[10:01
AM] Mr. Blue:
I
like traveling, and I like coming home
[10:02
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Do
you have, like, a list Mr. Blue, or you just wanna go everywhere?
[10:02
AM] Mr. Blue:
In
my head there's places I wanna see and places I don't care to see
[10:03
AM] Mr. McGreen:
The
future Mrs. McGreen really wants to see castles. She loves fairy
tales.
[10:04
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah.
castles are cool.
They're
so normal in Europe
You
just drive and... boom ...there's a castle. Not even on a map, or
with signs or anything.
Many
are on private property.
Like
ruined ones - not the fancy ones like Neuschwanstein.
[10:05
AM] Mr. McGreen:
If
I went to one country to see the most castles, where would I want to
go?
[10:05
AM] Mr. Blue:
Probably
Germany
Plenty
in the UK too, though.
[10:05
AM]
Was
thinking German too
[10:05
AM] Mr. Blue:
France
is good but Germany probably has the greatest mix
Because
there's different eras of castles
You
have the really old style ones that sit ominously on mountain tops
with walls and turrets...
Then
you have the schlosses that are more like palaces, that are in more
open areas and are very symmetrical and with gardens and stuff,
usually in or on the edge of cities.
Then
you have the revival castles like Neuschwanstein, which is actually
quite new but was built in the motif of medieval castles
[10:07
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Oh
ok
I'm
seriously considering taking a look into a vacation with castles for
her
Little
money to tour them?
[10:07
AM] Mr. Blue:
Depends
Some
are still owned by the families that inherited them
Some
are owned by the cities/states
Like, Nurnberg castle - it's literally part of the fabric of the city
[10:08
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Sometime
I should pay you to lay out a trip for me.
[10:08
AM] Mr. Blue:
You
really can't tell where the castle ends and the city begins
What
I like are old towns
Like
being in a city and looking around and realizing that if you block
out the cars and the people's clothes, it's basically unchanged from
what it looked like in like, 1800, or even 1500.
It's
the next best thing to time travel.
[10:09
AM] Mr. McGreen:
I'll
dress like Gaston for the entirety of the trip
[10:09
AM] Mr. Blue:
The
amount of towns in Europe that are like that is completely
overwhelming.
Even
Nurnberg... There are probably 10-15 castles in Nurnberg alone. Some
aren't "traditional" castles. Like they may just be manor
homes or schlosses, but still.
[10:11
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Did
you get to see Dracula's castle?
[10:11
AM] Mr. Blue:
No,
that's in Transylvania
[10:11
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Bran
castle?
[10:11
AM] Mr. Blue:
Vlad
Tepes *real* castle isn't impressive
It's
not even finished
Bran
castle looks cool, but its not Dracula's
Romania
has some cool castles
[10:12
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Oh
ok. The real one looks like a fort on a hill with no roof
[10:12
AM] Mr. Blue:
Yeah
And
several types of brick
It
looks like they ran out of one kind about halfway up the wall
[10:13
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Amateurs
[10:16
AM] Mr. Blue:
In
Rhineland-Palatinate
[10:16
AM] Mr. McGreen:
So
like, were castles a miniature town or did a single family live there?
[10:17
AM] Mr. Blue:
Some were a family plus its workers
And they'd double as some kind of fortification in case the nearby
town was under siege so people could take refuge there.
But
they're all different
Prague
castle is basically an entire town. It has churches and everything
behind the castle walls
The
weird thing is some of the best preserved medieval German towns are
actually in Romania, because Transylvania was settled by German
immigrants after the Carpathian Basin was wiped out by diseases and
Mongol & Ottoman invasions.
The
Hungarian Empire invited Germans to re-settle the area, and because
they weren't demolished during WW2, many are well preserved.
Like
Sighisoara
[12:42
PM] Mr. Blue:
I'd
like to learn German to read Kafka
He
supposedly used the German language quirks to good effect that aren't
easily translatable
He
often made extensive use of a characteristic particular to the German
language which permits long sentences that sometimes can span an
entire page. Kafka's sentences then deliver an unexpected impact just
before the full stop—this being the finalizing meaning and focus.
This is due to the construction of subordinate
clauses in German which
require that the verb be positioned at the end of the sentence. Such
constructions are difficult to duplicate in English
[12:44
PM]
"So
anyway, a cockroach is awkward...to turn into!...for a human."
[12:44
PM] Mr. Blue:
LOL
That's
the exact example they give!
[12:44
PM]
Seriously?
Hehe!
[12:45
PM] Mr. Blue:
[12:45
PM]
Heh
[12:46
PM] Mr. Blue:
I'm
surprised “cockroach” in German isn't like...
“KleinTellerSchwein” or something
(small
plated pig)
[12:49
PM] Mr. McGreen:
Sea Pig, lol
[12:51
PM]
Stinktier
...I
prefer "Fart Squirrel" myself
[12:57
PM] Mr. Blue:
Grosspfurzenmaus
Big
fart mouse
Fledermaus...
so lazy
This
reminds me of a Jim Gaffigan bit
"That
there's a male seahorse."
"It's
having a baby."
"Uhh,
the male has the babies!"
[stubborn
german biologist] "That's a mouse."
"It
just flew away."
"Yeah.
It's...a flying mouse."
[1:09
PM]
German.
The Tinker Toy language
"What's
it called?"
"What
does it look like?"
"A
big pointy nosed cow with armor on"
"Ohhhhh!
A Großespitzengepanzertekuh"
[1:10
PM] Mr. Blue:
Heh
[1:22
PM]
Or
"nashorn" if you wanna be boring...
[8:15
AM]
"Team
shocked to find complex culture and robust population in (Town),
Pennsylvania."
[8:16
AM] Mr. Blue
Hehe
[8:10
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Any
opening statements for WW3? Looks like Trump is trying to make
an impact on future generations' social studies classes.
[8:25
AM]
Opening
statements for WW3?
[8:26
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Trump
and Kim Jong Un are going at it, and I think they are both stupid
enough to fire something.
[8:26
AM]
Ok. How about this?
(Churchill
voice) "Never have such low IQs...done so much...to so many..."
[8:26
AM] Mr. McGreen:
I
suspect Un is actually slow.
[8:27
AM] Mr. Blue:
Its
hard to tell how much control he has.
They'd
have to be pretty stupid to strike first.
Their
quality control sucks ass, their missiles frequently fall into the
ocean, and even if he could nuke Seattle or bomb some strategic spots
in Guam, that would only give the US an excuse to blow the Hell out
of them.
[8:28
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Did
you know he golfed a perfect game as a child and then just decided to
retire from it because he couldn't get any better? That's what
we are up against!
[8:28
AM] Mr. Blue:
That
was Jong-Il not Un
Most
of that stuff is fake
[8:28
AM] Mr. McGreen:
LOL
Yeah, I'd guessed.
[8:28
AM] Mr. Blue:
No,
like they don't claim stories like that in NK.
Like
the golf thing or the story where he publicly executed someone with a
missile... Fake.
[8:28
AM]
“Most”
[8:29
AM] Mr. McGreen:
Oh
really?
Oh,
ok.
I
was hoping
[8:29
AM]
"The
truth is, he only got 17 holes in one. Hole 8 he took a
Gimmie."
[8:30
AM] Mr. McGreen:
So
maybe he's really a nice guy and we got it all wrong.
Poor
Mr. Un
[8:31
AM] Mr. Blue:
Mr.
Kim...
He's
still bad.
But
if you hear news out of North Korea that sounds crazy, it's probably
fake.
I
read a thing that actually dug into the sources of that stuff...like
the 18 holes in 1 or
claiming to have invented the hamburger, and they mostly originate on Chinese blogs. And they get to Chinese language fake news sites, which get translated and picked up by US news outlets as genuine.
claiming to have invented the hamburger, and they mostly originate on Chinese blogs. And they get to Chinese language fake news sites, which get translated and picked up by US news outlets as genuine.
And
NK is so closed off that they can't - or don't bother - refuting it.
There
was one where they claimed NK found unicorn fossils. They just found
fossils. Nothing official mentioned unicorns.
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