Stuffy Irish Architects Complain About U2's Clarence Hotel

We’ve been working long hours lately and we desperately needed a good laugh. Thankfully, the gods answered our pleas in the form of this piece in Ireland’s Independent paper: “Architect Survey Rejects U2 Hotel.” The story is about an online architecture forum whose members are against the band renovating their Clarence Hotel (apparently around the same time as “Bono’s Tower” is being built?). At the very end of the piece, they pull quotes from the forum and, if you read them like they’re the stuffy aristocrat about to get a pie in the face in some slapstick film, they’re a riot: