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I don't think it's gonna be worth the trouble to track down an adapter for the Australian one's inverted threading.
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Do you also have to invert the AC power, or can you just shift the phase by rotating the bulb 180 degrees?
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Apr 28, 2016 17:56
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Just install a switch and flip it over instead.
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You guys are really over thinking this, all he needs to do is flip the house.
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Safety Dance posted:Do you also have to invert the AC power, or can you just shift the phase by rotating the bulb 180 degrees? Most Australian bulbs are "universal" phase - it's cheaper for the factories to use the same bulb internals for both the Philippines and Australian bulbs. But even if you're unlucky, the US uses split-phase power so there's a 50/50 chance your circuit matches the phase of the bulb and it's easy to swap the circuit over to the other phase if it doesn't.
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DrBouvenstein posted:You guys are really over thinking this, all he needs to do is flip the house. Yeah but then the raccoons in the basement become drop bears in the attic, probably not worth it at that point.
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DrBouvenstein posted:You guys are really over thinking this, all he needs to do is flip the house. As long as there's not a 400lb block of concrete attached.
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This bee's gonna steal your motorcycle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFnv0VcSmGk
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Bad Munki posted:This bee's gonna steal your motorcycle "Your construction is so crappy, a bee can tear it apart!"
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Platystemon posted:The Edison screw fitting pre‐dates the two‐bladed plug and socket. Seems like a good way to get your toaster cord even more tangled up than my wife's hair straightener.
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Bad Munki posted:Yeah but then the raccoons in the basement become drop bears in the attic, probably not worth it at that point. I'd have settled for that, but now I don't have to worry about racoons stealing food from my cookouts.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36215804quote:A body found on a Brooklyn beach earlier this week had feet that were encased in hardened concrete, according to NYPD detectives.
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Everyone knows you're supposed to put the boots on him while he's still alive. That's how you show you're serious. Nobody boots a corpse. Those people are clearly amateurs.
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DreadLlama posted:Everyone knows you're supposed to put the boots on him while he's still alive. That's how you show you're serious. Nobody boots a corpse. Those people are clearly amateurs. I dunno, I always wondered about this. Concrete takes forever to set up, you just leave the guy alive to scream and possibly escape? Maybe we've discovered why this method has never been used in reality?
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NancyPants posted:I dunno, I always wondered about this. Concrete takes forever to set up, you just leave the guy alive to scream and possibly escape? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_shoes quote:It has long been unclear whether such a cumbersome and time-consuming method of execution was practicable outside of Hollywood movies and books like E. L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate. Cement takes hours to harden and, until 2016, there was never a documented case [...]
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Forty pounds? Why, that’s not even three stone!
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NancyPants posted:Maybe we've discovered why this method has never been used in reality? Or maybe it works so well that we just never hear of the thousands of times it's been successful in the past. 
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How would you move the guy as that much concrete would easily way, say at least, 400#.
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Well you see it's easier because it's two 200 pound blocks 
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You're supposed to have a generic skeezy warehouse down by the docks for all your nefarious schemes. Then you don't have to move your concrete shoes guys very far. The real pros are out on the pier and just use a trap door.
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DreadLlama posted:Everyone knows you're supposed to put the boots on him while he's still alive. That's how you show you're serious. Nobody boots a corpse. Those people are clearly amateurs. 
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NancyPants posted:I dunno, I always wondered about this. Concrete takes forever to set up, you just leave the guy alive to scream and possibly escape? Also, couldn't he just like fidget a bunch to slow the cure? Alternatively, sugar coated shoes would be funny in theory, but in practice probably wouldn't be able to affect the cure significantly.
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DreadLlama posted:Everyone knows you're supposed to put the boots on him while he's still alive. That's how you show you're serious. Nobody boots a corpse. Those people are clearly amateurs. Anyone want to buy DreadLlama an avatar? 
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I'm surprised somebody didn't just notch out the stringer
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ductonius posted:Anyone want to buy DreadLlama an avatar? Now listen here you son of a bitch.
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SolidElectronics posted:I'm surprised somebody didn't just notch out the stringer And a riser while they're at it.
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It took me a little while to realize that isn't just a bad patch job over a hole in the wall.
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So they decided to add an interior wall that happened to intersect with an outlet, and they couldn't even be bothered to remove the outlet before drywalling? 
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victory assured, stealthy combat outlet inches into killing position...
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Dual quarter duplex power conn, stealthed.
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Well, better than burying a junction, right? At least you can see where the junction probably is. Grab a hammer though, not a screwdriver.
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That's a novel way to keep a big dog from pissing in the corner.
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When you really need fifty-five to seventy volts
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Leperflesh posted:In all seriousness I assume that was once a basement that has been finished and turned into an inlaw apartment complete with attached kitchen. Or, possibly it's a house on a slope and someone at some point decided to build an addition, and removing the huge boulder first was going to be both way too costly, and potentially dangerous to the foundation. Especially if it's not actually a boulder but rather an exposed hunk of bedrock. I'm a few pages behind here, but the house with the rocks is pretty cool. Looks like it is on a hillside/slope from the advert. I've just visited fallingwater - and that was designed to use some of the bedrock under it as features in the house, which I thought was awesome, and I suspect might have inspired the creator of the linked house that was for sale. 
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Tomarse posted:I'm a few pages behind here, but the house with the rocks is pretty cool. Looks like it is on a hillside/slope from the advert. Looks like they built a house on Chernobyl's elephant foot.
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Tomarse posted:I'm a few pages behind here, but the house with the rocks is pretty cool. Looks like it is on a hillside/slope from the advert. It's all fun and games until you're walking around barefoot and break your toe
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Frank Lloyd Wright made incredibly good looking houses, but Falling Water is a great example of crappy construction tales, actually. The architecture heavily favored looks over function and the house is a horrendous money pit. Problems go all the way back to original design issues, but also include the very high humidity which basically constantly tries to ruin everything in the house. http://old.post-gazette.com/lifestyle/20011208lowry1208fnp3.asp quote:The house that cost $155,000 to build will take $11.5 million to restore, a figure that also includes water treatment, sewage and landscape improvements to be done over the next few years.
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Yeah, he had some strikingly beautiful designs. This is a model of the David Wright House in Phoenix, designed and built for his son. A developer was going to demolish it in favor of McMansions, but it seems to be safe as a museum now.  
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