February 25, 2015

Tiny house!!!

21 comments:

bleh said...

I love Portlandia. It's a loving send-up of mindless hipsterism.

Hipsters are late-stage "cool kids" who obsess over appearance, social status and so on. You can tell that Armisen and Brownstein are having some light, gentle fun with people who are in or near their social circles.

Portlandia's message is basically: don't take yourself so seriously.

madAsHell said...

Have apodments sprung up in Madison?

Its really just a euphemism for a boarding house. You get a room with 100 sq ft. It may be sparsely furnished. You share bathrooms and kitchens with others.

Yeah...I know. It sounds like a recipe for an axe murder!!

Heartless Aztec said...

I love my tiny 450 sq ft house. I have my big two story turn of the last century brick rented out and am quite comfy in my miniature bungalow.

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FleetUSA said...

Love the theme of Portlandia but not enthused by the repetition and dull script.

deepelemblues said...

The only thing I don't like about Portlandia is it portrays the juvenile rage of hipsters as this silly thing that doesn't really accomplish much.

In the real world it ruins lives all the time.

buwaya said...

Ideal house for us would look a lot more like an industrial/office rental, with plenty of concrete shop floor and warehouse rack space.
Our hobbies are space intensive.

traditionalguy said...

Imprisoning yourself is not all that smart a move. When I snap my fingers you will wake up and realize that.

Alex said...

Meanwhile I'll enjoy my 20,000sq mansion and 40 acres of farmland. You fucking hipsters can eat my soil.

lgv said...

Love it. There's a certain level of idiocy to tiny houses. Unless you are lot limited, why go so small? Why be uncomfortable and inconvenienced when the marginal cost of more space is so small? A bathroom will have a commode, sink, and shower. The extra cost of having room to move around in it just isn't that great.

It's mostly a feel good thing, like recycling plastic.

Known Unknown said...

Ideal house for us would look a lot more like an industrial/office rental, with plenty of concrete shop floor and warehouse rack space.
Our hobbies are space intensive.


Particle colliders?

buwaya said...

Particle colliders ? I wish.
No, much more mundane things. Model railroads take up plenty of space, just to start.

tim in vermont said...

I love that show. My daughter and I watch it together whenever we can. I also have a huge crush on Carrie, destined to be unrequited, alas.

tim maguire said...

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

Jerks.

virgil xenophon said...

AFAIK Portlandia is the ONLY show on TV made by "hipsters" poking ironic fun at the foibles of their own kind. GOT to give them kudos for that alone... Now that Parks & Recreation is ending Portlandia, Archer and Futurama are all we "gots.."

tim in vermont said...

I like Futurama too. All the good energy from the Simpsons went there. I haven't watched the Simpsons in at least a decade. Kudos to Groenig for putting the show on autopilot and collecting the huge checks while doing a show like Futurama he clearly likes better.

George said...

I like the electrical outlet by the tub!

Sam L. said...

I understand Portlandia is only a very slight exaggeration.

Phil 314 said...

Given the Professor's love of tiny houses I hope the satire didn't.

Kind of a micro-agrression

Known Unknown said...

Model railroads take up plenty of space, just to start.

My brother is big into model railroads. Has a set up at my parents' house. He has Aspergers and like most of them, is really into machines.

buwaya said...

We are both very into machines, of different sorts. I don't know if I am on the Aspergers spectrum, that sort of thing came way after my time, but its possible. She certainly isn't, being extremely social, a great joiner and leader of things.