posted 01-23-2008 12:10 PM            

"Heath Ledger is now in Hell... besides which nothing else about Heath Ledger matters now."

Seriously?

He was acting. Acting. Say it with me people. That just made me giggle. If they can find some way to tell the police when they come and the paparazzi:

"Hey, we're protesting some actor because he protrayed a gay man in a movie. We have a right to be here."

posted 01-23-2008 03:14 PM               

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Originally posted by munchkin:
Rave: It's been my absolute dream since I was 7 to be a presenter on Blue Peter, and today I decided that since nothing ever happens if you don't try I will apply for a summer placement. Not presenting, but in the studio. I figure you have to get in there somehow! It's not that I ever expect that I will get to actually be a presenter, but there's less chance it will happen if I don't even try, right?

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re your u-value question, have you considered any of the following (you prob have but will give my tuppence worth anyway)

1. triple glazing or different spec of windows in some way.
2. change construction of external wall e.g. introduce cavity if there isnt one, change to masonry if using SFS
3.increase insulation of the external wall
4. will changing from a ground bearing slab to a suspended slab with a solum help?
5. extra layers of plasterboard or thicker plasterboard on inside face.
6. reduce amount of framing on window (will this make is worse?).

posted 01-23-2008 03:16 PM               

Rave: *God wants no excuses, I have only one. You had your daddy's hands....*

posted 01-23-2008 03:33 PM               

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Originally posted by JamesMcFadden:

re your u-value question, have you considered any of the following (you prob have but will give my tuppence worth anyway)

1. triple glazing or different spec of windows in some way.
2. change construction of external wall e.g. introduce cavity if there isnt one, change to masonry if using SFS
3.increase insulation of the external wall
4. will changing from a ground bearing slab to a suspended slab with a solum help?
5. extra layers of plasterboard or thicker plasterboard on inside face.
6. reduce amount of framing on window (will this make is worse?).

sorry not much else i could think of, prob not much use.

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Actually that just gave me a fantastic idea! I was trying to find windows with a u value of 0.8 which was impossible, but now I've changed my floor from suspended to solid and my DER has gone way down! Thank you so much! It's not technically right because the site is so steep it would really have to be suspended, but I can just say that for these calculations I was using the one house that is on the flat bit at the bottom.
Thank you! I'm almost there now. Just got to write a report and do a vertcial section through the entire house showing foundations and floor design and window openings and roof structure and first floor structure and prevention of cold bridging and water penetration... and then an axonometric with primary and secondary and tertiary structure. Shouldn't take too long.

Positive mental attitude. That's the way forward.

Edited because I can't spell. And also to say, the clever website stopped me double posting by "activating flood control." Woo hoo!

posted 01-23-2008 03:59 PM               

so are you now using a ground-bearing slab?

you should post your full height section so we can all see.

surely if its a sloping site you can just proposed a cut/fill exercise to make flat at the appropriate level.

not very economic though, all that material off site with landfill tax, a surveyors nightmare, i see a savings exercise coming on!!

posted 01-23-2008 04:58 PM               

I am now using a ground bearing slab. Ah crap, does that mean I'm supposed to have raft foundations? I just used strip ones... not hard to change though.

The slope is pretty major and my houses kind of step down it (I think there's a picture around somewhere, maybe on the old rants and raves). I *think* I could do a lot of cutting and filling and put a slab under each one... I don't really know.

I don't have to think about surveyor's problems so I'm OK!

Pics are on this page: http://www.gregorymaguire.com/discussion/ubb/Forum6/HTML/000552-85.html

This is kind of going off topic a little bit...

Rave: my flatmates are watching Rent. They used to laugh at me for watching it all the time, but now they both have copies because they couldn't stand to be without it when we went home at Christmas!

posted 01-23-2008 09:18 PM               

rant: if you have a problem with, tell me straight up! don't weave in and out of the subject hoping i'll catch the drift. just say it to my face. i hate finding things out from a second party. EFF!

rave: work is good.

rant: i'm just in a yucky mood.

posted 01-23-2008 11:15 PM               

Rave: Uh... I read a great story online. It's amazing.

posted 01-24-2008 03:56 AM            

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Originally posted by Yero the Hero:
Raveish: VictorYa's out...but she didn't deserve this level of shame. To be auf'd before Ricky? I wouldn't wish that on Fred Phelps.

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Ha, I thought it was fabulous. I was really starting to hate her. She had this smug look on her face when her model walked down the runway, like she was some hot shit. I'm so glad she got humiliated like that.

posted 01-24-2008 07:54 AM            

Rant: I just got fucking screamed at by a woman in my office who acted completely inappropriately and started yelling at me for something SHE misunderstood. I am blown away right now.

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posted 01-25-2008 07:31 AM            

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Originally posted by JamesMcFadden:
is a rip van winkle a sickie, if so what is the connection?

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*laughs hysterically*

Rip Van Winkle is an old folk tale. It was to say how the Hudson river in New York came about. The tale goes:
(at least the way I heard it)

Rip Van Winkle did nothing all day, it bugged everyone, he just sat and lazed around. One day he escapes his nagging wife by wandering up the mountains. After encountering (I thought it was little goblin men), rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson's crew, who are playing nine-pins, and after drinking some of their liquor, he settles down under a shady tree and falls asleep. He wakes up (I believe it was many years later, a couple decades)years later and returns to his village. He finds out that his wife is dead and his close friends have died in a war or gone somewhere else. He immediately gets into trouble when he hails himself a loyal subject of King George III, not knowing that in the meantime the American Revolution has taken place. An old local recognizes him, however, and Rip's now grown daughter eventually puts him up. As Rip resumes his habit of lazyness and everyone believes his tale.

She just wants to sleep forever and make all the bad go away. I am sorry R18, I had one of those yesterday as well.

posted 01-25-2008 12:15 PM            

*shrugs* Sorry if it bothered you.

posted 01-26-2008 01:36 AM               

rave: hearing from old friends.

rant: not really having any friends in the new city

rave: i like my job. there is such a sense of accomplishment when someone FINALLY says those 4 magic words...."I want to book". music to my ears.

I'm going to sleep now. Goodnight everyone.

posted 01-26-2008 07:27 PM               

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Originally posted by JamesMcFadden:
no offence but what a load of nonsense.

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posted 01-27-2008 12:52 AM               

Rant: The people were probably thinking "put your hoodie back on"

Rave/Rant: Losing 16 pounds for no reason...

But whatevers ^_^. I hope everyone is doing well.

posted 01-27-2008 12:55 AM               

Rave: Yth's baby on facebook. I loves her name.

Rave: A Knight's Tale.

Rave: Dinner with Brittney and pals!

Rant: Waiting for "The Dark Knight" to come out this summer.

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posted 01-27-2008 12:56 AM               

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Originally posted by lostladyknight:
lol. You looked pretty in your shirt! There's nothing wrong with showing a little chest.

Rave: Yth's baby on facebook. I loves her name.

Rave: A Knight's Tale.

Rave: Dinner with Brittney and pals!

Rant: Waiting for "The Dark Knight" to come out this summer.

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I want "The Dark Knight" to come out Ne-ow too.

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"It is time for us all to decide who we are. Do we fight for the right to a night at the opera now?" -Les Mis

posted 01-27-2008 11:19 AM               

Everything involved with this is a "Rant/Rave?"

Stepfather turned out to be a psycho. Tuesday night my mother decides she, myself, and my younger brother will move the next morning.

We wake up, pack for a couple hours long before anyone should be up, he leaves for work, I leave for exams, little brother leaves for school, mother calls movers and after exams I went "home" to a new apartment. Haven't been back to little Greenbush since then.

Exams all week. First day of exams, two choir exams, a band exam, and a music independanct study exam... very easy.

Next day of exams, AP Calculus, AP English and AP Psychology... Very difficult

Next Day of exams, AP Chem... hardest one yet.Blech...

During the week I managed to work selling disgusting meat in plastic bags to people I hate for about 30 hours. Went to 4 days of exams for about 6 hours a day. Had 12 hours of play practice. Had a twelve hour saturday forensics competion followed by three hours of work and 2 hours of show choir performances. Friday trip to the symphony on my day off, followed by 6 hours of work and 2 hours of sweeney todd at the movie theatre.

It was more or less stressful...

posted 01-27-2008 11:22 AM               

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Rave: Yth's baby on facebook. I loves her name.

Rant: Waiting for "The Dark Knight" to come out this summer.

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Awww! I thought you might .

posted 01-27-2008 08:19 PM            

Rant: Fought with boyfriend all the way home from movie and all day today. Am bummed.

posted 01-27-2008 09:32 PM            

Plain and simple.

"Like faith needs doubt, like a preacher needs pain, like a needle needs a vein, like thunder needs rain, like a town needs a name. I need your love."

posted 01-28-2008 10:29 AM               

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Originally posted by Mistress Hibbins:
RAVE: My girlfriend returned from Morocco this evening--I hadn't seen her in a month.

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Oooo Morocco. How expensive is it there, for food etc...? Thinking of Marrakech for a city break. I'm going with 6 friends and it's hard to find somewhere none of us have been!

Rave: been to the beach today.

Rave: went on a building site for the first time ever, and it was really exciting to see all these things I get taught actually happening in real life!

Rave: Pizza Hut tonight.

Rave: there's a sign in the city centre saying "Welcome home King Kev!" (football related). Little thing, made me happy.

Rave: Wicked on friday and Hairspray on saturday, and my friend's cousin is in the ensemble!

Rave: bought myself a lovely new bag and it was only £6.

Rave: beginning of a project and I'm feeling all determined and focused.

posted 01-28-2008 07:04 PM               

rant: the windchill today stayed between negative 45 and negative 50 Celcius. i don't know the conversion for that from clesius to farenheit, but lets just say....2 minutes outside and you got frostbite. holy effing cold!

rave: learning more everyday at the new job and i quite enjoy it.

posted 01-28-2008 08:13 PM            

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Remember: You are unique. Just like everyone else.

posted 01-28-2008 09:35 PM               

rave: glad i'm not the one who owns it.

posted 01-28-2008 09:58 PM            

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Originally posted by munchkin:
Oooo Morocco. How expensive is it there, for food etc...?

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posted 01-30-2008 07:17 PM               

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ravish, but more ironicish: I just noticed how much Adah's posts have been sounding like St.A's! Ironic since she asked specifically about St.A before. Heh...