03-20-2017, 02:12 AM
(03-19-2017, 10:51 AM)gabrielle Wrote:(03-18-2017, 11:52 AM)The Wonkette Wrote:(03-18-2017, 01:52 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: So what is good taste? As usual, restraint. It's safe to say that the Prime Minister of the UK is still one of the most powerful people in the world. To be sure, even Sir Winston Churchill did not have or did not use the power to order the murder of a dissident or an opponent, unlike some of the dictators depicted through their digs. He had other, more pressing concerns.
This is 10 Downing Street:
Nothing gaudy here.
Symmetry rules. It's Victorian except for the computer.
Victorian? When I picture a Victorian parlor, simplicity is not what comes to mind.
Georgian rather than Victorian, then?
Apparently that entrance hall has had a black and white checkered floor since the 1780s.
https://www.gov.uk/government/history/10-downing-street
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Victorians often had a love of archaic styles --and Georgian was one of the favored styles.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.