h a l f b a k e r y"This may be bollocks, but it's lovely bollocks."
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This does not advocate harming the rainforest in any
manner, so hold onto your knickers, before you get them in
a knot.
I would love to live in a castle located in a rainforest that
would look like the great European castles that exist
already, all around the world.
It would be huge, really
huge, with all the bells and
whistles that a castle comes with. But made out of Euterpe
precatoria, Ceiba pentandra, Cecropia engleriana,
Socratea xorrhiza and Cocos nicifera, trees.
Imagine, Lying in bed, looking out your window while
monkeys swing by, and colorful parrots wake you with their
morning song.
Ahhh... just another day in the jungle.
Here ya go.
https://www.belmond...otel-das-cataratas/
Not a castle but still... [doctorremulac3, Oct 23 2018]
absorbtion
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/absorbtion
Defined as "misspelling of absorption" [notexactly, Nov 08 2018]
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view from my window, bliss |
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// colorful parrots wake you with their morning song // |
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Parrots don't sing; they squauk, in a raucous, unpleasant and dissonant way. Being woken by parrots is about as pleasant as being woken by a ship's tannoy announcement of "COLLISION STATIONS, THIS IS NOT A DRILL". |
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Talented songbirdish parrots, 8th of nothing. You didn't
address the monkeys swinging by, 8th. Wouldn't that be cool?
A simple yes would suffice. |
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Thank you, Ian. A girl shouldn't get yelled at about her
parrots on her birthday. You are a gentlemen. And psychic at
that. |
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Posted a place you could aspire to go to. |
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It's about 2,000 real a night, which I think is like 500
euros or dollars. |
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In the past, I've promised myself I'm going to go to some
location and
immediately started enjoying the adventure. It's not going
to be tomorrow or next month, and will take work and
planning, but then the effort you put into making it
happen is like foreplay. You also get the immediate rush
of saying "Fuck it, I'm going here!" |
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Doesn't work if you break your promises to yourself
though. You have to establish credibility. |
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I'd look into the humidity first though. Florida looks great
in pictures but it's a hellish swamp. |
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[doctorremulac3], I didn't make myself clear. I want the
castle to be built from rainforest trees, and vines, and stuff.
But thank you for the link. I'll stay there while my castle is
being built. |
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Happy birthday by the way. |
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So... you want this castle to be built from "live" trees? Not mortared together tree-rounds to look like stone right? |
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I'm going to assume from what I know of you that live trees would be the case. |
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Check out Arborsmith and if that tickles your fancy then you should look up the living bridges in... um... Peru, or the Amazon or something, I can't remember where they are but "living bridges" should do the trick. |
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Belated birthday. My heart agrees with you. It is good to get the feeling of participation in life as a whole. |
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Most materials that surround us are dead. Not counting live 1s and 0s . There must be an inverse t formula for this decline. |
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Thinking about future a molecular, bacterial engineering, a slightly different green live environment might become important where ever humanity is in the universe. |
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//the great European castles that exist already, all around the world// - do "great European castles" really exist "all around the world"? |
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No; by definition, they only exist in Europe. |
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To be a "great" castle, the structure must be (a) physically large, and (b) be unambiguously associated with a significant historical event and/or person*. |
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Since Europe by any measure covers only a small portion of your planet's surface, much less than one quadrant, it is not "all around". In fact, no landmass can claim to be "all around" as they all extend over considerably less than 50% of the planetary circumference. |
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We are disappointed that you need this explained to you, although it is understandable since given the notoriously sadistic and repellant behavior of geography teachers any absorption of useful information during their torture sessions is unlikely in the extreme. |
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*The "person" may be (semi-)mythical without unduly detracting from the appellation of "great", as with the association of Tintagel with King Arthur. |
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(sp. "absorbtion" - a very common error) |
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Both "absorbtion" and "absorption" are correct in their specific contexts, although in this case "absorption" is the appropriate form, subject to the unfortunate interference of inline spell checkers. |
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I think I have seen treehouses for rent, but you mean
something much more beautiful. |
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Thanks for the B-day wishes. I think what I should have said
is "Styled after the great castles of Europe". My brother is
going to Prague next week. Now there are some castles
there I think, I've admired before. |
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And yes, nothing but living trees, with real vines for the
monkeys to swing on. If Tarzan swung by and landed splat on
the floor in my boudoir, so be it. That'd be okay too. |
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You should go to former East Germany - for some reason,
there's a castle about every mile, and all of them are
beautiful and set on top of densely-forested hills. |
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//If Tarzan swung by and landed splat on the floor in
my boudoir, so be it. That'd be okay too.// |
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Are you sure "splat" is the word you were looking for? |
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No.
It was late, I was tired. Words were not coming easy. I
strained my brain, searched my heart, looked in my
thesaurus and my soul, asked my neighbors, checked in my
dog's mouth, but alas, no words came. So then I threw
caution to the wind, and spewed out splat, as the last
resort. |
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