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I like it. The guy who played Al Boreland now lives a quiet life.
Tim Allen went pro-Trump, whined about snowflakes and not being able to make jokes anymore, watch Disney replace Buzz Lightyear’s voice and lose a bunch of other roles, and now is “politically neutral”.
I don’t think so, Tim.
Tim Allen has always been conservative. I’ve been rewatching Home Improvement and it kind of blows me away how much the show leans on gender stereotypes for its jokes! It was only the 1990s but it feels like ancient history now.
I haven’t seen the show in years but I remember it having a slightly ironic/subversive undercurrent? I always read Tim Taylor as a bit of a caricature, that his whole grunting macho overdo everything attitude almost always backfired on him and he’d be better off calming the fuck down.
Exhibit A: The character of Al Boreland, who is…well basically he’s Norm Abram. While still outwardly traditionally masculine, wearing a full beard, a flannel shirt a tool belt to his contractor’s job, he’s very secure in his manhood, confident without being macho, soft spoken and even gentle. A perfect foil to Tim Taylor, who finds kindred spirits in Clark Griswold and Jeremy “POWAAA” Clarkson. If you’re really on board with the MAGA alpha male bullshit, do you write a character like Al Boreland?
I think, like a lot of folks on the right, Tim Allen followed the Republican party as they sprinted toward fascism. I think Allen was in on the joke in the 1990s and became the joke in the 2010s.
The show totally played it straight with some very cringeworthy episodes in the early seasons. They started subverting it more and more as time went along.
Some of the stuff they stayed with for a very long time though. Al Borland was the butt of many jokes for not presenting as traditionally masculine, for his relationship with his mother, for being single, etc. At times it could be hard to watch, with Tim essentially bullying Al relentlessly. Of course everything is all great at the end of the episode but it rarely involved an apology from Tim!
I kind of want a show where Al is the main character but that’s just The New Yankee Workshop.
Despite all that I am really enjoying the rewatch. What makes the show great are the other characters: Al, Jill, and Wilson! Wilson is by far my favourite. Such a weird guy!
Absolutely. He’s just moments away from having a Roseanne Barr moment in his career.
He’s still a babe.
Wood? I just keep folding cardboard until it’s the proper thickness.
Cardboard is wood with extra steps.
did you manage to sell any of them pocket hoses too?
Okay but like a shim or just a broken discarded piece of 2x4?
Or I guess the chaotic evil version of this is a twig with leaves on it.
I don’t think so, Tim.
Me, with a few “POGs” in my pocket. Wobbly furniture beware!
(Jk those things are relics now.)
I remember the days when you could go to hobby stores and find multiple troughs full of them.
Jokes on you I had to go buy a kitchen sink faucet and replace it 1st thing in the morning before going to bed for my night shift cause ours broke yesterday evening 9pm. I’m a IT guy with 0 plumbing skill.
Now you have 1 plumbing skill. :D
Just look at the guy… he’s carrying ALL of the Ace Hardware bling!
A cool thing is, you can achieve the same effect by rotating the table in a circle (if possible) until you find a stable angle, since for 4 points on a circle there has to exist at least one rotation angle where they are on the same elevation.
Problem is, that you might have to move the table legs through the floor to archive the desired result
I don’t think that’s exactly right. to create a plane you only need 3 points and 4th point can be on a different height than that plane. A different thing is when the ground itself is uneven and you manage to make both fit to the same shape.
There’s no guarantee you can draw a circle through the bottom of the four legs of a table (opposite legs can be off in the same direction). Also, most floors are not perfectly flat, therefore you can’t assume the floor is at one elevation.
I’ve done this with my dinner table several times.
Is there mathematical proof for this? It sounds like it could be true, but also sounds like you could actively create a floor which it wasn’t true for
I’m pretty sure this doesn’t account for any floor that isn’t a flat plane.
It doesn’t require a flat plane ground, but it does require the table legs to be equal in length
This is one of those things that works in a simulated environment but not in practice in the real world.
It does work in the real world, as long as the floor is the problem, and the table is perfect.
Most of the time at a restaurant, it’s the table that’s been beaten up and is no longer even.
This requires the legs to be all the same height and the floor to cause the wobble. That doesn’t happen often irl, but I’ve done it a few times and it always makes me happy when it works
Or assembling IKEA furniture using instructions containing pictures.
Lego instructions > IKEA instructions. While I think both are excellent at language free building instructions, Lego are the true masters. IKEA targets adults with their instructions and are seen by a lot of people as tedious and confusing, Lego targets children and they make universally beloved building toys.
That’s me
Canadian version:
Keep your stick on the ice. We’re all pullin’ for ya!
Keep your dick in a vice
That also looks like me in college when my friends would complain that we didn’t have anything to smoke out of.
Toilet paper for me
I use a bidet
I use my fingers then I rinse them off in the sink.
Rub it under the table leg to balance the table.
folded paper napkin. they’re all wood products.
