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sauer kraut posted:Last week, as small amusement park in the Black Forest: The whoopsie is distasteful, but holy poo poo I want to ride that.
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canyoneer posted:GABBRO IS COMING i understood this joke Dienes posted:Why do SO MANY house have a little desk/work niche in the kitchen that is ill-suited for both office work and kitchen work? That's where the phone is supposed to go. You know, the actual wired into the wall, heavy brick of a phone with a curly cord for the handpiece? I know you kids grew up in a world of wireless but maybe you had a grandparent with one. You put a little platform there so you can write down a message or keep a rolodex (that's another ancient technology) and also have a nice long cord so you can chat on the phone while you do stuff in the kitchen. Scarodactyl posted:My guess is gneiss on these two. Oh well, HEY. You've likely seen, even if you didn't notice, all the hydrothermal vents scattered around the place? My professor at SF State, Dr. David Mustart, was the guy who noticed and characterized them. Unofficially called "bungholes from hell." They're typically but not always associated with dikes. For example, there's a prominent one in the exposed bedrock of the area around the fence at the top of Vernal Falls, and you can see several more in the opposite cliff face when hiking up the mist trail. Anyway yeah I was good at the science classes but bad at the math, so I went into technical writing instead of trying to become a scientist. No, I do not really like it better and I wish I'd just worked harder at the math.
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Leperflesh posted:and also have a nice long cord so you can chat on the phone while you do stuff in the kitchen. I've wondered for a while whether the super long phone cords and especially the trope of picking up the phone base and walking around with a super long wall lead was a real thing in the US or just another one of those products of necessity from hollywood filmmaking; I've never seen that approach in the UK, always a regular phone on a regular length cord that you drat well used where it was, until analogue wireless (or "portable") phones came along. Also when I was quite little we still had a rotary phone, briefly.
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A long cable (from the wall to the base) was unusual imo, but an extra-long curly cord (from the base to the handset) was definitely a thing I saw a lot, especially in kitchens
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Jaded Burnout posted:I've wondered for a while whether the super long phone cords and especially the trope of picking up the phone base and walking around with a super long wall lead was a real thing in the US or just another one of those products of necessity from hollywood filmmaking; I've never seen that approach in the UK, always a regular phone on a regular length cord that you drat well used where it was, until analogue wireless (or "portable") phones came along. Also when I was quite little we still had a rotary phone, briefly. I had both a long wall lead in my room, and the super long curly thing in the kitchen. They were game changers.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I've wondered for a while whether the super long phone cords and especially the trope of picking up the phone base and walking around with a super long wall lead was a real thing in the US or just another one of those products of necessity from hollywood filmmaking; I've never seen that approach in the UK, always a regular phone on a regular length cord that you drat well used where it was, until analogue wireless (or "portable") phones came along. Also when I was quite little we still had a rotary phone, briefly. Both were things I routinely saw in my home and friends' homes in the 1980s. The advent of wireless handsets was an absolute game-changer. e. I bet it saved hundreds of lives annually from people not tripping over phone cords
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It looks like a facade for use on a movie set.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:It looks like a model for use in a Kaiju a movie.
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"So what kind of æsthetic are we going for here?" "Ｉ ＬＯＶＥ ＳＩＤＩＮＧ"
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Anne Whateley posted:A long cable (from the wall to the base) was unusual imo, but an extra-long curly cord (from the base to the handset) was definitely a thing I saw a lot, especially in kitchens Seconded. My childhood was full of ducking under the stretched-out curly cord whenever I had to pass through the kitchen while my mom was on the phone. (We didn't have the kitchen desk, but she used the top of the dishwasher for the same purpose. And yes, we had the kind of dishwasher that you had to roll into the middle of the kitchen and hand-connect to the faucet when you wanted to use it.
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I remember having the job to untwirly the cord every two weeks.
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Anne Whateley posted:A long cable (from the wall to the base) was unusual imo, but an extra-long curly cord (from the base to the handset) was definitely a thing I saw a lot, especially in kitchens Switzerland, 1973. My sister in her natural habitat. 
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Burt Sexual posted:I remember having the job to untwirly the cord every two weeks. I had forgotten how much I loved doing that.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I've wondered for a while whether the super long phone cords and especially the trope of picking up the phone base and walking around with a super long wall lead was a real thing in the US or just another one of those products of necessity from hollywood filmmaking; I've never seen that approach in the UK, always a regular phone on a regular length cord that you drat well used where it was, until analogue wireless (or "portable") phones came along. Also when I was quite little we still had a rotary phone, briefly. The last corded phone my family had was 10 feet of curly cord in the kitchen, and I have no idea how long it got. I can’t believe it was 20 years ago!
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sauer kraut posted:Our latest attraction is ready to launch! Behold the Kraken Karussell! I can't believe that's actually real. I saw the gif of it in motion and thought it was a render so someone could make an incredibly poor joke. And this looks like the kind of building you see at rowing clubs and the like. Cheap, lasts forever, no one cares what it looks like because it's only used on weekends and to store poo poo.  at the idea anyone would live in something like that.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I can't believe that's actually real. 6 people! Look at how many electric meters there are on the side.
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It Belongs in the capitalism.jpg thread.
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H110Hawk posted:6 people! Look at how many electric meters there are on the side. I’ve seen worse. I need to go find pictures of a 12-plex in North Dakota with exterior stairways. Enjoy climbing to the 3rd floor after a snowstorm.
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rndmnmbr posted:
And there it is. 
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PurpleXVI posted:"I became a geologist because I hate all stone and wanted to learn how to best destroy it. Don't talk about that cursed substance near me. Begone!" Come work in iron ore; you get to blow up a few billion tonnes of rock per year and ship a third of a billion tonnes of it out of your drat country.
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Jaded Burnout posted:I've wondered for a while whether the super long phone cords and especially the trope of picking up the phone base and walking around with a super long wall lead was a real thing in the US or just another one of those products of necessity from hollywood filmmaking; I've never seen that approach in the UK, always a regular phone on a regular length cord that you drat well used where it was, until analogue wireless (or "portable") phones came along. Also when I was quite little we still had a rotary phone, briefly. Buy one of these  and then yell at your kids when they don't wind it up after their calls.
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PurpleXVI posted:"I became a geologist because I hate all stone and wanted to learn how to best destroy it. Don't talk about that cursed substance near me. Begone!" I never even thought that all those nice marble statues would come to life and start killing people, but now I know who to call.
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I'm triggered by the designer's desire for symmetry which nonetheless fails in subtle ways.
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PurpleXVI posted:"I became a geologist because I hate all stone and wanted to learn how to best destroy it. Don't talk about that cursed substance near me. Begone!"   
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I'm triggered by the designer's desire for symmetry which nonetheless fails in subtle ways. That upper left window has my ocd raging.
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Burt Sexual posted:That upper left window has my ocd raging. I hadn't seen it, and now I can't not.
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Because he lives in a society where your job is determined for you by a chip in your hand.
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A missing shutter isn't so bad, but the slightly off center entryway roof is ugly. Why not make it a little bit narrower and put it in between the two windows rather than covering up the octagonal one?
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Also they're clearly "decorative" shutters since they're smaller than their respective windows, and that means someone decided to decorate that slab of siding, and felt that the shutters improved things.
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Just wanted to point out they put three circle windows in the center of the house, fulfilling symmetry yet shoving the door to the side in some terrible crime against nature.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:I'm triggered by the designer's desire for symmetry which nonetheless fails in subtle ways. gently caress you, I hadn't noticed the front door being non-centered before and now I can't not notice it. Get it out of my brain.
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I just want to say 'gently caress jigsaws and their bendy blades' Also, never send a boy (jigsaw) to do a man's (circular) job'
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It must be the backside of a commercial building that somebody decided to 'spruce up' with shutters and a stoop.
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Shut up Meg posted:I just want to say 'gently caress jigsaws and their bendy blades' In order to stay thread relevant, do not gently caress with either of these when you have a reciprocating saw.
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Shut up Meg posted:I just want to say 'gently caress jigsaws and their bendy blades' Jigsaws can be a handful, but generally, if it isn't going where you want it to go, or is bending blades, you're pushing too hard, or your blade is dull. That said, if you need a straight line, yeah, jigsaw isn't the best choice.
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