r/interestingasfuck Jun 06 '25

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

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u/palmerry Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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

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u/GameTheory_ Jun 06 '25

But the fourth one? The fourth one stayed up!

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u/SausageClatter Jun 06 '25

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

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u/thisfriend Jun 06 '25

She's got HUUUGE tracts of land...

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u/BootsToYourDome Jun 06 '25

SING !!

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u/Karl_42 Jun 06 '25

STOP!!! STOP SINGING!!!

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u/MarkIII-VR Jun 07 '25

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

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u/Karl_42 Jun 07 '25

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

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '25

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

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u/Certain-Sherbet-9121 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 07 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

AND NO SINGING!

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

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u/True_Pirate Jun 06 '25

I was looking for this

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u/Mallardguy5675322 Jun 07 '25

Only Shrek and the Dutch can build forts on swamps

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u/PeriodSupply Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

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

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u/Valuable_Sea_4709 Jun 06 '25

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 Jun 06 '25

Jimi Hendrix mentioned something about this.

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u/Schopenschluter Jun 06 '25

I love Jammy Handtricks

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u/randodeb Jun 06 '25

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

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u/mrcheevus Jun 06 '25

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

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u/thesuper88 Jun 07 '25

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