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goddamnedtwisto posted:They need to kill all the bagpipers though. Hearing them up close is bad enough, but it's when you're either between two of them so they clash or, even worse, in the Old Town where you can hear one in the distance but not localise where the sound is coming from that it gets into Room 101 levels of torture. The bagpipers and those Scottish tourist tat shops that blare out recorded bagpipe music at full blast from their front, gently caress all of them. I actually used to live near a British Legion place where they'd practice the bagpipes on Wednesday evenings and I could just dimly hear them but it was actually kind of nice. But hearing them loving blast it at you when you go into Edinburgh city centre is torture. edit: cat tax  Pictured: A cat who has never heard the sound of bagpipes in her life. Shyrka fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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Miftan posted:Christ if you think the south of england has seasons I can't even imagine what Glasgow is like. The winter that really did it for me was the 14 to 15 winter. We went from October to March without seeing sun once. It was either raining or overcast or sleeting. Glasgow is a damp city. Humidity is often high. Combine that with 5C and you get a pervasive cold that settles in the bones. I remember going outside and being able to see my breath at 9C. 90+% humidity in winter is not unusual.
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Failed Imagineer posted:If a phone box had 4 sides how would you get in? Does the top screw off? most houses have 4 sides but people still seem to find their way inside them somehow?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:most houses have 4 sides but people still seem to find their way inside them somehow? yeah they have windows/??? no need to come in here with your self-build esoteric knowledge about how many sides a house has... actually mine's a semi-detached with an attached garage so it could have anywhere between 3 - 10 sides depending how we're counting, very complicated stuff this actually
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Failed Imagineer posted:yeah they have windows/??? By my reckoning my house has two and a half sides.
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an attached side is still a side. no matter how many sides you think you've got, the elevations have the answer
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NotJustANumber99 posted:an attached side is still a side. no matter how many sides you think you've got, the elevations have the answer I watched an episode of Grand Designs the other day where the guy was building a circular house, by my reckoning there was only one side
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Failed Imagineer posted:I watched an episode of Grand Desins the other day where the guy was building a circular house, by my reckoning there was only one side or infinite
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NotJustANumber99 posted:or infinite can only imagine the cost overruns on that
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Failed Imagineer posted:If a phone box had 4 sides how would you get in? Does the top screw off? Sheesh, a box with 4 sides is still open from two sides!
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goddamnedtwisto posted:By my reckoning my house has two and a half sides. Typical minimalism from the guy whose car has no doors and only two wheels
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NotJustANumber99 posted:an attached side is still a side. no matter how many sides you think you've got, the elevations have the answer 
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thats 4 elevations and noone would build a house that shape anyway
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Failed Imagineer posted:I watched an episode of Grand Designs the other day where the guy was building a circular house, by my reckoning there was only one side I rented a circular room once, it's a constant source of low-level irritation and I don't understand why someone would do that voluntarily.
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Lady Demelza posted:I rented a circular room once, it's a constant source of low-level irritation and I don't understand why someone would do that voluntarily. OTOH if you can afford bespoke furniture with the exact same radius curve as the walls its probably cool as hell
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Lady Demelza posted:I rented a circular room once, it's a constant source of low-level irritation and I don't understand why someone would do that voluntarily. The dude seemed like he was on an extended manic swing of bipolar, whatever was going on he was extremely fixated on the round thing. I agree it seems like a huge pain in the hole. I remember listening to an episode of This American Life (I think) where some weirdos were living in a community of geodesic dome and everything about it seemed to suck, and people kept driving up to gawp at them like it was a safari lol. So nope, it's the regular 3-walled home for me...
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gently caress sake, if a phone box has no door but two walls and a back then it has three sides.
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Lady Demelza posted:I rented a circular room once, it's a constant source of low-level irritation and I don't understand why someone would do that voluntarily.
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keep punching joe posted:gently caress sake, if a phone box has no door but two walls and a back then it has three sides. Why don't you consider the back as a wall in it's own right?
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Technically your skin is an internal organ because its a non stop tube from your butthole to your mouth. So basically grand designs is a butthole.
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Mebh posted:Technically your skin is an internal organ because its a non stop tube from your butthole to your mouth. indeed, we are all just elongated meat donuts, living in homes with n number of sides
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thats what we wrote on the outer space probes and noone came to visit us
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the Voyager Probegram and the Goatse Record
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The final gently caress you of the housing market will be using all the empty investment units as containers for flour. https://twitter.com/ArtLesb0/status/1506361287151865864
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Lady Demelza posted:I rented a circular room once, it's a constant source of low-level irritation and I don't understand why someone would do that voluntarily. Did someone tell you to put your bag in the corner, or something?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:thats 4 elevations and noone would build a house that shape anyway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_section_flat I await your topographical explanation for this.
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My bedroom has 11 sides not counting beams and windows. Also maybe round room lad was trying to keep the hounds of tindalos away. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 21:47 on Mar 27, 2022 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_section_flat still the same I've actually done a scissor style extension on a house in bristol. It was a lot of fun and also headache and ultimately not worth it. Its kind of a cardinal sin of newb architecture to do stairs you have to go up and down like that
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goddamnedtwisto posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scissor_section_flat that is  design. I appreciate wanting to give a flat different zones, but it's only a matter of time until you fall down the stairs and are eaten by your cats
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Failed Imagineer posted:that is its two flats yeah?
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Failed Imagineer posted:that is OwlFancier posted:the hounds of tindalos Also the toilet/bathroom without natural light or ventilation sounds p bad if there's a power cut.
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just ring council emergency line and ask for the scissor architects from the 1950s HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO poo poo YA BASTARDS YIZ 
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Jeherrin posted:The winter that really did it for me was the 14 to 15 winter. We went from October to March without seeing sun once. It was either raining or overcast or sleeting. 14 days a month on average are rainy. And you're right about the humidity, it's always damp, that's just Glasgow. Nearly twice the annual rainfall as Inverness & it's not like we're a particularly dry city. All that said, Glasgow Smiles Better as they used to say. And as much as GCC are worth contempt I'm not sure it's actually that much more corrupt than any other council in the UK.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:how do you poo poo in the dark normally? illuminated by the glow of the UKMT on my phone
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Failed Imagineer posted:illuminated by the glow of the UKMT on my phone just happy in the knowledge that my posts in this thread do serve a purpose.
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