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Started by Korea, March 10, 2009, 06:24:26 AM

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Syt

The new symphonic concert hall in Hamburg has a new tentative opening date: 2017 (originally planned: 2010). The costs for the project have risen from an originalbudget of EUR 77 million to over EUR 780 million. Yes, they've increased tenfold.

:lol:

Between this, the new airport in Berlin and the new major railway station in Stuttgart it has been joked that the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall should rather have been used to commemorate the Wall as the last time a major construction project in Germany went smoothly. :P
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Liep

Quote from: Syt on January 12, 2015, 06:36:24 AM
The new symphonic concert hall in Hamburg has a new tentative opening date: 2017 (originally planned: 2010). The costs for the project have risen from an originalbudget of EUR 77 million to over EUR 780 million. Yes, they've increased tenfold.

:lol:

Between this, the new airport in Berlin and the new major railway station in Stuttgart it has been joked that the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall should rather have been used to commemorate the Wall as the last time a major construction project in Germany went smoothly. :P

Wow. That really trumps our recent budgetary fuck-ups. The Eurovision, new trains, the metro city ring doesn't come close to being that misjudged, even if they're all way above budget or delayed.
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Quote from: DGuller on January 12, 2015, 12:42:08 AM
Sapper!  :)

Same.

Not that much of a surprise considering what I do for a living.

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garbon

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derspiess

"If you can play a guitar and harmonica at the same time, like Bob Dylan or Neil Young, you're a genius. But make that extra bit of effort and strap some cymbals to your knees, suddenly people want to get the hell away from you."  --Rich Hall

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Martinus

So, I have a cold and I bought a new one I haven't tasted before and it tastes weird. Now I am not sure if this is because of the wine or because of my cold.  <_<

garbon

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garbon

Quote from: Martinus on January 12, 2015, 01:49:06 PM
So, I have a cold and I bought a new one I haven't tasted before and it tastes weird. Now I am not sure if this is because of the wine or because of my cold.  <_<

I think you forgot to put wine in the first sentence. I was like he has a cold and then bought a new one? His colds have a taste? :D
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

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