Oh Cashmere, I'm super sorry about your mom. You all are in my thoughts.
That's one spunky little girl you've raised. I'm gonna eat her.
The Mayor ,'End of Days'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Sep 24, 2013 5:44:16 am PDT #6431 of 30000
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Tom Scola - Sep 24, 2013 5:46:05 am PDT #6432 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yeah, only suckers pay more than $1000/ft² in NYC.
(sobs)
Tom Scola - Sep 24, 2013 5:46:26 am PDT #6433 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
I'm very sorry, Cashmere. Hoping for the best possible outcome.
Maria - Sep 24, 2013 5:52:57 am PDT #6434 of 30000
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
Cash, I'm so sorry. I hope that it's easy treatable.
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 24, 2013 5:56:38 am PDT #6435 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Fingers crossed for your mom, Cashmere.
Tom Scola - Sep 24, 2013 5:57:29 am PDT #6436 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yeah, the Bed-Stuy house has an extra zero on it, too.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 6:01:35 am PDT #6437 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
What are the most pragmatic costs involved with castle living (as opposed to Castle living)? Heating sounds like a big problem, if they're vaguely "authentic", since too much of London hadn't mastered not running the pipes indoors when I left (those houses were old houses--central heating was an add on to most of them, and expecting burst pipes was an every other year thing in a city with mad mild winters (no white Christmases in 6 years!).
Can you practically not heat some rooms? No, you buy a castle, you use the rooms. Which means you furnish the rooms. Cleaning--will that be different from a modern mansion of similar square mileage? More nooky and cranny-y?
Not a home-owner, can't imagine. Every time my cube-mate talks about the shenanigans of replacing the piping from the mains to his house, I kiss my lease again.
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2013 6:11:11 am PDT #6438 of 30000
brillig
Serious negotiations at my house tonight--Agents of SHIELD is on opposite NCIS. Perhaps I can convince Hubby to watch NCIS online tomorrow.
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2013 6:13:53 am PDT #6439 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Will NCIS be available? I know CBS is parsimonious and doesn't make it easy to find even when they do.
t / not helping
It is stopping me from watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine live, in which Samberg is markedly restrained and many other people are delightful, so I may flip from NCIS to it later in the season. For now, I will use other means. I'm in that "momentum but can't remember original rationale" period with NCIS. Please let this never happen with my other old show.
Jessica - Sep 24, 2013 6:18:04 am PDT #6440 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
The electricity upgrades alone would probably cost as much as buying the castle in the first place, assuming you wanted TV and internet and a washing machine.
The plumbing upkeep on my less-than-100-years-old urban coop is a nightmare, I can't even imagine what it would be on an even older building with 10 times as many pipes. (Our 12-unit building has two $3k hot water tanks that each need to be replaced every 7-10 years. So multiply that out by however many sinks and tubs a castle has. Maybe you could save some money by installing a solar water heater, if your castle was somewhere warm and sunny?) Given the distance between your average castle and the nearest city, it would probably be cheaper just to keep a full-time plumber on staff.
I don't know what kind of heat most castles have - I mean, if it's just the original fireplaces and your castle comes with a forest attached, that's not a huge expense. But if you want to live in your castle year-round you probably want some kind of central heating system.
Keeping up the exterior facades to prevent water damage would be almost a full-time job, and could easily run into a couple million per year in masonry and engineering.