital city.
The tourism excuse doesn’t work either. London isn’t Vegas, people come to England to see one of the most influential countries in history, and buildings that are older than some religions, they don’t come here to see a glorified fucking billboard.
They actually believe that the reason it was rejected is because of “politics” rather than because it’s a huge glowing orb in front of people’s houses. Money is one hell of a drug.
Ah yes, please spare a thought for the struggling American corporation Madison Square Garden Entertainment, who (not living there) feel that residents concerns about constant light pollution are paltry in comparison with their generous offer of blackout blinds. /s
It was a billboard with a stage, it won’t be missed.
What’s even funnier than the fact that Britain languishes behind other first world countries in developing itself into a world-beating place is watching brits cheerfully celebrate its decline as some sort of great achievement.
Clown country.