Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/04/27/moulin-rouge-goes-topless-as-blades-fall-off-famed-parisian-windmill.html
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@CarolynTownsend (oh, that won’t work will it?)
A windmill has sails, not blades.
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Not this one.
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You are correct, of course.
In which case it does not have blades, either.
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One of the symptoms of windmill cancer?
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Same thing happened a few years ago at my local Denny’s.
This kind of failure on modern, purely decorative windmills makes me respect the builders of historic windmills all the more. I once visited the windmills in Kinderdijk, Netherlands, which are still operating and date back to the 1730s.
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Maybe windmill cancancer…
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Is this that place in France where ladies dance? I’ve heard stories about their structural problems for years.
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How does that famous song go, “votre moulin va tomber sur moi ce soir?”
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