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Wasabi the J posted:What about if you fill your ears with expanding foam? As long as you use exactly 400 pounds' worth.
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Wasabi the J posted:FOB Lagman Oh gently caress you're giving me flashbacks. I spent 3-4 months living on FOB Dragon, which is essentially a multilevel shanty town built into the skeleton of a partially-completed powerplant which the...I think it was a Russian company, but anyway they wisely loving split as soon as the US invaded. That loving place, man. I have no idea what any of that poo poo would have looked like if it was finished, but there was a 5-7 story structure of a pretty respectable footprint, concrete flooring placed but no walls. Naturally it was completely loving honeycombed with rickety plywood structures, powered by haphazardly-interconnected and -hung extension cords over the course of a couple of years by resident soldiers. Apparently the unit we replaced had actually done a semi-thorough retrofit on the whole goddamn thing in order to run a bunch of wireless nodes; no connectivity to the outside world, but you could share porn or run network multiplayer games over it. Oh, and the best part: half of it was whatever the standard voltage is in America (110, right?) and the other half was 240v. Both systems ran off of midrange-capacity diesel electric generators, but someone swapping out a couple of extension cords three floors below (or above) you could result in which power strips in your shanty were 110 and which were 240 swapping. Then there's that one motherfucker in my platoon who is loving incapable of understanding that, because we're off in another shanty nearest the 240v generators, we only have one loving extension cord that's 110, it never changes for loving First Platoon just for Second and Third and the other companies. That guy wound up having to have three different Xbox 360 power sources shipped in because he kept frying everybody's poo poo. e: VVV yeah, I was mildly flabbergasted at that myself when he ruined the first one. What in the gently caress is going on in that brick that there's no room for that capability? LonsomeSon fucked around with this message at 07:12 on Apr 9, 2015 |
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Motronic posted:(is that a condom!?) Oh man I really really hope it is! Seriously, I have a burning need for context on that one.
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Zhentar posted:and the Fourth Amendment. United States Constitution (but from an alternate universe?) posted:The right of the Admit it SA Forums Poster Zhentar, you're an imposter not of this reality, part of the vanguard of an invasion force!! Content: Last summer my wife and I moved into a rental duplex owned by a local couple who seemed unable to find a buyer in time to close on their next house, so we've been renting from amateurs who are essentially pretty nice folks. When the old fridge went out they had it replaced within a couple of days, they're not like nosy or anything (helps that they live half an hour away and have two kids under four). Buuuut, turns out that about six years ago they noticed that during particularly heavy rain (we're in Oregon) the ceiling in the garage over the water heater would drip a little bit. Of course it went away during the dry season so they just concluded that it got better by itself  , so they forgot about it.This past winter, of course, that corner section of drywall actually rained, developed water stains rapidly enough that I'm pretty sure they just painted over the existing ones, and started to seriously bow out. They sent out a contractor who, it turns out, went up and determined that the damage was sever enough that the garage roof needs to be replaced. Of course, instead of telling the owners that they just never contacted them again and didn't return any calls, so a month later another contractor came out, determined the same thing, and then came out again to work up quotes for replacing the garage roof and the entire roof. Bet they're glad that their house was able to just heal itself! loving amazing, and not getting it fixed initially saved them so much cash!!! e: VVVV Okay I was pretty obtuse with that but you appear to be unaware that the US Constitution protects citizens only from the US Government and its agents. What protects renters from random landlord/inspector visits are various privacy laws. LonsomeSon fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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GreenNight posted:Hmm. It's legitimately amazing to me that more military servicemembers aren't killed by jury-rigged electrocution or electrical fires, especially Americans. Spend $20 in advance of deployment on a couple complete sets of every adapter you might possibly need? Naaaaaaah, we'll just figure that loving poo poo out in-country.
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Baronjutter posted:Didn't a ton of military dudes get killed or injured from badly wired showers in Iraq? Also apparently military showers need.. wiring? At least a quarter of deployed soldiers during ~The Surge~ lived in literal plywood shantytowns built inside larger structures, powered by daisy-chained power strips, which I am convinced were impossible to diagram due to their non-Euclidean nature. The strips, of course, were powered by containerized portable diesel-electric generators, and someone rearranging power strips three floors up might completely reverse your platoon's available power supplies in terms of which ones were 110v and which were 240v. Every time we built a new structure, or added on to an existing one, the wiring detail's mantra would be along the line of "good thing we don't have to build this to code!  "Everywhere I lived we had 0 access to running water and unless you're talking one of the bigger Camps I in retrospect have absolutely no idea what firefighting measures were in place. I mean, I don't even know what we could have done; all of that plywood and particle board was as dry as you could imagine untreated, unmaintained, naked wood could be and if for instance my platoon's poo poo had gone up in flames it would have blocked every possible safe method of egress for everyone else on the upper stories of the half-built cement skeleton of an office building we were living in. Talking probably close to 200 guys, not counting the ~thirty-five who were on the bottom floor with me. US Army, best-equipped most capable fighting force ever to exist 
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Kazy posted:Clickhole did a relevant article. :v "Got a yard full of bloodied, barely conscious partygoers? This clever trick will impress everyone and keep the swelling down for people who broke bones in the deck collapse. Leave the dead in the rubble. They’re gone." e: I can't wait to see what kind of poo poo clickbait articles say five years from now!
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I'm just not sure why someone would cover every surface of that poor closet in impossibly wide and thin slabs of bacon. e: also, mirrored closet doors 
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What you guys don't piss-gently caress your houses because you secretly despise your pets?
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frodnonnag posted:Bitch please, that could fit at least half a dozen capri suns. Fill it with expanding foam.
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Potato Alley posted:The craziest part of this is the Cascadia earthquake that will most likely happen in the next 100 years that everyone's completely 100% ignoring. If the ground is this unstable now that everything's settling and cracking (and sinkholing) just from the action of boring a tunnel, you can be drat sure the Cascadia earthquake will completely destroy the drat thing. Would you want to drive that tunnel with that possibility looming? Because from the perspective of someone living in California, gently caress all of that. Heh, there's an exhibit in a little free educational-museum thing out on the Oregon coast. It's a cloth map of the PNW coast under tension, which is released when you hit a button. The accompanying explanation is that this is a to-scale representation of how much the coastline is expected to move. It's not just visible on a map, it's downright horrifying on a map.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Jesus loving Christ you guys we don't have to bring up the loving motorcycle four times on every goddamn page. What, like we're going to fill books with expanding foam somehow? 
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mostlygray posted:I know it looks like a sink, but seriously, people pee in these all the time in industrial facilities. You use the foot pedal to run the water. Maybe it wasn't what they were designed for, but every time I've seen one, people are pissing in them. The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Creative Convention > DIY & Hobbies > Crappy Construction Tales: but every time I've seen one, people are pissing in them
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frozenpussy posted:Clearly the only solution is burn the place down. Fill the roommate with expanding foam.
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frozenpussy posted:I see at least 8.5 vaginas in this ceiling Pretty solid post/avatar/username combo, well done  For content: I work at a machine shop, and we were just told by our department lead that "the power company said the grid linkup is on its last jerry-rig fix before we have to get everything replaced," which honestly floored me considering that literally the entire business is devoted to the task of turning raw materials and electricity into fairly precise parts. Why would you run your multi-million dollar buisness on a jerry-rigged power box?! LonsomeSon fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Jun 19, 2016 |
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frozenpussy posted:Thanks You know, now that I think about it there weren't really any hints in the later discussion of that announcement as to whether the issue on our end was having to pay for the replacement or just the lost machine time. Or, I guess, whether we have to pay for the replacement, since the lost machine time is always going to be an issue. I wish I could take some pictures of our building; the company's been at this location for like eighteen years or something, eventually bought the building next door to the first one, which is now offices, and that building is about 1/3d of the floor space of my current workplace. Over the years that original structure was Frankensteined together with the next one down the street by an addition, and then another long, narrow one was erected against the far wall of that which now houses our inspection and assembly departments (assembly is actually a low-grade cleanroom). Also, there are actually two exterior power services, each with a placard announcing this fact and the location of the other one; I have no idea if this is unusual, but I suspect it might be. I really like working there, though, it would be pretty lovely if the power junction situation is indicative of the honchos' overall approach. It doesn't seem too much like it, but mostly my goal is to keep my head down and make good parts. They just bought another building across the street, maybe I'll keep an eye on the renovation project for telltale signs.
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Elsa posted:lol a view of the ocean five blocks away Oh please let this be true and not just a glib response!
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Slugworth posted:"Yo front door Imma let you finish, but" is pretty incredible. I'm torn between that and "soul patch"
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Javid posted:What are these things and why do they seem to be all over the outside of every new commercial building that gets built near me lately? Maybe some kind of local tax incentive meant to result in a greener town?
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moist turtleneck posted:I don't know why but that steam vac looks like it was made for children On first read, I parsed this as meaning "made to be used on children," like you were some kind of cartoon villain maliciously cleaning cartoon schoolkids.
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Most of the time I'm not wearing pants when I smoke a bowl, now I have to build a room themed after my own rear end, right?
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A White Guy posted:My Beige life, narrated by Carrot top. Jerry Cotton posted:Looks like a 3/5-star hotel room? These are both majestic.
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I don't understand how human beings could live in an environment that's so visually busy. Like, there's something in every couple of square inches which just screams for attention, it would be mentally exhausting after awhile at least for me.
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Whatever the gently caress that orange poo poo is on the stairs makes them look like someone just frosted them with a piping bag.
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I mean, at least now that we know it's supposed to be art instead of a building for human beings to inhabit we don't have to wonder about what could possibly have led to such poor decisions.
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there wolf posted:I don't know if interior design WTF qualifies as crappy construction, but anything to get away from T.V. talk. Honestly I can live with the 'unfinished wood indoors recalls the feeling of the lovely overnight rental cabins just across the state line that your family used to do weekends in when you were a kid' aesthetic, but I really feel like that wall is angrily shouting at me every time I look at the picture.
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Ignoranus posted:I came across this thing called a Drain Hero, which is apparently an actual Shop-Vac branded product that basically seals over the drain and you can use the shop-vac to suck your drains clean. Reviews are overall pretty positive, although some of them mention that it stinks up the room a bit (no big surprise there). I just can't help but wonder if that's bad for your pipes? I suppose the pipes should be pretty resilient under negative pressure, but... this feels like one of those things where yes, you CAN do this, but you really shouldn't. I'm not a plumber but based on my understanding of mechanical stresses and poo poo you would need to be applying approximately 1-2 metric fucktonnes of suction to the inner walls of most pipes in order to actually somehow collapse them. Also I'm not an engineer or physicist but wouldn't the internal suction load required to crumple a pipe be roughly equivalent to the crush forces required to do the same from the outside? With the added advantage that the suction force is being applied uniformly along the inner surface instead of just in one dimension as in the case of 400+ pounds of concrete and a stolen motorcycle being dropped onto the pipe.
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Luneshot posted:I’ve seen trees grow around and incorporate a barbed wire fence, but not something as big as an electrical box. I went to an old small-scale mine site in the hills of northern Cali, where the crew had just bolted a bunch of equipment to nearby trees which they left when their hand-expanded natural cave claim pinched out, there were three equipped trees surviving. Each had what I eventually decided was most probably some kind of gearbox arrangement at a little over my waist height (I am 6'2"). There was a 10-14" main sprocket with a socket point on the hub, I think 4-5 other gears including another one with another socket. Could have been a small donkey steam engine or hand-crank-or-lever-powered arrangement for crushing or sifting? Anyway these shits had also been 1/4-1/3d encompassed by subsequent tree growth and the whole scene was pretty loving surreal. It was on a privately owned 'preserve' 'ranch' that someone maintained as a vacation home, the whole thing was basically the length of a natural creekbed canyon and the inner sides of hills which went from "used to barely be a sledding hill when Rice Country used to get snow in the winter" to "when I was in the Army we would have planned a rest break if we did a training movement up this slope," had a huge amount of wild-growing heirloom roses and some gorgeous creek-forest-grove spots and a gravel road running the length. There were signs of other digging works and some old frequently-used campsites with eroded carvings in rock faces, a place where a small gantry and steam-shovel-with-bucket-looking machine had collapsed before or after being abandoned, but the gear trees were my favorite. My ex-wife might still have some pictures saved, we visited the place because her father was hired as the year-round live-in caretaker. No promises.
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The Glumslinger posted:https://twitter.com/fatherqueerest/status/1254159525038272512 Anyone with taste can appreciate the aesthetic of exterior brutalism, but it takes real discernment to generate enough devotion to undressed concrete to execute that technique indoors as well. The high school I graduated from had concrete textures similar to the outside of that spiral staircase on every protrusion from a building which housed a stairwell, but on the exterior. If I lived there, it would be a constant reminder of one of the most wasted periods of my life.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Wow, uhhh...did not know that was real: I have learned some extremely eclectic things which are not construction-related from this thread, and I wanted to take a moment to say how much I value that.
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Can confirm, my only ban to date is the result of making a Groverhaus crack in a GiP joke thread
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You’re not an rear end in a top hat, you’re just going though a crack-ping moment most of the posters here have behind them is all.
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I've accidentally the entire facade!
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my ex-in-laws live in a couple of counties of Rice Country in California, and in the mid-aughts at least half the people they knew in that area were still using woodstoves or fireplaces as a primary winter heat source. even folks who had gas or electric heating were resistant to actually turning it on for the winter, when their kids or grandkids were still bringing them baskets of firewood 'for free'
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NO My Lovely Horse posted:THERE ARE THIRTY SEVEN LIGHTS …Shaka, when the poster allowed it after all
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MrYenko posted:*if your lactating cat has 1000 lumen nipples, seek veterinary assistance. I realize isn’t the gene-tinkerer DIY thread but this recently started happening to me and I have questions
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Motronic posted:This. What does that even MEAN? Where we're going, we won't need eyes to eyeball centerlines!
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Zereth posted:... Do finns have built in roof access ladders? And if they do, what happens if you move to Finland, do they have to graft a non-organic roof access ladder into your body?!
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Zil posted:I would hope so, what reason could there be for having a live wire in a drawer like that? I need to electrocute often, but want the room to be safe most of the time
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