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#3314767 1-Dec-2024 16:00

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New beach front house at Piha (NZ Herald full story)

Since being assailed by this kind of design beginning in the 90s I started thinking architecture should really do something for human feeling in the environment. A big blank wall in your face is not great for the imagination. As an occupier I'm sure I'd be very happy with it.

This reminds me of Deep Thought from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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#3314771 1-Dec-2024 16:40

The words “architect designed” appear to be code for “drew some straight lines with a ruler “!

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#3314821 1-Dec-2024 17:16

Geektastic: The words “architect designed” appear to be code for “drew some straight lines with a ruler “!

Father Neb was a builder, he said "architect designed" pretty much universally means "leaky, drafty, impossible to heat in winter, impossible to cool in summer, and badly laid out". He used to redraw architect plans to make them buildable and, if possible, less bad.

I recently got to look at a house that a friend was interested in that was advertised as architect-designed. It hit every single point on the Father Neb checklist except "drafty", and that possibly only because there was no wind that day.

Oh, and he also had some opinions on 1990s building codes, but I can't post them here because it's a family-friendly forum.

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#3314822 1-Dec-2024 17:17

I just saw Judge Dredd (the later one) on streaming TV. Every depraved act of blood-soaked flesh-ripping torture is depicted in fine detail with no trace of the slightest hint of any kind of restraint. The gore fest is only slightly softened by being so ridiculously over the top but absolutely nothing is left to imagination.

Yet the dialogue, which consists almost entirely of F-bombs and similar ‘bad’ words, is vigorously blotted out wherever they occur, resulting in one long muffled mumble. We are such a depressingly pathetic species!

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#3314824 1-Dec-2024 17:27

Rikkitic: I just saw Judge Dredd (the later one) on streaming TV. Every depraved act of blood-soaked flesh-ripping torture is depicted in fine detail with no trace of the slightest hint of any kind of restraint. The gore fest is only slightly softened by being so ridiculously over the top but absolutely nothing is left to imagination.

Yet the dialogue, which consists almost entirely of F-bombs and similar ‘bad’ words, is vigorously blotted out wherever they occur, resulting in one long muffled mumble. We are such a depressingly pathetic species!

I remember that from living in the US, you could watch any amount of graphic violence, rape, etc on TV (this is what turned me off ever watching a second episode of Sopranos, the first episode I happened to catch was the rape scene, they could easily have implied it without having to show it), but they were puritannical about anything involving a bit of exposed flesh or even the mildest swearing (e.g. bitch -> witch). I remember thinking how screwed-up a place has to be for that to be regarded as normal.

Contrast that with many (most?) European countries where it's more or less the opposite way round, or was the last time I watched any TV there which admittedly was a long time ago.

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#3314827 1-Dec-2024 17:55

Coincidently I bumped into a recent house guest on the beach:

He tells me I'll like it when the appropriate lighting is installed.

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#3314832 1-Dec-2024 18:47

gzt:

Coincidently I bumped into a recent house guest on the beach:

He tells me I'll like it when the appropriate lighting is installed.

It must have had more than 4 legs, by the sounds of it.

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#3315003 1-Dec-2024 23:08

deepred:
It must have had more than 4 legs, by the sounds of it.

You can find other photos on line. The V shaped support is continuous front to back.

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#3315004 1-Dec-2024 23:11

Geektastic: The words “architect designed” appear to be code for “drew some straight lines with a ruler “!

Have curves gone out of fashion this week? They were the in thing a while ago.

At least you can make reasonable use of space in rectangular rooms.

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#3315005 1-Dec-2024 23:13

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New beach front house at Piha (NZ Herald full story)

For a New Zealand coastal defence command bunker, I don't think it's too badly done. The „V“ stands for victory? ;-)

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#3315006 1-Dec-2024 23:25

Bung:
deepred:

It must have had more than 4 legs, by the sounds of it.

You can find other photos on line. The V shaped support is continuous front to back.

So one kid with a bottle jack could flip it on its side?

Edited to add: Just looked at some other photos online, it's fairly substantial reinforced concrete while the photo above makes it look a bit spindly... however it's also built on sand, so who knows.

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#3315007 1-Dec-2024 23:30

This. It appears to be an inadvertent USB version of an Etherkiller.

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#3315169 2-Dec-2024 14:56

neb:
This. It appears to be an inadvertent USB version of an Etherkiller.

Maybe they fixed the image, because I'm not seeing an ethernet port

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#3315171 2-Dec-2024 15:02

News to me: Australia consumes more cocaine per capita than anyone else? That explains the aggro attitude.

Submarine may be christened the "Blizzard Buoy" or "Frosty the Float"

Colombia intercepts semi-submersible packed with cocaine bound for Australia

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#3315172 2-Dec-2024 15:15

Submarine may be christened the "Blizzard Buoy" or "Frosty the Float"

My vote goes to Shitty McShitface!

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