Yep that's how my dads 1920's house is wired. Plenty of exposed knobs and tubes in the basement. Had to have the lecture on what wire never to touch even though they were lining the walls and ceilings easy enough to walk into if you weren't careful enough.Jay wrote:
My old pre-war apartment was like that too. Used to love the smell of sizzling wires followed by the pop of a light bulb burning out. I'm pretty sure it was knob and tube.pirana6 wrote:
No visible jbox. Just two wires coming through the plaster and lathe. I helped rebuild/rewire an entire kitchen a few years back so I'm generally aware of how things are to be done - and this apartment is not that way.Jay wrote:
Attach the ground wire to the junction box you heathen
my condo is pre-desert storm and my apartment is pre-Syrian civil war. Lot's of history here in OC.
jay was the pre-war place you're talking about the one with all the fake ye olde england wattle and daub?
no wonder you want to be a history professor!!!
no wonder you want to be a history professor!!!
Why do American houses not have ceiling lights?
haha wut?
Sounds like Dauntless on a saturday night.Jay wrote:
I'm pretty sure it was knob and tube.
Mine was built in 1979 and it had no overhead lighting when I first moved in (except for the kitchen). All the bedrooms had one wall outlet controlled by the lightswitch where a floor/table lamp could be plugged in.
Just got back from 2 months in the US and there was a distinct lack of ceiling lights in many places and lamps were the only sources of light. Not true of everywhere but definitely close to half had no ceiling lights and many others had it in 1 or 2 rooms and none in the rest of the house.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
haha wut?
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Yes, it was built in the 20suziq wrote:
jay was the pre-war place you're talking about the one with all the fake ye olde england wattle and daub?
no wonder you want to be a history professor!!!
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
Depends on the era of the home. Houses built between the 40s and the 1980s usually didn't have ceiling lights because overhead light was considered harsh and it takes more labor to install overhead lights than wall receptacles.DrunkFace wrote:
Just got back from 2 months in the US and there was a distinct lack of ceiling lights in many places and lamps were the only sources of light. Not true of everywhere but definitely close to half had no ceiling lights and many others had it in 1 or 2 rooms and none in the rest of the house.KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
haha wut?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
It's actually a thingRTHKI wrote:
KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
haha wut?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
mandatory
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- SuperJail Warden
- Gone Forever
- +640|3934
Anyone ever get into a Facebook like loop? It is when a random person you rarely or don't see likes a post of yours so you politely return one. You end up trading likes forever and am not sure if the other person even likes you.
strange little man.
No, you can block non-friends from liking or commenting.
Fuck Israel
No, you can block non-friends from liking or commenting.
Fuck Israel
I assume by "random person" he just means, like, distant acquaintances that you have no online interaction with elsewise. Not a legit stranger as if your profile was public.
Also, no.
Also, no.
It's probably easy to track who likes your stuff when you only have 5 friends
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
-Frederick Bastiat
- SuperJail Warden
- Gone Forever
- +640|3934
yeah i mean distant acquaintances. it is odd that a person you otherwise have no contact with decides to become a regular liker to your stuff. and it feels like you have to be polite and respond back when they do it 15 times.
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jesus fuck, i appeal to what moderation is left - close this partial abortion thread and let someone else start the circle jerk thread over
You're right. It is almost time for EE Chats 2017.
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