Where I do a lot of my summer writing or visit walking.

I as a non American strongly support it and I do not hate America and all it stands for and do not wish that it did not exist. I do not pray for fascism
[ never heard of progressivism ] everyday in my heart and I have no strong opinion on Hillary either way though I would not vote for her [ or Trump ]

In the south, Alfred the Great’s old Burg network, then I gotta look at a old Latin text in Christchurch, then go to John Smith’s grave in London, then head up to Hadrian’s wall, visit some of the old Roman forts both of it.

I plan on skipping most places, cause I don’t give a damn about most of the expected history sites, and can care less about modern British culture or the royalty and shit. I need a concrete grasp on just what Alfred the Great was doing when he comes structed these Burg networks, I want to feel the damn ditches in my hands. I want to know how it feels to walk from London to Hadrian’s Wall so I have a grasp on troop movement requirements… I might not be like I was when I was a young healthy paratrooper, but I can mentally adjust for the difference, see the climate and land.

A lot is missed if you just go off books. I’m not exactly impressed with the historians your nation put out anymore, they tend to come off rather ignorant, they never ask the right questions, so never see very far. I need the data set because Frontinus and Hadrian had a major evolution on how field armies are expected to react to the Roman Limes… Data crucial to fixing problems related to NATO defensive lines in Morocco, Turkey, Macedonia, Hungary, US/Mexican border, etc. There are problems our current thinkers haven’t resolved as of yet.

Alfred resurrected the Greco-Roman concept of colonial fortified cities… they had continued to build them from Alexander the Great to the early Frankish era, then it died off as the dark ages continued on (though it was still flourishing in the beginning of that era).

It is crucial data for comparing earlier and later writers on colonial settlement. Alfred’s efforts started the English on a path out of the Feudal Era. Gave rise to municipalities and free cities, and cut into manorism. A lot of the early conflicts of theorists, like John Smith, Hakylut, John Locke, Francis Bacon, was on how colonies and plantational estates would be established, in a very roman, encyclopedic outlook. This continued to Thomas Jefferson, effected our concept of Manifest Destiny, how the US embraces international law. I can compare it to systems that evolved in other civilizations, like the Chinese Mandate of Heaven, how it effected how they distributed and used land, how force was used in their countries, standardization of ranks and laws and currency, use of technology and taxation, agricultural norms, etc.

If I’m able to get to the site, I know I can see a hell of a lot more than your Oxford Alumni. They don’t often have the full background as I do, I’ve picked that up over a while talking. Your country produces some lazy intellectuals if anything.

Anything left of Frontinius’ engineering works are of the highest importance too. Of all the great men ever to step foot on English soil, he is amongst the top five, easily. He spent a lot of time in your isles, any identification and understanding what he was trying to do is of the highest importance. He was the greatest combat engineer Rome produced, foreshadowed Machiavelli’s interest in civil engineering and governance.

As for the long and dreary list of dead kings and syncophants, fuck em.

I’ve seen photographic evidence some is still feral… the old walls overgrown.

I can figure out the manpower and economization ratios the population had to put into building associate products, skill level, and how it effected the social order then and later.

It isn’t apparent to most just how fucking important those data sets are in the later economic morphology of property and rights in statecraft. They never fully dissapear in the lawcodes but historians rarely go back to archeological sites to affirm and correct presumptions.

You can say the modern nation state was born out of this, has important information for the future of philosophy.

Is the British Library or the Renaissance St Pancras not on your list? I often make like a tourist, and take in the sights.

Such an ugly building… I can never look at it when I pass, but it’s about what’s on the inside… literally, :laughing: the smell of books, paper itself, and print allows me to overlook that fact.

Now this is very easy on the eye :wink: and to think the socialists were going to knock it down :open_mouth:

1984 Orwellian world peace…this is not a good thing.

You want to feel more than just the ditches in your hands :wink:

I went to an archeological dig once (with school I think) and there wasn’t much going on in terms of actual digging, but the smell… ahhhhhhhh.

I’ll be making like a tourist soon… first at the river, then back to the hippy party in the nomadic gardens… yesterday’s gathering under the bridge was a reel tribal affair.

No, the text I need isn’t at the British Library, that place can burn for all I care. I don’t believe Lord Dunmore’s writings are stored there.

Think of me as someone from Carthage at it’s height, visiting little old tiny Phoenicia, knowing full well Carthage long ago surpassed anything they ever did phoenicians ever pulled off.

You primarily are looking for stuff relative to Carthage, only interested in the temples your temples are descended from, records dealing with events in your society, etc. You can give a fuck about the shit that happened since. Why? It is all a backwater joke.

There is nothing in the whole of London appealing, the British Empire was a disorganized joke, the colonial endeavor mostly a bust save in Australia and New Zealand… you look at them to see what not to do for the most part.

The British alienated it’s Catholic population in England as well as Ireland, they broke at a crucial point, had they not done this, the Empire might still be around in some form, the manpower loss for imperial administration really hurt them. Losing America was a very, very nasty blow. There would certainly still be a world wide empire had we stayed.

Most everything in the latter years was commerence oriented, and I’m from a society that knows a bit about that. So the queen of England knighting gay musicians, or some dinky castle built long after such things we’re needed anymore, do not impress me. I’m interested in vitality, what kept a society alive under pressing circumstance, the mechanisms. Tourist England today is almost completely missing in this. It is a hollow, dying shell that lost it’s youth centuries ago, and has been a long time in dying. Do I really want to look at the shiny objects of a dying civilization?

They can get their hands on any texts… send it as an electronic document, but it’s probably a paid-for service, but sounds like it would be worth it for you.

The new tribe bullying the old into submission… with fancy trinkets, and then stealing their culture, their vibe.

Wasn’t this due to the whims of kings?

Hardly dying… if tourist England is the number one destination for tourism, now surpassing France (Paris) as the place to visit.

There doesn’t seem to be much information (only speculation) on ancient civilisations , but yeah… I might need to go to the British Library for that, but I think all their literature is available online… not sure :confused:

Whims of Parliament actually, you Brits developed the concept of Parliamentary Supremacy in a effort to though my suppress any local Parliaments we grew in autonomy. We ended up with a mixed political system, that started caving in under Obama, and now the UK is chucking the concept with the Brexit Referendum.

Was much less a problem with the king, and more a distant and alienating Parliament. We nearly crowned George Washington king, but he declined.

Looks like Article 50 will be invoked any week now… I’m sure we’ll be throwing Article 50 drinks events and talks… like we did with Brexit.

Even the Remainiacs want it now, so why are Merkel and the HoL and Cabinet still giving their two cents on the matter.

Trump will almost immediately push for a trade deal, if Brexit is triggered prior to the election, Hillary will do it quicker than after, but she will still drag ass for the sack of scaring other countries into not following suit by making it look too complicated. That bill will come across her desk and she will be like “I don’t understand this, it isn’t clearly written and simplified like Obamacare, and you know, I don’t think everyone in both houses had have their full say on the issue yet, gonna veto it so they can talk a bit more on the matter”.

Ha! exercising their newfound power huh?

Looks like Article 50 will happen sometime around the end of this year. No 2nd referendum, no stalling… nuthin.

…would love to work on the policy side of this. :slight_smile:

Your wish nearly came true… of putting my life in danger from big game animals, but I had to decline my acquaintance’s offer on phobia grounds.

Can’t remember which thread it was in, and I haven’t got time to search for it right now. 8-[

I nearly.had to go to.India last summer, just after the last bombing at Bodi Gaya, one of the grandchildren of the old man.I watch at night went on a school trip there, and pointed out the place was a terror nest of Hindu extremism, but she said she would be fine, cause she was going with a group of girls on a college tour… which I replied they have a habit of raping such tours, while robbing them blind, and she will get the shits.

Anyway, my fault she got into philosophy, I.was on standby to fly out and pay off some Maoist or hoodlum demanding ransom… luckily she got horribly sick and started shutting out of her mouth on a daily basis, so.came home, after getting robbed.

It was a very spiritual journey. Lucky she didn’t get.crushed to death in a pilgrim stampede.

So you would have been a glorified bodyguard? how very movie-Monday’s at Vue…

I think I’ll ask if there is any support work I can do from a safe distance over here… or maybe Paris or Rome or anywhere where there is no fatal wildlife. I would have took him up on his offer otherwise.

When you say shitting from her mouth… do you actually mean that poop came out of the wrong end? I’ve read that that can happen if one has been clogged up for weeks… forcing the backed-up poop out the wrong end.
:-&

I know you read about it, I’m the one who posted about that.

No, she just got horrifically sick, non-stop, despite being vaccinated and given meds. Happens even to the former Indians who come life here for a few years and return.

Zinnati thought I was being a racist or colonial minded ads when I said the only part of India I would consider actually living in would be in the North East in a old Hill Station. I don’t think he fully grasps that I’m from a temperate climate, like the British were from, and those little villages up on a hill are a climate oasis, that the houses are equipped to treat the water, and they generally have remnants of cuisine I could digest without shitting myself to death. It isn’t a case of cultural superiority, just the vegetarian curry lifestyle isn’t so vegetarian on the microscopic level, lots and lots of bacteria my body isn’t used to.

Honestly, a few tigers aren’t my concern. Your thinking Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, oh my! I’m thinking guys robbing me at gunpoint as I’m sweating to death, looking for a place to shit. They use cow shot as a disinfectant in that country, just rub it all over the place.

:neutral_face: Not a compelling or enticing place to visit then?

To let pride get in the way of the truth signifies immaturity. Surely a high cooking temperature would sort those pesky bacterium out? or maybe not :confused:

I can see this being an ad for their tourist board website… they’ll be flocking in their droves once it is up, lol.

Yeah… I ain’t going there, but not because of the robbers but because of the wildlife. Shouldn’t those fuckers be extinct by now :confused:

What, no tigers on your how island?

Tigers on an island in The Caribbean Sea off the coast of Central America? now let me see :-k

We have the obligatory turtles, swimming pigs, parrots, feral pigs, glowing insects, lizards, butterflies, mongoose etc. but no tigers I’m afraid :smiley: the biggest land animal is the iguana, and sea animal the pilot whale… being only outranked by the killer whale in the Oceanic Dolphin category.

http://www.sugarbeachresidences.com/wp-news/10-amazing-creatures-found-st-lucia/

The Royal College of Anaesthetists told me to do just that… when I rang them with my enquiry. Getting hold of the dermatology department that administered the local anaesthetic is proving difficult, but I will persevere and find out what went wrong/what they used… for avoidance of future mishaps, exacerbated chronic fatigue and overall demise.

Life goes on, but just more cautiously, and I’m back to being strict with my diet… after a lax few months in Summer that probably did me no favours.