The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

You're being unreasonable.  They have as much right to a street parking space as you do.  It's public property, not gang turf.

[Tamas]

Why did you take the car in the first place? The result was presumably obvious before you went shopping?

I did not have a choice, the alternative was to wait for a bus turning up every half an hour, riding it for 15 minutes, then somehow loading a trunkload of shopping on my person, waiting up to half an hour to the bus back, then walking. Overall I still spent far less time circling the block.

[Tamas]

You're being unreasonable.  They have as much right to a street parking space as you do.  It's public property, not gang turf.

Just because they have the right it can still annoy me.

[mongers]

Why did you take the car in the first place? The result was presumably obvious before you went shopping?

I did not have a choice, the alternative was to wait for a bus turning up every half an hour, riding it for 15 minutes, then somehow loading a trunkload of shopping on my person, waiting up to half an hour to the bus back, then walking. Overall I still spent far less time circling the block.

Use a bicycle and go more often? 

[Tamas]

Why did you take the car in the first place? The result was presumably obvious before you went shopping?

I did not have a choice, the alternative was to wait for a bus turning up every half an hour, riding it for 15 minutes, then somehow loading a trunkload of shopping on my person, waiting up to half an hour to the bus back, then walking. Overall I still spent far less time circling the block.

Use a bicycle and go more often? 

[Syt]

There's cargo bike rentals in Vienna:



There's even electric ones.

[Sheilbh]

Once again I'm reminded of the urgent need to expropriate the rich before they're allowed to design any more interiors
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Great-Neck-NY-11024/31065180_zpid/

[grumbler]

Once again I'm reminded of the urgent need to expropriate the rich before they're allowed to design any more interiors
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Great-Neck-NY-11024/31065180_zpid/

  That's awful, but I am willing to bet that the rich person here paid some pretentious idiot big bucks to design this "artistic interior."  No mere rich person could create such ugliness; it had to have been created by an artist.

[Sheilbh]

  That's awful, but I am willing to bet that the rich person here paid some pretentious idiot big bucks to design this "artistic interior."  No mere rich person could create such ugliness; it had to have been created by an artist.

Oh absolutely - but the rich client would have put together a mood board, or a Pinterest and explained what they liked. There is no way a vision that singular is created even by an artist who's basically just a contractor. It's too unique

[Jacob]

Oh absolutely - but the rich client would have put together a mood board, or a Pinterest and explained what they liked. There is no way a vision that singular is created even by an artist who's basically just a contractor. It's too unique

The only type of artists who would be able to create something like that unfettered - as opposed to being a harried contractor carrying out the random whims of the client - is someone who is famous enough that they'd be named as a selling point.

So given it doesn't say "interior design by Beyonce" or whatever indicates to me that the client was the vision holder.

[Josquius]

1: Wonder how long that place will last before the floods take it.
2: I guess it's a pet free home. I can't help but imagine a dog skidding like crazy on those floors.
3: So. Many. Colours.

[Eddie Teach]

Architect: How much marble would you like?
Home owner: Yes.

[Agelastus]

Once again I'm reminded of the urgent need to expropriate the rich before they're allowed to design any more interiors
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/Great-Neck-NY-11024/31065180_zpid/

That appears to be The Fountains.

On sale since at least 2015 (when The Guardian says the asking price was $100 million.) Built in 1928, last purchased in 2013, previously the residence of a Russian billionaire who died in 2014.

While there were three pages of sites (or more, I stoped at three) offering it for sale I couldn't find out when it was last refurbished.

Allegedly, though, the 2013 buyers paid less than $16 million for it.

[chipwich]

What does the British aristocracy's Captain Crunch uniform signify?

[Sheilbh]

What does the British aristocracy's Captain Crunch uniform signify?

Which uniform?