Versailles

Other times Versailles came up

1. He mentions it in his memoirs. There is a theory now, a new theory, which is that the story of Aladdin might be an autobiography of this guy called Diab. He's talking about when he arrived in Paris, because he arrived in Versailles and they had all these wonderful things. Aladdin is obviously the story of a young boy who kind of gets lots of riches and stuff.

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2. Two floors, so how many metres are you saying? That door is two metres. Oh, OK. I'll say 16 metres. The floors, I'm talking about, have a very high ceiling. Oh, yeah, because you live in Versailles, don't you? Yeah. Guys, do you think it's less or more than 16 metres? Or maybe there's an infinite amount. I think it's going to be less than that. I guess you need to have enough to be making a vacuum in the straw that the water fills up to fill.

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3. It's, it, I think you put water on it, but it does crack. It doesn't forge well under the current forging conditions. That's why Germany invented the technique of press forging because they were working with the materials they had and also they had to be as efficient as possible. Once again, shot yourself in the foot with Versailles, didn't you? Allies. Then actually, playing the long game, you got the technology back.

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4. Gosh. He liked a gambler. He's a gambler. He got one thing really right, which was about the Treaty of Versailles. He was present in Versailles as the representative for the Treasury, financial rep. In 1919, he was arguing these compensation payments that you're suggesting Germany makes, they are too high. This is an insane impulse, and it will lead to disaster in the long run. and he was ignored he was kind of kept out of the room actually and so he was left to try and you know he and a couple of other reps were advising around the edges saying this may not work and he failed basically because the impulse to punish Germany was very strong but he was proved right him and Churchill wasn't I feel like Churchill said the same things they were just outside the room bitching about a stupid Versailles Wow but they were laughing in their faces 20 years later one thing that he didn't get right was he said oh I don't think he's going to get right is he said that by 2030 everyone in the Western world will be working a 15-hour work week.

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