ilx posts with striking imagery

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

I remember because imo Box of Rain is one of those songs specifically designed to make people cry.. That's something else I think about with this songs -- they have been on the radio my whole life. How many people's monumental life moments occurred while they were listening to CR radio? Probably a lot! Imagine how much crying these songs have inspired and you will drown in tears. That's poignant. I'll take it.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 2:09 PM

That's exactly how I always felt about Landslide. I cry when I hear it and also think about the fact that people from all walks of life cry at that song.

Generally, high street binge drinking culture seems to have this thick benign vibe going on at the centre of each little group - thick like honey or concrete. In the calm at the eye of the storm, they could do each other no ill, best mates forever, and if you look closely a reminder that people don't have to be especially intelligent or friendly to be, again, benign, at peace. Big rough violent people, giving each other piggy backs, or doing that tiger-paw petting thing, towselling each other's hair and saying 'Ah, you fucker, haha'.

On the other hand, when the edge of one group collides with another ...

― cardamon, Monday, July 7, 2014 11:33 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn, she is still hotter than her sister. That emo/punk look is way hot!

http://i.imgur.com/GHNN3w8.jpg

― Tickly Me Elmer, Saturday, October 22, 2005 5:02 AM (8 years ago)

No one is disturbed by the fact that in that picture Ashlee is five fingers deep in the funhouse? She's like, wrist-deep in a Georgia O'Keeffe.

― Je4nn3 ƒur¥ (Je4nne Fury), Saturday, October 22, 2005 9:43 PM (8 years ago)

the kids just call it 'the zone'

then I guess she's a real Stalker!

nickb is always good for some striking imagery but i read this whole post with relish

my guilty pleasure: being of a certain age in the early-80s, i do still harbour a conflicted fondness for the likes of earlier u2 and big country, music that if i had encountered at any other stage of my life i would have found ludicrously bombastic verging on the megalomaniac in the first instance and cringingly over-earnest and sentimental in the latter. i think they're both hugely embarrassing. terminally over-reaching bluster that mistakes passion for truth, all flag-waving, tartan-clad singalong nonsense for dewey-eyed mullet-men in football shirts. would never ever ever play them in the company of others, would never wear their t-shirts, and have exorcized them from my last.fm stats on more than one occasion (gosh, did i really leave spotify scrobbling turned on?). god, if they were playing at the end of my garden, i would probably only peep at them through a gap in the curtains, all the while shaking my head at all the pissed-up wallies no doubt hopelessly bellowing along in unison to every beseeching woah! and hey!. and yet i cannot help but be thrilled some of their songs, they still bear this aura of the heroic for me, they can still speak through the ages to the juvenile guileless me who's buried somewhere in the bottom of an old shoebox at the back of my dark, dusty heart. i have tried to rationalise this unseemly attachment; i can say to myself that the guitar players are the under-appreciated tom verlaines or john martyns or richard thompsons of their day, that their use of atmosphere and effect was the precursor to so much post-rock or black metal or whatever. none of that gets to the root of the simple-minded joy that i can't quite believe i still find in either of these bands though. it disappoints me with myself. someone kill me with a shovel.

― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, August 6, 2014 4:55 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

wow what a post!

haha, i was going to repost that one.

excellent post - captures something i've tried and failed to articulate before.

that is awesome

fedora shaming

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fedora-shaming

If I were Kate Bush, I would decree no cameras, no standing, no singing along and clapping only at the end. Then I would kick everyone out and play to an empty hall, but project the performance on the surface of a flowing river.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:26 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

<3

lol at that car driving by, just imagining someone driving to work and seeing ice bucket challenges left and right, in the middle of the road, ice falling from the heavens, a man is dead on the ground and a lamb is crawling out of his stomach, hellfire

― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Friday, August 29, 2014 12:31 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Some quality work these last few

that's when you sit in a chalet taking pills listening to the vague echo of a de la soul concert

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, August 29, 2014 11:53 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know why but Hagar's beard always makes me think of cunnilingus

― you couldn't even wear a fedora if your lifes depended on it (stevie), Wednesday, September 3, 2014 5:31 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sure but call me old fashioned, i just don't think phones should bend.

you can quote this post in 10 years when we all have bendy phones.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:07 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you're old fashioned

― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Flexible displays are already possible they just gotta
Make flexible everything
Else

― 龜, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Some flexible sentence structure there.