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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't feed the faggot, Kiki.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Is there anybody or anything besides whites you aren't bigoted against? First you exposed yourself as being a racist when Rep. Elijah Cummings died. Now it's anti-gay.
Good grief
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
I've got nothing against gay people.
I don't like faggots or faggoty behavior.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Jack,
WAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYyyyyy back - from when I was a kid mumble mumble decades ago in NYS ... the Thanksgiving song ... Over the river and thru the woods, to grandmother's house we go ... the part about bright and drifted snow made sense. Then over the years the snow came later and later, got skimpier and skimpier, until there were a few Christmases that weren't really white. So your snow and cold isn't that out of line, depending on your reference point!
Hey, let us know how your water-proofing holds up, OK?
And YAY for the plastic on the attic window!
Will do. Been great so far. But it's very early.
Hope your house is built better than mine is. Sounds like the Wrath of God is coming down on Cali.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hey Jack!
Still here, but ready to check out soon.
My house was built in 1915ish, but it wasn't one of those under-designed, over-built homes, before they had everything engineered to the last psi and lifespan year, and started using particle-board. I think it was a cheap kit home. So it was cheap-and-under-built. When I was redoing the interior walls - removing fire-and-water-damaged moldy lathe-and-plaster, and replacing it with mold-free, glass-wool-faced drywall - I saw that some interior LOAD-BEARING walls were made of scrap wood - even an old door! And over they years I've seen that the stones in the rubble-foundation - literally stones stacked on top of each other on the bare dirt - have cracked during earthquakes. I mean that literally. Stones are cracked.
AND, after my first big 'quake here a few decades ago, I called in a structural engineer to evaluate my house. He had a couple things to say: 1) earthquakes cause 'hidden damage' in wood structures, as nail holes get bigger and bigger when the structure sways, and 2) "it's a good thing there are no heavy members up there", meaning, a large beam or set of beams in the roof would literally tear the house apart as they swung with substantial inertia during a quake. And then - well, you can't tie the house to a rubble foundation, and the structure is wood and great kindling for a fire. (There's also all the lead paint, plus all the lead-contaminated dirt around the house from the paint flakes, but that's another story.)
My plan was to tear it down, scoop off the dirt, and rebuild an old-fashioned-looking, but well-engineered-and-built new 1.5 story home, with a basement. I had planned a universally-accessible, reasonably fire- and earthquake-safe home. But I found out between my purchase and home design (that I designed myself and took to 3 architects for review), that it had been designated a city historic home. Sigh. No tear-down possible. And in my city, 'historic home' means I can't - for example - take off the old, lead-contaminated, fire-kindling, clapboard wood siding, and replace it with non-toxic, identically-appearing, fire-proof cement-board siding.
Nope. The city seems to want all the toxic, hazardous, cheap, historic crap preserved. Every single bit of its god-awful construction. EVEN BOSTON - noted for its centuries old homes - is OK with replacing old crap with similar-appearing but better-functioning construction and materials.
Anyway - ASK ME HOW I KNOW ABOUT CRAPPY BUILDINGS!
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Don't feed the faggot, Kiki.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Is there anybody or anything besides whites you aren't bigoted against? First you exposed yourself as being a racist when Rep. Elijah Cummings died. Now it's anti-gay.
Good grief
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
I've got nothing against gay people.
I don't like faggots or faggoty behavior.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
You're just too funny Jack. Trying to insult someone by saying they are acting like a faggot, when the word faggot is associated with being gay, is bigoted.
It reflects negatively on your ability to reason not to know that.
T
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Stop acting like a faggot and I'll stop calling you a faggot.
I don't see how this has anything to do with anyone's sexuality.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Hey Jack!
Still here, but ready to check out soon.
My house was built in 1915ish, but it wasn't one of those under-designed, over-built homes, before they had everything engineered to the last psi and lifespan year, and started using particle-board. I think it was a cheap kit home. So it was cheap-and-under-built. When I was redoing the interior walls - removing fire-and-water-damaged moldy lathe-and-plaster, and replacing it with mold-free, glass-wool-faced drywall - I saw that some interior LOAD-BEARING walls were made of scrap wood - even an old door! And over they years I've seen that the stones in the rubble-foundation - literally stones stacked on top of each other on the bare dirt - have cracked during earthquakes. I mean that literally. Stones are cracked.
AND, after my first big 'quake here a few decades ago, I called in a structural engineer to evaluate my house. He had a couple things to say: 1) earthquakes cause 'hidden damage' in wood structures, as nail holes get bigger and bigger when the structure sways, and 2) "it's a good thing there are no heavy members up there", meaning, a large beam or set of beams in the roof would literally tear the house apart as they swung with substantial inertia during a quake. And then - well, you can't tie the house to a rubble foundation, and the structure is wood and great kindling for a fire. (There's also all the lead paint, plus all the lead-contaminated dirt around the house from the paint flakes, but that's another story.)
My plan was to tear it down, scoop off the dirt, and rebuild an old-fashioned-looking, but well-engineered-and-built new 1.5 story home, with a basement. I had planned a universally-accessible, reasonably fire- and earthquake-safe home. But I found out between my purchase and home design (that I designed myself and took to 3 architects for review), that it had been designated a city historic home. Sigh. No tear-down possible. And in my city, 'historic home' means I can't - for example - take off the old, lead-contaminated, fire-kindling, clapboard wood siding, and replace it with non-toxic, identically-appearing, fire-proof cement-board siding.
Nope. The city seems to want all the toxic, hazardous, cheap, historic crap preserved. Every single bit of its god-awful construction. EVEN BOSTON - noted for its centuries old homes - is OK with replacing old crap with similar-appearing but better-functioning construction and materials.
Anyway - ASK ME HOW I KNOW ABOUT CRAPPY BUILDINGS!
Jeez... that sounds terrible.
I can't even imagine how much it would cost to get lawyers involved to fight that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Stop acting like a faggot and I'll stop calling you a faggot.
I don't see how this has anything to do with anyone's sexuality.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Faggot definition is - —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a male homosexual. So, not only doesn't it apply to me, it shows you to be a bigot.
T
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Jeez... that sounds terrible.
I can't even imagine how much it would cost to get lawyers involved to fight that.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Eh. What can I say. Assuming all get out fine, my heart would not be broken if this place fell to the ground, or burned to the ground!
Demolition - accomplished!
Let the rebuilding begin! (You can read that as either maniacally optimistic, or deeply cynical.)
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Originally posted by THG:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Stop acting like a faggot and I'll stop calling you a faggot.
I don't see how this has anything to do with anyone's sexuality.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Faggot definition is - —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a male homosexual. So, not only doesn't it apply to me, it shows you to be a bigot.
T
Deep state describes dedicated, educated professionals.
I don't recognize that definition of the word. It's not even the original definition of the word, so it's not as if I'm the first person to have that marvelous idea.
I don't think any gay man goes around calling themselves faggots. Maybe you could find some who do? It's a free country, and you're free to call yourself whatever you want to.
I certainly don't call a man a faggot if he happens to like sucking dick. That's not so say I wouldn't be quick to call a man who just so happens to enjoy sex with other men a faggot if he was acting like a faggot.
So stop acting like a faggot in this thread and I'll stop calling you one.
You're more than welcome to join us in talking about projects you're working on, or hobbies, or really anything going on in your life that doesn't revolve around politics here.
Kiki and I have demonstrated on more than one occasion that although there are certain subjects we have vastly differing opinions on about things that we're grounded here in the Garden thread and remember that we actually do like each other here when politics isn't involved.
Do what you'd like, but you're always welcome. I think we'd all be a lot more civil to each other when you remember there's an actual human being on the other side of that rectangular screen that you're talking to.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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