House of Cards
on July 20, 2016
at 12:00 am
We saw a house with floors so sloped I thought I was gonna vomit from vertigo. Another house had an attached garage that was only accessible through the master bedroom. My favorite was the house with a bathroom that was just wide enough to fit the toilet.
The bit about bathrooms just big enough to fit in the toilet sounds like new builds in the UK. the bathrooms are big enough that you have a sink, toilet and a bath in them. the hard party is opening the door – we changed ours so that it opened out, that way it was possible to enter the room AND close the door behind us….
I mean seriously – 85 sqr metres for a 3 bedroom detached house is is now considered BIG for UK new builds.
We are told that 1 bedroom apartments are what people want – no what we want is space to live enough bedrooms for the kids not to be in the same room as mum and dad, all ‘they’ have done is inflate the price so high that a 1 bedroom shoebox is just about attainable (where you define attainable as 2 people working full time with 2 jobs each and a large loan from their parents)
Why not ask your Queen for a bigger place?
And, maybe, one of her geese*.
*the Queen owns all the geese in socialist UK.
There isn’t all that much that the queen of England actually owns. The Crown Estate owns an awful lot, but it’s not like the monarch of the day would be allowed to sell it off at a whim (the true mark of ownership), the estate commisioners would have to have the permission of the government of the day. Heck, the monarch would probably be whipped into line pretty quick (though most politely and respectfully, I’m sure) if, for example, they tried to sell off more than a token few of their ‘personal’ art treasures – unless they were sold to the nation or national museums.
Our relationship to our monarch is both indulgent and controlling. But at least it means our army can pledge their loyalty to a stable figurehead of the nation rather than to an elected government whose policies can change regularly. A fictional stability, perhaps, but at times in our history a most useful one.
Oh, and not geese – swans. And not even all those.
*This message was brought to you be Tedious Pedants Ltd.* 😉
Oh, yeah! Swans.
I knew it was a big bird (no â„¢), but it’s been a bit since I saw the in-depth documentary from the esteemed institution – College Humor.
🙂
That’s not a (ahem) bug. It’s a feature. The next time you guys piss off the Germans your houses will be smaller targets and harder to bomb from the air.
Is that for the “toilet” or is it one of those Roman ass wiping sticks?
both.
You forgot the nice house with the inter-dimensional hellmouth in the kids’ room!
Panel 2 made me guffaw. The skull on the floor was the capper. That’s about the level of housing I can afford.
Well, I live in a mobile home, sans skulls, but it’s about two hundred years old, and I’m sure saw some rough times on the trail over here from Missouri during the gold rush of the mid-1800s.
Funny, it doesn’t look like a throne to me…
I still remember house shopping and being shown a house that had ‘dust’ on the floor… saw dust… are those holes in the wood?… Oh look, termites! and that main support beam looks like Swiss cheese. Honey, we’re leaving now, step softly and don’t slam the door too hard, I don’t want the roof falling down.
Needless the say the realtor was a bit embarrassed when I pointed it out and was on the phone to her office immediately.
I remember viewing houses where the floor level changed three times in one room. And a house that smelled so strongly of cat pee that it made your eyes water. Ah, memories.
I assume by this comic you’re staying in the Madison area. Good times for sure.