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MrPete posted:I think the real question we need to be asking is can I use some of this carpet to hide my 400 pounds of concrete? Did you find a concrete pattern?
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NancyPants posted:Did you find a concrete pattern?
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:It doesn't feel cold in winter. That's the reason. They make rugs. Washable rugs. Cheap washable rugs. Cheap washable rugs that can be thrown the gently caress out when they get ratty. Suspect Bucket posted:"Flotex Metro Neon". For the weird neon sex dungeon home, or weird neon sex dungeon office. Holy poo poo, they still make skating rink carpet?
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Liquid Communism posted:They make rugs. I feel like these mats made specifically for the bathroom should be called something. Mat-baths maybe?
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flosofl posted:I feel like these mats made specifically for the bathroom should be called something. pee-sopping rugs. Nasty.
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Motronic posted:pee-sopping rugs. Oh, yeah. The ones that are fitted for toilets are gross. I was thinking more specifically about the little ones with the rubberized back set just outside the tub. And seriously, if your flow control is so bad that you need to have a mop on standby every time you tinkle, just give up as a failure at being an adult male and pee sitting down.
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flosofl posted:pee sitting down. The plus side to this approach is that you can conveniently use the tank as a desk upon which to set your phone.
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Ride that can Slater style.
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Bad Munki posted:The plus side to this approach is that you can conveniently use the tank as a desk upon which to set your phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C90uhvXW1KM I have to admit, at times it hasn't seemed like the worst idea.
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Bad Munki posted:The plus side to this approach is that you can conveniently use the tank as a desk upon which to set your phone.  Men confuse me.
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sirr0bin posted:Ride that can Slater style.
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Can we include the Bay Bridge in this group? http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Fears-of-failure-grow-for-rods-on-Bay-Bridge-6588743.php Caltrans accepted a whole bunch of threaded rods without actually any QA inspection ever having been done. Turns out that the rods aren't threaded to spec, and a separate issue is that a number of them are cracking.
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flosofl posted:... You think it's all going in, but there's always a drop or two that goes wide. This accumulates over time. Or it comes out sideways first thing in the morning.
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Bad Munki posted:The plus side to this approach is that you can conveniently use the tank as a desk upon which to set your phone. Except that idiot designers make the cistern lids curved instead of flat.
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~Coxy posted:Except that idiot designers make the cistern lids curved instead of flat. Just put carpet on it to keep your things from slipping off.
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Phanatic posted:Can we include the Bay Bridge in this group?
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SneakyFrog posted:yeah the white carpet thing.. just.. ugh Take your shoes off in the house. White carpet is good, you can bleach the crap out of it without getting awful bleach stains. e: just noticed the background, ignore me 
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Manslaughter posted:Take your shoes off in the house. White carpet is good, you can bleach the crap out of it without getting awful bleach stains.  I havent made a blocky picture in a while.. sue me
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Zereth posted:So you're saying I should avoid driving on the bay bridge at all costs. Got it. The whole project was plagued with the "Stop performing inspections; if the bridge isn't built on time, I won't get my bonus!" mentality.
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Safety Dance posted:The whole project was plagued with the "Stop performing inspections; if the bridge isn't built on time, I won't get my bonus!" mentality. It's still not as completely loving hilarious as Big Bertha up in Seattle. I mean, they need to tear down the Alaskan Way viaduct, because it's obsolete and a decent quake is going to pancake it, Lomo-Prieta style. And it's a lovely road that completely cuts the city off from its own waterfront. So instead of just replacing it with nothing except good urban waterfront stuff, or just surface streets, they decide they're going to engage in a project that makes Boston's Big Dig look like a miracle of financial restraint: bury a replacement highway! I mean, sure, it's just another way to get traffic to bypass local merchants and such, but you could put parks and stuff on top of it and still come out ahead? But what if the tunnel machinebreaks? Or what if it starts screwing up the foundation supports for the nearby historic buildings of the district you're digging under? What about cost overruns? "Oh, none of that will happen." And of course, all of that happened. The best part is what the tunnel-boring machine struck to break it in the first place a steel well casing left over from the initial spoil-sample wells. No, wait, the best part is that while the state passed a law making Seattle responsible for all cost overruns, and Seattle passed a law limiting its liability to cost overruns to $x million (some specific number, I forget what), the overruns are already rapidly reaching that value, at which point the prime stops getting paid, probably walks off the job, and a lot of lawyers get to buy new boats. And, of course, paying for the overruns has already depleted the funds that were supposed to go to building parks and other nice urban waterfront things at ground level.
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Phanatic posted:It's still not as completely loving hilarious as Big Bertha up in Seattle. They should have just flattened the viaduct (its a 9/100 on safety and cracking) and turned it into a flat drive. I completely refuse to drive on the viaduct and 520 unless I absolutely have to. silicone thrills fucked around with this message at 16:33 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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Phanatic posted:It's still not as completely loving hilarious as Big Bertha up in Seattle. Living in the Chicago area, I wasn't aware of this so did some quick googling and read a couple of your local newspaper articles. Holy poo poo, that whole thing is hosed. From what I read, even the city council realizes they're stuck with STL, because after what's been happening no other contractor will want to touch this with a 10 foot pole. And theres worries that STL's internal finances may run out (if I read that correctly), and they've already spent $1bn of a budgeted $1.35bn and there's a still a lot of tunnel to go. At this point, aren't they more or less committed? If they end up having to flatten the viaduct, won't they have to do something about this aborted hole in the ground? Not to mention the costs involved with that after pissing away over $1bn dollars.
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flosofl posted:Living in the Chicago area, I wasn't aware of this so did some quick googling and read a couple of your local newspaper articles. Dude, I live in Philly, I'm enjoying this with all the detachment that being 3000 miles away from a 1st-magnitude Mongolian cluster gently caress can bring. Reading the old articles from the Stranger, the local alternaweekly, is hilarious, because every single reason they objected to the tunnel came true in spades.
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Trying to avoid a crappy construction tale: I'm about to embark upon a 500' directional drilling project to bring my electrical and fiber Internet lines from the public road to my house via underground conduit. I'm tired of my forest taking out utility poles that I'm responsible for at $7500 a pop (limited access for repair and installation drive up the cost). Will the power lines for 320-amp electrical service interfere with my fiber Internet line? The contractor was vague on this, and I want to make sure we do it right. Nothing is worth compromising my sweet fiber internet connection! Edit: He's putting two pvc conduits in the same bore, one for electric, one for fiber. That kosher? High Lord Elbow fucked around with this message at 18:25 on Oct 26, 2015 |
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They should be in separate conduits as your contractor is doing (this is a safety issue) but even if they weren't there would be no interference.
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Assuming the conduit is sized sufficiently that it doesn't turn into a tubular oven, and also assuming that your fiber is just fiber without any weird unshielded control-voltage conductors running with it, and assuming that the person installing it does so properly so pulling one doesn't gently caress up the other, then yes it'd be fine. However that's several assumptions, which is several more than you should be really comfortable with, I'd run another conduit. edit: oh. you are. it's fine then
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Yeah.....we wouldn't be fine with just one if the utility company is sane. I don't know of anywhere that allows mixing medium/high voltage with low volt/no volt. As long as the fiber isn't pulled wrong (exceed the bend radius or tensile strength) everything should be fine.
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Phanatic posted:It's still not as completely loving hilarious as Big Bertha up in Seattle.
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flosofl posted:Oh, yeah. The ones that are fitted for toilets are gross. I was thinking more specifically about the little ones with the rubberized back set just outside the tub. A weird acquaintance of my wife (our kids play together) told her that her husband has chosen to sit down to pee now. I don't know why he would do that, or why his wife volunteered that info to someone she barely knows.
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canyoneer posted:A weird acquaintance of my wife (our kids play together) told her that her husband has chosen to sit down to pee now. "Why would you think it's okay to share that?"
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Why not sit down to pee at home? It's not like it's some grotty public toilet where you'd rather splash the floor than touch the seat.
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GotLag posted:Why not sit down to pee at home? It's not like it's some grotty public toilet where you'd rather splash the floor than touch the seat. Because I don't want to commit to that sort of long-term relationship with the toilet for something as quick as taking a piss. It's a matter of overhead, you see.
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You don't have to sweet talk the seat and buy it dinner.
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GotLag posted:You don't have to sweet talk the seat and buy it dinner. Maybe you don't.
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Motronic posted:Yeah.....we wouldn't be fine with just one if the utility company is sane. If you hear them mention a "chugger" then I would be concerned. Should be fine .
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