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Title: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 04:37:00 PM
This is a thing


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-90092834.html
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Roses on April 30, 2020, 04:40:42 PM
YUCK!
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 04:43:01 PM
Quote from: Littleroses on April 30, 2020, 04:40:42 PM
YUCK!
You mean you don't want a bedroom/garage thing?
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Roses on April 30, 2020, 04:44:28 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 04:43:01 PM
You mean you don't want a bedroom/garage thing?

I mean I would never live in that ghastly property even if you paid me a fortune to do so.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2020, 04:52:30 PM
That is some kind of fabulous!

Not my kind. But there is an appeal somehow.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 04:57:15 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on April 30, 2020, 04:52:30 PM
That is some kind of fabulous!

Not my kind. But there is an appeal somehow.
It's utterly Dagenham (two stops beyond Barking)
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Steve H on April 30, 2020, 04:57:49 PM
All those rooms, and not a book to be seen. Tells me all I need to know about the owner.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2020, 04:58:22 PM
Quote from: Jedediah Cleishbotham on April 30, 2020, 04:57:49 PM
All those rooms, and not a book to be seen. Tells me all I need to know about the owner.

They might have a kindle. And they have two keyboard instruments. And a giraffe.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Steve H on April 30, 2020, 04:58:56 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on April 30, 2020, 04:58:22 PM
They might have a kindle.
Almost as bad.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Roses on April 30, 2020, 04:59:55 PM
I have getting on for 1000 books on my Kindle, which is so much better than the paper version, imo.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Steve H on April 30, 2020, 05:04:19 PM
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Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2020, 05:05:27 PM
Fucking Luddite
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:05:53 PM
Quote from: Jedediah Cleishbotham on April 30, 2020, 04:57:49 PM
All those rooms, and not a book to be seen. Tells me all I need to know about the owner.
snob
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:07:41 PM
Quote from: Jedediah Cleishbotham on April 30, 2020, 04:58:56 PM
Almost as bad.
That's idiotic. Books are information, the idea that they need physical forms ignores what books are.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Aruntraveller on April 30, 2020, 05:08:01 PM
But what about the giraffe. With a hat.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:09:40 PM
Quote from: Littleroses on April 30, 2020, 04:59:55 PM
I have getting on for 1000 books on my Kindle, which is so much better than the paper version, imo.
They are the same thing. A Kindle is great for me but that's about how I read not about the book itself.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Roses on April 30, 2020, 05:11:30 PM
Quote from: Jedediah Cleishbotham on April 30, 2020, 05:04:19 PM
DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS! DEATH TO EREADERS!

Silly man. Think how many trees would be saved if everyone used a Kindle?
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Roses on April 30, 2020, 05:12:15 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:09:40 PM
They are the same thing. A Kindle is great for me but that's about how I read not about the book itself.

Sorry I am not sure what you are saying?
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Steve H on April 30, 2020, 05:12:44 PM
https://bookramblings288957187.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/20170123-the-diary-of-a-bookseller-2.jpg?w=640
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:13:55 PM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on April 30, 2020, 05:08:01 PM
But what about the giraffe. With a hat.
or the horrible sofa at the stove.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:15:00 PM
Quote from: Littleroses on April 30, 2020, 05:12:15 PM
Sorry I am not sure what you are saying?
A book is not better or worse because of the medium you use to read it.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:18:22 PM
Quote from: Jedediah Cleishbotham on April 30, 2020, 05:12:44 PM
https://bookramblings288957187.files.wordpress.com/2018/01/20170123-the-diary-of-a-bookseller-2.jpg?w=640
He's a tit
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Roses on April 30, 2020, 05:20:25 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:15:00 PM
A book is not better or worse because of the medium you use to read it.

But as I have pointed out paper is made from wood, and trees have to be cut down in order to provide the wood. In this age of global warming the more trees that are left standing the better. 
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:22:53 PM
Quote from: Littleroses on April 30, 2020, 05:20:25 PM
But as I have pointed out paper is made from wood, and trees have to be cut down in order to provide the wood. In this age of global warming the more trees that are left standing the better.
  Non sequitur.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: jeremyp on April 30, 2020, 08:17:31 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 04:37:00 PM
This is a thing


https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-90092834.html
I think it's pretty impressive. I'm not  a fan of the decor, but that can be changed.

The only issue is that, if you check out Streetview, it is seriously overlooked but the even more enormous house next door.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: jeremyp on April 30, 2020, 08:19:23 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:18:22 PM
He's a tit

He's a book seller. His whole livelihood is threatened by Amazon. I can understand him not being a fan of the Kindle.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Steve H on April 30, 2020, 09:02:07 PM
Quote from: Littleroses on April 30, 2020, 05:11:30 PM
Silly man. Think how many trees would be saved if everyone used a Kindle?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_paper
A high proportion of my books are second-hand, anyway.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Owlswing on April 30, 2020, 09:24:48 PM
Quote from: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2020, 05:18:22 PM

He's a tit


I wonder what his opinion of you would be . . .
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 01, 2020, 08:38:01 AM
Quote from: Owlswing on April 30, 2020, 09:24:48 PM
I wonder what his opinion of you would be . . .
Doesn't matter because he's a tit
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 01, 2020, 08:41:14 AM
Quote from: jeremyp on April 30, 2020, 08:19:23 PM
He's a book seller. His whole livelihood is threatened by Amazon. I can understand him not being a fan of the Kindle.
I can understand that - doesn't stop me thinking shooting and mounting a kindle is the action is a tit. It doesn't even reach the height of luddism as it's so ineffective
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Harrowby Hall on May 01, 2020, 09:43:03 AM
Quote from: Littleroses on April 30, 2020, 05:11:30 PM
Silly man. Think how many trees would be saved if everyone used a Kindle?

And think of all the limited scarce planetary resources would be saved if nobody used  a Kindle. At least trees replicate - oil reserves and technology-critical metals such as germanium don't.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Gordon on May 01, 2020, 09:51:55 AM
Getting back to the house: it is gloriously hideous, and seems to be a fusion of the worst of the 1970's (especially the various shades of brown), but for me the highlight is the 'feature wall' in slide 18.

I'd have the hat wearing giraffe though.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Roses on May 01, 2020, 10:39:31 AM
My husband has relatives living in Lytham St Annes. We have never visited the place, or are likely to do so.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Steve H on May 01, 2020, 11:32:02 AM
Quote from: Littleroses on April 30, 2020, 05:11:30 PM
Silly man. Think how many trees would be saved if everyone used a Kindle?
Says the woman who drives, or used to drive, a petrol-thirsty 4x4, to the man who does not drive or own a car, and never has.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Aruntraveller on May 01, 2020, 11:41:19 AM
Quote from: Littleroses on May 01, 2020, 10:39:31 AM
My husband has relatives living in Lytham St Annes. We have never visited the place, or are likely to do so.

I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.
Title: Re: Dr Evil's Lytham House
Post by: Nearly Sane on May 01, 2020, 11:46:33 AM
Quote from: Trentvoyager on May 01, 2020, 11:41:19 AM
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me.
I've seen some things that a women ain't s'posed to see - including the subject of the OP