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Platystemon posted:Crappy construction: building on the Hayward Fault: well now whose fault is that
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Elsa posted:well now whose fault is that Haywards  I'm honestly quite shocked that buildings on known faultlines aren't just condemned and bulldozed immediately. Why on earth would you live there?!
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Sep 18, 2016 01:46
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Platystemon posted:Crappy construction: building on the Hayward Fault: I prefer Lewis Black's take on southern California: quote:An earthquake is an earthquake, assholes! And when the earth does that, it's telling you a little secret... move. Get out the door, and go far, far away, because you're living in an area where rodents should have sex and that's about it. And now for something lighter: 
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Sep 18, 2016 02:31
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Motronic posted:FYI, people love hardwood floors now but it was considered shamefully poor to not have as much carpets as possible everywhere back in the day. The person who owned my house before me came from this school of thought and had beige "cheap rental apartment carpet" in all the rooms, which was very nice of him as it protected the absolutely beautiful cherry floors beneath it which I now get to enjoy after little more than a day's work. If I recall correctly, wood floors were a requirement for a home to qualify for a VA loan during the post ww2 housing boom. And ya, carpet was considered a sign of having made it. Having bare wood meant you were poor.
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Sep 18, 2016 04:38
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It's funny that there are engineered products now that cost over $10/sqft just so you can have something that resembles hardwood over your poo poo slab in your crap builder's grade slapped together hovel. Ask me how I know 
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Sep 18, 2016 12:26
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Jealous Cow posted:It's funny that there are engineered products now that cost over $10/sqft just so you can have something that resembles hardwood over your poo poo slab in your crap builder's grade slapped together hovel. Depending on what you are going for, however, those things include such pesky things as footfall sound insulation as well as insulation more generally, as far as I know. I am not sure about plain hardwood flooring, but many engineered ones can potentially be used with underfloor heating etc. Some laminates or modern parquet floors certainly do a bit more than just "resembling hardwood".
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Sep 18, 2016 15:14
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TheMadMilkman posted:If I recall correctly, wood floors were a requirement for a home to qualify for a VA loan during the post ww2 housing boom. And ya, carpet was considered a sign of having made it. Having bare wood meant you were poor. This is very interesting. I'm trying to figure out WHY they would require that. Was it (initially) a reduced cost thing or a minimum quality thing? Obviously by the time plywood and cheap carpet was available it was a more expensive choice, but that probably wasn't the case when those rules were made. All I've come up with so far is some lame article: http://articles.latimes.com/1993-07-03/home/hm-9462_1_laminated-wood-flooring quote:the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration stopped requiring hardwood floors for homes to be eligible for financing.
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Sep 18, 2016 17:02
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That's probably to discriminate against dirt and stone floors, not carpet (a sort of fraud prevention.)
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Sep 18, 2016 23:34
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Imagine carpet straight on dirt.
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Sep 19, 2016 00:01
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Isn't the presence or absence of dirt the key difference between "the ground" and "a floor"? If the floor is dirt, you have no floor.
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Sep 19, 2016 01:09
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I'm the chair for the immensely obese owner.
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Sep 19, 2016 01:18
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Javid posted:Isn't the presence or absence of dirt the key difference between "the ground" and "a floor"? If the floor is dirt, you have no floor. The question then is how dirty does a floor have to be before it ceases to be a floor and becomes buried planks.
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Sep 19, 2016 01:33
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 This is some M.C. Escher poo poo.  e: The author of McMansion Hell is younger than I imagined: quote:A family of four in a 6,000 square-foot house can go days at a time without having to interact with each other in any real respect. When I was in the sixth grade, I remember visiting a friend who, rather than traverse down the massive, useless staircase, would text her mother, who was making dinner in the kitchen, or her sister who was 4 (mostly empty) rooms away. Texting in sixth grade  But I guess they were rich so that pushes it back a few years?
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Sep 19, 2016 01:36
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I can only hope the architect is trapped between those walls.
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Sep 19, 2016 01:42
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SynthOrange posted:I can only hope the architect is trapped between those walls. "For the love of property values, Montressor!"
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Sep 19, 2016 02:17
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Also, maybe it's a regional thing, but baseboard heaters in a million dollar home is breaking my brain hard.
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Sep 19, 2016 02:38
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That little gap between the 3rd and 4th arrows from the left... why not just wall that poo poo in? Nobody would be able to see the gently caress up.
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Sep 19, 2016 02:38
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Slugworth posted:Also, maybe it's a regional thing, but baseboard heaters in a million dollar home is breaking my brain hard. If they're full of copper pipes and hot water, it's a good thing in cold climates. If they are electric then lol. I have a guess about that crappy house.
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Sep 19, 2016 02:52
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McMansion Hell is written by a 26 year old female architectural student. Might be somewhat off on age but it's something like that.
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Sep 19, 2016 02:56
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Platystemon posted:
Late 20s or early thirties is too young? Gah, the longer I look at that image the more I see. What could anyone put in the tiniest full-length wall cubby?
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Sep 19, 2016 02:57
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she is 22 and an acoustics student at john hopkins. source http://www.papermag.com/mcmansion-hell-tumblr-1994391954.html
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Sep 19, 2016 03:55
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Wild EEPROM posted:she is 22 and an acoustics student at john hopkins. That article is cool and good.
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Sep 19, 2016 08:04
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Was I way off or way way off? Oh just way off ok
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Sep 19, 2016 10:55
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She's better than all of us and only 22 
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Sep 19, 2016 13:08
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Not mine but relevant: https://instagram.com/p/BKhbqE_Aeg2/
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Sep 19, 2016 14:44
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:Not mine but relevant: #queerclay
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Sep 19, 2016 14:55
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XmasGiftFromWife posted:Not mine but relevant: That's no good, it's a hundred pounds below the minimum threshold for proper motorcycle theft deterrent 
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Sep 19, 2016 15:56
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I'm just confused as to how that 'fits perfectly' on the pallet jack or even, to that end, why/how that would be seen as an accomplishment worthy of praise.
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Sep 19, 2016 16:23
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Slugworth posted:I'm just confused as to how that 'fits perfectly' on the pallet jack or even, to that end, why/how that would be seen as an accomplishment worthy of praise. Sounds to me like you are oppressing #queerclay
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Sep 19, 2016 16:40
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It "fits perfectly" because the pallet jack is able to slide under it and then lift it off the ground. That is an exciting accomplishment because it means your 600lb art project can be moved safely by a single person with a readily available tool.
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Sep 19, 2016 18:15
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This person literally took a cube of concrete, painted the top of it, and is using it as a representation of gender roles
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Sep 19, 2016 19:53
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Manslaughter posted:This person literally took a cube of concrete, painted the top of it, and is using it as a representation of gender roles Woah, woah, woah. That bottom is curved sir. Definitely not a cube, that's just gauche.
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Sep 19, 2016 20:40
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The concrete represents the weight that social norms and divisions place on the individual, and the curved bottom of the forms reflects the inherent instability of these social constructs.
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Sep 19, 2016 20:42
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Ashcans posted:The concrete represents the weight that social norms and divisions place on the individual, and the curved bottom of the forms reflects the inherent instability of these social constructs. So social norms won't keep your bike from getting stolen?
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Sep 19, 2016 21:32
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It's probably just the booze talking, but I really appreciate her talking about the spiritual decay of Mcmansion living along with the more practical stuff. There is something strangely sinister about the beige boxes when everyone living in them stops interacting with each other almost entirely. I'm kind of surprised there isn't some niche subgenre of Gothic literature based around them, or at least a solid horror film.
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Sep 19, 2016 23:12
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Youth Decay posted:This isn't crappy construction, but it sure is...something. I see this and all I can think is "190K for 8 bedrooms?" I need to get out of California.
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Sep 19, 2016 23:32
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Unknown if crappy construction, but probably crappy design. Here's a house going up next neighborhood over from me.  This is in Iowa. There is no shortage of snow here. I think their front door will disappear the first time the snow slides off any of those three sloped roofs aimed right at it, and will not be seen again until spring. Also, there's something going on out back, I really don't know what?  My four year old has decided it's a built-in treehouse, I'm inclined to agree, seems reasonable enough.
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Sep 20, 2016 02:06
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Looks like it will be a weird wraparound deck with maybe a 3 season room under the overhanging thing. Might actually have a nice view from there.
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Sep 20, 2016 04:40
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Bozart posted:Looks like it will be a weird wraparound deck with maybe a 3 season room under the overhanging thing. Might actually have a nice view from there. Of Iowa?
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Bad Munki posted:Also, there's something going on out back, I really don't know what? http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/house-rock Slugworth fucked around with this message at 05:43 on Sep 20, 2016 |
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Sep 20, 2016 05:41
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