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Kinda a funny post and I'm not really sure where to put it. I was stopped in rush hour traffic earlier today and idly looking outside my car under an overpass I noticed this: This is here:  This is in Vancouver (Canada) and I can honestly say I've never seen anything that looks like that, stuff is generally kept in pretty good repair and even an aesthetic issue would be patched up somewhat quickly (I've called about a new pothole/small sinkhole on a side road and it was dealt with the next day). I was curious to get the opinion of people in the subforum who may know whether this is something concerning or not. Even if there aren't any structural elements in that footer molding or whatever you'd call it, I would expect water ingress + freezing would be a worry for the integrity of the actual column. Is this nothing? Just the little decorative footer element failing in some way thats meaningless? Should I bother contacting the city engineers about it? It looks dirty enough that I don't have the opinion this happened overnight or anything like that. Actually the January 2022 google street view images show that it's been like that for awhile:  Guess it's nothing. Oh well!
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wesleywillis posted:NICE!!! I bid $787k on my place because it's uh like the place and I needed to pick some number anyways! e: it's a 2br condo lol and in USD I paid $452/sq foot, that HOUSE sold for $174/sq foot urggggh VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Dec 20, 2022 |
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Cat Hatter posted:I was going to crack wise about how "Yeah, but then you'd be in Ferndale. Lmao" but I'm barely familiar with the area and figured I should look it up first. According to Wikipedia: "Ferndale is well known in the Detroit area for its LGBT population and progressive policies" so that's good for them at least. Yeah I think it's mostly just living in a Vancouver suburb vs living in a Detroit suburb but still, that's like 5 years of 100% of my salary in terms of the price difference. Anyways.
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Cat Hatter posted:poo poo, to my understanding of Vancouver real estate you got a smoking deal if it was anything under a million. It's a suburb not Vancouver proper (not Surry either tho). This would be about 1.2M in Vancouver. I think I paid $50/sqft less than average for my area, which was still over 100k above asking price. Gotta go hard in the market here and yeah it's probably come down since I bought in the spring but I was feeling a lot of pressure to just get into the market before I was completely priced out.
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Dec 20, 2022 05:58
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Yeah I would have preferred a new building with no windows instead of the years I've done in various lovely old falling apart dorm rooms with single pane windows that did nothing to stop the sounds of first year drunk people outside. If they could have put windows in but decided not to for aesthetics I think that's a totally different and much worse problem. I think it's a generational thing, kids who are now of dorm age are probably thinking about mental health so much more than 15-20 years ago when I was in dorms. Especially if someone has brought it up as an issue in a building, you put a random 17 year old in that building and maybe they're more susceptible to having issues. e: at one place it became a game to sneak into each other's dorm rooms because you could open your window and reach out and push open your neighbours window next door, then barely climb out of your window and into theirs, where you'd like turn their CRT monitor on its side and then climb back. This was on the 3rd floor of the building and I never heard of anyone falling but it wouldn't surprise me. e2: looking at the post below, wow nvm I don't want any kind of communal space like that at all ever. VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 20:14 on Dec 22, 2022 |
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Motronic posted:It gets very complicated very quickly when it comes to multi tenant residential egress, but fortunately you might get to use my favorite fire code/building term: vomitorium. https://up.codes/s/stairways-connecting-to-vomitories Thank you for this.
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monkeytennis posted:Something about the upper windows on this building doesn’t sit quite right with me. This is hosed up OP Canuckistan posted:
Hell yeah  I feel like on a D&D chart of drive types you'd have flathead as chaotic evil and robertson as lawful neutral, JIS as lawful good, Torx as chaotic good, etc. VelociBacon fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Dec 26, 2022 |
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Guy Axlerod posted:What's the house equivalent of "I drive a stick shift No question it's the solar panel guy
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:I knew a Texan that I didn’t know was a Texan until I said “Don’t mess with Texas, illiterates can be dangerous” and boy howdy he let me know then Should have sent it as an email!
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Old looking sure but not a literal toilet from that era with probably no water trap and who knows what other problems. I don't think an old toilet could keep with my modern diet of curry and espresso.
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Beef Of Ages posted:Also where is the dishwasher air gap? If your dishwasher isn't connected to the cloud you don't need to air gap it but probably doesn't hurt in case there's a Miele zero-day.
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When you're drunk those probably cancel it out and you walk perfectly straight down them.
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PainterofCrap posted:Recent "fire" claim. Would someone's insurance cover that btw if she didn't do anything and the house burned down?
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PainterofCrap posted:When I find things that are preparing to imminently explode/catch fire/kill somebody, but are not actually doing anything yet, such as Interesting, so are you generally hired by potential home buyers or are you paid by the insurance companies and it's a clause that the owners have to bring an inspector in every 5 years etc? I've owned for less than a year and it's a concrete high rise condo. I just found the water cutoffs today!
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Not just for themselves, but also their neighbors. Mormonism pushes watching out for your neighbor as much as yourself in a catastrophic event. People in like NYC are (even before 9/11) 10000x times more looking out for other people than Canadians. I don't know where the stereotype comes from (probably from the small towns where everyone knows everyone else). I moved in April last year and I don't know my neighbor's names.
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It's that old 'kind but not nice' thing up here eh bud
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Ashcans posted:Someone please replace the fan blades with more cabinet doors, thanks. I did 
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Don't they use Goof as slang for pedophiles? No I've never heard of that. Goof is another way of calling someone an idiot/dipshit in a derogatory way. It basically means the person is someone to laugh at. It's not something you'd call a friend that slipped in a funny way, it's basically how you tell someone that they're not worth your time.
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I would expect that the vibration also makes things lovely for glass fuses in an engine bay but I don't have any data. My subwoofer circuit is ran with a glass fuse in the engine bay and it's blown once in 5 years.
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If I had that kitchen I'd finally have to sign up for whatever ubereats pass they keep trying to sell because I would refuse to enter that room
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carticket posted:My high school had hydrophic paper towels. When cleaning up a spill in the labs, the best you could do is really push the liquid into the floor. My high school had the rolls of fabric in the loop that kids would wrap around their necks to see if they would pass out. It was a simpler time and those things probably produced a ton of goons.
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You could mount a block heater (from a car where it gets super cold in the winter) to the back of that toilet and use a smart plug to have it turn on 30 min before you take your morning poo poo. Heaven on earth.
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LimaBiker posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qjYxX0BZfQ That's sad and I wonder if he wasn't in his right mind to begin with. There was a similar type of thing in China where some guy whose wife died of lung cancer or something, he went around paying people to stop smoking (the cigarette they were smoking, not the habit) and ended up destitute. Well meaning but not sustainable.
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That looks like a city streep map milled into a butcher block to me.
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I'm the guy using torx framing screws who also sawzall's through wiring.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This is what I was thinking. If you're walking down the sidewalk, and all of the buildings right next to you on either side are 3 stories tall, that's a very different feeling from if those buildings are 10 stories tall, even if there's 10-story buildings nearby. And people wonder why rent is over 2k for a 1br in Vancouver. Please build with density in mind, we're trying to afford life, not get intimidated by a building (????).
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kid sinister posted:I'm surprised the hammer drill didn't bust off the corner when drilled that close to the edge. It did, you can see they replaced the whole corner of that brick with mortar.
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The bottom part is for truckin' and the top part is 4 fuckin' e; heres your sign !
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HappyHippo posted:Let's not overlook whatever's going on here What isn't going on here
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Vim Fuego posted:from reddit: regardless the women are going to loving love this room
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https://i.imgur.com/WLcQIlO.mp4 HELP my smart thermostat is trying to sous vide my dumb rear end this is my actual life not from somewhere else I'm slowly dying
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VelociBacon posted:https://i.imgur.com/WLcQIlO.mp4 Just an update on this in case anyone was curious: my google home app was doing this somehow. It wasn't programmed to.
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peanut posted:Did you fix it It was a software glitch it wasn't like a setting or a scheduled temp change or anything. It eventually stopped last night and I'm just going to keep an eye on it. If it gets to 30C in this room I'll know about it because I sleep in here. I feel like I should also add that I'm super happy with these Mysa thermostats for the baseboard heaters (electric). I hugely recommend them. This glitch was google home being fucky and not the thermostats themselves or their app.
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Imagine walking through one of these ~art~ houses late at night trying to go take a poo poo or something, it would be horrifying
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That has to be Florida right? Any Americans familiar with that license plate?
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Orvin posted:Did they pour a non-level garage floor? Or did the floor shift that much over time? It's not just that, the entire roof line is seemingly parallel with the average sideways grade of the hosed driveway, what's going on here??
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