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Old 04-15-2019, 02:57 PM   #17541 (permalink)
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Notre Dame burning.
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Old 04-15-2019, 02:59 PM   #17542 (permalink)
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Notre Dame burning.
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Old 04-15-2019, 03:01 PM   #17543 (permalink)
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Notre Dame burning.
Metal band Deathspell Omega detained by French police in connection to arson
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Old 04-15-2019, 03:09 PM   #17544 (permalink)
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You should've gone with Peste Noir.
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Notre Dame burning.
I think it's pretty much gone now.
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Old 04-15-2019, 05:06 PM   #17546 (permalink)
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^ Yep, must be a vast amount of damage, with the roof completely destroyed. Here's how it used to look:-

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Notre Dame, Paris, was started in 1163 and encloses a huge high space with its cutting edge technology and elegant design. They spent 200 years on the building of it, but still didn't put the spires on the front. This is typical of the bl**dy French, who can't finish anything unless the Brits are helping them.
Did you see the footage as the dark spire in the middle collapsed? Very sad indeed.
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I think it's pretty much gone now.
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Alright lads, 3 more black metal jokes before we reach capacity. Make them count.
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Old 04-15-2019, 05:15 PM   #17549 (permalink)
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For real though Varg does live in France now.
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Kind of ironically, the BBC posted a short feature about repair costs of the Notre Dame just ten days before the fire:-

BBC - Travel - The massive cost of saving Notre-Dame

^ Nice gargoyles!
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