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canyoneer posted:So the city addressed it by removing 2 of the 3 fire poles, and replacing them with these metal, spiral slides. Except the spiral isn't a smooth turn like a playground slide, it's straight sections with 30 to 60 degree joints to the next straight section. The guy was saying you have to go down it just right, or else you'll risk injury. Even if you do everything right, it's still pretty uncomfortable and painful to get bounced around on it. When they go down it, it sounds like someone tossing a metal trashcan down a flight of stairs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8g7AXTzD_I I couldn’t find the “kid falling down the black and green chute” video (you know, the one that is inevitably followed by the nut in a turbine video), but I did find this.
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kids today i tell you.  fire slides. takes all the awesome right out of it.
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Also is the extra like 5 seconds of time saved by not going down a single flight of stairs vs a pole or children's slide really worth the risk of an actual injury preventing you from being able to respond? Clearly no, which is why they are mostly not allowed.
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They could install a slide that doesn’t suck: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk4dywXF_vM The building used to be a shoe factory. The helical slides transported the shoes between levels.
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Wanna ride that one right behind the kid, get a little speed boost there.
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Platystemon posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8g7AXTzD_I
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Platystemon posted:They could install a slide that doesn’t suck: I have been on that slide but it is not nearly polished enough; you can easily not pick up enough speed to keep going without pushing yourself down, and I'm not a big guy by any means.
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It would have been cool to try this slide before demolition, but not in its heyday: it's a former propellant blending facility, and the slide was an escape chute in case anything even looked like an emergency.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It would have been cool to try this slide before demolition, but not in its heyday: it's a former propellant blending facility, and the slide was an escape chute in case anything even looked like an emergency. I remember this scene from the film Frequency.
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Indolent Bastard posted:Hey goons, help me avoid becoming a tale of crappy construction! I almost bought the gym/civic center of my old farm town - lots of fond memories and city history made there. I really wanted to own it but the gently caress am I going to with a giant building hours from me that probably leaked heat like a sieve? Didn't matter as a local guy snapped it up and went bankrupt a few years later and it got bulldozed. Anyways you're gonna freeze to death in that thing. High ceilings, big windows, no heat, leaky roof. Don't do it.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:This awesome video about traditional Finnish log cabin construction also shows them using sawdust for insulation (and tarry rope for filling gaps, oh and they built the entire thing using just axes, saws, and a hand drill). I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but my house as a kid was rough cut logs, made with a saw, ax, and adze in about 1900. The chinking was made of old long underwear and old magazines. Before we sided it, it would snow in the corner of of the house. We'd have to sweep it up as there wasn't enough heat to melt it. I would sleep on the floor by the propane heater. Best place I ever lived.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It would have been cool to try this slide before demolition, but not in its heyday: it's a former propellant blending facility, and the slide was an escape chute in case anything even looked like an emergency. "Hey boss sorry left my lunch in my car wheeeee"
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It's like those pigeons in the grain hopper.Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It would have been cool to try this slide before demolition, but not in its heyday: it's a former propellant blending facility, and the slide was an escape chute in case anything even looked like an emergency.
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:It would have been cool to try this slide before demolition, but not in its heyday: it's a former propellant blending facility, and the slide was an escape chute in case anything even looked like an emergency. This is a burial cannon.
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Re: Church goon, I could never live in a church. Empty churches and empty schools are probably some of the most creepy mundane locations and I hate being in them. (I do IT for local diocese so I deal with both a lot)
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I think the mania has passed. If it was 50k I might consider it, but for 80-120k more than the asking price of the church I can get a typical house with heating, bedrooms, and no hole in the roof. Thanks for going with me on this journey into stupid, but I think I'm done.
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The thing is, an old church would make an awesome home even if you have to pay a lot to make it happen. That church is not old and looks a bit poo poo so there's really no point.
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Jerry Cotton posted:The thing is, an old church would make an awesome home even if you have to pay a lot to make it happen. That church is not old and looks a bit poo poo so there's really no point. The best thing to do with an old church is a bar. Every time the churchy people go by they shake their heads disapprovingly.
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Facebook Aunt posted:The best thing to do with an old church is a gay bar. Every time the churchy people go by they shake their heads disapprovingly. Fixed that for you. Call it 'The Priest's Hole'.
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Indolent Bastard posted:I think the mania has passed. If it was 50k I might consider it, but for 80-120k more than the asking price of the church I can get a typical house with heating, bedrooms, and no hole in the roof. Just to re-stoke the fire, I know several people who have converted churches into homes, and its loving amazing. Depending on how long it hasn't been an active church, the insulation/etc. might not be terrible. The only issue you generally run into is a lot run dual-HVAC, so you have 2 furnaces/AC's to repair if something dies - quite often the main area of worship runs off its own system, and everything else is on another. I can 100% say that housechurches are amazing, though. One buddy has a huge projection-screen setup in the main area with a bunch of comfy couches/chairs/etc. and it is a most epic/amazing party-movie-vidja game room.
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Siochain posted:Just to re-stoke the fire, I know several people who have converted churches into homes, and its loving amazing. Depending on how long it hasn't been an active church, the insulation/etc. might not be terrible. The only issue you generally run into is a lot run dual-HVAC, so you have 2 furnaces/AC's to repair if something dies - quite often the main area of worship runs off its own system, and everything else is on another. I can 100% say that housechurches are amazing, though. One buddy has a huge projection-screen setup in the main area with a bunch of comfy couches/chairs/etc. and it is a most epic/amazing party-movie-vidja game room. That sounds terrible 
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:Call it 'The Priest's Hole'.
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Siochain posted:The only issue you generally run into is a lot run dual-HVAC, so you have 2 furnaces/AC's to repair if something dies - quite often the main area of worship runs off its own system, and everything else is on another. Nah, that’s a great feature because if one of them breaks, you can camp out in the area that still has climate control.
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Platystemon posted:Nah, that’s a great feature because if one of them breaks, you can camp out in the area that still has climate control. Or you can live in the cooler area and have hot yoga classes in the sanctuary.
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I think your best bet if you want to live in a house that looks like a church is to just build a house that is designed and equipped to function as a house but happens to look like a church.
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My Lovely Horse posted:It's like those pigeons in the grain hopper. There is atleast one more slide behind it from a lower floor
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The Glumslinger posted:There is atleast one more slide behind it from a lower floor Yeah, here's a little different view showing multiple escape chutes. 
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Pigsfeet on Rye posted:Yeah, here's a little different view showing multiple escape chutes. I dunno, looks like an awful lot of concrete in that picture.
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Samizdata posted:I dunno, looks like an awful lot of concrete in that picture. Oh, you wanted to secure your bike? I thought you said you wanted to secure your blimp.
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Revisiting this image in my head after hearing Conway talk about secret microwave cameras. Obama is watching you shower in the kitchen!
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The Bloop posted:Revisiting this image in my head after hearing Conway talk about secret microwave cameras. i actually didnt notice the kitchen toilet earlier
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Bud K ninja sword posted:i actually didnt notice the kitchen toilet earlier Obama is also watching you poop in the kitchen
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The Bloop posted:Obama is also watching you poop in the kitchen As long as he's supporting the patreon 
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kid sinister posted:No need to waffle stomp! ....I just know someone has replicated this in Minecraft. I will be disappoint if there isn't a Dong Room inside the Vagina Room (or Butthole Room?) inside the front half or the structure. Powerful Two-Hander posted:
Collateral Damage posted:Put a glory hole in the confessional. Masterful.
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Bud K ninja sword posted:i actually didnt notice the kitchen toilet earlier New thread title please.
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 I can't find the exact gif I was looking for, so this will have to do instead Ehh, close enough http://rmlgifs.tumblr.com/post/98331422181/this-is-the-chapter-on-bathrooms-we-turned-my
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Facebook Aunt posted:The best thing to do with an old church is a bar.
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