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Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
When I was a kid I had a lego room


E:

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

shökking https://twitter.com/eucopresident/status/1179762497466830848

Andrast
Apr 21, 2010


Even if I had extra rooms I absolutely would not want a stranger to live with me. Even if I had financial problems I would try to avoid that as long as possible.

Jaeluni Asjil
Apr 18, 2018

Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Andrast posted:

Even if I had extra rooms I absolutely would not want a stranger to live with me. Even if I had financial problems I would try to avoid that as long as possible.

Yes. No shagging (paper thin walls), no cooking smelly food. In fact, no cooking in anything but the microwave. I can't stand the smell of food being cooked.

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Yes. No shagging (paper thin walls), no cooking smelly food. In fact, no cooking in anything but the microwave. I can't stand the smell of food being cooked.

Uuuhhhhhhhhh what now?

jackhunter64
Aug 28, 2008

Keep it up son, take a look at what you could have won


WhatEvil posted:

Yeah I mean also the shorthand is that any room in a house that is not a bathroom, kitchen or lounge is called a "bedroom".

If there was a "bedroom tax" then it means you're not allowed to have rooms used for anything else. There are plenty of legit uses for other rooms in your house - office being the main one of course but I don't think it's unreasonable to e.g. have a "play room" if you've got kids, especially if the kids' bedrooms are small in the first place (which they likely are).

When I was growing up we lived in a house built in 1912 - lovely, horribly built thing, but at least my childhood bedroom had some actual floor space.

A land value tax like Guav said seems more reasonable. You could make it progressive and apply not just on a "per house" basis but a "per person" basis, and have it also apply to 2nd homes/buy-to-let, so the more total land you own the steeper the tax gets, and then you solve landlords too.

3 minutes in, although all of the clip is gold:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypS_CKym5NQ

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

See it's funny in Canada 'cause a lot more homes seem to come with granny flats and stuff. I'm not specifically looking for one but some of the homes I've seen with them would be basically perfect for me.

I could potentially get one and offer to rent it out at significantly below market rate but I'm just fundamentally opposed to the idea of being a landlord - like it actually repulses me. Partially because of the rent seeking but also because I just don't want to be responsible for someone else's in that way, I wouldn't like the power dynamic.

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



When I was a lad our bathroom was downstairs at the end of the kitchen.

Dad was in the building trade though, so he moved it to one of the front "bedrooms" which was barely big enough to have a bed and wardrobe in. Bigger than what was tacked onto the end of the kitchen though.

Wachter
Mar 23, 2007

You and whose knees?

Pesky Splinter posted:

Still don't know what possessed JK Rowling to tell everyone that her wizards used to poo poo themselves and then magic it away, because the concept of a toilet was beyond them.

Lie awake at night in quiet horror at the thought.

Okay, this is news to me, and what I really want to know is why they didn't just magic it away from inside their colons

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.

Wachter posted:

Okay, this is news to me, and what I really want to know is why they didn't just magic it away from inside their colons

I hate jk rowling intensely and harry potter is hot garbage but I never understood why everyone lost their poo poo (lol) at this silly, clearly tongue in cheek joke

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

baka kaba posted:

you can't just have your own toilet in everyone's house though, what if you never even visit

This is the kinda thing I'd expect in a monarchy actually. Like by tradition everyone has got one unused toilet reserved for the queen or something.

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

Barry Foster posted:

Ugh feeling rapidly more sick and weak and shivery as the day goes on. loving students (no that's not how I got sick)

I hate this time of year

I have been sick since I got back from France on the 18th of September. :(

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Yes. No shagging (paper thin walls), no cooking smelly food. In fact, no cooking in anything but the microwave. I can't stand the smell of food being cooked.

I'm not that bad, but I'd have to insist no bacon or oranges, as both those smells are nauseating to me.

ThomasPaine
Feb 4, 2009

We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.
To this day I am pissed I'm not allowed to eat swan, they look tasty as gently caress

Angrymog
Jan 30, 2012

Really Madcats

ThomasPaine posted:

To this day I am pissed I'm not allowed to eat swan, they look tasty as gently caress

Would just be like bigger goose, wouldn't it?

Wachter
Mar 23, 2007

You and whose knees?

ThomasPaine posted:

To this day I am pissed I'm not allowed to eat swan, they look tasty as gently caress

You want swan? I can get you swan. I know a guy.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

ThomasPaine posted:

I hate jk rowling intensely and harry potter is hot garbage but I never understood why everyone lost their poo poo (lol) at this silly, clearly tongue in cheek joke

Because it's one of those mental images that just sticks in your brain, and isn't quite detached enough from the weirdness of the broader Harry Potter franchise to be an obvious joke. I mean, wizards get up to some weird poo poo in canon, not surprising if they poo poo weird too.

Red Oktober
May 24, 2006

wiggly eyes!



ThomasPaine posted:

To this day I am pissed I'm not allowed to eat swan, they look tasty as gently caress

Just the ones on the Thames; and only the mute ones at that. Go wild on other varieties or locations.

Bobstar
Feb 8, 2006

KartooshFace, you are not responding efficiently!

Angrymog posted:

I'm not that bad, but I'd have to insist no bacon or oranges, as both those smells are nauseating to me.

Oh god the smell of an orange (or one of those little fake oranges that are called other things) being peeled... :gonk:

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



Doesn't the Queen own all the swans and if you kill one she gets to kill you?

His Divine Shadow
Aug 7, 2000

I'm not a fascist. I'm a priest. Fascists dress up in black and tell people what to do.

Bobstar posted:

Oh god the smell of an orange (or one of those little fake oranges that are called other things) being peeled... :gonk:

I can eat a kilo of satsumas just like that.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Angrymog posted:

I have been sick since I got back from France on the 18th of September. :(

Bloody european viruses, coming over here, displacing our weaker, shorter lived viruses

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Dead Goon posted:

Doesn't the Queen own all the swans and if you kill one she gets to kill you?

No, only a particular breed.

Up in Brum my uni had a small lake with swans and one student drunkenly snuck out one night and nabbed one. I personally like to imagine they ran up to the poor oval office and felled him with a single punch.

Doctor_Fruitbat
Jun 2, 2013


ThomasPaine posted:

I hate jk rowling intensely and harry potter is hot garbage but I never understood why everyone lost their poo poo (lol) at this silly, clearly tongue in cheek joke

Because a cavalcade of dipshits, including the author, started taking their dumb, barely thought out children's stories way too seriously, and they need to be mocked for it.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Dead Goon posted:

Doesn't the Queen own all the swans and if you kill one she gets to kill you?

She owns all the unmarked mute swans swimming in open waters to be precise. This year's annual census has, unfortunately already been.

Other swans are cool and good for you to eat (but they're really not tasty).

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Wachter posted:

Okay, this is news to me, and what I really want to know is why they didn't just magic it away from inside their colons

Ah, the star trek teleporter conundrum

WhatEvil
Jun 6, 2004

Can't get no luck.

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Ah, the star trek teleporter conundrum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZjMGd2b0M

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

ThomasPaine posted:

I hate jk rowling intensely and harry potter is hot garbage but I never understood why everyone lost their poo poo (lol) at this silly, clearly tongue in cheek joke

oh what I thought pesky splinter was making the joke, she literally said this??
fake edit- I looked it up

this is a universe where they make food "appear" by having the slaves prepare it by hand below, and then move it to the dining hall with some cheap stage magic. or people still have to do domestic work it's just you're controlling the mop or the spoon with magic, and if you're bad it'll mess up which implies you need to concentrate on making it go right, in which case just do it by hand anyway? and now I find out the horizons of imagination were reserved for the power to make poop disappear. no wonder nothing happened in those books

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


https://twitter.com/Comrade_Star/status/1179090739159977984?s=20

:staredog:

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

BizarroAzrael posted:

https://twitter.com/OnePlus_UK/status/1179735559725555712?s=19

Just how easy is it to get a second hand fire engine?

Piece of piss, they cost about £10k at auction (although the price fluctuates massively because most of them go abroad, so depending on where the Adis Ababa Fire Brigade are in their upgrade cycle you could end up in a hell of a bidding war).

The expense is in the running costs - like all fleet vehicles they sell them on when they become too expensive to maintain for specialised mechanics with fully-equipped garages, and it can be Italian-motorbike levels of impossible to get spares for any of the bits not repurposed from existing vehicles. You'll also need off-street parking (and of course they don't fit in standard garages), fuel consumption is monstrous, insurance almost impossible to get, and you need an HGV license to drive one, so you're probably better off sticking with a second-hand Corsa for the school run.

(Worst of all, depending on just how big of an arsehole the MOT inspector is, you may need to physically remove the lights and sirens to get it road-legal)

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Dead Goon posted:

Doesn't the Queen own all the swans and if you kill one she gets to kill you?

Only on the non-tidal Thames.

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT


and you thought step counters were bad

love the "it can read your posture" lie as though there's some kind of queer eye self improvement angle going on here

Wachter
Mar 23, 2007

You and whose knees?

baka kaba posted:

and you thought step counters were bad

love the "it can read your posture" lie as though there's some kind of queer eye self improvement angle going on here

I guarantee it's some Agile fuckwittery to check whether you are, in fact, standing up during your daily stand-ups.

Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

When I was a kid I had a lego room

Wow the construction industry really was a lot less regulated back in those days

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
I have just encountered the phrase 'remainstream media' loving kill me

TRIXNET
Jun 6, 2004

META AS FUCK.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Yes. No shagging (paper thin walls), no cooking smelly food. In fact, no cooking in anything but the microwave. I can't stand the smell of food being cooked.

There is a no fish in the microwave rule included with that I hope. Fun fact I don't own a microwave because I set the last one on fire and I don't trust myself enough to get another.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Oh cool it's loving Manna.

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

My place has three bathrooms

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

thank god neoliberalism crushed unions

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Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Tsaedje posted:

I have just encountered the phrase 'remainstream media' loving kill me

Haha this is genius and I'm surprised I haven't seen this at any point before in the last three years

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