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- drgs1
On the topic of "do 20 year olds today see 1990s the same way we saw 60s-70s?"
I feel like cultural distances are shrinking in time. Ie. there was a large gap between say 70s and 90s, but the distance between 90s and 2010s is less so.
2000s and 2020s are even closer.
2010s and 2030s will be very similar.
2040s and 2060s may be even indistinguishable.Etc
- You may be onto something. Apart from Electric Cars & iPhones there isn't much remarkably different between 2002 & 2022.Hayzilla
- The horrible raves we went to as teenagers are to some like Woodstock now. I spoke to one kid who talked about them like they were a neon utopia.PhanLo
- As my mother said about the 70's when all these books/tv shows etc harp on about how it was all sex and drugs and etc... it was very normal and most people justshapesalad
- worked boring jobs and had a regular normal relationship and wore normal clothes. it's all hyped up and re-marketed.shapesalad
- Womens lives changed. They started wearing pants literally and figuratively and joined the workforce in earnest. This changed the worldmonospaced
- It was more a cultural shift than just individual experiences with clothes and drugs.monospaced
- They got the right to vote in the 60s. Big changes and anything but boring and normal. Depends on who’s perspective you’re consideringmonospaced
- my kids are wearing the same sneakers we wore in the 80's and 90's. plus chucks from the 50's_niko
- Old people always think what you’re thinkingnb
- Try to think of time as “percentage of my life” rather than strict days or years.nb
- Maybe we’re just old and can’t tell them apartscarabin
- I think trends were more all-sweeping in the past, there was less individualism in fashion/music. Maybe this is why 60s or 70s appear so pronounceddrgs
- TheGreatGlorpo0
Its probably not normal that using a waterpik for the first time in months results in a small torrent of blood from my gums, but I love the taste of blood so its not such a bad deal.
- doggydoggdog0
Can't believe women weren't allowed to vote in the US before 1920.
- And look at how things turned outGnash
- better or worse?pango
- Lol gnashscarabin
- Gnash bringing the heat.palimpsest
- Not allowed in France until 1944spl33nidoru
- Switzerland 1971uan
- ^ !spl33nidoru
- 1906 for Finland and now they're running the show. Be interesting to see how they get on with RussiaIanbolton
- We have them the right to vote.
They have us Margaret Thatcher.palimpsest - Bullshitbabydick_
- doggydoggdog0
Went out for drinks with coworkers after work today.
It was my young coworkers idea. She just moved here 6 months ago and doesn't know many people.
She invited her roommate but he didn't come.
I sat down and realized I see these people and talk to them all week.
- yeah work drinks only work if there's a boss that you all hate and can moan about, or some major corporate gossip to chatter about.shapesalad
- otherwis, you're spending more time with people of not your choosing than you do with your family(at least you get to choose and make some of them)or friendsshapesalad
- scarabin1
“they used layers of paint over white because light bounces off the white and through the glazes, illuminating the work from within”
That’s such romantic bullshit for “it looks like crap when you paint over black”
- Welcome to every graffiti jam ever. Black backgrounds til the end of time.PhanLo
- spraypaint must go down heavier than with an airbrushscarabin
- It's way better now, but still takes a bit of time to build layers up. For yellows back in the day, we'd put a white base down to get it to glow. It was thin.PhanLo
- Nairn-1
"Welcome to every graffiti jam ever. Black backgrounds til the end of time."
ha! I've just walked into work and passed a stretch of wall that gets regularly re-painted in black to cover the graffiti, which invariably then gets re-graffitied, as it has today with someone covering the entire thing in crappy white lines (ruining it for *everyone*, but whatever) so I was thinking to make a stencil for the next re-paint that says something like "Once you make it black, we'll always come back".
I'm thinking the company that gets hired to do the painting knows that black is a great canvas and chooses it specifically... .
- The company that paints it black sends out kids at night to paint the graffitis.
that's the template for successful painting contractors.uan - I figured a nice white primer would be ideal. You learn something new every day :)monospaced
- It's really good for lazy painters, they can essentially just do their letters and not much else. Also good for space themes.PhanLo
- The colors tend to pop-off more on a black painted wall when painting.utopian
- when you think about the journey to product those paints have come from.. the environmental cost... pointless human endeavour from all sides.shapesalad
- "Every act of creation is an act of destruction" - Pablo Picassoutopian
- do you do write, utopian?scarabin
- he do he, right.Nairn
- Lolscarabin
- I wrote in the 80' and 90's, occasionally I do a piece around once a year.utopian
- The company that paints it black sends out kids at night to paint the graffitis.
- doggydoggdog7
I managed to get past my annoyance at the tip jar that appeared one day on the counter of my local coffee shop. (Tipping for what? Pouring coffee? Handing me a muffin?) But apparently that wasn’t enough. Now the proprietors have added a “tip screen” to the credit card payment process, reminding me to pay their workers for them in case I missed the tip jar on the counter. I am sick of being asked for handouts for people who are simply doing their jobs. No one has ever tipped me in my modestly paying job as a teacher. I would really like to say something to the owner of the shop. May I?
- You may.Nairn
- would you still go if the didn't ask for tips, but increased prices across the board?shapesalad
- It's like this - get you in with attractive low prices, but guilt you into tipping to make up for low margin.shapesalad
- Tell them from a UI/UX perspective you'd prefer to see a higher price and pay it, without the extra step/decision process with regards to tipping.shapesalad
- The few places that I eat out, I tip very well and in exchange I get incredible service. Most of the time the the chef just hands me my meal without ordering.utopian
- Like today...I went to an very crowded place for brunch. They whisked me in without waiting inline and my meal was served with 2 minutes...Tipping pays off.utopian
- generosity is the fundament of democracy ... always tip high...neverscared
- Ask why the screen doesn’t have a negative tip amountnb
- Utopian - that's exactly the sort of scenario where Tipping should Actually Be A Thing. It shouldn't be a default for people to underpay their employeesNairn
- I love tipping, but I deeply resent *having* to tip.Nairn
- Place a tip jar on your desk bro ;)grafician
- a jar open up possibilities:
https://www.youtube.…uan - Reservoir Dogsnb
- Just dont tip. Problem solved.cannonball1978
- Well, depends in what country you live. Here in Denmark, café employees are paid a respectable wage. They also have the tip jar, which I seldom contribute to...jagara
- ... however in some countries, the employees heavily depend on tips.jagara
- doggydoggdog0
How do Instagram accounts get hacked?
Can it happen to anyone or do you have to be dumb and click a link?- right now they trick people to expose their password recovery code via phone number if it's linked to the account.pango
- e.g. "hey can you help me recover my IG account. all you need is receive a help link and tell me the code."pango
- I've had a few folk message me who ask to help with their account. But I don't really know them, so never bother.PhanLo
- Seems to happen a lotPhanLo
- An example from yesterday https://i.imgur.com/…PhanLo
- somewhere less secure gets hacked and some people use the same password for everything.nb
- the phone number thing is supposed to be more secure but ironically it made it easy for "social engineering"pango
- been messing with them. told them to pay me back the money they owe me before i help them. never got a reply.pango
- weird out of no where text like this is usually someone trying to make you compromise your account.
https://i.imgur.com/…pango
- mort_0
Sup Google Sheets?
- sted1
men have only one weak point,
at the upper right chest,
where women always fall asleep.
- Continuity3
Tuesday morning greeted me at 6.30 with a blocked kitchen sink.
Plunger did nothing at all.
Chemical unclogging gel produced no results to speak of.Now, I have to go to the DIY shop for the near-nuclear option: a plumber's snake.
I dearly hope this works, because I'm really in no mood to re-pipe my kitchen sink.
In large part because I've never done it before, and I haven't got a fucking clue what I'd be doing.
- it might not be your sink if chemical stuff didn't work - you left it in over night right? not the 5mins they say to leave it for.shapesalad
- it could be a blockage further down, where the exit pipe meets the main drain. probably due to oils, you are careful not to pour oil down the sink right?shapesalad
- You won’t need to change pipes. At most you need open clean-out ito confirm if the clog is in the p-trapGnash
- If it doesn’t have a clean out, then this : https://www.youtube.…Gnash
- Thanks, chaps.
@shape Yeah, I try not to pour fat down the drain. As for the chemical stuff, it's been in there for over 3 hrs, no results.Continuity - But I now have a plumbing snake in my possession.
I feel all grown up, now.
And, if I'm really very lucky, I'll also have clear pipes again.Continuity - hahaGnash
- You’re screwed this can’t go right. Call a plumbermonospaced
- Continuity7
Well, punches for me.
Having been immensely proud of myself for finally having grown up and bought a plumber's snake to deal with the kitchen sink, I uncoiled it and got stuck in.
Or so I thought.
The motherfucking snake didn't fit down the motherfucking drain, no matter how I tried to coax it in. It just wouldn't go.
So, I thought a bit, and thought I would drain the pipe through the clean-out into a stock pot, and stick the snake in that way.
Already congratulating myself for my cleverness, I squatted down, opened the cabinet door, readied my pot under the clean-out, and twisted the thing open.
There are two things I didn't account for or predict, however:
1) The pressure of the water coming out, and;
2) The sheer volume of water trapped in there and in the sink.It took no time at all for the pot to get full to overflowing, and — since I was holding the thing two-handed because it was so heavy, I couldn't twist the clean-out cap back in place to empty the pot and continue.
And, so, there we have it:
Ladies and gentlemen, like the plonker that he is, Continuity flooded his kitchen.
Greasy, foul, chemical-laced water covering floor, and the floor of cabinet under the sink.
I've just spent the last 1.25 hours — and EIGHT rolls of kitchen paper — getting that shit cleaned up, then mopping.
And my sink *still* isn't unclogged.
I tried with my initial snake-through-the-clean-out idea, and there was nothing for it. It simply sould make the hard Z-like angles of the pipe.
So, now I've emptied an entire litre of unclogging gel into the drain about an hour ago. Slowly, but surely, the level is going down.
I needed this like I needed a hole in the head.
And I think I can speak with absolute, unequivocal confidence when I say that I'd rather staple my bag to my leg before even considering plumbing as my vocational exit strategy from advertising.
- Thing about blockages - don't keep the pressure pushing towards the blockage -you're just compacting it and making it firm, harder and more ingrained.shapesalad
- You need a sucking pressure to bring the detritus back out, allowing water to seep through and with natural gravity/water pressure, the block clears out.shapesalad
- This happens with my toilet in old building, if it blocks, a rapid up/down motion with toilet brush, creates a sucking pressure, loosens stools enough toshapesalad
- get the water flowing and carry the blockage (now loosened up) out.shapesalad
- I'd initially tried that with my plunger, the problem being that I couldn't get any pressure at all because of the secondary drain at the back-top of the sink.Continuity
- for next time, you either stuff a wet cloth into the secondary drain or get someone to hold half a tennis ball over it while you pump at the firstdee-dubs
- BTW an enjoyable read... 9/10, thank you!dee-dubs
- yeah seal up the 2nd drains.shapesalad
- It's only been two hours, so I won't laugh yet. But um.. this sounds like you unhooked an S-Trap under pressure.garbage
- Please tell me that your bathroom and kitchen lines aren't linked.garbage
- Oh dear god, no. They're wholly independent from each other.Continuity
- Get a professional in. Had a similar thing. The plumber openly laughed at me after explaining how I thought I could fix it with gel. Apparently its uselessthumb_screws
- Fantastic read AND experience @Continuity AAANNNDDD (sh)it happens brother.ideaist
- Oh thank god. Two follow-up questions: Do you own or rent, and what kind of pipes do you have?garbage
- Rent. And the pipes under the sink are PVC. I've since had a good look, and the problem isn't in those pipes, it's in the piping behind the wall.Continuity
- Managed to disconnect from the wall, and ran water through the PVC pipe. So, tomorrow, I'll shove the snake in the wall pipe, and see if that helps.Continuity
- Because if you own it, Draino and the like don't do much more than destroy your pipes in the long term.garbage
- If you have metal pipes, dump a few gallons of boiling water down the drain, and get in there with a drain auger brush with a power drill.garbage
- Wouldn't be able to tell you if it's metal or PVC behind that wall, they're behind the plasterwork. So hey ... this should be fun!Continuity
- So, after your first post when you implied you might attempt to fix this, I wanted to tell you to call a plumber for this exact reason.monospaced
- But I'm not sure you would have gone that route regardless. Sorry to hear this happened, maybe you'll call a pro now to fix this.monospaced
- Oh I'm along for this ride. Draino will be the owner's problem a few decades down the road, but a boil rinse will be your problem now, so scratch that.garbage
- Pics!garbage
- You might have something plugging your vent pipe on your roof. Often they can get debris or an animal stuck in them and prevent sinks draining/slow draining.monNom
- If you don’t mind going on the roof you could inspect, or you could run your snake (maybe) up the pipe in an attempt to dislodge the plug.monNom
- But honestly, just call a plumber. Usually 10 things go wrong fixing the 1 thing with plumbing. Especially old plumbing. Save your heart. Pay a pro.monNom
- Discretion is the better part of valormonNom
- entertaining lunchbreak read, thanks for sharing, sorry about the filthy kitchen! :)BuddhaHat
- This is my nightmare. I have hardwood floors which i installed myselfdrgs
- Thankfully, I've got tile in the kitchen.Continuity
- Fuck the pros! If you have a hose that can reach, a Drain King is maybe 20 bucks. You've already gotten your hands dirty, might as well see it to fruition.garbage
- I'm non-sarcastically on the edge of my seat, #teamcontinuity.garbage
- Haha! garbage, I'll try not to disappoint. I'm gonna get stuck in this afternoon, to see what I can manage.Continuity
- Call a pro ffs.monospaced
- Godspeed! And plumbers are for pussies, you will conquer the clog!Gnash
- utopian-2
peak vs. peek vs. pique
- thought we settled this?pango
- We reached peak pique a couple of weeks ago, after palimp and I peeked at that thread.
As you were.Continuity
- inteliboy0
figuring out what to eat for lunch is a drag
- BuddhaHat0
Just went and early voted so I don't have to queue up on the weekend. The woman that took my details was the most profoundly cross-eyed/lazy-eyed person I have ever seen. I don't really understand how vision works when they eyes are seemingly pointing in such different directions. Does the brain just sort it out when it's processing visual signals? I don't get it =\
- I guess their overall field of vision is either extended or contracted, depending which way the lazy eye points. Either way, I'd get it sorted if it was me.shapesalad
- It's an instant 'what the fuck, where are you looking?' from anyone that sees you. how can you go through life like that, we train doctors for this reason.shapesalad
- I’ve had it happen from extreme headache attacks. It gives you double vision.
I’m sure cross-eyed folks do it just to ruin your day though, SSscarabin
- dasohr4
in june going to see Primus. tomorrow going to work.
- Dude, Long Beach show?futurefood
- Want to see Black Angels. They are playing together in Long Beach.futurefood
- Fuck me! I’m out of state at the end of that week.futurefood
- hans_glib0
who the fuck is dr jordan b peterson an why are you all in a tizzy about it?
- His podcast is ok when he gets a decent guest on. He's a psychologist / former-lecturer that stroke a chord with lost males in a world of wokeism.shapesalad
- *struckshapesalad
- But as you'll find with anyone that pursues psychology as a profession - it's themselves they are trying to fix and find answers for.shapesalad
- Was he ever a clinic psychologist? If so, I feel sorry for his former patients.Continuity
- *clinical
Or, rather, practising.Continuity
- Gardener6
There's a thread on another forum about pop concerts which I have been contributing to and I have a small story about Michael Jackson's gigs at The MK Bowl in Milton Keynes, UK back in 1988 that I thought I'd share with you.
I was working as a chef at the Travel Lodge in Newport Pagnell around that time, cooking breakfast for 60 folk every morning (!?!) and the road crew/security staff for the MJ tour were staying at the hotel there - not exactly The Hilton but there you go. They were really nice folk, buying drinks for staff in the evening and leaving big tips for waiters (and the chef!) as they were well looked after at the hotel. So one morning after a particulary nice breakfast one of the road crew came into the kitchen handing out official MJ road crew t-shirts, which was kind and very cool. Mine said 'Michael Jackson Security' on the back of a burgundy shirt, I kept it for a while until passing it onto a collector friend, but I wore it one year at the Glastonbury Festival and lost count of the amount of friendly folk who kept tapping me on the shoulder saying "wow, were you in MJ's crew?" I just laughed and said "yeah right, we're great mates!"
- Continuity0
I'm at a complete loss.
Having disconnected the sink hose from the wall, I went in to the actual pipe behind the wall with the plumber's snake.
Managed to get it in about 2 metres, before hitting what I can only assume was a bend in the pipe the snake simply couldn't overcome.
So I wiggled the thing around, scraping as much as I could in the 2 metres afforded to me along the length of the pipe. Some gunk came out, but nothing appreciable, and I really didn't have to make too much of an effort to get it in there in the first place.
Thinking I'd inspect the results of my initial efforts, I reconnected the hose to the wall, and poured in some boiling water from the kettle.
I managed to pour in about 700 ml, before it started backing up into the sink.
So what the fuck. 700 ml over the length of two metres, and the thing's backed up again? Something doesn't make sense.
I think it's time for the professionals.
I wonder if anyone else in my building is having plumbing problems, actually.
- i have only replaced taps, shower heads etc so I don't have much of a clue, but could that be air pressure from blockage further down? sounds weird.BuddhaHat
- The clog’s obviously not in your trap and it’s further than your snake can goGnash
- Paying for a plumber to fix a p-trap clog is stupid, once that is ruled out it’s not hard to find the cause in a house, but an apartment building it’s toughGnash
- Your insurance doesn't cover unclogging?OBBTKN
- Haven't got insurance :\Continuity
- Interestingly enough, Gnash, a couple of weeks ago, work was being done for a week on the whole building's plumbing. I wonder if they fucked something upContinuity
- ^ could beGnash
- I'd ask around your neighbours, including whoever lives beneath and above you.Nairn
