His tone wasn’t to clarify AD vs. BC, but his hesitance over the culturally imperialistic assumptions underpinning the use of AD (as opposed to CE, for instance, or 3986/4046 in Chinese continuous system). He doesn’t want to be insensitive…
Cat is lucky they didn’t catch him photographing future museum pieces. I think the penalty in 1350 was the wheel.
Plus, y’know, the burning alive for diabolism with lenses. But there are pictorial signs up all over the Middle Ages about that, and most tourists just ignore them.
@Chris Adams: They read them, but they ignore them because obeying them would reveal that they can read, which would make them stand out waaay too much.
Pretty sure the tour guide spends like 5 minutes drilling that into the groups heads so there isn’t a repeat of that nasty incident the first time they ran the tour. Bringing a paleolinguist along seemed like such a good idea at the time, but it sooooo wasn’t.
Also, the four winds is gross all the time, but if the horses don’t all move at the same time… ugh.
February 15, 2011
But Oktoberfest is only 200 years old.
February 15, 2011
Ah the black death. You just don’t see plagues like that anymore.
February 15, 2011
I like how he hesitantly adds “AD,” in a little tiny balloon shaded on the edges, as if it’s somehow shameful that he didn’t visit 1350 BC.
I guess it *would* have been fun to see Pharaoh Amenhotep IV Akhenaton rise to the throne of Egypt.
February 15, 2011
His tone wasn’t to clarify AD vs. BC, but his hesitance over the culturally imperialistic assumptions underpinning the use of AD (as opposed to CE, for instance, or 3986/4046 in Chinese continuous system). He doesn’t want to be insensitive…
February 15, 2011
He’s distinguishing it from 1350 Grand Street, where Jennifer was having a sweet Oktoberfest-themed house party last weekend.
February 15, 2011
I thought it was a pause for effect.
February 16, 2011
I think it was to avoid confusion with “hour of the clock 1350”. It’s still time travel if it’s over very short distances.
February 16, 2011
That should have probably read “time of the clock”. It’s been an early morning.
February 16, 2011
Earth. Britain. 1:02 a.m.
… No, p.m.
… No- AD…
February 16, 2011
Cat is lucky they didn’t catch him photographing future museum pieces. I think the penalty in 1350 was the wheel.
Plus, y’know, the burning alive for diabolism with lenses. But there are pictorial signs up all over the Middle Ages about that, and most tourists just ignore them.
February 16, 2011
I love Cat’s photos…
Do they organise Minoan Crete tours?
February 21, 2011
@Chris Adams: They read them, but they ignore them because obeying them would reveal that they can read, which would make them stand out waaay too much.
Pretty sure the tour guide spends like 5 minutes drilling that into the groups heads so there isn’t a repeat of that nasty incident the first time they ran the tour. Bringing a paleolinguist along seemed like such a good idea at the time, but it sooooo wasn’t.
Also, the four winds is gross all the time, but if the horses don’t all move at the same time… ugh.