Posts by placidjackal36

placidnomad50 said:he might actually have a point... you'll see 🤣

you should probably check in with Taylor Swift

There isn't much food at my place, unless he's really into hot dogs (let's be honest, we all know how those mods operate).
Plus, I’m way faster than him. He wouldn't even finish one lap before I've already built a spear, a knife, and a freaking refrigerator. 😎

Josh Groban. At least you've got food on the table. 🙂

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Ashley Chase92 said:I finally killed the mold. I couldn't stand the smell anymore. I'm going to try scrubbing it down with some Clorox, maybe if it doesn't smell too funky, I'll just leave it out to air out for three days again.

You have to kill it immediately, rinse it off a few times, and then dry it fast with a clean towel—don't just let it sit there and evaporate. Once that's done, turn on the cooling. That way, you don't give any lingering spores a chance to take hold. Leaving it to air out for three days is basically just an open invitation for it to grow back.

Look, you have to actually kill mold, not just try to mask the stench with lemon scents. Those scented candles aren't absorbing anything; that's just marketing fluff. They just mix with the oxygen and turn into smoke.
Grab some bleach or a heavy-duty cleaner like Clorox in a spray bottle—basically anything with sodium hypochlorite in it. Just make sure you rinse the area thoroughly several times afterward.

wearyhound10 said:Look, you just aren't getting my point. Sure, in some hyper-dense, overcrowded concrete jungle like Manhattan, maybe that makes sense. But come on, we don't live in a hive where a thousand people are packed onto every single floor. And what are the odds that everyone in a sixteen-story building decides to pile into one specific elevator at the exact same time when there are three different lifts to choose from? It’s not how it works out here.

Here's a little suggestion: go stand in the lobby of a twenty-story high-rise in downtown Chicago at 6:00 AM and see for yourself. It's a total bottleneck. 🙂

But you're still missing the forest for the trees. Having two dedicated "even" and "odd" elevators is way more efficient than just having three standard ones. The reason? An elevator system with its own dedicated shaft running through the core of the building is incredibly, incredibly pricey. We aren't just talking about the initial construction or the install; we're talking about the long-term maintenance. And guess who picks up the tab for all that? The residents.

It’s pretty obvious you’ve never actually experienced the grind of a morning commute in a massive city like NYC. When you're stuck in that madness, every single minute feels like an eternity. 😁
I swear, I’d much rather spend my morning trekking down twenty-five flights of stairs, floor by floor. 😂

wearyhound10 said:🤣 🤣 🤣 ,seriously, do you actually think people standing on a random floor are picking an elevator and thinking, "Hmm, which one should I get in?" It’s not about making the ride more comfortable; it's about getting where you're going as fast as possible. If the car happens to be packed, too bad. Around here, most apartment buildings top out at maybe 25 stories—and honestly, even that might be an exaggeration—so the ride lasts maybe 30 seconds max. If people are really that bothered by others, they should just build their own private elevator if they're such a snowflake.

Look, if there are tons of people living on different floors, the elevator stops everywhere, and that takes time. When you use the even/odd button system in a 16-story building, it only stops at 8 floors plus the lobby, rather than all 16 plus the lobby. It’s basically like living in an 8-story building instead of a 16-story one.
In my neck of the woods, the tallest residential high-rises hit about 28 or 29 occupied floors. A non-stop trip takes nearly a full minute. Now, imagine how much of a nightmare that gets during the morning rush when everyone is heading to work.
The issue isn't how crowded the elevator car is; it's the vertical congestion through the entire building.

placidtiger18, what happens if you end up with a limb or a head left out in the cold? I feel like I’ve seen a scenario like that somewhere before, but I can't quite put my finger on where.

wearyhound10 said:Why don't they just install three elevators that serve every single floor? It’ll cut down the crowds regardless of whether you're assigned to an even or odd number, because at the end of the day, you’ve got three damn elevators working for you.

1) Look, someone standing on a random floor has zero clue how many people are currently crammed into an elevator or where anyone is getting off. They can't exactly pick the least crowded car. Traffic spikes are unpredictable and can get pretty ugly.
By using an even-odd system, you force exactly half the building to use one specific elevator. That keeps the congestion way down.

2) Do you have any actual idea how much a single elevator unit—including the shaft running through the entire skyscraper—actually costs? 🙂

The human brain just wasn't designed to handle constant, violent jolts of acceleration and deceleration. In nature, those kinds of forces only happen when something goes wrong—like if you take a hard spill on concrete.
Coaches can talk all they want about "conditioning" or whatever, but let’s be real: boxing and everything in that orbit isn't a healthy sport. And as for the whole point of it? Just hitting people? I don't think I need to explain why that's a problem.

brightridge59 said:Look, I’m talking about those elevator setups where some only hit even or odd floors. 😬
Sure, they’re supposed to cut down on wait times, but how does that work when the damn thing can barely fit two people inside? 🤣

And honestly, those tiny elevators almost always run on that even/odd floor logic. The bigger ones usually just service every floor. There are actually some pretty clever designs out there—double doors, double-deckers, you name it.
At the end of the day, an elevator is just transit, plain and simple. It's basically a subway car, just moving vertically instead of along tracks.

In the US, apartment complexes use all sorts of different setups. You’ll see some buildings running a mix of even and odd elevators, others just using two lifts to service every single floor, and I’ve even spotted some massive high-rises using a three-elevator system—one full-service, one for evens, and one for odds.
The whole point is to cut down on the wait times and the chaos. It prevents that nightmare scenario where you have two elevators trying to handle twenty-plus floors by stopping at every damn level, turning a quick trip into a five-minute odyssey.
If we actually built more super-tall towers with higher density and heavier traffic, we’d probably start seeing those "sky lobbies" where an express elevator shoots you up to a certain level, and then you switch to a local one to reach your specific unit. But we just don't do that here. 😛

Moroccan character? Sounds a bit racist, doesn't it?

Do people actually seriously shout "trick or treat"?

OH MY GOD, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
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😂 😂 😂 😂

They totally beat me to the punch 🙄

Those little five-milliwatt greens aren't going to cause any trouble, but these newer, high-powered ones that can actually start fires? Yeah, those are definitely going to be an issue.😢

redfox57 said:I was watching some loose documentary on YouTube, and there are a few interesting points—like how they say that plane crashed and you can't see any wreckage anywhere, just tiny little fragments.

It slammed into the ground; debris was recovered and driven meters deep into the dirt. There was definitely an airplane involved. It didn't just glide onto a runway; people actually died.
The movie is based on cockpit transcripts and eyewitness accounts (including families talking to victims over the phone).

The film is actually quite good—it captures those agonizing moments and the total chaos perfectly—but two things really stood out to me as misses.
First, there's this "lone dissenter" character who's against everyone. That felt like a cheap move by the filmmakers. I think even the families had complaints about it.
Second, it feels a bit stripped down. The movie leaves too many details on the cutting room floor.
All in all, it’s worth a watch. I honestly hope someone eventually makes a proper feature film about what happened in New York, told from several different perspectives. We have plenty of pseudo-documentary adaptations, but that's not the same thing. We need something full-length, raw, and gut-wrenching—and ideally, the profits should go directly to the families who lost their providers.

Look, you aren't going to find a brass knuckle in any hunting or outdoor supply shop; owning one is strictly illegal. You won't see them sitting on the shelves of any self-defense store either.
That’s just how the law stands right now. If you’re dealing with some shady character running a back-alley operation, then yeah, you might find them "under the counter."

If you actually need to freeze something, just toss some ice and salt into an insulated container—like a decent plastic cooler. It’ll get incredibly, incredibly cold.