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faiuwle wrote:Ahh, the kind that helps middle-aged Religious Right Republicans lift their luggage?

Oh my that's pure gold.

Google here lists Ladves in Maharashtra / India: http://www.google.de/search?q=Ladve&hl=de&prmd=v&start=20&sa=N Then there seems to be a Czech place name Ladve: http://hamelika.webzdarma.cz/h74-05.htm In Croatian "ladve" seems to designate a kind of logboat / dug out boat: http://hrcak.srce.hr/file...

Dewrad wrote:Seriously, you are the faggiest fag I have ever met, and I used to have sex with men for money. Trust me, I'm qualified in my judgements here.

Were you in pornos, an escort, a common whore? Please, do tell more.

Skomakar'n wrote:I have to say I enjoyed Viktor's post, though.

Which one?

Viktor, no . Having lived in a lot of houses, including ones from the 1890s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1990s, my experience is that most houses are simply better constructed than older ones. (You may say, "Ha! That house was 100 years old - clearly it must have been good to last that long!" but it w...

Yes. But not everyone can be upper-middle class. Quite. It sounds to me, Viktor, like you are overlooking the needs and concerns of the average joe in favor of some romanticized upper class paradise. More I'm saying everyone should be able to enjoy, on some reduced scale, the quality and beauty tha...

You are also being hilariously blinkered about this. The 19th century was a great era of slum-construction (which is all about housing "the greatest number of people at the expense of craftsmanship or architecture" as well as maintenance, overcrowding, etc.) but all you care about is bourgeois arch...

More than the late 19th century that you so hanker for? At least then people weren't concerned with housing the greatest number of people at the expense of craftsmanship or architecture. They were more of a mindset of how I can build a better house than my neighbor's (except among the lowest rungs ...

but viktor, the person who believes in progress here is you. people building decent houses these days is "impossible" because they're not "efficient" so rather than hoping that people start to care about shit other than "efficiency", you just want the old shit to stick around I'm just commenting ho...

Guitarplayer wrote:Lo and behold, it's Skomakar'n without all his silly emo dress-up.

It's funny because he actually looks like a Swede* there too.

*Just generalised from all the Swedish hockey players I've seen.

Wait, when did I say that we shouldn't preserve old buildings? Just two posts ago I was complaining about the failure of people in the 19th century to do so. :roll: Sorry, it sounded like you were making the case that we should sacrifice older buildings, since they have little appeal to people, in ...

Yes. But not everyone can be upper-middle class. And the pressing need for cheap housing can be attributed to overpopulation everywhere. After we've got rid of five billion people we can stop worrying about it. But even upper-middle class homes built today are cheap. There's a whole subdivison in m...

Yeah, Brutalist art is basically crap. If you visit any large city in southern England (outside central London) you will be assailed by concrete. But you're still being a little unrealistic about how much people appreciate 19th-century architecture. They like it, on a subconscious level, but I've n...

What I never understood about the awesome first name Ransom is that when it was popular, in the late 19th century, the noun of the same name also existed. The noun doesn't exactly have the best meaning (it's not like the name Gaylord which has changed meaning over time), why would Victorians feel co...

He may be hinting at the fact that you're going off into your own little world here. Nice buildings are nice (Stonehenge, yeah!), but not everyone is a 19th-century-architecture fanatic like you. :| Perhaps, but I'd argue there's enough love of 19th century architecture among the populace to warran...

Radius Solis wrote:Viktor, your coconut headphones are showing again. Hide them.

WTH is that supposed to mean?

Twpsyn Pentref wrote:... why does the ZBB attract so many long-haired men? Usually when I see a man with long hair, the little weirdo alarm in my head goes BRING BRING BRING. Did I just answer my own question?

I can't stand long haired men, sorry but they gross me out.

I don't know, man, I'm all for nice victorian houses and all. after all they're pretty! But I don't know if a building should be preserved because of it's historic value alone [unless it's really a historic building, like this one] . I mean, sure, history is important, but so is development, on whi...

The problem is that a lot of those houses were abandoned and in bad neighborhoods being inhabited by junkies and decaying. There comes a point in which that history isn't worth saving in the physical form (the history still exists in photos and other works). Plus with how detroit is I don't see how...

Skomakar'n wrote:Why would they get rid of such nice houses?!

Because this is America and our answer to how to deal with our history is to just destroy it. Plus the houses probably looked like this house:

Late 1800s
1991
Today: Gone.

I was bored, so I coloured this photo of some no longer existing homes in Detroit. Obviously the colours are all wrong and far too simplified, especially on the houses, but I didn't have the patience to make it more detailed lol.

Here's ancient photos!





The above is a Samoan Fire Knife.

For a stark contrast let's see Shomakr's Yearbook photo.

I hope this isn't improper, and since I already asked about my Swedish, I wondered if any Swedes (or better yet Danes) could tell me how my Danish is. I've been trying to improve it. At the least I aim to sound Danish to Swedish ears. To Danish ears I'd like to be at least somewhat intelligible. I a...

thedukeofnuke wrote:Nobody's mentioned Sainsbury's "Kick" yet? I'm surprised.

That's because nobody's heard of it.