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[Niveras]

...with the US Embassy in London?

Look at this thing and tell me it's not straight out inspired by Dwarf Fortress: a box made out of clear glass blocks, with outside housing for the slumming peasants, and a moat to defend against sieges.

About the only thing that's missing is a magma cannon.

[Mel_Vixen]

That would be me. A glass box is my favourite Noble execution system. In it nobles can sleep, eat and communicate face to face with zombys, invaders or deadly creatures. The moat exists to keep the nobles inside not the peasants outside.

[Malicus]

...but the moat doesn't seem to go all the way around.

[Grimlocke]

Not mine, I would have used magma. Or alligators.

I like though how, with state debt and all, the Americans are spending that much money on a new embasy yet refuse to pay the money they owe the Brittish.

[vogonpoet]

Its not news, its not Fark, its Dwarf Fortress.

[Dr. Johbson]

That would be me. A glass box is my favourite Noble execution system. In it nobles can sleep, eat and communicate face to face with zombys, invaders or deadly creatures. The moat exists to keep the nobles inside not the peasants outside.

Oh god. That gave me the best idea. Glass spheres to keep nobles in, and then you push them down the river. Genius.

[Kogan Loloklam]

I like though how, with state debt and all, the Americans are spending that much money on a new embasy yet refuse to pay the money they owe the Brittish.

We owe the British nothing. It's the Brits that think it's Okay to tax other sovereign nations when they have no right!

Taxes are to support the government. it is not the responsibility of foreign nationals living in a nation to support that nation's government. That nation has a right to expel them at a whim, therefore not a single penny of taxes should be owed. We don't impose taxes on foreign diplomats in our nation.

They lost that right in 1783. Show me where they regained it.

But yes, they should have built the moat all the way around! It's the best "barrier" they could make without making something ugly.

Defensive structures do not need to be ugly.

[Rowanas]

Kogan, you're an idiot. Americans come to our country and refuse to obey our laws. It's bad enough that our political leaders are too stupid to pull their noses out of the arse end of America.

Back on topic... why so much money on such a stupid building? If it's the sort of thing you would see in DF then it certainly isn't the sort of thing you should see in real life.
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But if they're going to do it, does that make the american ambassadors HFS?

[Footkerchief]

Taxes are to support the government. it is not the responsibility of foreign nationals living in a nation to support that nation's government. That nation has a right to expel them at a whim, therefore not a single penny of taxes should be owed. We don't impose taxes on foreign diplomats in our nation.

VAT is the UK equivalent of sales tax.  You don't think diplomats in the US have to pay sales tax?

[Akigagak]

Back on topic... why so much money on such a stupid building?

Number one reason: Politicians. Outside of the UK, they are mostly egotistical knobheads. Inside, that's the Tories, who thankfully aren't the majority, at least not yet.
Number two reason: They're trying to show how big and powerful and rich they are, that they can afford such a ridiculous amount. Even during a depression, when they actually can't.
Number three reason: There are probably some over-priced security systems that will put in place, besides the moat. And a moat isn't really a defense since the invention of scuba-diving.

Also, Kogan: Do you know who America really owes it's freedom to?

[gamegreen33]

There are probably some over-priced security systems that will put in place, besides the moat. And a moat isn't really a defense since the invention of scuba-diving.

What would be invaders don't realize is that the moat is, in fact, filled with carp.

[Pathos]

We owe the British nothing. It's the Brits that think it's Okay to tax other sovereign nations when they have no right!
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They lost that right in 1783. Show me where they regained it.

I always find people like this funny. It's as if they've never actually studied the American-English wars, or realised that it would've been VERY easy for the English to conquer back America.

[Footkerchief]

We owe the British nothing. It's the Brits that think it's Okay to tax other sovereign nations when they have no right!
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They lost that right in 1783. Show me where they regained it.

I always find people like this funny. It's as if they've never actually studied the American-English wars, or realised that it would've been VERY easy for the English to conquer back America.

Let's have an end to the chest-beating nationalism in this thread.

[Arrkhal]

It is always pretty ridiculous how people in England decry how "patriotic" the USA is, at the exact same time that they do the same nationalistic crap.

[Diablous]

It is always pretty ridiculous how people in England decry how "patriotic" the USA is, at the exact same time that they do the same nationalistic crap.

Agreed, but please. This thread is about how Dwarf Fortressy the new US embassy is. Let's focus on that, shall we?