the steel mill was torn down 15 years ago to be redeveloped into single family real estate.
there's a certain way the mormon realtors around here say "home" - always "home", never "house" - where the 'oh' and the 'm' combine to have this sedative, cocoon-like effect, it's pretty remarkable.
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Saturday, 18 June 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
this has actually made me think more about the building because you always drive by them not thinking about the design. of course a lot of them are a simpler metal structure but the house glued to another house glued to a church is pretty interesting. still the ladder and chute gives me "you can die on the job" vibes and i shudder.
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Sunday, 19 June 2022 00:15 (one year ago) link
Love that photo, looks like a Charles Demuth painting.
― Cabernet Frank (PBKR), Sunday, 19 June 2022 01:59 (one year ago) link
These are pretty common buildings in non-urban areas?! I get that they’re creepy but also, like, really really common and not weird
― calstars, Sunday, 19 June 2022 02:16 (one year ago) link
_These are pretty common buildings in non-urban areas?! I get that they’re creepy but also, like, really really common and not weird_I love it when Ilx gets didactic
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 June 2022 11:05 (one year ago) link
“I will post a common building type in an unrelated thread and call it cursed” bro lay off the weed
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Sunday, 19 June 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
__These are pretty common buildings in non-urban areas?! I get that they’re creepy but also, like, really really common and not weird_I love it when Ilx gets didactic_Eh, I already know yr a miserable asshole, no need to show me again.
― calstars, Saturday, 25 June 2022 02:17 (one year ago) link
no one is being didactic you're being a cloistered weirdo
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 25 June 2022 03:33 (one year ago) link
Can we get this thread back on track, already.
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 16 July 2022 04:12 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/R42u1pk.png
https://i.imgur.com/5Tg8IE4.png
*Turns straight back around*
*Heads to City Hall Building Permits office*
― pplains, Monday, 18 July 2022 13:51 (one year ago) link
"Hey, can you help me move an end table upstairs this weekend?"
"An end table? Yeah, sure? How hard can that be?"
https://i.imgur.com/aMTJDB9.png
https://i.imgur.com/HD0NcFe.png
― pplains, Monday, 18 July 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
1) thank you for rescuing this thread2) lol at pulling down the attic ladder, sprucing it up, and calling it a reno!
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Monday, 18 July 2022 15:36 (one year ago) link
The, um, "balustrade" is what identifies this as a project of dedication.
― pplains, Monday, 18 July 2022 16:28 (one year ago) link
Not sure where this goes, I rmember having a conversation with sone of you about this subject:
https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/07/28/should-dcs-empty-office-buildings-get-turned-into-apartments
― Take Me Down to the Pentagon City... (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 July 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PrlxpAV.png
― pplains, Monday, 1 August 2022 13:48 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wFO6naI.png
― pplains, Monday, 1 August 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Oq2y02f.png
Seriously, every time I see one of these listings, I think of
https://i.imgur.com/h1QmxWW.png
― pplains, Monday, 1 August 2022 13:50 (one year ago) link
I find it weird that the grey trend hasn't died but instead metastasized into grimmer and grimmer iterations.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 August 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
Finding it odd that there are still a load of photos from like 6 or whatever years ago still active. Would have thought if they were linked to listings they would be empty small squares instead of photos. Since some of the newer ones are. Did the OP have a site he was copying to or something?
― Stevolende, Monday, 1 August 2022 17:15 (one year ago) link
imgur.com
― pplains, Monday, 1 August 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
https://infinimata.com/img/dvd/2003/B000AQKUG8-01.jpg
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Monday, 1 August 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wVkFhQC.png
https://i.imgur.com/pR4ywEe.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 20:09 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MudUgkJ.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 9 August 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
Nothing like a nice footbath while you take a dump
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 9 August 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
Another Schindler's Listing:
https://i.imgur.com/K25sX8L.png
https://i.imgur.com/6ed9LLK.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:30 (one year ago) link
At least they kept the hardwoods.
https://i.imgur.com/hNYacrD.png
Schindler's Listing:
dying ... (like a kid with a red balloon)
― (grim) pump track (wales) (map), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
My parents just finally redid their basement (which was likely last renovated in the 60s) and did it all gray. I'm so mad, but I am pretending I love it.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:53 (one year ago) link
also, A+ joke pplains
hahaaa
― Spottie, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
It's not the first time I've made it, fwiw!
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 August 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link
Lmao! it bears repeating
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VY10G5i.png
I'm all on board for this beating out the yards with Bermuda Zoysia drinking 9,000 gallons of water a day, but really. I'd still like to see what was wrong with the other yards in the neighborhood.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
Sometimes I'll click on a listing even though I know it's only going to depress me in the end.
https://i.imgur.com/RhUni7r.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:52 (one year ago) link
For example, the sign hanging in the upper left corner.
https://i.imgur.com/q5oL9Rj.png
https://i.imgur.com/NxRWjzj.jpg
Are we really going to blame the kids for all of the luggage, the sombreros, the knicknacks above the window...
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
...the sectional couch in front of the fireplace, the bottle of Coke, the jar of Vasaline.
https://i.imgur.com/0roHhRl.png
"If you want breakfast in bed tomorrow, sleep in the kitchen tonight"?
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
But why sleep in the kitchen when
https://i.imgur.com/cZPSSFz.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
And yes, there is another refrigerator on the other side of that doorway.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
Honestly, I kinda respect the chaos there
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:20 (one year ago) link
Those darn kids.
― pplains, Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:35 (one year ago) link
Bed in front of the fridge kind of my fantasy
― Mar - a - Lago, or 120 Days of Sodom (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 17:45 (one year ago) link
It’s bad all the way through but nothing will prepare you for the final reveal, I gasped lol https://t.co/OTCe00jyFF— della~ 🍒 💣 (@della_morte_) September 6, 2022
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 09:53 (one year ago) link
Putting this here to make space between koogs' post and my post below.
https://i.imgur.com/25pKdWd.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
BUT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS when you start promoting hospital rooms with sinks, hotel rooms with hot tubs, water getting sprayed everywhere where people sleep. WHY NOT just put a shitter by the door? Don't like it? Then buy a 33m x 3m apartment with an OUTHOUSE.
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link
i like the idea of those narrow houses - the ex-narrowest house in the uk is 5 minutes from here - but literally 1/4 of it is stairs and the ends of each floor are dead ends.
https://www.boredpanda.com/smallest-narrowest-house-london/
(look carefully and the thing in the shop-window at the front is a matisse-style bowler-hat lampshade. they often have lego models in there)
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
that third-floor bed looks wider than the diagram suggests it is - 1.88m
― koogs, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 16:26 (one year ago) link
You gotta have on/off switches on your electric outlets / power points, but THIS is ok?
https://i.imgur.com/a7sOwZg.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
i'd prefer a toilet to a death pit personally
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 6 September 2022 16:50 (one year ago) link
you're saying those are 2 different things?
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 September 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link