The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread XLII

[EgonSpengler]

Moving from yonder thread,

Are there hipsters in other countries? I have no idea. I can imagine Canadian hipsters, I guess.

According to Wikipedia a "Hipster Index" published by MoveHub in 2018 "measured vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores."

The Top 5:
Brighton and Hove, UK
Portland, OR, USA
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Lisbon, Portugal

Most of the list is American cities, but Helsinki placed 9th and Bordeaux placed 17th. A separate list of Canadian cities rated Edmonton as the hipster champion there.

 

[Kyriakos]

Afaik, Lisbon is a beautiful city. But it's one of the few Eu capitals I haven't visited.
(ps, I mean pre 2004 expansion Eu; it's not like I would prioritize -say- visiting Bratislava)

Let's see:
London, Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Athens, Rome, I think those are the ones from the pre-2004 Eu I have visited. A couple of post 2004 too (Budapest, Helsinki, Sofia) and of the non Eu probably only Oslo.

 

[Samson]

Moving from yonder thread,


According to Wikipedia a "Hipster Index" published by MoveHub in 2018 "measured vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores."

The Top 5:
Brighton and Hove, UK
Portland, OR, USA
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Seattle, WA, USA
Lisbon, Portugal

Most of the list is American cities, but Helsinki placed 9th and Bordeaux placed 17th. A separate list of Canadian cities rated Edmonton as the hipster champion there.

So hipsters are defined by eating out, veganism, drinking coffee, getting tattoos, listening to vinyl and shopping in "vintage boutiques" whatever those are. Well, I would not have guessed that set of attributes.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Afaik, Lisbon is a beautiful city. But it's one of the few Eu capitals I haven't visited.
(ps, I mean pre 2004 expansion Eu; it's not like I would prioritize -say- visiting Bratislava)

Well, if you like avocado toast and strong coffee served by women with pierced septums in classic rock tee-shirts, Lisbon might be for you.



Actually, that sounds great.

 

[Kyriakos]

How little time would it take to disable the internet in the case of a world war?

 

[Takhisis]

I don't know. It really depends on how much of your material is hosted where. Non-belligerent countries could just reroute everything to be a BestKorean-style intranet, I suppose.

 

[The_J]

The whole internet?
5 minutes, roughly.
Okay, a bit more.
A big part of the internet is reliant on the 13 central DNS servers, plus a few more. Take them down, and you're done (and therefore the Russians are now doing one on their own). For the current situation, there was a talk to take down the whole .ru domain, but both ICANN and RIPE were against it. Doing only a part of the internet is somewhat complicated, since this was never a part of the design (and should not be either).

 

[r16]

back in the days of X-files blowing up 3 buildings in Fairfax County , Virginia would do the trick . Depending on the position of your submarine , 19 minutes at most .

 

[GinandTonic]

Not to want to fixate on the number-of-toilets issue but...

There is a size of small flat that does not require a second toilet but does require it to be separate from the bathroom. Say, one good bedroom and a second spare-room/ kids bedroom/ office/ whatever. In this instance, in the uk, the toilet is generally in a physically separate room from the bath. Needing everyone else in the flat to vacate their bowls before you have a bath and leave you a smell-present is just nasty. Two toilets for a flat that will probably be occupied by one person or a couple is unnecessary.

How does this work in every-toilet-is-a-bathroom-land?

 

[MaryKB]

How does this work in every-toilet-is-a-bathroom-land?

There is no such place that I'm aware of.

Here in the US and Canada, we have full bathrooms and half bathrooms. A full bathroom has both a bath/shower and a toilet with a sink, and a half bathroom only has a toilet and a sink. So not every room that has a toilet has a bath, but we just call them all bathrooms anyway.

 

[GinandTonic]

There is no such place that I'm aware of.

Here in the US and Canada, we have full bathrooms and half bathrooms. A full bathroom has both a bath/shower and a toilet with a sink, and a half bathroom only has a toilet and a sink. So not every room that has a toilet has a bath, but we just call them all bathrooms anyway.

So every bathroom has a toilet?

EDIT -

Every room with a bath has a toilet in the same room?

 

[MaryKB]

So every bathroom has a toilet?

Yes. I've never seen a bathroom that has a bath/shower but no toilet.

 

[GinandTonic]

Yes. I've never seen a bathroom that has a bath/shower but no toilet.

Cool. Do smaller flats come with two bathrooms?

 

[MaryKB]

Cool. Do smaller flats come with two bathrooms?

A one-bedroom apartment typically has one full bathroom. Some two-bedroom apartments have a bathroom and a half, and others have one full bathroom. I've never seen a three-bedroom apartment that didn't have two full bathrooms.

I've heard of a lot of older houses only having one bathroom, but that's from like the ancient days. Pretty much all modern houses being built have multiple bathrooms.

 

[Farm Boy]

Multiple bathrooms come into construction in earnest in the 50s. Farm houses almost always still have one, and that's an add on from when they converted the outhouse.

 

[Takhisis]

How does this work in every-toilet-is-a-bathroom-land?

I think it's more of an every-bathroom-is-a-toilet situation.

What you really need to make toilets work is ventilation and bidets.

 

[Cutlass]

How does this work in every-toilet-is-a-bathroom-land?

There are many oddball exceptions. That said, in general, the smaller the place, the more likely just a single room. Also applies to the older the place. And that room had the 3 fixtures, toilet, bath, sink. Because it's easier to run the plumbing to one room, and you don't have to have other walls and doors. Some really tiny places might have a shower instead of a bath. I've seen places with a toilet and bath, but the sink was in the kitchen which was adjacent. Many places which were not built with bathrooms, it was shoehorned in however possible. Somewhat larger places might have a second, which is a "1/2 bath", which means just toilet and sink. Or "3/4 bath", which is toilet, sink, shower. Somewhat larger places have a 1/2 bath near the public rooms, but the full baths near the bedrooms. Higher price places may have bath for each bedroom, and a 1/2 bath near the public rooms.

There's few rules that are standard everywhere. But in the US, most housing was built after 1950s. So things became more standardized with time. And most US housing became generally larger after the 1960s. So more of the second baths became common. So in this more modern housing, you can expect things to be more standardized.

 

[Grendeldef]

What those houses really need is a proper sauna & its bathroom. Then there isn't that much need for extra showers while multiple toilets are still good.

 

[Takhisis]

I do not have a sauna (recently in the summer all you needed was to stand in the sun for a few minutes and that worked) but, at least, I have a shower that can blast you icy cold OR searingly heat*, so the latter can emulate a sauna and the former can emulate the snow to toss yourself onto later on. I am still missing a birch trunk to use as a battering ram on people, but we'll get there.

* pity that it's hard to get any intermediate temperatures, though.

 

[Grendeldef]

I applaud the effort and progress.

,,,but standing in the sun just doesn't make it like I explained the concept to VRWCAgent years ago. At first he thought I was mixing Celsius with Fahrenheit but I hope he eventually found a proper sauna to test it out.