Hmmm… there’s one thing missing from this shower. What could it be? Oh! I know:
Ah. Much better.
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Needed to buy this apartment:
–2 pair of sunglasses so we don’t go snowblind
–GPS device for my white longhair cat Snowball
–10 gallon jug of Ajax detergent ’cause it’s stronger than dirt
–blinders for the shower to fend off any epileptic incidences
Hate the no edit ability to this comment section now. That first sentence should read:
2 pair of sunglasses so we don’t go snowblind *I’ll have my coffee now*
Tum te tum, no idea what you’re talking about…
I don’t know what frustrates me more. A no-edit version or those sites where you have to give that Pavlovian response and type in the random set of letters and numbers written in that ghostly ripple font from the bottom of the deep end of a swimming pool.
Got all that Sara? Hehe. *rant for the day*
Stare at that shower too long and you’ll see the future, where apparently there is no color, I’m guessing.
This shower was obviously designed for a man.
It functions similarly to those archaeological photos with the nice black and white centimeter ruler placed next to the artifact showing scale. Psychologically, 10.16 centimeters sounds so much better than 4 inches.
I’m pretty sure if I went in the shower I’d never be able to find my way out. I’d die of starvation, but at least I’d die clean.
*butters self*
Okay, NOW I can turn sideways and slip into the shower.
*water runs, lather flows*
Tum te dee, dum dee dah…
Agh! I’m stuck! Help! Somebody, please, pass the butter!!
*face-tile*
Just looking at this makes me nauseous and dizzy. I can’t imaging using this if you’re sick or hungover.
Anyone else see this and think of the one scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? Where they all cram into the room with the one door?
yes! exactly!
I referenced that scene on another listing a few months ago, too. Disturbing.
I thought the same thing! I thought it was just my own bizarre mind…
Hey Wonka! I want out wheres the exit?
dizzy now
Great apartment, but keeping the floors clean no way. The fireplace has made its mark. Linear European kitchen.
As for the shower, what happened? Maybe the whole house was a mass of little random checkerboards before, and somebody, fearing insanity, introduced the white theme.
Sideways shower – what a good idea! Better yet is a large tiled room with six shower heads, each a different temperature, and leisure to walk among them, alone or not as you prefer.
Ah, there’s the man in the shower from the previous house! What is it w/ eye-rending bathrooms on LL lately? And who the hell IS that guy? ???
Too much white tho. Even Pepto-Bismol pink is better.
Apparently, it’s Will Shortz (—that’s who)..??
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Shortz
After reading that entry, which begins
“Will Shortz (born August 26, 1952) is an American puzzle creator and editor.”
why am I suspecting he is a wikipedian too?
(wikipediest? wikipediarist? whatever.)
hehehe I wouldn’t be surprised! Will Shortz has been the bane of my Crossword existence for many years! I LOVE to do crosswords and Will Shortz, who I recognized from his part in the movie “WORDPLAY” ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0492506/ ) and a segment of ‘Sunday Morning’, edited the New York Times Crossword for a number of years and his puzzles tend towards being… well, OBSCURE doesn’t even begin to cover it.
(*and this would be disqualified as a crossword. The words have to be at least three letters long, at least for Will Shortz rules.)
Way, way too obscure. I did finally work out what you’re getting at, but it involved…
a) looking at the mouse-over text of the second picture
b) Knowing Will Shortz was the crossword guy because he’s on NPR on Sunday.
But he just isn’t someone I know by sight.
c) The title Sara gave the piece was a good clue as well as the tag. “Down” & “Across” are either crossword terms or mountain climbing/descending terms. Since we see no camming devices or carabiners in the pic we should go with the word puzzle.
I thought it was a reference to methods for suicide, since that’s what I figured I’d end up doing some bleary morning when confronted with that shower.
That’s why you should order the blinders for the shower as well! I’d hate to drop a contact in there.
Crimeney, how could anyone live like this! I don’t want to go snow blind in my own home!
They need to make that shower padded, because I would definitely go insane from trying to make out a pattern in those tiles.
Is it Fibonacci? Is it some obscure mathematical equation? WHAT IS THE ANSWER?! Why is it all so random? AAARGH!
Wait, there may be an explanation. I call the shower stall pattern “visual static” – just like what used to display on our old TV when the dial went past the unused frequencies (or we lost a marginal station)… and another name for that was? Snow! So it’s just another kind of snow to go blind seeing in that apartment. Be glad there’s no sound.
On the other hand, if anyone or anything succeeds at tuning that shower stall in, you may emerge somewhere far, far away. Naked. So always bring your pocket knife and a lighter into the shower with you. You can never tell when you’re going to have to prove you’re sentient.
A pocket knife and lighter aren’t going to do you much good in whatever Lovecraftian realm that portal leads to.
Sadly true. But on the other hand, I should at least be able to see what gets me… and yea, even as it smiteth me it shall get to itself a nasty splinter to remember me by.
It would make a better “Last great act of defiance” tableau if my backside were less droopy, but hey. Some settling may occur during shipping. That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it.
Will soap-on-a-rope be good enough? I lighter in the shower might damage the hieroglyphs.
Maybe a laminated diagram of conical sections and a grease pencil to derive the equations on the spot? That might do it.
I just hate to take chances – don’t want to spend my afterlife as a taxidermy coat rack standing in the corner of someone’s den, y’know?
Heh, didn’t even see this when I made my last Lovecraft response, and this is even a better opener for it. (The diagrams and grease pencil might be more useful than the lighter, but only if you know about the bizarre non-euclidean angles of alien geometry, in which case it’s already too late for you…)
Indeed. I was hewing more toward the original novel of Planet of the Apes, in which the speechless protagonist finally swiped a pencil from his captors and drew conical sections… but when it comes to making a real nuisance of yourself, I’m still favoring the sharp edge and fire.
(Thanks! That was fun.)
My immediate reactions, in no particular order:
1) I am shocked, shocked! that in a country with such a bounty of Crayola showers, this is the best they can come up with.
2) Is this color scheme (or lack thereof) really surprising from the country that produced Ibsen?
3) How cool would it be to live above a 7-11!
I think those are slurpees in the shower, on the bottom left.
I expect Gene Wilder to show up in a purple suitcoat and play a Rachmaninoff ditty from a tiny keyboard in the shower wall. Suddenly the tile is gone to reveal a chocolate factory…
White apartment is white
My eyes were not prepared for the blast of color when I got to the last picture. Kind of like coming out of a tunnel while driving. Ow.
Folks, that’s not a shower. That’s a gateway to a dimension where “shower” is used to describe debilitating psychosis.
Nils could never make up his mind about color, so he decided to avoid the issue altogether.
White, white, white is the color of our apartment!!
The shower, while utterly nauseating and offensive, is not the worst part. The off-white kitchen cabinets in the all-white apartment? Now THAT sets my teeth on edge.
You know, real estate agents tell you that you should go for neutral color schemes when trying to sell your place. You know, present a blank canvas for a potential buyer to color as they like. . . I think someone went overboard.
I’m siiiingin’ in th rai- *bam* Ow! Just siingin’ in the – *thunk* dammit!, What a gloooorious *bonk* Shit! feeeling *thud* ooph! I’m haaapy ag- *slip* *slam* urgh! owww…
ROFLMAO!!!!
Hehe…Clockwork Orange….!
My eyes!! OMG, my eyes!!! (2 acrossed)
To those of you not familiar with Lovecraft– you will be, if you start using that shower too frequently.
Looks like that crazy room from the old willy wonka. Wheres the exit wonka i want out!
“Tom! Tom Sawyer! I told you to whitewash that fence….!”
and his helpers became so enthused they just could not be stopped …
Later:
As it stands there, flush with the glow and the carnage of the hunt, disassembly has begun. Walls are sundered. The shower will kill no more.
http://loftandmore.com/objekte/km78/g.php?pn=http://loftandmore.com/objekte/km78/img/februar_26022010_009.jpg
Wait! I can almost see the 3D image…
After entering the shower…Is it raining? / Is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a-blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / Are the fires of hell a-glowing? / Is the grisly reaper mowing? heeelllllpppp…lemme out!
X^D
I laughed out loud.
(Man, that bit TERRIFIED me the first time I saw that movie…)
…thereby revealing where I’m familiar with the quote from. It’s probably an older literary reference like most of the stuff he quoted, but I are not edjumacated enough to know it…
This is actually a visual representation of Pi, where the dark squares represent the digits of Pi, and the white squares are spaces in between the digits.
1) We know what was on clearance that morning at Ukin-Dooit Home Supply. 2) You roll into this shower with a pre-existing hangover, and something’s gonna give.