one useless man is called a disgrace, two a law firm, three or more a Congress

[alexseanchai]

leupagus on 1776:

FINALLY we get to meet Jefferson, who is eight feet tall and has a pretty terrible wig, but whatever, he's adorable. He also wants to get home to his wife (presumably to bang her, since one of the things we know about Mrs. Martha Jefferson is that she died of being, essentially, fucked to death) and doesn't want to write the Declaration of Independence - nor does anyone else. Adams essentially dubcons Jefferson into writing it - "by physical force if necessary."

Context wants to grow up to be John Hancock and take John Adams out for drinks.

lazulisong:

So SOME AWFUL PERSON spent a significant amount of time today feeding me bits of 1776: The Musical on YouTube at me, and then further encouraged me in my horrible speculations about the relative sizes of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams as portrayed in said musical (hint: JAdams is like, tiny and TJeff is like, Thor), and also the way TJeff crowds JAdams against a bannister and JAdams -- who is God's own pissy uke -- just lets him. Possibly with an eyelash flutter.

...I may have bought the script off Powells, and I may or may not have it on reserve as soon as someone gets it back in to the library. THIS DOES NOT MEAN I AM GOING TO BE PARTY TO MAKING THE FOUNDING FATHERS BANG, leupagus.

Context is enjoying 70F weather.

Adventures in Househunting (even wilder than Adventures in Babysitting, we promise!)

[killing_rose]

As of late, synecdochic has been househunting. Mostly, she has spotted Fail and not things she'd like to live in. She, and others, offer hypotheses as to what people could possibly be thinking.

synecdochic weaves the tale of woe about the third house of the night:

"I notice the foundational end of the addition that is farthest out to the backyard, the part that's the new back wall of the house, is not concrete or cinderblock.
9:01:01 PM: rahaeli: It is TWO BY FUCKING FOURS BRACED AGAINST FUCKING DIRT.
9:01:57 PM: rahaeli: That is, in fact, only the beginning."

...

9:10:24 PM: rahaeli: I determine that the *other* reason the entire back part of the house is about to shear off, in addition to the "braced by fucking two by fours on the fucking bare ground" thing?
9:11:23 PM: rahaeli: can we say "removed the load-bearing wall without putting in pillars or an i-beam from joist to joist in the rafters", children?


dragovianknight would like to note that "Just the fact that the man cave is still standing makes the construction awesome by DEFAULT, okay? REAL MEN DON'T NEED BUILDING CODES!"...."They have Man Instincts."


xenacryst : And by impressive, I mean I'm impressed that every earthquake, hurricane, tornado, fire, and bad sex act gone wrong hasn't dropped in saying, "OHAI, CAN I LEVEL THIS HOUSE FOR YOU?"

amadi : "Sounds like Mike Holmes would walk in, take one look, walk back out and say "Even I can't fix this shit.""


There is just as much snark in that comments section as there is in the transcript. (And trust me, I would like reiterate that no one can breathe after that transcript.)