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WCDT Strips 3141 to 3145 (25 - 29 January 2016)
Tova:
--- Quote from: MrWoodchip on 25 Jan 2016, 13:02 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 25 Jan 2016, 04:59 ---"excessive display of friendship"
What does that even mean?
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It means a display of the wonders of friendship that I would normally consider to be in excess of the amount required.
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I don't understand what you mean by this either, but maybe you mean to say that you thought it was an "extraordinary display of friendship?" As in beyond what one might ordinarily expect. Because if that's what you mean, then I completely understand what you're saying.
cesium133:
Today's comic number is approximately pi thousand. Just happened to notice that.
toffee-skye:
yay, the gang's all back together! :-D
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Morituri on 25 Jan 2016, 13:22 ---Does nobody in the UK use wheelchairs? You can't get a standard 32 to 34-inch wide wheelchair through a 30-inch door!
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Your wheelchairs are bigger, it seems - presumably to accommodate bigger people! I am looking at a British Government document that states that the legal requirements for wheelchair access are based on a wheelchair width of 700mm (2'3.6"). There is also a table of sizes of real examples of a number of types of wheelchair, including motorised, with mean widths of 596-638mm and 95th percentile widths of 658-706mm.
But I guess that the 2'6" width for internal doors which I stated (and which is the case throughout my house) is, though common, not universal. Internal doors are sometimes 2'9", and main external doors are pretty much always 3'0".
Mad Cat:
There's a movement among American home builders for what's known as "Aging in Place". People want to buy a house that will be the last home they ever live in. They want to grow old and ultimately die in the same place. Between the buying and the dying is a long span of time, one hopes, in which the body grows weak and frail, so the design considerations at the pre-planning stages of the home build must take this into effect. Some design features that honor this movement are the utter lack of thresholds. All floors, whether room to room, bathroom to shower, or indoors to outdoors, are completely smooth transitions. This offers less to trip on when the legs are no longer as high stepping as they once were and offer ease of wheelchair access. Similarly, while doorknobs were once the default, more and more homes are being build with lever-handled "knobs". These levers offer greater leverage for lower exertion when the arms are not as powerful, or the hands no longer as dextrous, and are easier to use when young and spry at the same time. Similarly again, rather than little clitorii of a light switch poking out of the wall, large, easily hit rocker-type light switches are easier to frobnicate whether young or old.
I have a hobby of designing my dream house, which seems to change radicly every couple of years, but I always try to keep the "Aging in Place" movement foremost in my mind. To this end, I've always wanted for every interior door to be at least 7' tall and 3' wide, and a standard 1½" thick, while I want my exterior doors to be 7' X 4' X 2", perhaps even stretching up to 8' tall if there is no transom light.
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