Red Mosquito

spike wrote:our large fern did not fare well while we were gone. i think "planty" is finally done.

doug rr wrote:

spike wrote:our large fern did not fare well while we were gone. i think "planty" is finally done.

how was Rome?

Monkey_Driven wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:youtube is wonderful for DIY home repair

Yeah, it really is. Especially when there is a "emergency" or something that can be fixed easily.

B wrote:We're redoing our kitchen. Not a single thing we've purchased has arrived within the window specified by the seller.

Fuck Lowes. Fuck Home Depot. Fuck the people who make the cabinets. Fuck the people who make the countertop. Fuck LG and Samsung and Fridgidaire. God damn it!

Monkey_Driven wrote:

B wrote:We're redoing our kitchen. Not a single thing we've purchased has arrived within the window specified by the seller.

Fuck Lowes. Fuck Home Depot. Fuck the people who make the cabinets. Fuck the people who make the countertop. Fuck LG and Samsung and Fridgidaire. God damn it!

Remodeling a kitchen sounds like a nightmare. Glad it's working out for you!

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:Broken glass in the garbage disposal, goddammit. All my tools and shop vac are at my warehouse, so there goes tomorrow afternoon.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Dev wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Broken glass in the garbage disposal, goddammit. All my tools and shop vac are at my warehouse, so there goes tomorrow afternoon.

I was just thinking how it seemed like you have been avoiding gd but you're not.

Not avoiding threads per se, just trying to skip threads that don't have an impact on my real life.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Dev wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Broken glass in the garbage disposal, goddammit. All my tools and shop vac are at my warehouse, so there goes tomorrow afternoon.

I was just thinking how it seemed like you have been avoiding gd but you're not.

Not avoiding threads per se, just trying to skip threads that don't have an impact on my real life.

tragabigzanda wrote:Broken glass in the garbage disposal, goddammit. All my tools and shop vac are at my warehouse, so there goes tomorrow afternoon.

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.

tragabigzanda wrote:

tree_ wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:Broken glass in the garbage disposal, goddammit. All my tools and shop vac are at my warehouse, so there goes tomorrow afternoon.

This isn't so much 'home improvement' as it is 'home maintenance'.

let's start a new subforum, amirite?