ilx posts with striking imagery

my whole worldview just got turned upside down by that

eh, waterface off a duck's arse

http://i.imgur.com/ppsDAk1.jpg

waterface is c. ott

also holy shit ugggghhhh I think the dudes in this episode are literally THE FUCKING WORST type of gay men, like I cringed any time any one of them opened their mouths and one of them actually said the word "naughty" at one point and I wanted to cut my dick off and go live in a temple

― "Jiggle It" - 2 in a Zoo (Stevie D(eux)), Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:57 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

pickled gherkin = a 'cold wally' in the uk

― Ward Fowler, Friday, August 2, 2013 10:45 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I grabbed it in a paper towel and smooshed it all up and put the paper towel in a box and threw it out back in the recycling can. Then I went back out there, grabbed the box out of the can, took it out to a pile of cinderblocks out back. When I unfolded the towel, it was still in there twitching then it got out and tried to crawl around, so i took a stick and destroyed it until it was just a smear and there was still an antennae twitching. Ugh. Augh. Alternating waves of nausea and panic. This is not good.

― how's life, Saturday, 15 March 2014 13:22 (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I worked in a kitchen with an ageing scots diabetic part time chef (summers chef, winters santa claus) who told me jokes and stories and sang showband and threw his teeth out in front of the waitresses (each heartbreakingly more beautiful than the last in the way waitresses of 16 are when you are 13 and have never spoken unprompted to an unrelated girl) and swore at the radio more often than not, and once when the proclaimers came on he cocked his head and malevolently eyed that device and called over to where i was mopping or sweeping or chopping or scrubbing or whatever and that call went "Da-ra! Ye ken those boys? Ah ken those boys. Pair a wee cunts"

Voted 500 miles in the absence of letter frae america.

― treeship's assailing (darraghmac), Sunday, March 23, 2014 8:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Particularly the stuff about the waitresses, but all of it really.

Even though I prefer the Belinda song, I'm gonna go with "Take Me Home Tonight" -- for the video, which featured several minutes of close-ups on Eddie Money's drug-abused sourpuss face and medium shots of his doughy body, while keeping Ronnie Spector in the shadows until the very end, so viewers could only see outlines of her rail-thin '80s bod and not her screwy-looking face. It's a classic dud.
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, October 25, 2002 10:24 PM (11 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My favorite Danzig rumor :

Some punk/hardcore kid is working at a Kids 'R Us in L.A. He's folding clothes, trying to look busy when a frightened, panic-stricken female coworker runs up to him and says "You've gotta come quick! Some biker guy is going crazy in the little boys section!" The kid walks over to the little boys section cautiously, not knowing what to expect, where he sees a very short muscle-bound man with long black hair putting on little boys undershirts in the mirror and then flexing violently, ripping the shirts apart. On the floor, lays a heap of discarded, ripped shirts. He is utterly horrified by what he is witnessing and stands there speechless until he suddenly realizes the man performing this strange shirt-ripping ritual is none other than Glenn Danzig.

― Ellis, Sunday, September 4, 2005 5:45 AM (8 years ago)

there is about 3 square metres of dead or inutile electronics on the floor in a corner of one of my rooms including a gordian knot of computer cables, power cables and early 2000s phone chargers, half a dozen dead or possibly dead laptop dvdrws, a late 90s laser printer, corrupted hard drives, variform towers and citadels comprising of books and jewel cases of ancient cdrs and dvdrs in states of discolouration and digital maculation that form a maginot line against roomba incursion, then in the living room three broken lamps and three laptop lcd screens, ive been intending to trash or ebay this tat for ages ever since my cleaner moved away and this and endless paper gradually accumulated and formed a de facto alternative to the cherished culture-objects that ordinarily flesh out the voids of lived spaces

― nakhchivan, Thursday, March 27, 2014 11:08 PM (4 days ago)

beautiful!

positively pynchonesqe

nakhers continually refuses to commute his astonishing prose into anything extended or compendiary; I do wonder whether some devoted archivist might not one day knit a selection of his posts into a discursive novella

here's hoping

what would the past two years of gr80 posts look like knitted together, i wonder

http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9781607379058_p0_v1_s260x420.JPG

lol nakh you're alright

i'm sure he's all "phew"

nakh's turn of phrase often makes me wonder wtf I did with my education

white running shoes
orange skin
severed wings
tits are like an afterthought now
― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, January 9, 2006 4:09 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just had four different ones installed in a two houses we're renovating. Here's what you need to know: (note - I'm in the US, I don't know how what's available elsewhere)

Pushbutton on top means it uses a pressure-assisted flush rather than just the usual gravity. You open the tank lid and see a big black plastic thing instead of water. These theoretically flush better, but make lots of noise and are more expensive. IME, not worth the cost or the noise.
There are several heights available, measured from the top of the bowl (not including seat) to the floor. 14-1/2" height is "standard", i.e. low. Over half sold are now "comfort height" or some other name depending on brand, 16-1/4" to 17"h. Finally there are some extra-tall commodes about 18"h mainly for handicapped/wheelchair accessible use, sometimes called ADA height (Americans with Disabilities Act). For my 5'8" frame, 16-1/2" comfort height is about perfect. Shorter adults or bathrooms frequently used by kids may be better off with the low height. Elongated bowls are required by building code in some areas, especially in condos.
One-piece toilets lack the gap between the tank and bowl, which looks neater, eliminates a seam that gets soiled and hard to clean, and makes the toilet easier to install since you don't have to put two pieces together. But they cost more, since they must be shipped in a large box instead of two small ones for the tank and bowl.
Round bowls are the small ones. Elongated bowls are the same width but about 2" longer. That makes it more comfortable to sit on for everyone, but really makes things easier and more sanitary for men (please don't make me explain why; use your imagination). Elongated bowls usually take up a bit more room and may be a tight fit in small rooms; however, there are some "compact elongated" toilets that manage to fit the larger elongated bowl in the same space as a typical round-bowl toilet by using an extra-thin tank.
Toilets in the US (and many other countries) are no longer allowed to use much water. 1.6 gallons (6 litres) per flush is the max, and many use only 1.28gpf. Some use even less, required in some places in California. This is down from 3.5gpf allowed in the '80s, and often 5gpf before there were any water-conservation standards. In general, 1.6gpf units flush a bit better, though there are exceptions. Also, 1.28gpf toilets have a rather small area normally covered with water, which can sometimes be problematic.
Finally, verify the distance from the mounting bolts (usually under caps near the floor) to the back wall. 12" or thereabouts is most common, called a "12 inch rough-in". But you may need a 10" or 14" rough-in to fit your house.
Brands: Of those I've used, my favorite is this particularGerber Viper toilet, which gets nearly everything right - flushes well (and has reasonable water coverage) despite using only 1.28 gallons, 16-3/8" comfort height bowl, elongated bowl but fits in a round-bowl space, reasonably priced, not noisy. There's a link to a spec sheet with dimensions. If you don't need the compact-elongated space saver, Gerber has some 1.6 gallon Viper models of various specifications that are a bit cheaper, and an even better-flushing 'Avalanche' series also in 1.6gpf which I found works very well but is a bit more expensive, and the flush lever is inconveniently placed on the side. I'll also recommend the Toto Drake 1.6gpf which plumbers swear by, and the similarly-named but different (and costlier) Toto Drake-II 1.28gpf. I haven't installed one myself, but I've heard lots of good things about the American Standard Cadet 3 which is also available in a compact-elongated model and is low priced.
The seat is often not included. Spend the small premium for a "soft-close" seat whose seat and lid won't slam down. For parents of preschoolers, there are triple seats available with built-in child potty seats that fold up for grown-ups.

There you go, more than you ever wanted to know about toilets.

― Lee626, Monday, May 12, 2014 10:54 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i'm not sure we should have access to this highly individual toilet meter data

Surprisingly, that is about exactly what I have always wanted to know about toilets.

lol @ "gpf"

I sadly knew all about that after toilet shopping recently... but I didn't even buy a new toilet :/

Time down the drain

yeah, i know. i once saw an aged japanese robot opening for kraftwerk, and you could barely hear it through the conversations of the audience. i went up to it after the show to get his autograph on an old floppy disc but he had been unplugged.

― espring (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 23:53 (Yesterday)

Always hatefucking outside my window

― james lipton and his francs (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

The thing is with Calum that he draws a picture. The most longetivenous element to him is the fact that you can almost feel the bony, matt coloured back arching in the morning as he reaches for his towel and switches the kettle on for Cup-a-soup. You can imagine quite perfectly the hands running through the hair, the thoughts gathering, the flesh aching for early morning ITV with it's blonde and it's lights and it's sensational sacharine.
Three sugars in tea. Main light on always. HIS posters are worth a lot of money and AREN'T going in the lounge, Daniel. Think you, of the clickety clack of the Compaq XL-32 keyboard with its strict, percussive tones as he thinks for that salacious moment whether to be Nigel or Colin today.

This cyclical world is perfecting, and never growing old. Thoughts cascade and combine as he spreads to other forums, other worlds. Soon at least half the Eastern Seaboard is cursing his putrid name as he, and he alone is responsible for powercuts as the flaming rises. No-one is safe, at least no-one who is Internet Capable.

So basically, he's going to die some day, some place, from something. It might be horrible, it might be peaceful, it could be the very best of natures' gold. But it will always be there. Think of this, my children, as you descend into these dark, dark days.

― Bernard the Butler (Lynskey), Monday, 8 November 2004 23:38 (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what does longetivenous mean though?

Seriously, that thing is a boat of ass.

― B.L.A.M., Thursday, December 4, 2008 8:11 PM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

longevitenous means exactly what it sounds like

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Did you mean: longevous

great writers are their own authority

1. facility with lengthy internet event invitations

They call them the 'Telephone Generation'. For the Telephone Generation, the same amount of time has elapsed since the founding of the Lawn Tennis Association in 1888 as the declaration of war on Spain by England in 1762. To the Telephone Generation, arable enclosure is just a way of life. They do not know what it means to send a telegram or cast their own spearheads from bronze alloys. Feeling old yet?

― 1 pONO 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (dog latin), Tuesday, May 6, 2014 5:36 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that surely belongs in 'trenchant social commentary'

My enjoyment of the 1999 eclipse was greatly enhanced by seeing Jasper Carrot in eclipse glasses on Hampstead Heath.
― Jonnie, Tuesday, October 30, 2001 1:00 AM (12 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

before CDs the world was littered with broken cassette cases and long tangled streams of discarded tape lying in knotted heaps in the gutters and along the roadsides, trapped and flapping against wire fences, tumbling and twisting down windy streets, miles and miles of stretched, snapped cassette tapes.

― estela, Wednesday, June 4, 2014 1:56 AM

That's a really, really good one.

last time I said goodbye to someone at a party I stayed and kept them talking as their life passed and the years fell on them like crinkles on carpet they died halfway through the fifty fourth thousandth decade of the rosary I had proposed out of sheer awkwardness over the departure arrangements and twas a great way to go, at peace and surrounded by the cobwebbed remainders of the other guests (I had been standing in the doorway for night sixty years by then but obviously they couldn't leave by window nor back door without taking proper leave of the host themselves. I believe this trait of elongated exit is perhaps a carryover from our dear colonial guests, who invited themselves over 800 years ago and are upstairs footering about even yet

― dn/ac (darraghmac), Monday, June 16, 2014 7:50 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Poin of interest: If you're ever going through Argyle Street or waiting for a train on the platform. Have a look at the far wall on the east-bound side - you will notice a moldy brown cylindrical object stuck to the cladding. Well, it's the bottom bun of a McDonalds hamburger that I threw after the works christmas night out nearly 2 years ago.
― JohnFoxxsJuno, Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:59 AM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god please let that still be there

seriously. someone needs to check in on that, pronto.

and post a photo

can't have been much of a work party if he's home already after only two years tbph

godless country

dmac jocking joyce

he loves Three's Company