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It has to be a joke, right? Painting an entire wall Pepto pink is a long way to go for a joke, but it has to be a joke.
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Facebook Aunt posted:It has to be a joke, right? Painting an entire wall Pepto pink is a long way to go for a joke, but it has to be a joke. Based on what the master bedroom wall color used to be before we bought the house, I don't think so. There are people that actually do like that color on their walls. Though it could have been worse, the neighbors had to replace the bright orange shag carpet that the previous owner had installed.
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Oct 25, 2021 00:22
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One time growing up, the bathroom was painted pepto pink for a bit. It was eye searing. The paint was supposed to be a much lighter pink and my mom was not pleased. It got repainted to golden yellow after a month or so.
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Oct 25, 2021 00:38
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Facebook Aunt posted:It has to be a joke, right? Painting an entire wall Pepto pink is a long way to go for a joke, but it has to be a joke. PO of our house just didn’t use painters tape or remove face plates or vent covers. The best was the bright blue edge around the popcorn ceiling.
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Oct 25, 2021 00:49
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In a previous apartment, our bathroom was tiled in Pepto pink. Floor and walls.
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Oct 25, 2021 01:59
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Zil posted:Based on what the master bedroom wall color used to be before we bought the house, I don't think so. There are people that actually do like that color on their walls. Though it could have been worse, the neighbors had to replace the bright orange shag carpet that the previous owner had installed. Bullshit, they didn't HAVE to.
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Oct 25, 2021 02:02
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When I was painting our kitchen and installing new cabinets, I found a spot that had most of the previous owner's paint choices on display, masked it off, and left it preserved for all time. I call it the [PO] Family Flag, like a house crest of bad decisions and matching execution. In order of application: Drywall White, Tomato Baby poo poo, Nicotine Khaki, No Survivors Coverup Grey, Benjamin Moore Sea Froth Additionally, in another room in the house (The Steelers-themed Game Day Urinal Piss Closet) we found some wild safety orange type stuff under the Steelers yellow. Maybe it was a Broncos thing and the cover-up paint job speaks to some family drama? 
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Oct 25, 2021 03:42
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cool and nice
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Oct 25, 2021 04:27
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My friends old rental had cracks in the plaster on the walls that had been covered in painters tape and painted over.
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Oct 25, 2021 05:54
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Catching up on the thread, missed unfinished wood chat a while ago, but seeing it did make me want to mention: at my job we had a reception desk on a platform, all unfinished wood, and the platform floor was splintering badly from chair wheels going back and forth all the time. We had to put down those ugly clear plastic office floor mats eventually, and always said it was a temporary measure to tide us over until a long planned redesign of the entire area. This year the redesign finally happened, we had a very expensive new desk and platform made, and you receive no points for guessing a) the material, b) what is happening half a year later and c) the solution to b).
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Bad Munki posted:When I was painting our kitchen and installing new cabinets, I found a spot that had most of the previous owner's paint choices on display, masked it off, and left it preserved for all time. I call it the [PO] Family Flag, like a house crest of bad decisions and matching execution. Amateur.  From when I had the capacity to give the walls of our 1920ish apartment with original plaster and lathe walls (free horsehair!) a sand and skim before repainting almost a decade ago. We have this spot framed.
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Oct 25, 2021 11:39
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ShotgunWillie posted:Amateur. got your own little Fordite going there
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Oct 26, 2021 07:45
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Reminds me of these drawers, which were probably made by some distant ancestor, last year I sanded and painted them.
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Oct 26, 2021 15:06
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 I’ve heard of gas–electric hybrids, but this is ridiculous.
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Oct 27, 2021 12:14
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 This is just baffling at first glance, but someone suggested that the butter was used to lube the cables for installation. I can see that happening and if it did, that’s totally crappy construction.
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Oct 28, 2021 11:58
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Nah, I bet a critter found a stash of butters and moved them to this hiding spot.
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Bad Munki posted:Nah, I bet a critter found a stash of butters and moved them to this hiding spot. Oh man, that poor little guy. I can't imagine what eating your own weight in butter would do to a critter's digestion.
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Bad Munki posted:Nah, I bet a critter found a stash of butters and moved them to this hiding spot. Oh, my rats have been here
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Oct 29, 2021 11:31
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 To those who were afraid that there wasn't going to be a porch on the front.
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Blistex posted:
5/5 I would sit there and drink a lemonade and watch the world go by.
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Blistex posted:
That house has no business being in this thread. Looking good!
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Oct 29, 2021 17:46
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https://twitter.com/michaelroston/status/1453937945128280070 I sure wish my college experience was prison-chic.
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The longer I look, the angrier I get.
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Jows posted:https://twitter.com/michaelroston/status/1453937945128280070 Holy poo poo, 94% of the units have no windows. What the gently caress. It was bad enough when Kanye tried to play architect, this old investment-grifter geezer doing it is insane
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Oct 29, 2021 18:32
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It's to https://twitter.com/HNHughson/status/1454073539259142147
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Haifisch posted:It's to At least there’s room for 570 surfboards https://twitter.com/azincle/status/1454080237218762759?s=21
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Also there's no such thing as an 'amateur architect', the same way some naturopath or spirit healer isn't an 'amateur doctor'. 
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Old person thinks he can make young persons interact and collaborate in person by making their living arrangements onerous. Failing to understand that young persons "interact and collaborate" pretty much 24/7 online in social media. edit: Sloppy posted:Also there's no such thing as an 'amateur architect', the same way some naturopath or spirit healer isn't an 'amateur doctor'. and that.
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I'm reminded of a "plan" for an arcology I read about once. Everything, including furniture, would be made out of steel and reinforced concrete (so e.g. chairs would be permanently installed in-place and completely uncomfortable). All units would be identical. There was something in there about forcing the residents to buy their units so that they'd have an ownership stake and be incentivized to take care of them better. I'd love to track the article down again because it was impressively batshit insane. Basically the person who designed it saw a whole bunch of supposed social problems, dreamt up a scenario in which they convinced themselves these problems would be solved, and then neglected to consider the possibility that nobody would ever want to live in their concrete hellhole.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm reminded of a "plan" for an arcology I read about once. Everything, including furniture, would be made out of steel and reinforced concrete (so e.g. chairs would be permanently installed in-place and completely uncomfortable). All units would be identical. There was something in there about forcing the residents to buy their units so that they'd have an ownership stake and be incentivized to take care of them better. I'd love to track the article down again because it was impressively batshit insane. Basically the person who designed it saw a whole bunch of supposed social problems, dreamt up a scenario in which they convinced themselves these problems would be solved, and then neglected to consider the possibility that nobody would ever want to live in their concrete hellhole. The person presenting such a plan would never have to live in it, of course.
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Never thougth I'd be able to say this in this thread, but check out the academia thread for a bunch of people making fun of that monstrosity, or as it is now known Kowloon Walled Dormitory Also I found one little flaw in the design, it's subtle so I drew a diagram: Cyrano4747 posted:Also I think I find a slight problem with the design of those interior clusters. See, the thing on the far side, opposite the door is pretty obviously a sink, which means that the box next to it is the dishwasher.
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Two inmates in an Alabama prison once sued stating that the size of their cells was too small, and constituted cruel and unusual punishment. The State of Alabama, in its defense, pointed out that the dorm rooms in Magnolia Dormitory, at Auburn University, were smaller, and people actually paid to live there. Munger Hall seems like the type of dorm that could be used in such a lawsuit. EDIT: Magnolia Dormitory was demolished in 1987, and its twin, Noble, was used until 2005 when it was condemned, and demolished shortly after.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I'm reminded of a "plan" for an arcology I read about once. Everything, including furniture, would be made out of steel and reinforced concrete (so e.g. chairs would be permanently installed in-place and completely uncomfortable). All units would be identical. There was something in there about forcing the residents to buy their units so that they'd have an ownership stake and be incentivized to take care of them better. I'd love to track the article down again because it was impressively batshit insane. Basically the person who designed it saw a whole bunch of supposed social problems, dreamt up a scenario in which they convinced themselves these problems would be solved, and then neglected to consider the possibility that nobody would ever want to live in their concrete hellhole. Reminds me of Victoy Cities, a concept for an all-inclusive megacity apartment building designed by a maniac millionaire at age 13. The guy eventually donated all of his writings on the concept to some college, under the condition that they build a library to maintain his collection (to that end, the website for the project is still online lol). I can't directly quote my archived effort posts about it (and they're full of quotes that I dont really want to copy), so here are links: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3657842#post433854717 https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3657842#post433877204 The concept goes way farther than that, just like some guy's theorycrafting of a planned city-state economy. http://fishmech.info/www.victorycities.com/resguide/index.html Highlights include the Circl-Serv™ Cafeteria, free medical insurance, mandatory Water Pik® Booths, etc.. Cats and dogs will not be allowed in apartments but must be housed in the Pet Park until self-cleaning litterbox and dander-filtering technology is more advanced (not a joke). Free city services but no city taxes (because theyre baked into apartment fees i think, which is somehow not a tax). Apartments will be "renovated" in 5 minutes by means of swapping out the modular metal wall panels with ones of a different color. There's so much more and its all so good fake edit: i realized after pasting the link that i had inadvertantly found an archive of the site from Fishmech lol, not the actual library in charge of it. no idea why they archived it but thanks lol Slanderer fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:Never thougth I'd be able to say this in this thread, but check out the academia thread for a bunch of people making fun of that monstrosity, or as it is now known Kowloon Walled Dormitory Do they normally provide stoves in dorms configured with that type of shared living space. When I was in school some students seemed to have a issue with using a microwave without evacuating the entire dorm. They never would have stuck a stove in any of the common areas.
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Haifisch posted:
One reply mentioned something no one is talking about--there is already a Munger dorm for grad students at the university of michigan. I think the bedrooms are larger, but the concept might be the same?
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koshmar posted:Do they normally provide stoves in dorms configured with that type of shared living space. When I was in school some students seemed to have a issue with using a microwave without evacuating the entire dorm. They never would have stuck a stove in any of the common areas. The “quad” dorms at my college had a microwave and stove per unit, but the per-floor rooms for the normal dorms had only microwaves. I’m pretty sure only the microwaves were really used with any real frequency anyway.
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I remembered how to quote archived stuff:Slanderer posted:Retrofuturistic cities are often pictured as places of colossal spires, flying cars, and unnecessary glass domes. Victory City was to have none of those. No, instead it was to be a towering behemoth---3 square miles in area, and a constant 102 stories. Why? Because gently caress you, that's why! Slanderer posted:The relative amount of time spent on very specific details, instead of the much more important decisions is pretty great. It's nowhere near as troubling as the in-depth inane theorycrafting of Malatora (for instance), but still pretty bizarre. There seem to be more mentions of the Cafeteria then anything else. He could have been considering the fact that there is 1 sports field for 300k people, or how to provide water, electricity, waste treatment to the city, but nope, gotta work on the cafeteria. Slanderer fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Oct 29, 2021 |
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I had totally forgotten until re-reading my awful post that the designer of Victory City did in fact want all-steel furniture, which would be fixed in placequote:Fire Department and Fire Prevention
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another fun thing with that dorm building is the cost. $1.2 billion divided by "up to" 4500 students comes to $267k per student living there, assuming full capacity and that they build that max number of units. one of the supposed benefits of the design is that it uses a lot of prefabricated elements that can be made off site, so it sounds like there are some really dumb ideas elsewhere in the plan that eat up any cost savings gained from churning out dorm lego blocks in a factory
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