Like I mentioned before about a year ago, I give up beer for Lent. I do it every year. Not to worry, I’m not going to explain it again. I am just going to leave a link here, explaining the whole thing.
This is my review of Saison Dupont Avec Les Bons Vouex.
If you’ve been following long enough, this is not to be confused with regular old, Saison Dupont…which I reviewed here.
Incidentally, this one was even mentioned before. Bon Voeux is a French phrase meaning, “best wishes.” This beer was initially put to market during the 1970s and offered to the brewer’s most loyal customers. Am offering of sorts, for best wishes for the new year. I guess I am a bit late.
The biggest difference with this one over the standard is it is quite a bit more intense with the citrus notes. I might go so far as to say it has an almost lemon-like sourness. Like Nephilium, I will have to say the standard is better. Saison Dupont Avec Les Bons Voeux 3.5/5
I drink a ton of Saison, don’t I? Maybe I need to give it up for a while…
I might give Saison a try one more time.
This reminds me, I should check if fermentation is done on my belgian blonde.
One would think in a country as rich as the US you could afford to buy beer. I blame capitalism
#studentLoans
Phrasing?
She’s like the Pele of anal.
What?
Wasn’t Framboise Belgian?
And here I thought it was French.
I bottled my second batch this week. Lager is taking a little diecetyl rest.
Belgian blonde
I keep waiting for you to review Romanian beer and nothing.
I thought Romanians made wine.
yes. the best.
I keep waiting for you to send me Romanian beer.
… and nothing.
I drink a ton of Saison, don’t I? Maybe I need to give it up for a while…
Sad that you’re giving up beer. Saisons are good.
A friend of mine gave up beer for Lent ten years ago. I still remember the horror.
I gave up Lent for Lent and never looked back.
I have a friend who gives it up every year, same as the Sharpshooter.
I have to apologize MS. I rarely comment on your articles because I am not a beer drinker. I do read them but I mostly lurk.
I am unsure what you do drink. Mostly spirits?
I would prefer scotch but the wife likes vodka mixers, so that’s what I drink. I usually just mix it with cranberry juice.
why do you need to drink the same thing? Also that sounds awful. I hate juice mixed drinks and sweet alcoholic things in general
If I ever make it to Louisiana I will have to go to New Orleans where the whiskey is not Grant Parish where there are vodka mixers… And I so wanted to see the bayou
You will be terribly disappointed with New Orleans. I will buy the whiskey if you make it here.
I hear the food is good in New Orleans
The food is good everywhere in Louisiana. I am making crawfish bisque tonight. We went last night and had boiled crawfish.
My cholesterol is going to be through the roof tomorrow.
blonde roux – butter and flour
diced onion
50/50 chicken broth milk mixture
garlic
cayenne
zataran’s liquid crab boil
salt
crawfish tails
minced crab meat
Simple, thrown together in 15-20 mins
One bite and you cant quit eating.
Crawfish meat is not worth the effort getting it out
Here, Pia Pre-shelled
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The EU sucks.
GDPR strikes again!!
Real food.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/shared/nubBBcgZSvWD737ZDByFUA.5qJuZDZ0V2ipC_oiHOaOee
Amen to that.
Those look like some old Corning Ware dishes my grandmother used to have.
And nice job on keeping the meat from falling off the plates. :-p
I drink vodka because I’m cheap. (Well, that, and because it was the first hard alcohol I drank, the semester I studied in Russia.) I was in the liquor store yesterday, and Bulleit was somewhere between 3x and 4x the price of vodka.
I drink as much for the taste as for the alcohol but i do spend more than i should
Then you aren’t drinking vodka, you’re drinking cheap vodka.
I have to apologize MS. I rarely comment on your articles because I am not a beer drinker. I do read them but I mostly lurk.
Tune in next week…when I don’t talk about beer.
You don’t need to apologize for enjoying saisons. It’s probably the best thing to come out of the Francophonic world next to sauces.
Burgundy.
Touche.
Not North Rhone?
Northern Rhône is close but a properly aged Chambertin is a thing of beauty.
Real Pinot Noir is made in Dealu Mare
Is that eastern oregon?
More like Washington really
It’s like I don’t even know who you are.
I’m looking at ‘99 Jamet for tonight.
WINE FIGHT!!!!
Spare some change so I can get shorty out of jail?
/wino for “so I can buy a shortdog?”
Did you see what those are going for these days? Holy shit.
We’re doing an Israeli dinner for a bunch of non-wine people, so it will be rose, beer, and mixed drinks for them. I’ll have my Nixon bottle at my feet, which will be something pretty close to what you’re having.
All Cote Rotie prices are stupid these days. I personally blame you.
I’m reading yesterday’s thread which involved talk about a Glib meet-up at Oktoberfest. I’m all for it. 2021, 2022, doesn’t matter. This year wouldn’t work as I’ve got plans for that time of year. Plus, it’s probably a bit too late to get a good hotel, though good AirBNBs are probably still available for this year. I have a vague memory that reservations for tables in tents sell out early.
My company frowns on business trips to Munich during Oktoberfest
So take a vacation trip.
That tap room you told me about in Munich was good.
I have never flown to Munich on my own dime.
Isnt that like a 30 minute drive?
I mean I can walk if push comes to shove but carrying all that luggage
I might have to visit the boss in Munich that week.
Great Taste of the Midwest would be a better meetup.
Its even been done before on TOS. Me and ClubMedSux met there multiple times.
Hier?
It looks promising.
That could work as well.
My daughter goes to school there, so I could definitely schedule a trip to see her around that event.
The Midwest? Sounds dreadful
Madison is pretty. Was there as a kid visiting relatives.
*narrows gaze*
Certainly close by for me. I’ll put it on my calendar.
Put me down as interested. No promises though.
OT: You know how people can fixate on the chorus of a song and completely ignore the lyrics that surround it? Well in 1987 I heard Dan Crary play this song at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and thirty-some odd years later and I hear it in my head anytime I’m fifteen days away from a big event.
Keg is empty and soaking in starsan. Beer is fermented and ready for racking into the keg.
I’m genuinely excited to try this beer later today! I think I learnt my lesson from last time, and hopefully it’s an enjoyable drink.
Excellent!
Watching a movie…Eye in the Sky.
My review: This is why we will never win the war on terror.
I thought that was a great movie. Watched it with the wife and even she had a hard time justifying The Lightbringer’s drone strikes.
3.5? That is a solid 4.5+ beer.
QUITTER!
Wait you are back?
No
Oh ok. I was worried for a second.
Just like DiNiro in Ronin, he never left.
I gave up Lent for BEER!
Seems like the more reasonable response to me. Zardoz agrees. Cleanse these lent people and have a beer.
Funny you should mention Big Stone Head – he is up in the rotation for this evening’s links.
He seems nice.
I know Romanian Bernie fans. It boggles the mind.
Mental illness knows no borders.
IOWs…theft
All your base are belong to us,
economic justice, on social justice, on racial justice, on environmental justice
I am in favor of economic justice. Those words mean you get what you earn. I approve.
I suppose social justice is ok. You get the friends you earn.
Racial justice is meaningless as race is not normative.
Environmental justice is simply not defined, is it justice delivered to person via the environment? If it is justice for the environment it is meaningless as the environment cannot ‘deserve’.
Justice means consequences that morally fit actions in type and severity. It is an antonym for equality, if you treat a baby raper the same way you treat a person who invents antibiotics you are not doing justice.
Whats that Chesterton quote about using monosyllabic words to avoid obscurantism?
Yeah, our friend there clearly didn’t learn how to couch his envy in herpity derpity doo.
And what, pray tell, constitutes a “social good”? Holding the door for someone? Not farting in an elevator?
“And what, pray tell, constitutes a “social good?”
Did you help an old lady across the street? Did you give a homeless person food and shelter? Did you save a bus full of nuns holding babies from going over the cliff?
NOT a social good
Did you toe the proggie lion?
Social GOOD!
“Did you toe the proggie lion?”
Euphemism?
One of the lines on my “list of stuff to teach the kids” is that “social” as a modifier makes the modified word mean the opposite of what it really means.
“Social Justice” is the opposite of Justice. The “Social Gospel” is the opposite of the Gospel. Etc.
I really don’t drink much anymore, but I had a fantastic IPA from the Virginia Beer Company last night. Fresh Powder is excellent.
Define much
One drink every couple of weeks
I really need to cut down on my drinking. Nothing that extreme though
Almost killing yourself will work for that. Trust me. I had a couple of beers last night. Fine. A case and half of beer a 3/4 bottle of bourbon? Sigh… the good old days.
A case and half of beer a 3/4 bottle of bourbon – i assume that is hyperboly. I dont belive one can drink that in one day. I had a 3/4 bottle of jack daniels in one night once and i was a wreck for 3 days after
Not much of an exaggeration. I have a very high tolerance for alcohol. Unfortunately, it almost killed me and I don’t care to try that again. Fortunately, I suppose, my liver is apparently made of the same stuff they use for shielding on the space shuttle.
It can be done. I had a bit over a liter of Southern Comfort
one night. My friends were amazed I could even stand,
much less pay the bill reasonably coherently and walk
out to get in the car. Wisconsin heritage for the win.
(Or the boozing anyway.)
In my twenties I’d drink a case on my own and then start doing shots. That stopped in my thirties.
O.T. for the various gearheads around here. I just bought a Trailblazer SS with a 550 hp stroker motor.
I can’t pick it up until Monday, though dammit! It’s my “family” SUV.
Btw, I drink Glenfiddich when I drink spirits. Tried some various beers, good/bad, but I can drink Stella pretty happily.
What year?
It’s an ’08. Year old CBM 402 and beefed trans.
Sweet!
Unless you meant the Glen, in that case I usually drink 18, the 21 is great but too many moneys, the 12 is still better than most others too.
I’m not a big scotch person. More into bourbon.
I’ll whup ’em all!
New movie on. The Death of Stalin. I turn it on and the first scene I see is some govt official announcing to a woman in a gulag that Stalin is dead. She begins to cry. “Stalin? Our Stalin?” She is heartbroken.
Minister answers “Yes. Our Stalin. The guy who put you in here”
Fucking useful idiots. It is mind boggling.
And they haven’t changed one bit. Just look at our current batch of commies here in the USA.
That is exactly what I was thinking of.
That’s a good movie that sticks pretty close to the facts (as much as they’re known) and real events, although it’s presented as a dark farce with the timeline compressed. Steve Buscemi is a surprisingly good Khruschev.
That is a borderline great movie. They did some great casting and stayed pretty well to the historical events. I saw it in the theater when it came out and the audience reactions were interesting.
Younger audience were clearly confused by the treatment of Stalin and the apparatchiks. Those who remembered the USSR were laughing and enjoying it- except for one older woman. After the movie she was clearly pissed off and asked me with a clear Russian accent if I had enjoyed the movie. I replied that I had and she said the “she was disappointed that that monster was treated like a joke. Her family had felt a great burden lifted when he died.” I asked when she had come to the US and she said 1961 and became a citizen in 1969 with a notable pride in her voice.
She lived socialism. I wish I could run into her again and ask her about AOC, Warren and Bernie.
I heard one just like her. I can tell you her answer.
“I escaped here to avoid the plague and now I see people around me with boils on their skin.”
I like Armando Iannucci’s previous work, but haven’t seen the Stalin one yet.
For some reason there’s a US DVD release, but no blu-ray yet. In 20-fricken-19. WTF? Might import the UK release unless Criterion or someone else announces one soon.
We need to get this. We love his work. “In The Loop” was one of our favorite political movies.
“Like I mentioned before about a year ago, I give up beer for Lent.”
I don’t get it. They make this brush thing for that. I have one on my dresser. Every morning I’m dressed for the office, especially if I’m wearing black, I check in the mirror for lent. If I see lent, I use this brush to get it off. Everyone should try this, it really works!
The sticky rollers work better.
Well, that’s what it is. I know I’m calling it a brush, I mean roller.
Band name?
Are they from Bay city?
*narrows gaze*
I just bought a Trailblazer SS with a 550 hp stroker motor.
384?
It’s a 402. It’s got a laundry list of very expensive high performance parts.
On the lent thing in Munich in spring they have a strong beer festival which locals consider more authentic and less touristy than oktober and the origin of that the legend goes was precisly in monks making and drinking stronger beer during lent
Starkbierfest. It starts pretty soon. At some point I’ll go to that too.
In the six years we lived in Germany we went the the Oktoberfest – once. Too. Many. People.
Every town has their own fest, however, and those were wonderful. The whole town turns out and everyone has a blast.
Amen to that. My town in deepest darkest Bavaria had two fests a year that were outstanding fun. Each town tried to outdo the neighbors for quality of food and bier.
Can confirm. Small town Oktoberfests are awesome.
Russian stooges ranked.
https://www.rt.com/news/452829-russian-stooges-us-gabbard-trump/
I hate russians as much as the next eastern european but they do know how to troll
Me too. The left makes trolling so easy though.
Posted yesterday, Stigmata is a killer Russian band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2WAXAtXy8c
Also, Russian chicks pretty much press all my buttons.
https://www.theplace2.ru/photos/Anna-Semenovich-md993/pic-313476.html
Fortunately, somewhat surprisingly, Colorado has the largest Russian expat community in the US after NYC (who knows why). I also love Russian lit. In fact, if it weren’t for the whole Commie subjugation and crimes against humanity, I’d call myself a bonafide Russophile.
https://imgur.com/KmVGWS2
Interesting name…
It’s a universal name.
Although it should be Semenovna.
Astute. Veeeeewy astute….
It’s good to see someone else has joined the Church of Semenovich.
Back in the early nineties,, I used to shoot pool at this little dive coffee shop after hours place in Hollywood called Top Fuel. One day these hot Russian chicks were on the table. They couldn’t shoot pool to save their lives. I thought they were gonna rip the felt. I started giving them pointers and struck up a conversation. I asked them if they had ever shot pool before. They said that back home, pool was only for rich people. I told them I thought there were no rich people in Russia. They said that they meant the government and the gangsters. So I said ” oh, just like here?” and they laughed. Good times
Beer.
Drinking Alaskan Explorer Pale Ale. Deelish.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/429/282684/
Tits.
http://archive.li/Cqwb9
Give up tits for lent
Too Catholic.
If the Catholics give up tits for lent there are many more for (((us))).
NEIN!
No drinking for me today, I’m on the hook for an early morning (01:00) Sunday change.
4 is the bunny boiler. That was quick.
I guessed 13. And 22 had better watch out, because I think she’ part rabbit.
I think they’re tied, but I hadn’t seen 13 when I posted. There was one more as well. Bad batch there, imo.
The Democrats are fucking retarded. I’m serious. I mean I already knew they were going off the deep end. But now, they’re all focused on getting Trump’s tax returns. Say they get them. What is that going to do? Oh yeah, it’s right there in the Constitution… I never once thought when Obama was in office, ‘if we could only get that Kenyan usurper’s tax returns’. WHO GIVES A FUCK!? These people are certified retards. Why don’t they just sit there in Congress and pick their noses? It would be more productive.
Doing nothing is not how you keep your base frothing mad over the giant nothing that is Trump’s administration.
OMG! TRUMP HOLDS THE POLICY POSITIONS OF A ’90’S DEMOCRAT! NOTZEEEEEEEE!
He’s racist and sexist after all!
They’re only as retarded as the voters; hopefully they are unpopular enough that they can’t even fraud their way in. Given how blatant they were in 2018 (and were allowed to get away with it), I am nervous.
It won’t make a whit of difference. The long march will continue and the arc will still bend towards subjugation. They built a big enough buffer, they could start up the camps now and the rubes would still back them. It makes me laugh at how quaint my concerns were back in the 80s and 90s.
Unfortunately, I agree with you. Where are the new liberty voters coming from? Nowhere. Sure, progs aren’t reproducing, but they don’t have to. They have the whole world from which to recruit. They can import an arbitrary number of new voters. They also have the schools, the entertainment industry and big tech. The DemSocs have too big of a structural advantage.
If it makes anyone feel better, the debt is so enormous that once they get what they want, it won’t take more than a lifetime or so for the USA to Venezuelize. Not that it would be replaced by anything better, but at least reality would win right?
Keep your chin up blackjack. It has always been on the brink. It just seems worse now because we are living through it. There is a silent majority that generally supports our constitution. We have managed to avoid collapse for over two centuries, maybe we can pull of another two.
When the sitting president and his parties nominee can cobble together such a steaming pile of horse crap as they did, then have it drive a huge portion of public discourse despite having no basis in reality, it’s hard to be optimistic. Half the country and even more of the deep state/media are throwing a high stakes tantrum to avoid accepting an electoral loss. This would have caused a riot when I was a kid ( not that it ever would’ve gotten traction back then.)
I knew we were screwed when the Snowden revelations were met with “meh” Now, we have social purges and concerted efforts to undermine elections via harsh criminal prosecutions. Anyone remember when Trump said he would have to wait to decide if he would accept losing his election?
Look back at Lincoln. Wilson. FDR and a gaggle of others. Adams comes to mind. The ink wasn’t even dry on the constitution and he took a giant shit on the first amendment. It just seems worse now because it is right in front of your nose.
It has been worse. Lincoln hanged people for reading the constitution in public. Wilson purged the federal govt. of blacks. FDR had his four freedoms. That is not even mentioning a host of appalling SC decisions or the way blacks were treated inside and outside the law.
It has always been this way. Worse even.
Keep your chin up and your powder dry.
Yeah, I guess I’m old enough that I lose perspective and bitch about the price of everything and the kids nowadays. Goddamn clouds!
I couldn’t vote for P.T. Barnum, or Putin in a pantsuit. I am pleasantly pleased with a number of things OrangeManBad has done, but as with all Presidents, there are things I don’t like.
And if the R is worse that the D, I’ll skip it. I will never vote for another Dem as long as I live.
Dammit. That was a reply to OMWC.
Same here. I didn’t vote last election, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised about some things he has done and I can’t really call the rest disappointing because most of it is par for the course.
I’m not sure whether I’ll vote next year. I voted in the midterm to punish Jennifer wexton for being such a horrible human being, but I don’t really like the idea of voting against somebody because it gives power to somebody else who, while not as bad as the alternative, still sucks.
I did vote.
I also live in New York, so you can guess how much impact it had on the outcome.
I think the silent majority is pretty sick of this crap. If it keeps up, Team Red could pull off an upset across the board in 2020. Oh wait, it’s Team Red. Let’s hope they can at least turn the tide.
Meh, people look at Team Red and think, “When they were in charge, and at the moment, they’re 3/4 in charge, everything was a shitshow. Fuck it, I’m sitting this one out.”
Trump has not exactly endeared himself to folks like me who aren’t already committed Team players. Amash or Paul would be great, but that will never happen.
Meh, people look at Team Red and think, “When they were in charge, and at the moment, they’re 3/4 in charge, everything was a shitshow. Fuck it, I’m sitting this one out.”
It is crap like this that moved me to libertarianism, even more than the stupid socon crap. To me the size and scope of the Federal Government is far and away the biggest issue. I could endure some stupid moralizing, and even a little war mongering if the Rs would actually cut spending and shrink the Government, but they never do. They never even try.
Two years into Reagan’s first term the fiscally responsible wing of team R lost the fight to the hawks who wanted to trade increased social spending for increased military and they have never made a comeback. It is infuriating, especially since the defensible argument for the hawks was that Socialism is a threat to our liberty. Hey genius, that spending you won’t cut is what is fueling the rise of domestic socialism.
The tax return thing is as much of Trump giving the finger to the prevailing consensus that politicians must release all of their private records for voyeuristic scrutiny.
Also, what I don’t get about Cohen’s claim of “threatening” schools on behalf of Trump to not release his transcripts is that, as far as I know, FERPA is still law, and thus Trump would have no need to threaten educational institutions against doing something that would be illegal anyway.
It’s only illegal if you:
1. Get caught
2. Get prosecuted
3. Get convicted
By “threaten” they mean he told them he wouldn’t be looking the other way if they broke the law.
I’d be surprised if Obama didn’t have his lawyers send similar letters as well.
Most likely this. It’s also possible Cohen is embellishing or lying about what happened.
Most likely some Dem ops were sniffing around (I’d be surprised if Rep ops weren’t doing the same on the other end as well), and Trump got wind of it and just made absolutely sure the schools knew their legal obligations.
I mean, it’s not like embarrassing, sealed records haven’t magically been made public to help a Dem candidate before.
Also, Commieball opening day.
https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2019-03-02-colorado-rapids-vs-portland-timbers/preview
Life. Is. Good.
https://archive.li/YJZbJ/b5ae21eefe87ef5c2613750caafaaa4257a0e24d.jpg
NSFW.
Golazo!
She has excellent Montgomery’s tubercles.
And as usual I have to cobble together an experience with visuals on my TV and English via Twitter.
#MLSisback
#suckitenglishspeakingpeople
Univision (NYC v. ORL) has English commentary if you put it on SAP.
I know that’s what they say. It doesn’t work. In previous years I have found it to work maybe 1/2 the time. And never when it was NYCFC.
Huh.
It’s working for me right now.
Odd.
Maybe a
Time-WarnerSpectrum thing.Opening Day is in August.
Another Smith cousin?
https://www.foxnews.com/science/massive-700-pound-alligator-in-georgia-discovered-in-irrigation-ditch
Nope. It got caught.
Why is that news?
Funny scene in The Death of Stalin – the fake trial and sentencing of Beria. He was accused of rape and plotting with foreign powers. They should have gotten Robert Mueller a part in that movie.
Well, the first part was true. Show trials are always bad, but it’s
hard to work up much sympathy for the communist leaders
suddenly on the wrong end of that. (Not that you were, just
a side observation.)
I liked that movie. It had a weird sort of surreal/art movie
feel, but it worked. The guy playing Zhukov did a fantastic
job.
I was just laughing that the charges were the same fabricated nonsense they are saying about Trump now. He is a pussy grabbing racist Rusian stooge (wait, whut?) tried and convicted with the same diligence in the media. . Off with his head!
But Trump and his supporters are the totalitarians.
Today will be a good day. Saw many whales while racing yesterday. While organizing the top load freezer I found a forgotten bag of quail that was undamaged. Quail for dinner. Plus my daughter just dropped off a peace offering for cursing at me while being seasick. This afternoon will have a Lindemans Strawberry Lambic Beer. I’ll make some fresh crab dip and toast some sourdough.
Careful Eagle, that is not a peace offering, shes trying to finish you off!
Nah, Lindemans isn’t a traditional Lambic, it’s back sweetened and not sour at all. IIRC, under 4% ABV on top of that.
So you’re saying it’s drinkable?
It’s far too sweet for my tastes, but the girlfriend likes them. I’ll stick with the oude lambics (and have my own very happy little culture making sours in the basement).
Re Pie above regarding crawfish: I keep forgetting that the gulf coast crawfish grown here are quite different than most other crawfish in the world. They do have meat worth getting out if they live in the right environment. Most people are familiar with crawfish that aren’t like that. Even then, if you catch ones from the wrong environment (the ones that pop up in your yard) the meat isnt worth getting. You cook them and when you peel them the meat is puny and runny. You have to have good, well fed ones from the swamp.
The farmed ones are grown in rice fields (a swamp essentially). When I was a kid you couldn’t buy them. Everyone caught their own. About this time of year the roads would be lined with people catching them from ditches. I remember…uh…’72? We had a hell of a flood and all of the soybean fields filled up with water. We went out at night with lights and sacks and filled up the back of a pickup truck with crawfish.
Yum.
One of the local reservoirs I go bass fishing on has crawfish traps all along the sides of “the narrows”, in about 40ft of water. I’ve pulled in bass that were so full they were puking out chunks of crawfish as I pulled them to the boat.
Okay, I’ve got a question regarding fictional logistics. (Medieval fantasy setting)
The narrator of the story has just arrived in the vicinity of a city. The terrain is an oak savannah dotted with basalt inselbergs from extinct volcanoes.
The people who made this city are known for providing cavalry auxillaries to another power and naturally have a reputation as horsemen.
My first instinct is that the top of one of these inselbergs would be excellent defensively in terms of being hard to take by storm. But I am also struck by how difficult it would be to maintain a supply of water on such a spot.
Where would these people site their city?
I remember reading about some slaves taken by crusaders in the ME who were tasked with digging a well inside the keep of a hilltop fortification. They spent many years doing it with the promise of freedom when it was done. In the end the crusaders just killed them after the well was dug.
Basalt…volcanic origin. Ground water is not usually of good quality. If it is over an active hotspot you are going to have hot springs with oodles of salts. We have a couple of hotspots around here. I once looked up the history of salt licks in Louisiana. One of them was listed near where our property is so I went to look at it. The salts crusted around it were yellow, blue, green, orange etc. “lets see…uranium..lead, calcium…ooh ooh look there is some copper.”
You are going to need some kind of cistern or surface water.
I’m wondering if they would even bother to put their city on top of one of these formations, or just opt for a spot next to a river at foothill level.
And by the time the volcanoes have eroded down to just the leftover cores, there’s no heat left in them, so no hot springs.
I live in Louisiana. We have hot springs. But it is your world you can make it like you want. Both conditions can be found in various places in the world.
It will depend on how high the danger of invasion is. The cliffside dwellers in the SW US chose to build there because the danger of ending up on a spit was very high. those cliff dwellings were fortresses. Other places people chose to build closer to reliable water sources because the danger was lower…or they walled their towns. Basalt can be a difficult stone to work so a stone walled town might not be as practical as places with sandstone or other sedimentary material.
Also possible to have both. A fortified hilltop for times of danger while the town is below on flatter ground. That was a common setup.
I’ve decided to go with that – with the added detail that the whole thing is on an island in the middle of the river. So a very unfun place for the army the narrator is with to try to attack.
Most likely at the base, with a fortification at the top. Take a look at Monsanto in Portugal for some ideas. There would probably be a limited water supply in the castle, with a fortified well (or wells) in the city.
Ok, I had a long comment that apparently I wasn’t logged in,
so this is short and more poorly written.
The city isn’t the defensive point, it’s just a trade depot.
The surrounding hills are likely to have a castle somewhere
for the local noble to hole up in if need be.
The castle doesn’t need to withstand a long siege, just
long enough that the besieger either starves out himself,
or is laid waste by disease. The besieger also probably
needs to get home by harvest time or he’ll have a
rebellion in the ranks. Water and wine stockpiles
are probably a higher priority than normal for the
castle in this case.
So, they’ll probably put their city the same place anyone else
would, since the trade benefits of the city are it’s primary
purpose.
I’ll also note that cavalry people won’t want to get holed
up in a city (or castle) so their defense isn’t going to focus
on terrain that’s bad for them. Whether it’s light cavalry
or heavy matters too, but I’d need to think a bit more
as to exactly how.
The dwarfs have a professional military and can seige indefinately as long as they can continue to defend their supply caravans and foraging teams. The whole reason they’ve come to this city is because they want to force the cavalry dudes to commit to a pitched battle, and bet a legion threatening to sack the city will do that.
Dwarfs?
Remember the story someone told at TOS where they were working in Jamaica and one day the revolutionaries showed up at the gringo hotel and announced they were taking everyone hostage?
The gringos had a record playing and were pouring drinks when all of these guys with AK’s showed up.
So they said to the revolutionaries “Hey, why dont you just have drinks with us instead? You can have the revolution later.”
The Jamaican rebels thought about that for a minute and said “Sure, why not.” then they threw all of their gun in a corner and drank all night with the gringos. It seems like a similar strategy would thwart a dwarf invasion.
Maybe. If you somehow had enough booze for three thousand Dwarfs.
Give ’em each a short dog?
Whether it’s light cavalry
or heavy matters too, but I’d need to think a bit more
as to exactly how.
Historically heavy cavalry based military centers around forts and strong points. Heavy cavalry is about shock not really about mobility.
It’s lighter than the plate armored knights the narrator’s allies are bringing to the party alongside the dwarf legion. Their biggest pain had been dealing with the mobility differential.
Well, I’ve drafted the city description.
Wife just tells me that now that the Russian collusion canard has fallen flat the MSM is saying that Trump is a mob boss.
What next? He is one of Mr. Lizard’s plants infiltrating govt from their base inside the hollow moon?
TDS is one hell of a drug.
He IS in charge of a protection racket. There’s this group of thug enforcers that will come after you if you don’t pay them. IRS? Something like that.
Progs should definitely look into abolishing that. To own the Trumpkins.
“What next?”
We get his tax returns. Circling the wagons, he’s done this time, we got em. /peak retard
They didn’t learn their lesson the last time they tried the tax return scheme.
They don’t do learning. If it didn’t work, they didn’t try it hard enough.
Yes?
DEA, New York law enforcement raid alleged NY drug mill, recover enough fentanyl to kill 2 nearly million people
Wow dude. They totally saved 2 million lives. Drug war, fuck yeah!
I live in Cincinnati, right next to the City runs a stream of a chemical so corrosive it has been called the universal solvent. 15,000 gallons per second of that chemical are discharged by this stream, as little as a cup of this substance can kill a person, so that is enough to kill 240,000 every second. Every hour enough is discharged to kill every person in America twice with enough left over to wipe out Canada and most of Mexico. AND NO ONE DOES ANYTHING!
Is that the river that used to regularly catch fire, or was that Cleveland?
That’s Cleveland. The Ohio is big enough and has a strong enough current that you’d have tough time getting it to catch fire over any significant stretch.
Rivers fires used to be fairly common, the one in Cleveland that burned was the Cuyahoga. While it’s cleaner now, I wouldn’t want to swim in it.
Fuck, it might be DHMO!
How can we keep the children safe from this scourge? They give DHMO away in schools for FREE!
Not here, we’ve replaced deadly DHMO with Hydrogen Hydroxide.
Body-count fantasies are the new moral panic schtick that totally isn’t tedious at all.
It’s the same outsized egoism that drives “save the world” thinking. You’re a speck on a speck when the world is concerned, but you think that cutting out 300 plastic straws a year is going to impact the planet? Melted down, they’re the size of a football.
Likewise, the drug Nazis have to feel important. They saved 2 million lives! Even though it was a mediocre bust that will have no impact on the broader market.
One sea turtle has an accident snorting coke and suddenly straws must be banned.
enough fentanyl to kill nearly 2 million people
Isis terror cell?
Mexican drug lords hardest hit.
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