Plasma Man wrote:I would have imagined you'd be able to support the weight of at least half a couch with one arm. I may be wrong, but in my head you are somewhere between Zangief and the Incredible Hulk.
Heh. I helped move the couch anyway, and I only used my one arm. It was one of those hide-a-bed jobbies. I used my free hand to open doors and whatnot.
Those things are heavy as all fucking get out.
We moved one on Tuesday, and after having three people to get it off the truck bed, we found we couldn't, using those same three people, get it up the stairs. We had an emergency phone a friend moment, and it is thankfully now in our living room, but geeeez. The couch we got rid of, the over 8 ft long one? I moved that shit by myself without an issue. The sleeper sofa? *roundly defeated*
He does not spout ever more, new stupidities. He "diversifies his wrongness portfolio."
Plasma Man wrote:I would have imagined you'd be able to support the weight of at least half a couch with one arm. I may be wrong, but in my head you are somewhere between Zangief and the Incredible Hulk.
Heh. I helped move the couch anyway, and I only used my one arm. It was one of those hide-a-bed jobbies. I used my free hand to open doors and whatnot.
Plasma Man wrote:I would have imagined you'd be able to support the weight of at least half a couch with one arm. I may be wrong, but in my head you are somewhere between Zangief and the Incredible Hulk.
Heh. I helped move the couch anyway, and I only used my one arm. It was one of those hide-a-bed jobbies. I used my free hand to open doors and whatnot.
On a day when your knee is hurting? For shame.
We've discussed this Blue, I help people. It's what I do.
- Ochigo the Earth-Stomper
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Mumpy wrote:And to this day, librarians revile Oregonaut as the Antichrist.
False! We sacrifice our card catalogues to him in the name of Job Security!
ISHTST: If I've sent you an e-mail that I said I will be out of town, with no internet or phone access for a week, please don't tell people that you think I'm dead when you haven't heard from me three days into that week. At least wait until you've gotten calls back from some of the people who you called to check up on me, who will remind you that I'm out of town and not responding to e-mail and phone.
"There's no point being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes." - The Fourth Doctor, Doctor Who
I've never heard roundly defeated before, always soundly defeated. Google says soundly is more popular also, but roundly is not as rare as I assumed. It's probably one of those things that breaks down by region.
If your afraid of the terrorists winning then the terrorists win.
Silas wrote:Nobody who gets paid by the hour invents a cotton gin.
Ah, sofa beds are very heavy. When I moved house last, I could shift the normal sofas unaided, but I remember helping move a bed-settee a while ago and it was very heavy.
ISHTST: A draining board should slope towards the sink. The idea is that any drips run into the sink and go down the plughole, not that they collect at the end of the draining board and sit there to go stagnant.
Please note that despite the lovely avatar Sungura gave me, I am not a medical doctor.
This is my complaint with my dishrack, also. Granted it was $4 at Walmart, but still.
tenet |ˈtenit| noun a principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy : the tenets of classical liberalism. tenant |ˈtenənt| noun a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.
Derrr. Now I feel like an idiot. I need a freaking dishrack. My dishwasher is a piece of crap and doesn't work, so I wash them manually. The problem is I'll wait until I have no clean dishes, so I use my dishwasher as a dishrack, and still not have enough room. I need an extra one, and $4 is easily affordable. Or I could go look at a new dishwasher. I don't care what it costs(within reason). If I take the time I spend doing dishes and put it into other housework, my house would look way better.
Wow, that should have been in the fleeting thoughts thread.
When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up. - CS Lewis
emceng wrote:Derrr. Now I feel like an idiot. I need a freaking dishrack. My dishwasher is a piece of crap and doesn't work, so I wash them manually. The problem is I'll wait until I have no clean dishes, so I use my dishwasher as a dishrack, and still not have enough room. I need an extra one, and $4 is easily affordable. Or I could go look at a new dishwasher. I don't care what it costs(within reason). If I take the time I spend doing dishes and put it into other housework, my house would look way better.
Wow, that should have been in the fleeting thoughts thread.
You made me realize that I've been taking my dishwasher for granted. I shall go give it a hug and tell it I love it.
Buy one. It's so nice and easy.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. - Amelia Burr
When I moved from my studio apartment to our more real apartment, I was so so so thankful to have a dishwasher. It is so wonderful. Also wonderful: having my own washer and dryer.
That people apparently don't have dish draining closets (<- Wikipedia article; another picture) much at all outside Finland is just odd. It's just really convenient.
podbaydoor wrote:This is my complaint with my dishrack, also. Granted it was $4 at Walmart, but still.
Can you... turn it the other way?
No, the draining board underneath is flat.
tenet |ˈtenit| noun a principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy : the tenets of classical liberalism. tenant |ˈtenənt| noun a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.
Ubik wrote:That people apparently don't have dish draining closets (<- Wikipedia article; another picture) much at all outside Finland is just odd. It's just really convenient.
What the hell that's brilliant. I take all the things I said about Finland (none of them were very bad)
It Should Be Real wrote:Fuck the wizard. We're doing this manually.
http://www.hexifact.co.uk - Hacking blog: in which I take some things apart, and put other things together.
That looks amazing, but 30 clams? The miniature penny-pinching Asian parents in my brain are shaking their heads...
tenet |ˈtenit| noun a principle or belief, esp. one of the main principles of a religion or philosophy : the tenets of classical liberalism. tenant |ˈtenənt| noun a person who occupies land or property rented from a landlord.
phlip wrote:(Scholars believe it is lost to time exactly which search engine Columbus preferred... though they are reasonably sure that he was an avid user of Apple Maps.)
phlip wrote:(Scholars believe it is lost to time exactly which search engine Columbus preferred... though they are reasonably sure that he was an avid user of Apple Maps.)
Apparently, William the Conqueror started the whole lions thing, because two golden lions passant was the symbol of the Duchy of Normandy. Because lions are quite French...
You can't expect us colonials to know about stuff like that though.
fizzgig wrote:Apparently, William the Conqueror started the whole lions thing, because two golden lions passant was the symbol of the Duchy of Normandy. Because lions are quite French...
Kulantan wrote:As English as nice cup of tea.
So yeah, as English as something that wan't English originally but was introduced into our society through colonialisation / invasion.
broken_escalator wrote:Does calling Finland's coat of arms a "special" lion count as a bad thing?
What's with all the Scandinavian countries having lions in their coats of arms? Lions don't really say "Northern Europe" to me...
And that goes for you too, England. A unicorn, sure, why not? But how English is a lion?
The lion thing is not that bad. There was a Swedish history revisionist in the 19th century (IIRC, may be slightly earlier) trying to prove that the classical world was located in Scandinavia instead of the Mediterranean, as the notion of dark haired people from down there being mighty Romans clashed with notion of Sweden as a mighty empire that was bound to be related to Rome.
broken_escalator wrote:Does calling Finland's coat of arms a "special" lion count as a bad thing?
What would you rather it say? One "retarded" lion?
Maybe you shouldn't make jokes about impairments in the first place? The joke is "haha that thing looks a bit like those with Downs or so," isn't it?
well, it's a drawing of a lion on a coat of arms with a sword through its head. It probably isn't clever enough to get the joke, and even if it was, it'd be busy trying to get the sword out of its head.
My point was that the joke is how the lion looks like it's stabbing itself in the head (which it really does). While I completely agree that calling something "retarded" or "special" because it may be viewed as idiotic isn't right, the idea behind it isn't to mock the disabled, just the lion.
