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Bibendum's post was so prophetic and perfect.Bibendum posted:I started writing up a big post but I don't think it will be constructive. Only two things were requested; OP did neither. Queen Combat fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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joats posted:I read it. Blew my mind. Like how do you not question how i-beams work before destroying them. If I don’t understand it, it must be simple! 
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Dec 10, 2018 19:27
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quote:Yes, which i'm sure is not to code, but its the only way I can accomplish what I'm trying to do. He's so close to understanding, but yet so far
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Dec 10, 2018 19:34
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Variable 5 posted:If I don’t understand it, it must be simple!  have too much power in the homebuying process..."
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Dec 10, 2018 19:43
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AFewBricksShy posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3813464 edit: and this, the most important image: 
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Dec 10, 2018 20:41
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I followed that thread when it was ongoing, and I've never messed with a house with engineered I-beams before, so I had no idea what I was staring at when I saw that picture. However, I knew I wasn't staring at something that looked right. That thread taught me to stop and don't gently caress with poo poo if I don't know what I'm looking at and it's paid off time and again since. edit: I re-read this and realize that this should be loving obvious not to mess with anything if I know nothing about it. The thing is that I had to work with my father who never really instilled that lesson in me. He would rush into things blindly, bullshit his way through and do poo poo all wrong or just plain harder than necessary, and claim victory in the end. In the last couple years, I've had to deprogram myself from that nonsense, learn from more competent people, and also teach myself how to do things right. That thread helped me learn a basic lesson that I wish I would've gotten long ago. aperion fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Dec 10, 2018 |
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Dec 10, 2018 21:49
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joats posted:I read it. Blew my mind. Like how do you not question how i-beams work before destroying them. loving i-beams. How do they work?
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Dec 10, 2018 22:03
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therobit posted:loving i-beams. How do they work? Well it depends, sometimes it is solar energy from the yellow son released in the form of concentrated heat, other times the eye controls a tiny portal to an alternative dimension of kinetic light that leaks into our universe as a concussive beam. Other times it's just lasers.
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Dec 10, 2018 22:08
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therobit posted:loving i-beams. How do they work? By not being made into upside down T beams.
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Dec 10, 2018 22:19
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Look i-beams are just the original builder saving money by not using 2x6s so there can't be any harm in chopping off an inch from the top. I mean, they're so thin so they obviously can't be important.
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Dec 10, 2018 22:25
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Oh my God. Those OSB joists. I barely know anything about framing, but I know that's a massive gently caress up. The most hosed up part is that the bathroom was really nice before he started.
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Dec 10, 2018 23:11
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Ashcans posted:Well it depends, sometimes it is solar energy from the yellow son released in the form of concentrated heat, other times the eye controls a tiny portal to an alternative dimension of kinetic light that leaks into our universe as a concussive beam. Other times it's just lasers. No, no - "i"-beams, not "eye"-beams.. God, can't you people read? edit: heh, yellow son.
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Dec 10, 2018 23:35
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AFewBricksShy posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3813464 I took a trip down memory lane with this thread. The wife asked why I was giggling, so I explained it to her. I wish I had video of the look on her face when the phrase "cut off the top of the engineered beams" came out.
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Dec 11, 2018 01:36
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It's a little weird to see my early thread shitposting immortalized in the goldmine for that. I'm pretty sure someone also got banned in that thread, and not the OP.
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Dec 11, 2018 01:54
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Darchangel posted:No, no - "i"-beams, not "eye"-beams.. God, can't you people read? poo poo, i mean I-joist. Whatever basically uses the same shape to create a light structure to withstand forces. Lop off the top and that throws the compressive resistance out of wack. Eye beams are things vampires shoot.
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Dec 11, 2018 02:48
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I wonder what the bathroom looks like now.
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Dec 11, 2018 03:19
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SouthShoreSamurai posted:It's a little weird to see my early thread shitposting immortalized in the goldmine for that. I'm pretty sure someone also got banned in that thread, and not the OP. Yeah it was someone who went internet detective and (claimed to have) reported OP to local authorities for code violation
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Dec 11, 2018 03:27
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GotLag posted:Yeah it was someone who went internet detective and (claimed to have) reported OP to local authorities for code violation It was me and yes I did. Sorry to kill your lulz, but that house was going to hurt someone in the next few years if nothing was done. That idiot was more concerned with arguing with strangers on the internet than fixing his death trap.
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Dec 11, 2018 03:34
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My mspaint groverhouse shops in that thread are my only goldmine contribution.
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Dec 11, 2018 03:37
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kid sinister posted:It was me and yes I did. Sorry to kill your lulz, but that house was going to hurt someone in the next few years if nothing was done. That idiot was more concerned with arguing with strangers on the internet than fixing his death trap. You did a good thing. And it in no way interferes with our lulz. Everyone wins!
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Dec 11, 2018 03:51
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kid sinister posted:It was me and yes I did. Sorry to kill your lulz, but that house was going to hurt someone in the next few years if nothing was done. That idiot was more concerned with arguing with strangers on the internet than fixing his death trap. Honestly I think OP was a bigger danger to others with his  and incel fantasising, but that didn't come out until after your ban
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Dec 11, 2018 04:02
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there wolf posted:It's in the goldmine, and you really should go back and read the whole thing some time. By the time he gets to telling an actual women goon that her idea of what a woman wants in a bathroom is just wrong it's pure Not just one woman but both me and Tony Brontosaurus! It was incredible!
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Dec 11, 2018 04:18
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And me and a handful of other goonettes iirc!
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i like nice words
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Synthbuttrange posted:I wonder what the bathroom looks like now. Its in the basement now.
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Dec 11, 2018 12:23
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"It doesn't matter if I hosed something up, I can buy my way out of it... Besides I learned something. " What an incredibly privileged way to go through life. Turning your gently caress up into a point of pride because you have money.
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Dec 11, 2018 14:14
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Synthbuttrange posted:I wonder what the bathroom looks like now. https://giant.gfycat.com/NauticalOptimisticGangesdolphin.webm
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Dec 11, 2018 14:23
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deoju posted:"It doesn't matter if I hosed something up, I can buy my way out of it... Besides I learned something. " Sales engineers (lol) in a nutshell
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Submarine Sandpaper posted:Sales engineers (lol) in a nutshell Sales engineers are the worst. I'll get one of them creeping around my desk, and they want me to whip up something from a couple of squares drawn on a piece of scrap paper, with some hastily scrawled notes, and they want it two days from now. They seem to think that my cad work is some kind of magic and I can just conjure something up in 5 minutes. So a few hours later when I've got *something* they're always amazed when things don't fit, and then it goes through another 12 iterations before it works for them. At this point we get an extension, and the deadline is pushed back a week, and I don't hear a damned thing from them until 48 hours before the deadline. Repeat until something is rushed out. Last week I got one for a massive filter array, which wended up being 1/4 of a football field with 1,200 filters. It turned out that she added zeros to the number of filters per side, and it was only 120. Luckily, this was an easy enough one to fix, but for fucks sake, there's a huge difference between 30 X 40, and 12 x 10 which we ended up with.
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goddamn I didn't even remember my grover fanfic in that thread. If I ever track down my Twas the Grover Before Christmas I'll have the beginnings of a short story anthology.
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Dec 11, 2018 16:36
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deoju posted:"It doesn't matter if I hosed something up, I can buy my way out of it... Besides I learned something. "
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Dec 11, 2018 16:47
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Didn't that thread spawn this thread? Are we eating our own tail?
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Dec 11, 2018 17:07
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Crappy Construction Tales dates back at least to Groverhaus, I'm pretty sure.
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Relentless posted:Didn't that thread spawn this thread? Are we eating our own tail?
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The worst part of that whole ordeal is that when he finally came back and started posting again people were asking him just what he did to fix the glaring mistake he made. I think lots of folks were genuinely curious about it and not even in a lovely way. Then he came back with this...bEatmstrJ posted:Call it semantics if you want, but I'd like to clear something up. Might as well have just said nothing at all for all the good that answer gives.
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Crumps Brother posted:The worst part of that whole ordeal is that when he finally came back and started posting again people were asking him just what he did to fix the glaring mistake he made. I think lots of folks were genuinely curious about it and not even in a lovely way. Then he came back with this... The most conspicuous absence of progress and result pics ever.
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Assuming what he said was actually the truth, I'm betting he was just too ashamed of the fact that people who actually know what they're doing took a look, reamed him out, and then when he insisted on proceeding, they required him to sister steel beams along his worthless cut joists.
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Dec 11, 2018 17:42
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Dude was a "sales engineer" which was hilarious because given his attitude and simmering sexism a couple people actually said "dude is either in sales or engineering" and it turned out to be both.
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Yawgmoth posted:My favorite part was the it was very painfully clear to anyone reading that he hadn't learned a goddamned thing, then doubled down and refused to learn anything because people weren't jacking him off while pretty-please asking him to maybe not be exactly the worst stereotype of salespeople. The DIY so lovely that even CineD sat up and took notice.
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Baronjutter posted:Dude was a "sales engineer" which was hilarious because given his attitude and simmering sexism a couple people actually said "dude is either in sales or engineering" and it turned out to be both. WTF is a sales engineer anyways? I always assumed it was something along the same lines as calling a janitor someone who works in the custodial arts.
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Relentless posted:Didn't that thread spawn this thread? Are we eating our own tail? It spawned the interior design thread as I recall.
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