mirror mirror on the wall
whenever the fuck you gonna fall?
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Never
Unless the entire house comes down. Even if it shakes in an earth quake as per drook. (holds out middle finger to the gods, just daring them) (with a hint of trepidation)
The wall is a concrete firewall that divides the duplex. The mirror is resting in a tight groove on the top edge of multiple 8" boards (real wood, not pressed crap) that have been adhered to the wall via long nails that were shot in via an explosive hammer, a nail every foot or so both high and low. In front of that board there are oak tongue and groove floor boards that are vertical, 6 to a foot, and adhered via counter sunk long screws at both top and bottom. The screws go through both the backing boards and an inch into the concrete. The support comes in from all sides. There are also oak boards horizontal across the top of the vertical ones, a rail, in front of the mirror, ones under that, to make it pretty and hide the screw holes, and along the bottom by the floor, locking it all together. There is NOTHING more secure and stable in entire house. I could smash any piece of that structure with a sledge hammer, and that mirror would not fall. Can you tell I was a bit worried, and when I went for overkill, I went for "nuke from orbit" level of overkill? Hey box, considering an akita. Any thoughts? Gonna move in to help me train it? |
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Akita?
Buy extra-large poo bags.
The amount of dung that comes out of a healthy big dog can be surprising. Keeps your hands warm on those cold winter mornings, though. ETA: they shed like a bastard, too. Hair everywhere. And I mean everywhere. Handsome beasties. |
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Word
The difference between "a dog that sheds a bit" and "a dog that sheds a lot" is remarkable. Jenn vacuums every two days and pulls enough out of the canister to make a schnauzer.
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Time to have the kirby fixed
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Miele Cat & Dog
Never mind your "made in America" crap. You need German engineering for serious dog-hair-sucker-upping.
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Dalmatian hair *sucks*
My sister had one and took it for a ride in my Camaro one day while borrowing the car. That Dalmatian hair simply does not come out of cloth.
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Weimaraner hair is the same way.
Except we have a Weimaraner with Boxer colors... So its is just like Dalamatian hair.
We switched from a Hoover upright to a Dyson (mumble)... which was before they did the "animal". We vacuumed the carpeting for 30 days straight (going over it many times per vacuum) before we were able to not fill it 3 times during the chore... of course we also had a Brittany until recently, which didn't add much. Now if we vacuum, we get one full canister and a partial one. It is like our dog should be bald. I mean we can get "all" the hair out of her with a serious brushing and 10-15 minutes later you can get more. It is horrible sometimes... especially on hot hot days. --
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DalmatiAn, fercryinoutloud, you Yanks!
Peter even showed you how to spell it in the first post above that mentions it. Where the fuck do you even get this moronism from in the first place -- do you know lots of Syrions and Italions, too?!? Fuck, even Shrub didn't call his "Grecians" Grecions...
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isn't that a lion from ita?
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Is "tion" not a very common suffix in other languages?
It's so common in English that I type it on autopilot.
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Sure -- for nouns derived from verbs and adjectives, just...
...like in English. Not for nationalities, which are, what, adjectives or adverbials or something? What, isn't -ian a very common suffix in English...?
Automation, from automate/automatic; gestation, from gestate; maturation, from mature(v/adj); infatuation, from youth and naivety... You chop off any vowels from the end of the verb and add the whole -ion part. Country and regional names that end in -ia are most all from Latin, like Sarmatia/n, Armenia/n, Arabia/n, Illyria/n(*), Liguria/n, Iberia/n, Catalonia/n, Galicia/n, Lusitania/n(+), Pannonia/n, Hibernia/n... They all end in -ia already(@), so you need just add an -n and keep your fingers off the vowels. HTH! --- *: Of which Dalmatia was a part. For more recent monikers in the same area, see YugoslavIA/N, SerbIA/N, CroatIA/N, RomanIA/N, and BulgarIA/N. +: Typing this in the Radisson Blu Lisboa. @: In Latin; English has often replaced this with an -y, but the -ian remains. --
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so do you spell it Cristion in american?
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Good catch, Bill! No, not I, but perhaps DrooK? (And you?)
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Fast typing is (I suspect) partially fonetik
I don't think in parts of speech when typing.
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I see that the pilkunnussija mode is ON! :)
I had to dig through old notes to find that one. In colloquial Finish pilkunnussija means comma-fucker, i.e. someone being pedantic.
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Oooh! Even Linus hasn't used that one yet!
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Just stopped myself from nussing a few pilkkus elsewhere...
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For the geographically-challenged:
http://goo.gl/maps/90BR9
^^ Dalmatia. Lovely part of the world. My sister has been there on holiday a few times and adores the place. Very popular with the Germans, apparently. |
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All in slow Wohnautos-"RVs", in Yank-on narrow twisty roads.
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good jump off spot for smuggled ciggies back in the day
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That's why standard size poodles are nice
No shedding to speak of and very smart. Get them a puppy cut for all their born years and they don't look stupid either. Lots of fun to play with too, and easy to train.
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Yep
Our yorkies don't shed, either.
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Sophie doesn't shed as much as she molts.
She's got this white undercoat that comes out in clumps when the season warms up. It's amazing how much hair she's got left, even after she's been brushed and combed and (seemingly) filled up a 13 gal plastic garbage bag.
Supposedly she's part Bernese Mountain Dog so that may be the reason. It's not the supposed Great Dane part, that's for sure... Cheers, Scott. |
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It's no wonder they eat so much
Growing all that hair is SRS BSNS.
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If you want an Akita...
But with less of the problems associated with the big dogs... Get a Shiba-Inu.
Had one for 4 months, almost 10 years ago, before the youngest kid took him and the Brittany Spaniel for a walk... yeah, he ended up under a car's tires at speed. If you "owned him" he would walk with you with no leash needed. If he "owned you" there was little you could do to get him to do anything. Including stay around you... That was a very bad day. A very bad day. That dog... wow, I'm crying thinking about it. Its been almost 10 years. He was AWESOME! He still shed, but he was built for chasing things in bushes. Hair has to come off to allow escape. --
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never get a pure bred anything
close mixes and hybrids are smarter. Rottie mixes are great
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