Saturday, February 18, 2006

Wave Them Like You Are Scottish

Visited the Castle of Edinburgh today. Extraordinarily old building. Built on a volcano. Not an inactive volcano, but a genuine one. It's pretty old though. Thousands of years old. So old, in fact, that the people of Eddie Bert just went, "Meh, volcano, schmolcano," and built their castle on top of it. At the castle, also noticed a conspicuous lack of safety railings of any sort all around the edges. And a lack of protective glasses and panels over many exhibits. They just don't think anyone will bother taking the trouble to deface any monuments, paintings, or steal the royal crown of jewels. And my guess is no one probably will. In this country, they just can't be bothered to care. Freaking slackers' paradise.

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