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value-brand cereal posted:Hey, do you guys want to see a house specifically designed to hate and loathe disabled people and people who use walkers / wheelchairs? That's marketed to lengthen your lifespan? Oh boy! It's call the Bioscleave house, and some of you probably have heard of it already. Have some pictures. "Japanese rammed earth," according to the listing. Why yes, I want to clamber over a bumpy sinkhole on my way to any other room in the house, and have my eyes constantly burned by color. Also, every outlet and switch being tilted is triggering me badly. I wish I had the money to buy that, dig out and level the central floor, and paint the whole damned house beige, just to irritate the pretentious as gently caress "designers/artists." Or better still, live in the original A-frame house, and raise wild dingoes or something in the artsy house.
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Youth Decay posted:Pulaski is just a blighted old coal town in southwest VA, pretty scenery but there's no industry or anything there now. See also Wytheville, Tazewell, Galax, and Bluefield. I used to think I77 between Pilot Mountain and Beckley was the emptiest most blighted place on the east coast but then I drove from Williamsport PA to Corning NY without seeing a single artificial light for two hours
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There are these 3 neat MCM office buildings in my city https://goo.gl/maps/rJiUFVvBM622    They used to house the Department of Game and Inland Fisheries but have been vacant for a couple years now. A developer is going to raze all of them to build luxury apartments. Which wouldn't make me nearly as mad if said developer's previous projects didn't all look like poo poo.
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shame on an IGA posted:I used to think I77 between Pilot Mountain and Beckley was the emptiest most blighted place on the east coast but then I drove from Williamsport PA to Corning NY without seeing a single artificial light for two hours Turn on your headlights.
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shame on an IGA posted:I used to think I77 between Pilot Mountain and Beckley was the emptiest most blighted place on the east coast but then I drove from Williamsport PA to Corning NY without seeing a single artificial light for two hours Try driving thru rural Montana at night. No, sincerely, do that. It's amazing  It's also a place where you can drive for 8 hours, not interact with another human aside from maybe raising two fingers off the wheel to wave at someone on a dirt road, and still be within the same quadrant of the state where you started.
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Jaded Burnout posted:Yeah those, or whatever they used in the 70s Do not gently caress with those or the old rubber ones. I almost lost my eye to one. I attached it to a cardboard box handle hole (mistake number one) and then pulled it over and onto a hand truck. I was pulling it to my car to unload the stack when it came flying off and smashed the lens on my glasses and sliced my cornea. Thats (2) scarred cornea's so now Lasik for me, ever. I only use ratchet straps now.
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:Try driving thru rural Montana at night. One time I drove nonstop with my partner at the time from Dallas to Las Vegas. Left around 9am, saw the last Texas State Trooper and the last green plant on the western outskirts of Fort Worth, and pretty much held it at 90 from then on. Saw one cop car after I left DFW -- a city cop in downtown ABQ at like midnight. Drove across the high desert in the dark, the sunrise brought the Krazy Kat/Roadrunner & Coyote/ Spaceman Spiff landscapes of the Mojave. It was magical. We also drove up to see my partner's family in upstaye NY a couple times, but they were more grueling than fun, what with traffic amd having to obey the speed limit and all. Road trips out west are epic.
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I present to you...the Gobbler http://www.lileks.com/institute/motel/ This is an actual rabbit hole you'll spend at least 30 minutes reading and clicking through.
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Goober Peas posted:I present to you...the Gobbler Lileks is always pro click
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Goober Peas posted:I present to you...the Gobbler    
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Goober Peas posted:I present to you...the Gobbler My family used to eat there on the drive from northern Wisconsin to Chicago all through the 60s and 70s.
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  bet this was fun to build
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Care to explain to us what this signifies? Heights? Lengths? Or just an irregular grid?
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All I can tell is that every single measurement is different from every other one. And they're all weird measurements, too. 11.58, 2.93, 3.78.
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If you've seen a site in the early stages of construction, you'll have seen stringlines running across the site showing where the walls and corners are. 99% of the time these are all parallel aside from the occasional angled exterior wall to fit an odd shaped lot or occasional houses with 135° bends. Judging from the fact that there are multiple lines at odd angles through the whole thing , the whole thing is going to be feature walls at crazy angles.
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Youth Decay posted:A developer is going to raze all of them to build luxury apartments. Which wouldn't make me nearly as mad if said developer's previous projects didn't all look like poo poo. Why the gently caress is almost every single one of them named Clairmont?
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packetmantis posted:Why the gently caress is almost every single one of them named Clairmont? Clairmont or Belmont (apparently the new development will be another Belmont). They wanted the names to be equally as bland as their taste in architecture.
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Probably all developed for the same client. Retirement village operator perhaps?
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TheLastManStanding posted:They claim it's the grooviest motel in Wisconsin, but they've got some stiff competition from the Don Q Inn. I'd bone a chick in the back of that caddy. I'm kinda pissed about the Don Q Inn though. I was hoping for a Zorro themed hotel that was built by Douglas Fairbanks.
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wesleywillis posted:I'd bone a chick in the back of that caddy. No, that would be more along the lines of the Don Quix Hotel.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:All I can tell is that every single measurement is different from every other one. It's metric... but normally surveyors and civil engineers do decimals anyway. It throws me off to read decimal feet, but I guess decimals with meters isn't all that bad.
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Jaguars! posted:
Wonder if that's one of those luxury apartments where every single inch of space is built out on, so you get poo poo like Floorplans A-D, with each having a .1-4 due to the dumb variances that result.
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right angles are for pussies
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Jaded Burnout posted:right angles are for pussies Right angles sound terrible for pussies
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The Bloop posted:Right angles sound terrible for pussies Can confirm, pussies really prefer rounded off edges. Get the router and power sander!
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Bevel me baluster!
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Jaguars! posted:Probably all developed for the same client. Retirement village operator perhaps? Retirement home for vampire hunters.
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Suspect Bucket posted:Can confirm, pussies really prefer rounded off edges. Get the router and power sander! I mean I've seen some extreme sex toys but this seems like a step too far.
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Fender Anarchist posted:I mean I've seen some extreme sex toys but this seems like a step too far. Then stay away from the website "loving machines dot com". Assuming its still around.
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wesleywillis posted:Assuming its still around. That definitely threw me off the scent, your secret fetish is safe.
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The Blacksmithing/Metalwork thread: anything for penetration MUST be anodized
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Fender Anarchist posted:I mean I've seen some extreme sex toys but this seems like a step too far.
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GotLag posted:That definitely threw me off the scent, your secret fetish is safe. Heard about it on Howard Stern show, but I'll admit curiosity got the better of me once or twice.
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They are redoing all the landscaping at our co-op, since when it was built in 1962 they didn't believe in things like groundwater retention etc. There have been a few instances of crappy construction so far. Last week they severed our cable because Comcast buried it about an inch under the ground instead of two feet. Last week our basement sprung a muddy water leak because they were dumping all the old concrete next to our house (we're an end unit) which jiggled something lose somewhere. But the most egregious thing is that the dividers between each bit of new concrete don't line up properly. That's going to drive me insane. 
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I love those mid-century metal sun-shade-privacy-grill things.
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Goober Peas posted:I present to you...the Gobbler Oh, no you don't. I don't have the time to dig back into Lileks. The '70s catalog collection, and the museum of bad recipes are amazing. God Lord the '70s had zero taste. TheLastManStanding posted:They claim it's the grooviest motel in Wisconsin, but they've got some stiff competition from the Don Q Inn. Childhood me wants this badly. Baronjutter posted:I love those mid-century metal sun-shade-privacy-grill things. Yeah, I'm digging that architecture, too.
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FilthyImp posted:An old Adult Swim show (Moral Orel) had this as a plot point -- lady takes power tools to her bits because she likes the attention from the doctor. Morel Orel was a documentary, even more so than Squidbillies.
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Darchangel posted:Oh, no you don't. I don't have the time to dig back into Lileks. Thanks, it is kinda neat. The development was part of the first urban renewal project in the country, and was a joint project with HUD and Reynolds Aluminum (building material of the future!).
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