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Weembles posted:The Man on the High Toilet is an alt-history novel where germany and japan won the war and the USA is split between toilets with poop shelves and high-tech bidets. Crappy construction: The Man on the High Toilet
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Place your toilet at eye level with the window to maintain dominance with your neighbors.
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"the throne"
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Just imagine if thats a German toilet - you'd have an eye-level 'inspection shelf' for your viewing pleasure while brushing your teeth. So efficient !
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Jan 7, 2021 12:29
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By popular demand posted:
join us, as we ascend to the great crapper in the sky 
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By popular demand posted:Crappy construction: The Man on the High Toilet Crapper construction
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In an alternative universe I'm somehow a fascist, but I still have opinions about construction. . . . . .   
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Excellent thread title
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The joy of Polish lovely apartments for rent   https://www.facebook.com/chujowemieszkania/
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Nope. I have some polish ancestry and I enjoy pickles but I will not be subject to the kitchen cabinet lavatory!
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The broken ankle kitchen.
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hello i am phone posted:The joy of Polish lovely apartments for rent Is there a Polish equivalent to, "Don't poo poo where you eat"? Because in that kitchen, dysentery & cholera are back on the menu
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hello i am phone posted:The joy of Polish lovely apartments for rent Chabuduo
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I can’t decide if a squat toilet in the kitchen is more or less bad than a porcelain throne. Maybe less bad if there’s a cover flush with the floor (hehehe pun), more bad if there is not. Platystemon fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jan 7, 2021 |
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Platystemon posted:I can’t decide if a squat toilet in the kitchen is more or less bad than a porcelain thrown. I could at least clean up a toilet someone threw, a squat toilet would have to be filled in.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:This is a gentle reminder of rule 14: It's mostly due to the fact that houses from that era have very little lateral reinforcement (what keeps buildings from racking sideways or the walls from blowing out); things like interior floors and nails have enough residual strength to tie the building together and keep it from instantly failing, but once they rot or rust away there's nothing stopping the vertical members from buckling or toppling like that
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hello i am phone posted:The joy of Polish lovely apartments for rent I don't know why, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this might not be Poland.
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The Chairman posted:It's mostly due to the fact that houses from that era have very little lateral reinforcement (what keeps buildings from racking sideways or the walls from blowing out); things like interior floors and nails have enough residual strength to tie the building together and keep it from instantly failing, but once they rot or rust away there's nothing stopping the vertical members from buckling or toppling like that So less sturdy than medieval timber-framed houses. (Article in German, oldest known in Germany.)
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hello i am phone posted:The joy of Polish lovely apartments for rent Actual Water Closet (wardrobe?) rules though
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Looking for some switches for ceiling fans today and came across this crappy product with bad design
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Thats actually a good design, because if you go from off to "low" speed on some poo poo tier ceiling fans, bad things happen because they were never designed to start rotating at anything less than full line voltage. in industrial applications you use several thousand dollars worth of power electronics to start at full voltage but vary the frequency from 10hz to the full 60. the twenty dollar wall thing from the hardware store can't do that, so they have to go off-high-med-low to prevent the motors from dying.
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MRC48B posted:Thats actually a good design, because if you go from off to "low" speed on some poo poo tier ceiling fans, bad things happen because they were never designed to start rotating at anything less than full line voltage. Yeah but they could still put that at the top. E: or make it a turny-knob kinda switch or something.
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They still should have arranged the speed switch so high was on top, though. Most people are used to off and high being next to each other, but this way is counterintuitive with max on the bottom, and means you can't just move both switches to off with one movement.
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Off is still at the bottom though.
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Guy Axlerod posted:Off is still at the bottom though. Fair point
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MRC48B posted:Thats actually a good design, because if you go from off to "low" speed on some poo poo tier ceiling fans, bad things happen because they were never designed to start rotating at anything less than full line voltage. This post is kinda 100% wrong. VFDs don't use full voltage for soft start, they ramp both voltage and frequency up to the target value. I'd imagine newer nicer fans use MOSFETs and variable voltage/variable stepped DC voltage output to provide more granular speed control, but the old-school fans this switch was designed for use multiple different sized run capacitors to provide different apparent phase angles for an induction motor, your point about Fast being the first speed may be true though, if the fan needs the fast capacitor and the start capacitor at least momentarily engaged to start the motor. But all induction motors (without VFDs or similar) need full voltage and frequency to run correctly, and that wall switch absolutely does not change voltage. Elviscat fucked around with this message at 06:06 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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The Chairman posted:It's mostly due to the fact that houses from that era have very little lateral reinforcement (what keeps buildings from racking sideways or the walls from blowing out); things like interior floors and nails have enough residual strength to tie the building together and keep it from instantly failing, but once they rot or rust away there's nothing stopping the vertical members from buckling or toppling like that They're balloon framed. They last a long time, but when they fail, they fail hard. They collapse flat. When my mom was a kid, the "Moane" house was an abandoned property that they played in. That was in the 50's. Many years later, my brother and I still played in the same house up into the 90's. It was a Thanksgiving tradition that my brother and I would come back to the farm and visit the Moane house. It became un-playable in the early 2000's and by about 2010 it fell sideways and was gone. As far as I know, it's still there, rotting away. Secondary story: Back in about '08, my mom and I went for a walk in the sandhills of ND and ended up on a property that had been abandoned in '45. I know the date, because my grandmother had bought a dresser from the family that year when they left. The house had collapsed sideways. There were dishes and nonsense scattered, but I found an unopened bottle of Watkins vanilla. It had fallen upside-down against a rock and had never had any leakage or water intrusion. I still have that vanilla. My wife won't let me use it. One day, I'll try. It's mostly alcohol. It should be fine. Or maybe it's poison. If I get terminal cancer, I'll make some cookies with it. It'll keep.
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Elviscat posted:This post is kinda 100% wrong. how they do it varies by application. if you need more torque on startup, more voltage, thus more current. quote:I'd imagine newer nicer fans use MOSFETs and variable voltage/variable stepped DC voltage output to provide more granular speed control, but the old-school fans this switch was designed for use multiple different sized run capacitors to provide different apparent phase angles for an induction motor, your point about Fast being the first speed may be true though, if the fan needs the fast capacitor and the start capacitor at least momentarily engaged to start the motor. yes it does, pull one of them apart sometime. there are no motor run or start capacitors in those things. no space. plus then you'd need to run two more wires from the fan down to the wall switch. It uses a triac to do phase control, just like the light side. which is why early LED bulbs didn't work well with dimmers like this. you are correct that newer ones use dc permanent magnet motors, but those are  for most people.
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 The high toilet, you say? edit: curtains match my av lol HelloIAmYourHeart fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Jan 8, 2021 |
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:edit: curtains match my av lol 
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
I had never thought of making GBS threads as an extreme sport before.
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By popular demand posted:I had never thought of making GBS threads as an extreme sport before. Your diet is probably better than mine.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:
Hell of a posting setup you got there.
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Dillbag posted:I don't know why, but I have a sneaking suspicion that this might not be Poland.
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mostlygray posted:I still have that vanilla. My wife won't let me use it. One day, I'll try. It's mostly alcohol. It should be fine. Or maybe it's poison. If I get terminal cancer, I'll make some cookies with it. It'll keep. We found a tiny jam jar filled with mercury. We'd pour drops on our palms and roll it around. But I never had the courage to taste it. Lol
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peanut posted:We found a tiny jam jar filled with mercury. We'd pour drops on our palms and roll it around. But I never had the courage to taste it. Lol Are you from Texarkana?
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Haha woah it was 1998ish but I can only salivate at the mention 20 pounds of metallic mercury
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Does anyone remember the apartment with the combination kitchen/bathroom/laundry room/entryway? It wasn't just a shitter, it had a glassed off shower (the toilet might have been in or out, I don't remember), and either black walls or a black floor. I'm also not 100% sure it also had a kitchen, but I'm pretty sure it did. I think it was in china somewhere, but searches haven't been too helpful. Would've been posted before early 2020.
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Why does this remind me so much of Half Life 2?
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