Originally published at: Bristol Airport's new multi faith shed is the zenith of contemporary British culture | Boing Boing
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i pray the whole country is a multi-faith area!
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Wait, were previous shelters from the stormy blast segregated, or C of E-only? Is this part of a program to make washrooms and baggage lockers multi-faith?
So many questions.
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I cant quite believe this is real. sure this aint a yesmen-prank?
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This looks more like the bus shelter you would see in the airport long term parking lot, with a “re-purposed” sign from elsewhere on the airport property covering up the shelter designation sign. (eg Shelter “A”) as a reminder as to where you parked.
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Seems entirely overly exclusionary of any mono faiths
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I’m not entirely sure if this is more about British culture than the state of airline travel these days.
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Thankfully it wasn’t a sunny day.
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Do all the smoking sheds have those bollards or were they placed there specifically to avoid interfaith violence?
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Wonderfully British.
Pleasing none, failing all.
Kind of a post-Brexit motto for us.
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So, a pissoir?
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If I have to stand around in an airport car park waiting for a bus, that bollard placement wouldn’t bother me. Id just want about six more to stop some dickhead in a wankpanzer driving over me and it as we were in the “blind spot”.
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It sounds like a false story (sorry) - Bristol Airport already has a multi faith centre on the Mezzanine Level of the terminal:
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Hm. A multi-faith TARDIS: “Theological And Religious Denomination Interior Space”
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As someone with a great deal of experience of sitting in meetings with decisionmakers at a large British public organisation, this sounds like it went as follows:
“Didn’t we agree to put a multi-faith area in somewhere?”
“We did.”
“Did we sort it yet?”
“No, and it’s due this week.”
“Put it in the most suitable available space.”
Then it was handed off to someone with those instructions and no one thought about it ever again.
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It doesn’t seem like a Mark Thomas prank, those tend to be directed towards government or other institutional power structures.
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Maybe it’s like The Asylum in Hitchhiker’s Guide (where the whole universe is a multi-faith space except inside that box). The sign is on the outside, after all. I do enjoy the idea of assigning one miserable little spot for bigots, especially one that reeks of red-eye farts and stale cigarettes…
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Bigots don’t want multi faith spaces, they want only one faith space dedicated to Evangelical Christianity. That space will be called the United Kingdom.
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I wonder if the interior of the space is marked to indicate the Qibla (the direction to Mecca) ? After all, Britain being Britain, the sun is not always identifiable.
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