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sus
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Better yet, YT
Leo
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John Lydon's
What the hell is this...a living room beach party? Are you sitting indoors in shades and Bermuda shorts? No socks? What are we, monkeys in a zoo??
I mean, I know Greta Thunberg wants to send people who buy shitcoins to 'greenhouse prison', but you septics really need to lay off the thermostats. If your home's like Kabul all year round how can you even tell when it's summer time?
Leo
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humans deserve an indoor climate that does more than just take the edge off a January evening.
sus
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We've been 69 at night, 72 by day for yours. No AC though, so June to August the house rises well above that. In the depths of winter, we'll squeak down to 67/70 to save on propane.
IdleRich
IdleRich
The thing with separate hot and cold taps. As a man of the world I've experienced both that and the alternative with them running together through one pipe and, really, what always confuses me is that people bother to mention it at all - "oh my fucking god there are two taps!" - I really don't understand why this comes up again and again again and seems to confound people and completely blow their minds so that they have to go on the internet and find all the other people with minds small enough to care and tell them that they once had to use two taps.
Er that wasn't meant to sound as rude as it came out... but honestly I just had to go and check which we have here cos I don't know.
Er that wasn't meant to sound as rude as it came out... but honestly I just had to go and check which we have here cos I don't know.
sus
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It comes up again and again because it's wholly unsuited to modern handwashing and hygiene.
Like Leo said, except that most of the time I want an intermediate temp. I almost never want ice cold water and I almost never want boiling hot water straight from the heater. I want room temperature water, or warm water, or even hot water! But not blazing boiling hot.
A single tap gives you a continuous spectrum of control. Infinite possibility. Two taps gives you two options.
A single tap is clearly objectively superior from the perspective of empowerment, agency, degrees of freedom, etc.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
I've worked downtown for 7 years. It's hot trash, with a couple exceptions, unless you're a yuppie or (no offense) a tourist.
The loop proper is, unsurprisingly, almost all corporate, with a fair bit of luxury residential as well. The areas (I wouldn't call them neighborhoods) around the loop - River North, Streeterville, Gold Coast, West Loop, South Loop - are even worse, an endless cavalcade of finance bros + Karens and/or tourists, depending where exactly you are. Some of them are even beyond yuppies at this point, like condos regularly go in the West Loop for $1m+.
There are indeed cool museums (Art Institute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Field Museum), interesting architecture (tho being rapidly torn down + replaced w/boring skyscrapers) and some nice views, but that's about it. If someone was actually visiting I could clue them into a few decent spots in greater downtown but really the only reason to go downtown at all, if you don't have to, is to go to the AI and/or MCA.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
Fun (not fun, really), unsurprising fact: the city kicked a shit-ton of homeless people out of lower Wacker to redo the Riverwalk, without, yunno, giving them any better options, so they just moved to more decentralized tent camps at underpasses around the city. There's a big one about a mile and a half from my house that's been there for years now.
padraig (u.s.)
a monkey that will go ape
There used to be a loose affiliation of homeless dudes who'd post on Lower Wack + Michigan trying to hustle $ for giving directions to clueless ppl in SUVs trying to escape the lowers (GPS usually fails down there), always made me laugh (@ the clueless SUV types, that is)
Actually fun fact: the entrance to the Muzic Box (i.e. Ron Hardy) was like a block from there, which always blows my mind
There are actually streets named after Frankie Knuckles + Farley Keith (and I think, Ralphi Rosario?) in the West + South Loops, respectively, as well as a pretty great Frankie Knuckles mural @ Green + Kinzie. Nothing for Ron Hardy, tho.
Actually fun fact: the entrance to the Muzic Box (i.e. Ron Hardy) was like a block from there, which always blows my mind
There are actually streets named after Frankie Knuckles + Farley Keith (and I think, Ralphi Rosario?) in the West + South Loops, respectively, as well as a pretty great Frankie Knuckles mural @ Green + Kinzie. Nothing for Ron Hardy, tho.
sufi
lala
i welcomed a nice iraqi refugee family to uk, years ago, in the days of saddam, and showed them around their new place in london, and mrs iraqi was like,
"well, it's nice and all, but ... the taps - where we come from we have modern plumbing"