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Blistex posted:/\/\ Ok, what is with the giant red stars on the front of houses? I've been noticing them more and more all over the place and they seem to me to be some manner of "thing" as opposed to a common decorating trend amongst home owners. It has some Christian meanings (beyond the obvious star over Bethlehem) that elude me at the moment. There's also the Texas angle, as well as the neo-pagan man-with-open-arms symbol. I only mention this because I'm really enjoying the mental image of Texan neo-pagans. Possibly in cowboy hats. Edit: 
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Ferremit posted:... Sounds like you didn't attach them correctly. 
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Dec 1, 2013 22:57
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For the eight months or whatever I've owned my house the hall bathroom's tub has never really drained quite right. I've been procrastinating on dealing with it for various reasons, mostly that I rarely have guests stay over, the step-on latch drain plug thing is all kinds of hosed up, and I'm lazy. I decided to finally see what was up. It took a good while to wrestle off the goddamn plug cartridge...thing because it was both corroded and crossthreaded. I had to turn it so hard the lovely tub was flexing and I was afraid I was gonna end up with two problems. I managed to get it off, and the cause of the drainage problem was suddenly clear: The drain was full of seashells. 
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Mar 14, 2014 02:23
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Munin posted:Well, I presume they are not whole sheels otherwise they'd never have gotten down the drain. If it's a house on the beach it might have been bits of shell stuck on people which went down the drain as they washed themseves down. There'd be sand as well but that would slowly settle towards the bottom of the pipe. Baronjutter posted:A lot of people like having shells in their bathroom as decorations + kids are loving awful. EroticRobot posted:...how? how?? I'm in the process of house hunting right now, and I can't even imagine. Did someone put them there? Did they magically materialize? Why??? Whole shells. I live nowhere near the beach, and they're relatively small, so decoration+children seems reasonable. The weird thing is that the push-latch plug was flush enough that you couldn't fit the shells through the gap. I don't see how they could have gotten here without removing the plug.  In any case, there were few enough of them and they were close enough to the surface that I got all of the visible ones out with a bent coat hanger.
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Mar 15, 2014 14:25
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Leperflesh posted:Neither of my bathrooms have fans at all. Just windows. Too steamy in there? Open the window. Not everyone lives in a climate where this makes sense. Just a few posts up from yours is a guy who has snow on the ground in April. On the opposite end of the spectrum, there are places where it's so hot out during the summer that the soap will melt. Also, not all bathrooms have windows.
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Apr 7, 2014 23:25
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Leperflesh posted:... Heh, sorry, I've been reading DIY forums where people say exactly this. I went trawling through them for my home repair horrors fix but it turns out the kind of idiot who does that poo poo for the most part takes lovely pictures and tells lovely stories. 
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Apr 8, 2014 01:19
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SkunkDuster posted:The grenades were there to destroy the cryptography equipment in a hurry to keep it from getting into enemy hands. The two systems were intended to be used independent of each other. If something isn't on fire but should be, use a grenade. If something is on fire and shouldn't be, use Halon. So it's like duct tape and super glue.
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Apr 19, 2014 17:32
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Suave Fedora posted:I see it as artwork. It's a commentary on how we should functionally always in the present but should never forget the lessons of the past. Lest we be doomed repeat them. Or something. More like ignore and plaster over the mistakes of the past and pretend the trappings of modernity are all that matters even as the legacy of authoritarianism and irredentism steer you back down the hole you'd been climbing out of.  Wait, which board am I in again?
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May 22, 2014 23:19
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Collateral Damage posted:It's always a pleasant feeling to watch someone who is really good at their job. The soothing music helps too.
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May 26, 2014 13:32
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Cover everything in plastic wrap so you can just wrap up all the evidence when you're done easy-peasy. Just do it out in the woods where you can leave the body and no one will notice. What the gently caress is wrong with you people?
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Jul 2, 2014 02:30
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Dillbag posted:Same thing happened a few years ago with an elder/end of life hospice opening up near a few residential buildings in a primarily Asian neighbourhood in Vancouver. I'm mixed Chinese and I'm pretty convinced these days that it's just an excuse so the property owners can save face by appearing to be silly superstitious folk when they're really just greedy, insensitive, ageist assholes who are only concerned about their property values. Why not both! Only half joking. Old folks and ghosts both represent mortality.
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Jul 30, 2014 00:57
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xergm posted:That was my immediate thought. If you're competent enough to replace a toilet, wax ring and all, aren't you also smart enough to figure out how to remove a few hinge pins? I would've laughed, shrugged, and had it fixed in just a couple minutes. What on earth makes you think the person who took this picture thinks the problem is unsolvable? He probably just realized what he'd done, laughed, took the picture, then fixed it.
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Sep 30, 2014 11:49
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Nostalgia4Butts posted:the under-stairs dog home seems like a cool idea, but it seems like an incredible pain in the rear end to get in there to clean it fully. You don't need to clean it fully, just enough that it doesn't bother the dog. That's more than clean enough to not stink (any worse than the dog), and no one is going to notice who doesn't climb into the dog's bed.
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Jan 20, 2015 02:47
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kid sinister posted:I'm shocked by this Thai pedestrian overpass  So, uh, any idea what sort of current is going through those lines? Are they full-on power lines, some sort of communications, or what?
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Apr 13, 2015 04:03
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smackfu posted:Think this is the source, if you want to read more: I have to quote this reply: quote:I got dysentary in Afghanistan. Their toilets are actually just porcelain holes in the ground you squat over to do business which we got tired of pretty quickly so we built a chair which was just two rectangles with a space between them for pooping. Down side was there was something like a three foot drop to the floor.
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Apr 17, 2015 00:25
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Motronic posted:I'm gonna need to teach you how to make a proper fire. Is this going to involve aluminum powder?
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May 10, 2015 03:18
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Safety Dance posted:Oh they did those too. Keep in mind that radium got to be a marketing buzzwork along the lines of, I don't know, quantum or something. Companies would slap it on random-rear end products that in no way contained radium. And also, y'know, on products that actually contained radium.
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Jun 23, 2015 02:14
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Leperflesh posted:I'm pretty sure it's the carbon monoxide that kills you, not depletion of oxygen. CO is the result of incomplete combustion, so I assume, given a lovely chimney, drafty is probably safer.
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Sep 2, 2015 14:11
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Slanderer posted:There has to be some catch. At the very least, it seems like there is more work involved in the actual painting process, but I figure there's other stuff (maybe a narrower range of suitable temperature and humidity for drying?) Linseed oil oxidizing is a very exothermic process. Depending on conditions it can actually spontaneously combust. Typically this is the result of oily rags wadded up and stuffed in a box, but it's a gotcha other kinds of paint don't have.
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Oct 22, 2015 12:54
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flosofl posted:... You think it's all going in, but there's always a drop or two that goes wide. This accumulates over time. Or it comes out sideways first thing in the morning.
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Oct 26, 2015 11:10
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MrYenko posted:Avocado was super common for kitchen appliances in the 1970s United States though. If it's the color I'm thinking of it's not even pink. It's this awful...mauve? I don't even know, but I hate it. quote:Edit: the problem with all the bathrooms (other than the sometimes-questionable colors,) in the neighborhood is that the tile work is absolutely superb, and simply cannot be matched at any price now. Dead-straight rows, with properly planned spacing, very little "oh poo poo I'll us a single row of quarter-cut right here." All that is tucked behind the door, or at the corner of the shower. I makes modern tile work in this area look loving sad, by comparison. I'd noticed this. So what the hell happened? Is proper tile installation lostech?
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Nov 1, 2015 03:55
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KillHour posted:In another 20 years those hideous 70s bathrooms are going to be in style again with minor modification. I always thought 90% of granite countertops looked gross. Quartz or butcher block all the way. Could you post examples of granite you consider gross looking?
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Nov 1, 2015 18:52
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Is it just me or does that bathroom have huge windows with no means of covering them? Lol, daily cleaning.
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Nov 2, 2015 22:19
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Suspect Bucket posted:.... It's in the same reasoning of why most dogs will get washed with the world's finest dog shampoo, watered down Dial dish soap, instead of perfumed waygu cow crap. It's quality and economy, not flashy bullshit. I thought most folks just bought a bottle of non eye irritating baby or puppy shampoo (whichever is cheaper) then used that forever because how often are you really going to bathe your dog?
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Nov 19, 2015 22:33
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Jeherrin posted:In windowless bathrooms in the UK, it's mandatory to have a fan of the kind you describe. I've literally never seen one in the US. Most bathrooms have them on separate switches which accomplishes the same general task without leaving you UNABLE to stop the stupid fan.
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Dec 18, 2015 16:08
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A friend if mine has a kitchen pantry three inches deep. It has one of those awful track folding doors.
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Dec 18, 2015 19:31
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Deedle posted:I don't see the problem with a 3" deep closet. Beer cans are less than 3" in diameter, so the closet is perfectly functional. Think about how those folding doors work. The ends move through some of that space as it opens/closes. It won't close if you put anything thicker than a beer bottle in there. Unless you push real hard; then it won't open. I probably should have said that originally. v  v
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Suspect Bucket posted:.... You go for last year's canned jams and find yourself telling everyone "I'f i'm not back in five minutes...."  This had me imagining an alternate universe Junji Ito comic. THIS CAN OF JAM WAS MADE FOR ME. (drrrrrrrr drrr drrrrr)
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Dec 20, 2015 03:40
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there wolf posted:
God help me, I kind of like it. It'd be better with an actual knob for the shower, and, y'know, some way to control the faucet, but it has this kind of post apocalyptic home decor magazine charm.
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NancyPants posted:... Or maybe the building was made an inch too long!
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Jan 25, 2016 00:20
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I just light my face on fire.
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Ambrose Burnside posted:also confused as to why youd bother with a tub if it's only half a human long Bathing children and pets.
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Mar 29, 2016 18:00
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GotLag posted:Oh no another dude might see my dick I prefer to pick the dude, not have him pick me when I'm at the middle stall in a row of seven oh my god what the gently caress is wrong with people
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Messadiah posted:That's not for peeing in! Then what the hell is it? This is not a rhetorical question.
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I turned on the lights in my kitchen a few minutes ago (I don't use that light much) and they flickered and went bzzzzz. So I turned off the breaker for that circuit and investigated. Turns out the screws that hold the wires in the wall switch hadn't been tightened down properly, and had been like that since before I moved in. They weren't even finger tight, just kinda sitting there. I tightened them down by hand, then noticed the other switch in that box (garbage disposal) was the same way. Turns out the garbage disposal is on a different breaker from the lights, despite the switch being in the same box.  The shock felt mild, just a bit tingly, but afterward I noticed both hands were tingly. Right is the one that made contact. Not sure what left was doing, or if it was touching anything (I'm normally pretty careful about that sort of thing, but I guess my attention lapsed). So either the tingling in my left hand was just adrenaline, or I might have maybe come a wee bit close to dying.  I have written a note to myself and any future owners on the inside of the door covering the breaker box. Edit: lol, it still flickers if I poke one of the sockets in the light fixture Blue Footed Booby fucked around with this message at 02:50 on Apr 24, 2016 |
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Slugworth posted:For clarification, it's not uncommon at all for multiple circuits to be found in one box. That wasn't a freak accident, so store that experience for later use Haha, yeah, I'm not really that surprised, it was just a moment of thoughtlessness. Forget testing tools (which I already own) I could have just flipped the switch to make sure the circuit was dead. 
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DreadLlama posted:I like how he knew to double up the studs to support the window but right next to it there's just a notched out 2x4 under the absent ridge beam. There's the four white boards that are obviously sawed off, but then there's the stud above the window, partially covered by insulation. Is it just me or is that cut off too?
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Elder Postsman posted:My house had some bad toilet paper placement when I bought it: 
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Arrath posted:The cooking I'll give you, but do you stand and stare at your washing machine the whole time? No harm putting it in the garage. I've spotted a flaw in your plan.
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Baronjutter posted:So I'm often confused by how high american's energy costs are related to heating/cooling their homes. I just assumed only american in more tropical areas had AC, but apparently the number is 87% ?! It's not a matter of "need" it's about want. I'm not a pauper; I can afford to cool my home to a temperature comfortable to me, so I'm going to do it. If you set my thermostat above 72F at night time I will hurt you. Also, FYI: the average number of days in July that get above 80 in the DC area is 29.
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