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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 8:26 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 8:34 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
doug rr wrote:i was flipping through some local real estate listings and came across this perfectly placed table..

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Too close to the fridge

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 8:42 pm
by doug rr
same house with the toilet...only 1.8 million..
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 8:47 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 9:05 pm
by bodysnatcher
i don't care what the styles were when that house was built, that toilet location is fucked. is the other one in the middle of the living room?

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 9:11 pm
by doug rr
lets not forget that towel rack

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 9:12 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 9:14 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
That kitchen doesn't need that table

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 9:29 pm
by Chris_H_2
guys, it was obviously staged

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 9:58 pm
by doug rr
Chris_H_2 wrote:guys, it was obviously staged
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Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Wed August 21, 2019 10:05 pm
by Chris_H_2
doug rr wrote:
Chris_H_2 wrote:guys, it was obviously staged
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i would've eagled 6 if it was playing as a par 5.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Thu August 22, 2019 6:01 am
by Bammer
E.H. Ruddock wrote:That kitchen doesn't need that table
Water is wet, playa’.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon August 26, 2019 6:00 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
While we were on vacation, the pool pump went out. Had to order the new one, took a week to get here. Meanwhile, the pool essentially turned into an algae-filled frog pond in this heat and humidity. The pump was installed today, and I've been treating it with various things to kill the algae, and as a result, committing mass genocide on millions of tadpoles I've seen in there.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon August 26, 2019 8:15 pm
by tragabigzanda
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Mon August 26, 2019 11:47 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Long toad

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Tue August 27, 2019 3:14 am
by Bammer
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Long toad
Still the king

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Thu August 29, 2019 6:17 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
In the last week and a half, I've ripped up carpet and laid a new flooring in our music room, had a new pool pump installed (had help with that), got the pool from frog pond to crystal clear again, installed a new irrigation control system outside, fixed a bad sprinkler head, and tracked down and replaced a bad outlet that was causing every other outlet on that particular GFI circuit to short out. Most of this was done by watching YouTube videos when I ran into problems. We have about a month of summer weather left, I'm not doing shit from here on out.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Thu August 29, 2019 6:23 pm
by Strat
E.H. Ruddock wrote:In the last week and a half, I've ripped up carpet and laid a new flooring in our music room, had a new pool pump installed (had help with that), got the pool from frog pond to crystal clear again, installed a new irrigation control system outside, fixed a bad sprinkler head, and tracked down and replaced a bad outlet that was causing every other outlet on that particular GFI circuit to short out. Most of this was done by watching YouTube videos when I ran into problems. We have about a month of summer weather left, I'm not doing shit from here on out.
Time to enjoy the fruits of your labor, friend.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Thu August 29, 2019 6:35 pm
by Monkey_Driven
We are expanding our back deck to fit the full frame of the covered portion this weekend. Have lived here for seven years and have been wanting to this since about day two.

Re: The Home Improvement Thread

Posted: Thu August 29, 2019 6:36 pm
by doug rr
E.H. Ruddock wrote:In the last week and a half, I've ripped up carpet and laid a new flooring in our music room, had a new pool pump installed (had help with that), got the pool from frog pond to crystal clear again, installed a new irrigation control system outside, fixed a bad sprinkler head, and tracked down and replaced a bad outlet that was causing every other outlet on that particular GFI circuit to short out. Most of this was done by watching YouTube videos when I ran into problems. We have about a month of summer weather left, I'm not doing shit from here on out.
when did you retire?