The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2022

[sneakypete]

@corbe

Am I the only one wondering how many of his "aides" had to go to the ER due to suffering from strokes?

[corbe]

[libertybele]

Gee, someone should have yelled "full throttle Joe"... 

[corbe]

[Kamaji]

[240B]

Shoddy masonry work if a car can simply drive right through it, especially on a corner.

[Kamaji]

Shoddy masonry work if a car can simply drive right through it, especially on a corner.

It looks like it's single-width brick, so it's almost certainly nothing more than a curtain wall, and not a load-bearing wall.

[240B]

It looks like it's single-width brick, so it's almost certainly nothing more than a curtain wall, and not a load-bearing wall.

Likely some kind of decorative façade.

[Kamaji]

Likely some kind of decorative façade.

It has to be.  If one looks at the openings on either side, there's an elliptical curve up to the corner - when load-bearing brick fails, it tends to fail along a 45-degree angle, not on the much shallower angle apparent from the image.  The load-bearing structure must be a steel or concrete skeleton to which the brick facade has been attached.

[240B]

It has to be.  If one looks at the openings on either side, there's an elliptical curve up to the corner - when load-bearing brick fails, it tends to fail along a 45-degree angle, not on the much shallower angle apparent from the image.  The load-bearing structure must be a steel or concrete skeleton to which the brick facade has been attached.

Reminds me of the American McMansions. Some install three inch solid oak doors on those things. LOL Why?
If I want to get in one of those I'm not going through the door. Just pick a wall. The only thing between me and the inside is façade, tarpaper, plyboard, insulation, and drywall. Who needs to screw with a 3" triple bolted door? Just go through the wall. Much easier.

[Kamaji]

Reminds me of the American McMansions. Some install three inch solid oak doors on those things. LOL Why?
If I want to get in one of those I'm not going through the door. Just pick a wall. The only thing between me and the inside is façade, tarpaper, plyboard, insulation, and drywall. Who needs to screw with a 3" triple bolted door? Just go through the wall. Much easier.

It's even easier if the exterior is vinyl siding.  In a lot of spec stick construction, only the corners need to be braced diagonally - usually by putting plywood sheathing just at the corners, with the result that the middle of an exterior wall can be accessed with nothing more robust than a utility knife.  And, if the sticks were 2x6 or 2/8 spaced at 24", even a less-than-svelte thief can be in and out without so much as scuffing his clothing against the sheetrock.

[sneakypete]

Shoddy masonry work if a car can simply drive right through it, especially on a corner.

@240B

Has to be photo shop,or the entire wall would have collapsed on that van.

[Kamaji]

@240B

Has to be photo shop,or the entire wall would have collapsed on that van.

Not if the wall is a curtain wall that is supported off of a steel or concrete skeleton inside.  Most likely, the undisturbed brick over the opening is resting on a steel angle iron that acts as a support for the second-story brickwork.

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[Kamaji]

[240B]

[240B]

[Cyber Liberty]

She has a bright future as an Imperial Storm Trooper.   

@240B

Or as a drug dealer in any major US city.

[corbe]

   Cross Eyed Woman are always cheating.

[240B]

[corbe]

[Hoodat]

You got that right.  As a general rule, I take the recipe instruction and multiply by four.