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H110Hawk posted:
Its the Christmas Star leading Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem.
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H110Hawk posted:
Correction: there is supposed to be only one light. edit: really wanted to insert the Picard "four lights" meme.
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Dec 21, 2018 20:51
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There is only 1 lamp on that pole.
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Dec 21, 2018 21:52
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You know, arc lamps actually were the first street lights... Arc lamps are actually still used for some projectors.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Does anyone here know if you need to use a special mix for concrete when underground? Mentioned in the Musk thread: Happy Noodle Boy posted:hey I can actually answer this! I worked on the Indianapolis Deep Rock Tunnel network for a few years. it’s a 300 some feet deep 18 foot diameter tunnel for combined sewer and it’s lined in concrete. Concrete mixes all have an air % specification generally in the 4-6% range. For these tunnels, concrete needs to be pumped down. The concrete loses a ton of air going through the pump so you need to have your mix account for it so that it reaches the delivery point with the right amount of air. it’s generally a pain in the rear end and you need to test throughout the day to make sure nothing of getting hosed up.
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Dec 22, 2018 08:36
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It's pretty obvious at this point they royally hosed up their concrete. All the patch jobs, all the little chips and chunks of concrete where the cars were driving along. Might well be the worst pour I've seen in my life. Lucky LA doesn't get any sort of seismic disturbances which might turn it to dust or anything. And another image I found:  Because nothing says professionalism more than hiding the wooden planks at the bottom of your tunnel with a massive length of tarp weighed down with a chunk of broken off concrete. Megillah Gorilla fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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Dec 22, 2018 12:36
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I can't get over how utterly poo poo and uneven the track guides are For comparison, here's a non-poo poo installation used by buses that go up to 100 km/h: 
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Dec 22, 2018 12:43
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Disrupting your vertebrae
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Dec 22, 2018 13:04
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Move Fast Break Things
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Dec 22, 2018 13:05
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GotLag posted:I can't get over how utterly poo poo and uneven the track guides are Pffft, not a speed tarpaulin in sight. How are those buses meant to get up to 150mph. But I agree with your first point. Even now, looking at the pictures of that stupid tunnel, I can barely believe it's real. It's just so bad!
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Dec 22, 2018 14:40
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The tunnel looks like it was done by someone hired from Fiverr with a hand trowel
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Dec 22, 2018 15:25
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There are currently multiple tunnels of superior quality under the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Dec 22, 2018 15:30
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Platystemon posted:There are currently multiple tunnels of superior quality under the U.S.–Mexico border.
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Dec 22, 2018 17:13
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lol
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Dec 23, 2018 03:28
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It's in bad need of updates, but I found a Lustron home for sale nearby. I'm actually kind of tempted, but it was clearly updated last in the 1970's, and basically needs gutted and redone.
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Dec 24, 2018 14:05
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I'll never understand why people do this.
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Dec 28, 2018 02:02
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It's like having a whole-room bathmat! One that you never clean!
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Dec 28, 2018 02:18
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Sliding doors meeting at a corner is a terrible idea.
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Dec 28, 2018 05:03
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It's like having a whole-room bathmat! One that you never clean!
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kid sinister posted:I'll never understand why people do this. At first I thought you meant the toilet paper placement.
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Dec 28, 2018 08:18
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The Copan Building in São Paulo, Brazil. So big it literally has its own post code. It also has the world's tallest external staircase - 38 stories of why the gently caress would anyone do this?  And the building has more than one:  
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Dec 28, 2018 10:12
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Well, it gets you out in the fresh air.Platystemon posted:Sliding doors meeting at a corner is a terrible idea.
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Dec 28, 2018 10:39
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It's two more kinda "degrees of freedom" that can misalign. Aligning the edge of a square plate onto a plane is easy: match two corners and it'll seal, even if it's twisted or turned (different things, mind you). Aligning two square plates' edges up? You've got four points to join, two on two. Buildings shift, especially in the occasionally hot, wet room. Analogy: building an armature to hold a pencil on a table, or against a wall, is easy. Holding two together, aligned side-by-side in free space, is difficult. Queen Combat fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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Dec 28, 2018 10:52
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'kay, makes sense. At least it seems like my doors are doing alright so far.
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Dec 28, 2018 10:57
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It’s not a problem till it leaks.
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Dec 28, 2018 11:21
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I wonder if anyone has done their bathroom floor in astroturf. That's gotta be sightly less gross than carpet (hygienically, not aesthetically).
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Dec 28, 2018 12:00
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Do you guys simply not know anyone capable of using a bathmat? My parents have had carpeted bathrooms for years and never had any issues. The carpet in the upstairs bathroom was the same for between fifteen and twenty years before they changed it and there wasn't any mold or anything.
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Dec 28, 2018 12:40
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tetrapyloctomy posted:Do you guys simply not know anyone capable of using a bathmat? My parents have had carpeted bathrooms for years and never had any issues. The carpet in the upstairs bathroom was the same for between fifteen and twenty years before they changed it and there wasn't any mold or anything. Goons gonna goon out, I guess.
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Dec 28, 2018 14:33
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If you put a mat on top of it, what’s the advantage of carpeting? It’s all downsides.
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Dec 28, 2018 14:36
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It's more comfortable in winter, mainly. And when you're done with your shower, the bathmat gets hung back up. I'm a tile guy, myself, but the rabid hatred for carpeted bathrooms is really strange. VVVVVVVVV Then a lot of guys need to figure out how not to piss in the wrong place. That's not a carpeting issue. tetrapyloctomy fucked around with this message at 14:43 on Dec 28, 2018 |
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Dec 28, 2018 14:40
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tetrapyloctomy posted:It's more comfortable in winter, mainly. And when you're done with your shower, the bathmat gets hung back up. I'm a tile guy, myself, but the rabid hatred for carpeted bathrooms is really strange. I'm pretty sure it has more to do with men with poor aim than shower related stuff.
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Dec 28, 2018 14:41
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To me it's not the occasional drip from the shower or poor aim, it's the massive mess to clean up if the shower develops a leak, or the toilet backs up all over the place.
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Dec 28, 2018 15:14
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There's like a whole god drat galaxy between having a bathmat and having a carpeted bathroom. Yes we probably most/all have mats in our bathrooms, but we don't have permanent piss towels nailed to the floor.
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Dec 28, 2018 15:19
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What I meant, at least, is that if you want something soft and warmish under your feet, get a mat. And if you’re putting a mat over carpet, isn’t the carpet superfluous?
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Dec 28, 2018 15:22
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It was mildly horrifying the first time I shined a UV flashlight around the toilet I use, the most. Thank God for hard, non-porous, easily cleanable surfaces
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immoral_ posted:To me it's not the occasional drip from the shower or poor aim, it's the massive mess to clean up if the shower develops a leak, or the toilet backs up all over the place. That's especially true when paired with that shower design that is going to leak like crazy. Also kids. There's no way a carpeted bathroom works in a home with any kids in it.
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Dec 28, 2018 15:59
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It doesn't matter what the floor is made of, dry off while standing in the tub. The mat is for the bottom of your feet or an errant drip at best.
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Leviathan Song posted:Also kids. There's no way a carpeted bathroom works in a home with any kids in it.
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tetrapyloctomy posted:It's more comfortable in winter, mainly. And when you're done with your shower, the bathmat gets hung back up. I'm a tile guy, myself, but the rabid hatred for carpeted bathrooms is really strange. I don't care how good your aim is, tiny droplets are getting flung off to the side. They may or may not be visible, but it's happening. The penis is not a precision instrument. And this is setting aside that flushing a toilet inherently releases a cloud of micro droplets. It's just unsanitary to have non washable porous surfaces in a bathroom. There's no good reason to do it, plenty of good reasons not to. Sure there's worse things you can do, but that's textbook damning with faint praise.
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Crappy Construction Tales: The penis is not a precision instrument.
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