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Anon's brother hates concrete (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 195 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

IT ISNT EVEN CONCRETE! YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BRITTLE, ROUGH, MOLD AND FUNGUS FARMS THAT DEGRADE IN NO LESS THAN 20 YEARS CINDER BLOCK.

BRICK, in a technical sense is concrete BUT EVEN BRICK AND MORTAR ARE INFERIOR TO A SIMPLE WELL EXECUTED CONCRETE POUR.

LAZY INCOMPETENT CONTRACTORS DECIDED TO SKIP THE CAST MAKING STAGE AND JUST STARTED GOING TO TOWN WITH SHITTY ASS BRICK AND POROUS ASS MORTER.

WAS THAT ENOUGH?!?!? NOOOOOOOOO.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH. THEY NEEDED TO FIND A WAY TO MAKE THE BLOCK SHITTIER THAN THE BONDING AGENT SO THEY MADE....

30 straight seconds of visceral panting

DOG SHIT POLLEN ABSORBING WATER SOLUABLE FUCK ME IN THE ASS SNEEZE ON IT AND IT CRUMBLES..... ARGH..... CIIIIIIINNNNNNNDEEEEEERRRRRR BLOOOOOOCCCCCCK.

I just can't anymore... I have grown to cherish brick... who made cinder block... why?... why did they do this to me? Why did they make me not only know of but also languish in a world mostly made of... wimper... cinder block...

[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago

A copypasta is born!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago

This is art. Thank you for sharing the gospel

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

How do you feel about gypsum walls/drywalls?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

Tastes great with ketchup.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Not the OP, but I'd say that cinder blocks combine the downsides of bot drywall and brick and mortar.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 7 months ago (7 children)

To be fair, brutalist buildings are fugly

[–] [email protected] 60 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I dunno, I think they're kinda ... neat, I guess? Like, yeah, they're technically pretty ugly, but somehow in a way that makes them interesting.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

Trying....and failing, to think of a good portmanteau of interesting and ugly.

Edit: intugly? Ugteresting?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (3 children)

“Striking” is usually the word. It can be used for bad looks as well as good.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I actually just tried looking that up, to see if such a word actually exists in English. I found a stack exchange thread asking this same question but no one had a suitable answer. So, yeah, I guess it's up to you to contribute to society by inventing and popularizing this new word. Enjoy your new destiny.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

puts big boy pants on, and refills coffe My time to shine!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Ugleresting.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

That would make the cybertruck a brutalist car.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago (7 children)

To you.

The peak of brutality architecture beats any other type in my eyes. It's beautiful in a way no other building or style compares.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Unfortunately many brutalistic buildings are far off from its peak and just look like lazily designed gray blobs. High-effort brutalism can look good (or can look inappropriately evil but that's besides the point); low-effort brutalism always looks cheap.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Low effort brutalism looks cheap because it is. And that's a good thing. In my country there's a homeless crisis. The waitlist for government housing is five years. And that's because too much of the government housing is single family detached houses. The politicians always say "we don't have enough money to build government housing for everyone who needs it". You know how many homeless we'd have if the government built soviet block style apartment buildings? Next to none. The people who can live on their own and just don't have enough money can live in that, the people who need support can stay in the homeless shelters that have support, and only the people who want to be homeless would be left. Brutalism is efficient. American style suburbia is inefficient, so much so that it needs to be subsidized by the government using money taken from the city, because the suburbanites can't pay for their own single family detached houses, even the ones with high paying jobs.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (10 children)

I completely agree, except with the suggestion that apartment blocks must be brutalist to be space efficient. It wouldn't be very difficult to make apartment blocks which dont look depressingly gray and blocky. Its just the cheapest thing to do, but in my opinion even (or especially) the lower class deserves to live in homely conditions too.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I like it.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I think the greenery in these pictures is doing quite a bit of lifting. Brutalist buildings without plants are less fun to look at

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

I think that was the original idea for brutalist buildings, complementing them with plants? I don't want to look for a source right now though, so take it with a grain of salt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Any building without plants is less fun to look at

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

These look like defensive structures from a war movie with some plants on them

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

This reminds me of a very short but very good documentary

The Barbican: A Middle Class Council Estate

I was watching this and thinking, almost. How did a country start building like this, for the people and then stop. Then it is all apparent, the Witch got in power.

It appears the growth of these "for the benefit of people" views were replaced with the old ages of the greatest and silent generation, and replaced with the "me, me, me. My money" of the boomer generation.

I can't help but thinking how things could have been different if we continued on from the old timers. I know ww2 destroyed an economy that was lucky to survive it, that's in itself is also an interesting thing to think how the world would have been without it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

the Witch got in power

Not British and haven't watched the video you linked, so I'm guessing... Thatcher?

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I have a fairly functional form of autism, but I sometimes struggle finding balance in points of interest I get enthusiastic about, and nobody really matches my enthusiasm, even though they try. It often feels like rejection, but this post really puts it in perspective for me. I'm not always reasonable/flexible when I'm like that. Thanks for sharing.

(To give an example related to this post; I wouldn't assault someone for having a different opinion, but I could definitely debate them with a passion that's a little out of place and not as reasonable as I'd like to believe it is. "Building with concrete blocks? What is even wrong with you, where you never thought proper construction? What do you mean cheap building costs? People who want to build cheap buildings shouldn't be allowed to build anyway".

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

"Building with concrete blocks? What is even wrong with you, where you never thought proper construction? What do you mean cheap building costs? People who want to build cheap buildings shouldn't be allowed to build anyway".

The internet suddenly makes a bit more sense to me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (8 children)

I think a lot of "bad faith trolls" are exactly this.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago

He's right though, we aren't building as sustainable as we did back then.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wonder how this kid reacted to the ending of the Three little Pigs?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (1 children)

With powerful multiple orgasms

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

He huffed and puffed and blew his load.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I do prefer brick buildings.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Anon's brother does have a point - concrete blocks and buildings made from them tend to be quite ugly in comparison to buildings made with more traditional building materials like brick, stone, or even wood

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

There's nothing to stop you from using concrete as a structural material and covering it with brick. That's how most single-family houses in Germany work.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Anon's brother hates concret*

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

I mean, when he's right, he's right

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

This is honestly the first time I have ever understood this community. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I feel seen

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

FUCK CONCRETE!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

You can but you have to be quick or the chemical burns are horrendous.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

My brother-in-law is obsessed with skater fashion, so I guess we got off light.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Thankfully my interests change so often I am never competent enough to ramble as long as I would like to about them.

I remember my mental spasm about sequels vs prequels, it was months long delirium. I have this kind of intense interest in finding out why something is fun to watch or play. What exactly constitutes for a good experience. What are the objective measures that we can use to decide if something is a work of art or not. Because if art is subjective then why we have famous artists at all and critics that deem some works classic?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A song was listening to used the text 'find me on Miami concrete' just as I was reading this. Hope anon's bro doesn't randomly get that.

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