is there ever gonna be a study for how retarded boomer tradies were? what prevented them from putting this receptacle in the next bay over instead of chopping up what likely was load bearing? this wall i removed was from the 60s, original house was from the 20s. make it make sense to a young buck like me.
>>2964473yo nigga i've got the same 1940's construction. shits scabbed together like yolo fuck it we're gonna make this entire wall out of scabbed boards fuck you. oh you want to use dimensional lumber on this wall? fuck you.and it's stronger than steel.
>>2964474oh can't forget the 8 inch sub floors everywhere that single handily keep 12 inch recip saw blade manufacturers in business.
>>2964474I lived in a place that had plaster walls. Under the drywall that is. We did a reno the kitchen and took it down to the studs. There was a layer of drywall under like 4 layers of paint. The bottom layer was a sea foam green color. Under the drywall was a layer of wallpaper, a few layers of paint, and then plaster.
>>2964473>boomer tradiesThis is slander. Fuck ups like your picrel weren't done by tradesmen but by boomer DIYers.
Lead poisoning. Oligarchs deliberately poisoned the world with leaded gasoline to dumb down the masses.
>>2964473what a load of presentism. lets see what people in 100 years think of your work.
>>2964473yeah i do a lot of remodels and some of the houses from like the 70/80s are just fucked
>>2964492they'll curse me all the same but wont know the whole story. this was the story of a lazy faggot who couldnt cut out 1sq foot of wall to put a box in a good spot. its obvious if you take a gander around the other side of the wall and down below that this was possible and the better choice that cutting up a bearing column.
>>2964473>make it make sense to a young buck like me.you live in a country populated for generatoins by morons
>>2964491>deliberatelyNo, they didn't.
>>2964627>hurrdurr should we use cheap plentiful harmless ethanol or organic lead as an antiknock agent?Deliberately. There is no rational non-malicious explanation for the addition of tetraethyl-lead to gasoline. Simple as.
>>2964748>no rational non-malicious explanationIt was cheaper and easier than the alternatives. Same reason they had that little razor blade slot in medicine cabinets. Or just dumped garbage in convenient locations without lining them. Or just burned whatever and allowed it to pollute the air. Or put used oil into storm drains. Or developed disposable plates and cups. The list goes on and on.
>>2964783nigga id you willingly participate in something because its convenient rather than thought through, you are not much smarter than a nigger.
>>2964924You made a patently false statement. I corrected it with no malice or insult. If you think that is me endorsing what they did you are a fucking moron. I'm not even the person you originally replied to. You are the reason we can't have reasonable discourse in this country anymore.
>>2964748The alternatives where all tied up in patents. And you are avoiding the main point - lead was added to gasoline to avoid back fires. I think they called in knocking back in the day. They did not add lead to make the population dumber.
>>2964473Looks like a higher current 240v outlet for like a dryer or stove.I'm not sure if it's common practice or something but the way it was set into wood like that would be extremely well anchored. The receptical was probably rock fucking solid in there and felt amazing to plug into once or twice a decade.Probably not a structural piece they most likely laid in wood next to the stud they chopped a hole out of.
>>2965062dude half the screws were not even firmly placed in their carved out pocket. i put in some new cedar and adjusted the box to be flush with the finished wall and its firm as fuck. and no, its true 2 by wood, they didnt use that past around the post war boom and this was done in the early 60s.
>>2965051They added lead because it was a toxic industrial waste they wanted to get rid ofSame reason they dump flouride in the water
>>2965277This. They already knew ethanol wpuld stop knocking for not much more
>>2965051>y-you don't understand we NEED to poison the world because of...patents, yeah that's the ticket!Lead brained boomer, or bot?Organic lead was added to gasoline for the sole and exclusive purpose of retarding the population, hand wave excuses are just that.>knockingEthanol was known to work fine for the purpose, there was no non-malicious reason to add organic lead (which was know at the time to be crazy toxic) to gasoline.>>2965277Organic lead wasn't an industrial waste, it had to be manufactured specifically to add to gasoline. No non-malicious explanation, organic lead was added to gasoline with the explicit intention of retarding the population.
>>2964473Boomers chose the load bearing over the man
>>2964491>to dumb down the massesMoney is what they were after, they don't care if the people become dumber, die, or get sick.
>>2964473During the time that this was likely done people had a big chance of dying from aids, wo2, the vietnam war, alcoholism, smoking, breathing and eating poisonous stuff, workplace accidents, terribly unsafe traffic etc. This made people less careful/bothered about shit like this because reducing the chance of their house collapsing during their lifetime by 1% wouldn’t improve much overall. Only once all other risk factors started to decrease (safer traffic, safer work, better healthcare, food regulations) people started to care more about buildings and electrical being safe as well.
>>2965432>gasoline for the sole and exclusive purpose of retarding the populationThis is not even remotely true. The rest of your post is just cope.
