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  • #61
    Originally posted by Colon™ View Post
    The balcony looks nice, but I don't like the classical portal to the left.
    I like it It is known as a "folly". After the stiff formality of the Victorian period, the exuberant Edwardians, just before WW1, liked to put little embellishments and decorative or fun features on their property, also a homage to ancient Greece and Rome as you rightly notice. The British thought they were the heirs of classical civilisation.

    There is some hint of tragedy in all this because after the slaughter of World War 1, house builders stopped doing this. People were too sad and the optimism of the brief Edwardian period had gone. House designs became sombre and functional, some even mildly tomb-like, dark brick used a lot, which appealed to those who had lost sons in the war and were in mourning...
    Last edited by Alexander's Horse; May 25, 2013, 17:36.
    Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

    Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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    • #62
      It's not my thing, but anything that isn't soulless suburban junk gets my seal of approval.
      Last edited by Colon™; May 25, 2013, 22:07.
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      • #63
        btw, we would call that a verandah, not a balcony
        Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

        Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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        • #64
          Veranda sounds good to me.
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          • #65
            I really don't understand these bots. Are you a real person?

            Or are you some slapdick in a third world country who wants to lure unsuspecting westerners to their doom?
            To us, it is the BEAST.

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            • #66
              Why are you being so mean to Colon?
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              • #67
                Awww... the bot/DL got deleted.
                To us, it is the BEAST.

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                • #68
                  Was not deleted.

                  Originally posted by ColdWizard View Post
                  Why are you being so mean to Colon?
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                  • #69
                    I am sure he has something against "the last part of the digestive system in most vertebrates which extracts water and salt from solid wastes before they are eliminated from the body and is the site in which flora-aided (large bacterial) fermentation of unabsorbed material occurs"
                    Socrates: "Good is That at which all things aim, If one knows what the good is, one will always do what is good." Brian: "Romanes eunt domus"
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                    • #70
                      back home by 22 November folks
                      Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..

                      Look, I just don't anymore, okay?

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