The story as a whole wasn't at all bad, it was just that one comment that jarred. Giles comes from the country where a Roman fort from 300AD rates a small plaque (it's near the Science and Technology Museum in Manchester, should you want to look at it) and there are lots and lots of buildings from the 18th century still in active use. That he'd consider something a hundred years old to be "very old" seems... wildly improbable. And it's the sort of thing I've become used to seeing from USAnians.
You'll have to go read the story I wrote and say nasty thing about that one in return :-)
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Date: 2003-01-04 04:13 am (UTC)You'll have to go read the story I wrote and say nasty thing about that one in return :-)