They want that much money because the castle is on a huge...tract of land.

Subby? The house was built in the 1700's. The coal mining that has caused it to start to sink didn't start until 1946. So yeah, headline no match reality.

WhyteRaven74: Subby? The house was built in the 1700's. The coal mining that has caused it to start to sink didn't start until 1946. So yeah, headline no match reality.

Know how I know you have never seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail?

/At least it didn't burn down, fall over and then sink into the swap.

This is not a time to bicker and argue about who killed who.

Crewmannumber6: Some day, all this will be yours.

What, the curtains?

Did you see the swimming pool photo? The print they scanned has a big fold mark on it.

That 's good pig-country.

Plans are in place to build another mansion, have it burn, fall over, sink into the swamp coal mine, and build another mansion.

Did you read about the huge tracts of land?

Stop that Stop that, you're not going into a song while I'm here

we're coming with you!

Even if it is in the process of sinking I would like to live in a house with 365 rooms

They got an incredible deal on that place, even if it is sinking.

Honest Bender: The Newbolds paid the relatively small amount £1.5m for the property in 1999.

The owners of one of the country's grandest stately homes are mounting a claim for more than £100m compensation [...]

I assume the Fail tag was for failmitter.

I want Farkers, from now onwards, to look upon them as entitled to a payout. In a very real, and legally binding sense.

IrateShadow: They got an incredible deal on that place, even if it is sinking.

You should see the fourth one.

/it stood up.

geocacherphil: we're coming with you!

No, I want you to stay here and make sure he doesn't leave

I was interested in this article until I saw the link about Sophia Cahill posing naked to support her family.

Her link has boobies....

They just have to dig underneath it and put it on rails, like moving the Cape Hatteras lighthouse away from the ocean.

I'm proud to be a coal miner's mansion,
I got some stately rooms, they good fer dancin',
But now I'm sinkin' the the ground,
In a place where coal was once found,
And a hundred-million pounds is what I got comin'!

Let's not argue and bicker over who killed whom...

HIC!

You never get subsidence caused by Northern Playwrights.... (new window)

natural316: geocacherphil: we're coming with you!

No, I want you to stay here and make sure he doesn't leave

So he is not to leave the room even if you come and get him.

This was built when rich people were really farking rich. They laugh from their graves at todays rich people. "My swimming pool that I never personally used is bigger than your so-called 'mansion'. You have a mansion with only 100 rooms? How do you ever surrvive? Wait, your country manor has less than 2000 surrounding acres?? How do you ever keep them filled with foxes and boars for your killing amusement??"

"Ahhh, Wentworth. These so-called rich people of today are no better than common peasants. They have less than 100 servants!!! They practically live in squalor!!"

It's going to cost £200 million to repair and preserve it, and they want the coal company that caused a big chunk of the damage to pay half. I'm not sure that's unreasonable.

Assuming of course, that their actual plans aren't to take the £100 million, toss a match in the old shack, and walk away.

Excuse me if my nerd is showing, here, but...

I seem to recall that the 2nd Edition AD&D book...The Castle Guide? The Castle Builder's Guide?...had, as their example of the in-game costs, time, and materials of your character building their own castle, a section in each chapter titled "The Castle on the Moor" or something, where at the end of it all and the final costs are given, they end it by stating that the castle sank and they shouldn't have built it there in the first place. Does anyone else remember this?

I think the insurance company will have to pay up...in a very real, and legally binding sense.

/OAH! Her own father, who, when he seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy hand of DEATH upon him...

sulco: I was interested in this article until I saw the link about Sophia Cahill posing naked to support her family.

Her link has boobies....

I kinda said WTF when i saw the "Coco Yoga" pic in the side bar lol

Did subby even read the article?

So has anyone quoted Monty Python yet?

/jk

crispyone: This was built when rich people were really farking rich. They laugh from their graves at todays rich people. "My swimming pool that I never personally used is bigger than your so-called 'mansion'. You have a mansion with only 100 rooms? How do you ever surrvive? Wait, your country manor has less than 2000 surrounding acres?? How do you ever keep them filled with foxes and boars for your killing amusement??"

"Ahhh, Wentworth. These so-called rich people of today are no better than common peasants. They have less than 100 servants!!! They practically live in squalor!!"

My only thing to add here is...You did not purchase your own commission in the military?

/ Back in the day, you also needs to own more than a computer to create wealth.

Is this a Monty Python reference or is it really a HGTTG reference to Marvin's bridge speech?

/I probably just fail, oh well

GET ON WITH IT!

So, the insurance told to leave or they will taunt them a second tima!

2CountyFairs: 2nd Edition AD&D

There's your problem right there.

Crewmannumber6: Some day, all this will be yours.

what, the curtains?

TobiasStauhf: Crewmannumber6: Some day, all this will be yours.

what, the curtains?

dammit, someone beat me to it.

/read comments first

2CountyFairs: Excuse me if my nerd is showing, here, but...

I seem to recall that the 2nd Edition AD&D book...The Castle Guide? The Castle Builder's Guide?...had, as their example of the in-game costs, time, and materials of your character building their own castle, a section in each chapter titled "The Castle on the Moor" or something, where at the end of it all and the final costs are given, they end it by stating that the castle sank and they shouldn't have built it there in the first place. Does anyone else remember this?

Yes, the Castle Guide; you recall correctly.

Aikidogamer: crispyone: This was built when rich people were really farking rich. They laugh from their graves at todays rich people. "My swimming pool that I never personally used is bigger than your so-called 'mansion'. You have a mansion with only 100 rooms? How do you ever surrvive? Wait, your country manor has less than 2000 surrounding acres?? How do you ever keep them filled with foxes and boars for your killing amusement??"

"Ahhh, Wentworth. These so-called rich people of today are no better than common peasants. They have less than 100 servants!!! They practically live in squalor!!"

My only thing to add here is...You did not purchase your own commission in the military?

/ Back in the day, you also needs to own more than a computer to create wealth.

Like what, two computers?