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i mean the house did settle
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So did his wife.
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Oct 27, 2017 20:14
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Phanatic posted:So did his wife. Goddamn.
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Oct 27, 2017 20:30
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Phanatic posted:So did his wife. 
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Oct 27, 2017 20:55
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Phanatic posted:So did his wife. 
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Oct 27, 2017 20:58
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Phanatic posted:So did his wife.
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Oct 27, 2017 21:24
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She is gonna string him up by the balls when it comes to child support just by pointing at this about saying "full custody, also, $$$"
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Oct 27, 2017 21:46
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Yawgmoth posted:She is gonna string him up by the balls when it comes to child support just by pointing at this about saying "full custody, also, $$$" At least she won't get the house!
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Oct 28, 2017 00:14
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Facebook Aunt posted:At least she won't get the house! Or, it's become much easier to just take her half in handy pieces.
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Oct 28, 2017 02:35
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there wolf posted:I kind of like it. But then I also don't believe someone actually gilded eggshells and glued them down. I'd be ok if they were delicate little porcelain pots instead of eggshells.
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Oct 28, 2017 03:17
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 And they want fifty dollars for it.
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Oct 28, 2017 04:33
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As a dude with no sense of colour coordination I've always swore I'd paint everything eggshell. But not with actual egg shells.
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So, I decided to do a little more surround-sound wiring downstairs, by which I mean "start the surround-sound wiring downstairs." I'd placed gang boxes for the input side near the receiver and one behind the center speaker above the television, and figured I'd just run the RCA cable for the subwoofer really quickly today. I mean, the basement is set up perfectly for it -- there's a drop ceiling, and as you can see in the picture below there are even easy chaseways straight back and to either side from the column the television is on. ... only there isn't. That column the TV is on? The builder put a horizontal sheet of drywall on top of it (I'm guessing he built the side-to-side portion of the ceiling that's a bit lower first, since that's where some HVAC runs. HOwever, as I am a manlet, I was able to stick my arm in the hole I made for the center speaker gangbox, and chop a hole in it with a drywall knife. Still, come on, man.
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Oct 28, 2017 23:20
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tetrapyloctomy posted:HOwever, as I am a manlet, I was able to stick my arm in the hole I made for the center speaker gangbox, and chop a hole in it with a drywall knife. As a fellow spaghetti-arm-haver, let me tell you, that poo poo comes in handy SO MUCH when trying to be minimally invasive on old work.
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Bad Munki posted:As a fellow spaghetti-arm-haver, let me tell you, that poo poo comes in handy SO MUCH when trying to be minimally invasive on old work. I was so happy I didn't have to chop another hole in the wall somewhere. I can't easily feed wires into the hole I made, though, so I might have to rig up some short lengths of conduit with PVC to make it all easier. I also still haven't decided where to put the front left and right speakers, either (the speaker stands are meant to be temporary). To get them thirty degrees left and right means I'd have to mount them sideways on that area at the edge of the drop ceiling, and mounting vertical speakers horizontally almost certainly screws with sound dispersion. I could also just move the speaker stands when I want better sound, I guess, but then I'd have to recalibrate the sound.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:To get them thirty degrees left and right means I'd have to mount them sideways on that area at the edge of the drop ceiling, and mounting vertical speakers horizontally almost certainly screws with sound dispersion. Ehhh this depends. Mounting them sideways broadly speaking narrows the ideal listening position, so if it's just you or maybe a narrow sofa it should be fine. The photo doesn't show the seating so hard to say, but if there's a wide array of sofas and chairs then yeah some of the seating positions are going to get some heavy dips. That said, from the looks of it you're in a large room with lots of hard flat surfaces and very little to break up the echoes, so maybe it won't matter. Try it and see.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Ehhh this depends. Mounting them sideways broadly speaking narrows the ideal listening position, so if it's just you or maybe a narrow sofa it should be fine. The photo doesn't show the seating so hard to say, but if there's a wide array of sofas and chairs then yeah some of the seating positions are going to get some heavy dips. Not super-wide, no -- a futon and two chairs than get moved to near the futon when watching television due to poor off-angle picture: it was a cheap television I bought to fill the space, and a 50" LCD is the largest screen that will fit on that column, so it's the limit unless we put a television on the wall and the couch near the column. When I get around to it the attic is a much better place for a large television. Anyway, I'll have to fabricate some mounting plates anyway -- the speakers just have a single keyhole, so to mount them sideways and aim them a bit downward will require some work, and I guess I could also aim them toward the center a bit as well -- so the stands will stay for the time being. Here's a picture pointed toward where I took the first image, for reference. 
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Oct 29, 2017 15:44
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Buddy found this on a home inspection he was doing Never seen a shower head exclusively for your balls
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Oct 29, 2017 23:03
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Women use showers too, and that one looks pretty great although too amazingly indiscreet for real life. Just get the detachable handheld kind and then you can just pretend it's a cleaning thing (it is good for that too).
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i like nice words
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FCKGW posted:Buddy found this on a home inspection he was doing Now I have seen this, my shower experience will always feel like something is missing
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Oct 29, 2017 23:21
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FCKGW posted:Buddy found this on a home inspection he was doing Maybe that was for washing their dogs? Still, a shower wand would be better for that. Also, everyone, that pipe is one of 3 methods for mounting bath spouts. Yes, the threads are the same as a shower arm.
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Oct 29, 2017 23:47
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FCKGW posted:Buddy found this on a home inspection he was doing Great way to vaporize your hemorrhoids.
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Oct 30, 2017 00:03
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FCKGW posted:Buddy found this on a home inspection he was doing It's a stand-up bidet of course. You bend over and pull a goatse on it, and you are good to go!
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Oct 30, 2017 01:40
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That grout job is pissing me off.
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And here we have a push-stick with an RCA subwoofer cable and two speaker wires (left and right side surround) successfully pulled through the drop ceiling into the column. I'm going to do the rear speakers some other day. I at least had the foresight to pull another length of wire through just so I could use it to pull the rear speaker wires through and not have to fish around with the stick again.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:And here we have a push-stick with an RCA subwoofer cable and two speaker wires (left and right side surround) successfully pulled through the drop ceiling into the column. Rip in peace controller buttons
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Oct 30, 2017 02:15
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Variable 5 posted:Rip in peace controller buttons He posted in the right thread. Har har har.
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tangy yet delightful posted:He posted in the right thread. Har har har. I’m still gutting my house after Harvey and Sheetrock dust gets everywhere 
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tetrapyloctomy posted:And here we have a push-stick with an RCA subwoofer cable and two speaker wires (left and right side surround) successfully pulled through the drop ceiling into the column. They make pull string especially for that, you know. Also, those Arlington low voltage old work boxes rule.
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FCKGW posted:Buddy found this on a home inspection he was doing Did Lyndon B. Johnson live there? http://gawker.com/lbj-was-obsessed-with-his-dick-1694599317 quote:Vanity Fair today points out an excerpt from a forthcoming history of the White House called The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Anderson Brower. The section of the book about Johnson includes an anecdote about the presidential shower. According to Brower, it was very important that a newly installed jet stream be blasting water directly at Johnson's dick.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:And here we have a push-stick with an RCA subwoofer cable and two speaker wires (left and right side surround) successfully pulled through the drop ceiling into the column. if the subwoofer is powered (ie, you're just sending it line level signal), you're gonna enjoy life way more if you keep the runs of unbalanced audio cable as short as is humanly possible. more than ten feet starts to end in tears pretty quick.
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FCKGW posted:Buddy found this on a home inspection he was doing Maybe the bathroom has twenty foot ceilings, and the dick nozzle is just there to provide warmth?
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Goredema posted:Maybe the bathroom has twenty foot ceilings, and the dick nozzle is just there to provide warmth? Maybe it's a totally normal shower head and the handle is on the ceiling.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:I managed not to throw up between being a baby and being a 20 year old, so when I woke up at 4am in my parents' guest room feeling really...off...I didn't know what to do. All I knew is I couldn't quit making GBS threads long enough to do anything else with the toilet, so I had to grab the trash can and use it as a barf receptacle. So a few years ago I was in the hospital. I had to poo poo BAD. Bad enough that I couldn't waste much time getting my IV machine thing dragged into the bathroom (doing so required getting out of bed, unplugging it, dragging it with me to the bathroom, etc, and I was somewhat sedated). Nope, ripped the screw on part of the IV out of the catheter going into my arm, ran into the bathroom, pulled my pants down, and.... my rear end let loose before hitting the toilet, and I started puking at the same time. With what was left of the IV trying to turn it into a murder-poo poo scene with every beat of my heart. The look on the nurse's face when I pulled the "hey I need help" cord in the bathroom....  It's been several years and I still feel terrible about that. It took several people a good 30 minutes to clean the mess up. They brought me a massive bed pad after that and told me they'd much rather clean a lovely bed. YamiNoSenshi posted:My parents rented a house that was sagging in one corner. I stayed over one weekend and didn't notice it too much. Until I stumbled out of bed in the middle of the night to take a leak, and just kept stumbling all the way into the corner of the room. Nothing in my apartment is square, and if you drop a large marble in the middle of a room, it'll wander around before settling into a corner... eventually. Anyone that comes over that hasn't been here before complains about feeling drunk the first few times they walk across my living room. I decided against setting my aquarium back up after moving here - the shelving unit next to my desk is against the baseboard at the floor, and about 6 inches away from the wall at the top. And visibly wobbles anytime even my cat walks across the room. My place is very much crappy construction tales - this guy built every apartment and condo in this area (my place was originally condos, built in 1983, then converted into apartments). Bankrupted a few S&Ls along the way, and everything he built is slapped together as cheaply as possible (even cheaper than apartments and condos tend to do stuff).
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SoundMonkey posted:if the subwoofer is powered (ie, you're just sending it line level signal), you're gonna enjoy life way more if you keep the runs of unbalanced audio cable as short as is humanly possible. more than ten feet starts to end in tears pretty quick. kid sinister posted:They make pull string especially for that, you know. Variable 5 posted:Rip in peace controller buttons
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:So a few years ago I was in the hospital. I had to poo poo BAD. Bad enough that I couldn't waste much time getting my IV machine thing dragged into the bathroom (doing so required getting out of bed, unplugging it, dragging it with me to the bathroom, etc, and I was somewhat sedated). Nope, ripped the screw on part of the IV out of the catheter going into my arm, ran into the bathroom, pulled my pants down, and.... my rear end let loose before hitting the toilet, and I started puking at the same time. With what was left of the IV trying to turn it into a murder-poo poo scene with every beat of my heart. That's worthy of the healthcare stories thread. Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:My place is very much crappy construction tales - this guy built every apartment and condo in this area (my place was originally condos, built in 1983, then converted into apartments). Bankrupted a few S&Ls along the way, and everything he built is slapped together as cheaply as possible (even cheaper than apartments and condos tend to do stuff). Could someone clarify the difference between "apartment" and "condo"? In exchange I'll explain the difference between "apartment" and "flat" in the UK; there isn't one, except "apartment" is sometimes used to make it seem fancier, or sometimes when talking about multi-floor apartments since they're not "flat" anymore. It's a "luxury flat" if you're arguing against gentrification, and a "luxury apartment" if you're selling them. There's also bedsits.. sorry "studio" apartments.. Jaded Burnout fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Oct 30, 2017 |
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Jaded Burnout posted:That's worthy of the healthcare stories thread. You rent apartments and own condos. As far as I know that's it.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Could someone clarify the difference between "apartment" and "condo"? With an apartment, a landlord owns the building and tenants pay to live there. Condominiums are owned by individuals, typically the resident. There is a condo association that collects fees and owns and maintains common areas, roofs, exterior walls, &c..
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Ah, we have no such distinction (other than freehold/leasehold/rental).
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Jaded Burnout posted:That's worthy of the healthcare stories thread. Didn't the old one get closed recently?
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