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nathan · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6269

The man built a fucking CASTLE without anybody noticing, on his own land, as a home for his family, AND IT HAS LIVE-IN DUCKS?

This man deserves a parade. You law-and-order types sure can be vindictive bastards.
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Azmoten · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2207 Location: St. Louis

Those ducks will help when he comes under siege, lemme tell ya.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11133 Location: Unknown Kaddath

nathan · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6269

WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11133 Location: Unknown Kaddath

nathan · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 6269

Is that what you'll be saying when they start nesting with the family dog? Because you know damn well that's where it's headed.
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kame · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 2563 Location: Alba Nuadh

They'll need something to eat once the siege is in full swing.

lordomni · Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 62

Wow, I thought this was a joke at first.

So unless the law specifically says he has to be seen building it, he wins. I'm fine with someone being clever enough to find loopholes in the law, unless it hurts someone. Now I don't see any possible way this house could be more damaging to the ecology than your average farm, unless its waste disposal is right into the area drinking water or something.

Kudos to him. If they come to take the house, lets see how quick he can load the cannon.

Though I do have to ask, where the hell did he buy cannon in this age? Ye Olde Arms Supplier?

Azmoten · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 2207 Location: St. Louis

He built a castle, he can build a cannon.
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Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 10:01 pm Post subject:

Michael · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 10429

I think a stealth castle would look awesome on the drawing board, but if you scale it up all those stealthy angular bits just become big and bland bits of boring architecture. In that aspect the stealth exemplifies much of the reason for my distaste of (some) modern architecture* and my disappointment in finding nice shoes (size 13 it says here). Big=bland=boring. Like the mcdonalds logo is covered in small writing and car interiors have those speckly bits: big planes don't work: size matters: you can't scale stuff up arbitrarily. Never seen a b-52 (that is the point) so can't say if it applies there but overall I think a stealth castle - while good on the drawing board - would disappoint in real life.

*it's a bit unfair to blame the architects though, labor has gone up so much that making huge buildings interesting in simply unaffordable

mouse · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 15441 Location: under the bed

you're just jealous that you don't have one.
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Sam the Eagle · Joined: 02 Oct 2006 Posts: 2276 Location: 192.168.0.1

Merc · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:39 am Post subject:

Necro!

So apparently this guy finally got a court ruling. No surprise, he's being forced to take it down

Mr Gary · Posted: Sat Feb 06, 2010 2:55 am Post subject: