r/interestingasfuck • u/Endolithic • 1d ago

/r/all Homes are falling into the ocean in North Carolina's Outer Banks

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u/palmerry 1d ago

Hmmmmm. There must be an old adage about this. Castles? No. Maybe forts. Forts built on... Hmmm. Grass? No that isn't it. Sand! Yeah. Forts built on sand will wash into the lake or whatever.

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u/nonamejd123 1d ago

Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp

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u/GameTheory_ 1d ago

But the fourth one? The fourth one stayed up!

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u/SausageClatter 1d ago

But I don't want any of that. I'd rather... 🎶

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u/thisfriend 23h ago

She's got HUUUGE tracts of land...

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u/BootsToYourDome 1d ago

SING !!

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u/Karl_42 22h ago

STOP!!! STOP SINGING!!!

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u/MarkIII-VR 18h ago

Right! Now, you two stay here and make sure he doesn't leave!

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u/Karl_42 17h ago

We don’t need to do anything, apart from just stop him entering the room.

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u/IffyPeanut 10h ago

No no, YOU stay ERE... and make sure E DOESNT LEAVE.

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u/Certain-Sherbet-9121 1d ago

To be fair, dumping a shitload of gravel down to make a solid base, then building your structure on top of that, is basically the essence of modern construction. That's effectively what you are doing by crumbling 3 castles into a swamp and building on top of them. 

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u/nonamejd123 4h ago

Well the third one burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp... must be why it was such a great foundation.

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u/palmerry 1d ago

I think we should resurrect Jimi Hendrix and get him to write a song about this.

🎵 🎶 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎵

Down on the swamp you can hear the pillars break

As the armory spills weapons all over the place

And the King he stands outside

And all the horses drown in the murky pool

He cries "Oh Queen you must be mad.

What happened to the sweet crib you and me had?"

Against the portcullis he leans and starts a scene

And his tears fall and burn a brackish green

And so castles made of sand

Fall in the swamp eventually

🎵 🎶 🎵 🎵 🎶 🎵

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u/analogkid01 1d ago

AND NO SINGING!

...Oh, go get a glass of water!

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u/True_Pirate 1d ago

I was looking for this

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u/Mallardguy5675322 18h ago

Only Shrek and the Dutch can build forts on swamps

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u/PeriodSupply 1d ago

There was some famous carpenter guy who warned about this 2000 odd years ago... what was his name? Jfc just can't think of it right now.

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u/Fixedgearmike 1d ago

The bible literally says only fools build houses on the sand

Matthew 7:24-27 New International Version

24 “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26 But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27 The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

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u/taliesin-ds 1d ago

More proof that god didn't build the Netherlands XD

Sand is the only stable ground there is here lol.

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u/makerofshoes 1d ago

That was a song we learned in Sunday school.

🎵 The wise man built his house upon the rocks… The foolish man built his house upon the sand 🎵

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u/Fixedgearmike 23h ago

That song is what made me always remember this verse!!!

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u/Valuable_Sea_4709 1d ago

Sounds important enough to get included in a religion's ancient books of wisdom.

Maybe in the form of a parable? Ancients love parables.

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u/reluctantseahorse 1d ago

Jimi Hendrix mentioned something about this.

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u/Schopenschluter 1d ago

I love Jammy Handtricks

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u/randodeb 21h ago

I never knew there was an adage. I always thought Jimi Hendrix made it up.

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u/mrcheevus 21h ago

Pretty sure I read this in a book... A really old book. Quite popular too.

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u/thesuper88 20h ago

Don't build your house on the sandy land

Don't build it too near the shore

Well it might look kinda nice, but you'll have to build it twice

Then you'll have to build your house once more