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[–] 107 points 2 years ago* (24 children)

I've been to this bridge. It's the Devil's Bridge in Wales.

Here's another angle, ripped from Wikipedia:

The river underneath is insanely deep. Pictures do not do it justice just how much further it goes out of the bottom of this frame. You do not get out of there. That is death.

The bottom-most bridge was built around the 12th century. How the hell they managed to build stuff like this way back then staggers me.

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    They really should continue the tradition by building a fourth bridge over the current one when the time comes.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Duh, the Devil helped it's in the name.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You may joke, but that's actually part of the legend of the bridge!

    The legend goes that a woman saw her cow grazing on the opposite side of the river.

    To get it back, the devil offered to build a bridge in exchange for a living soul.

    The woman threw a piece of bread across the new bridge and her dog went to eat it. The devil got the dog's soul 👍

    Poor dog

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago*

    While we're talking about Devil's Bridges, Hamburg has one, too: It was built to make crossing the devil's ford easier, so called because there were so many accidents there people couldn't explain it otherwise. A carpenter was contracted, who is said to have made a pact with the devil, that the bridge may stay, at the price of the soul of the first living thing to cross the bridge. On inauguration day, then, the local reverend blessed the bridge and set off to cross it, when out of the bushes a rabbit appeared and sprinted across the bridge. A statute memorialises the occasion:

    ...the less exciting explanation is that back when Holstein was still under Danish rule there were two bridges close together, and the double bridge then turned into the devil's one. dövelt -> Düvel in Low Saxon makes a lot of sense but is boring.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    The bottom-most bridge was built around the 12th century. How the hell they managed to build stuff like this way back then staggers me.

    I find it hard to relate with this sentence. That's just 3 bridges on the top of what seems like a natural rock formation, right? With 2 being arches and the top one being a modern-ish structure.

    No matter how deep it is, it's narrow enough to just move a prebuild wooden foot bridge used for people to go around constructing the thing.

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Bridge over troubled bridges

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    There is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution that works.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I once learned that Norwegians have a word for that. It's something like permasorium (provisorium being a temporary solution) and I try to introduce it into German because German does not have a word for it.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    We should go back to building things with rocks

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    why remove that? it doesn't affect the new bridge in any way, except maybe making access easier

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Every game engine older than two console generations in existence.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I wanna put some plywood walls up and live in it like a troll

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Surely the devil has something to say about all of this?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Ah yes the ever elusive "tech debt"

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Tbh I don't think my code could last several hundred years.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)