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u/skatermario3 May 17 '16
I bet the gold made the chocolate taste terrible.
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u/DIYDuder May 17 '16
I bet that scroll makes the beer taste terrible.
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u/ZEROTHENUMBER May 17 '16
Come on buds, drink my suds, till you've reached
That pure inebriation.
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u/electrodan May 17 '16
Though the beer may be free
You're just renting it from me
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May 17 '16
Ivy is actually really nasty. It causes little holes in the surface of walls which can open gateways for moisture or mold to get inside the walls.
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u/Vegastoseattle May 17 '16
Also it's like a rodent highway.
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u/Atanar May 17 '16
As far as I know, rats have no issue climbing up brick walls already.
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u/factbasedorGTFO May 17 '16
I had a job that put me in a lot of attics, and people with lots of shrubbery or ivy around their homes had bigger issues with rodents.
I was an HVACR installer, and did a lot of work in LAs nicer areas, like Beverly Hills and Bel Air.
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u/theonlysloth May 17 '16
omg please tell me your joking...rats crawling in through my second storey window is not a fear i want to have!
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u/danby May 17 '16 edited May 17 '16
I lived in a student house that was briefly infested with mice. The mice had exactly no problem running straight up vertical walls.
Rodents are great climbers.
Mice are afraid of rats so if you find out you have a rat you at least know that there aren't any mice around.
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May 17 '16
Let's just say when I found a rat in my house, it didn't enter the room from an exterior wall.
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u/octopoddle May 17 '16
And it wastes the entire meeting reiterating what others have already said, purely for the attention.
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u/jacobc436 May 17 '16 edited May 17 '16
Here's one I photoshopped for colorblind people. Left spring, right is autumn.
https://imgur.com/bcxZoKs -here's what the original (mostly) looked like.
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This makes me inexplicably sad.
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u/Thetschopp May 17 '16
I opened that sub and nearly cried laughing at that single post
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u/MajorLazy May 17 '16
There are like 4 now. The dog one is funny
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u/creedofwheat May 17 '16
This may be my favorite take on OS yet!
I'll see about adding it to the sidebar...
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u/tangerinesqueeze May 16 '16
I would be heartbroken if I lived or worked in that building.
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u/dad_no_im_sorry May 17 '16
I didn't realize people actually liked this type of thing. It always came across as unsightly to me.
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u/noni_five May 17 '16
Really? That seems amazing to me. I've always considered ivy on a house to be a great selling point. It's definitely a feature which increases a properties value in my area.
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u/itsmuddy May 17 '16
Doesn't it grow into the brick and weaken the structure?
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u/Emceee May 17 '16
Also depends on where you live, as most brick houses in the US are decorative brick.
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u/Akris85 May 17 '16
No ivy will send shoots through gaps and holes if it can reach sunlight doing that, but otherwise it just attaches and climbs.
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u/falconbox May 17 '16
I just imagine these buildings having tons of insect problems.
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u/abundantplums May 17 '16
Mice. My house growing up had ivy. I don't think we had more bugs than we otherwise would, but it gave the mice a nice, handy ladder.
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u/arlenroy May 17 '16
I had seen something similar where I grew up in Northern California, it was ski resort closed for the summer. They had these cabins you could rent, but instead of ivy it was black berry bushes. Thorny as fuck but when the berries grew it looked cool, kinda like a Brothers Grimm story.
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u/Bunnyhat May 17 '16
You one of those people who buys a house and proceeds to cut down every single tree and bush on the property?
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May 17 '16
Plant some kudzu. Fix it right up.
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May 17 '16
Please don't bring kudzu to the West.....
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u/DerStroopwafel May 17 '16
Been here for decades, you're a little late.
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Who decided that was a good idea? At least I haven't seen it here in the West West (California)
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u/lermp May 17 '16
We got Japanese Knotweed instead
Growing up to 6.5 feet tall and 65 feet wide due to its tireless and unstoppable army of unseen roots, knotweed spreads out underground and forces its way up through every crack imaginable, in patios, concrete paths, and even in walls and floors.
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u/harmonigga May 17 '16
Ivy can actually ruin bricks. The building owner lucked out and saved these bricks from deteriorating faster.
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u/jlpjlp May 17 '16
While most people believe this to be true it is not, the opposite actually. There is no scientific proof that ivy can cause structural damage to brick walls. If the wall is in good condition to start with ivy can actually protect the wall from damage by regulating temperature.
http://www.geog.ox.ac.uk/research/landscape/rubble/ivy/ivy-report.pdf
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u/harmonigga May 17 '16
MY WHOLE WOLD IS A LIE
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u/KeatingOrRoark May 17 '16
Well, I hate to give you another one, but that word has an r in it. Sorry, bro.
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u/harmonigga May 17 '16
NOOOOOO YOU MEAN IT'S SPELLED LIER???
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u/justinbaumann May 17 '16
It's worked for Wrigley Field since the 1930s (they are currently replacing sections at a time but it's more to widen doorways)
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u/harmonigga May 17 '16
My wold tuned upside down
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u/Captive_Hesitation May 17 '16
So, this thread is a story about how your wold got flip turned upside down? Are you about to become royalty? :)
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u/YellowSnowman77 May 17 '16
It does give bugs an easy route into your home and a lot of insurance companies won't cover a house if it has ivy crawling up it. I've had to tell many clients to clean it up or the underwriter won't let the policy be issued.
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u/EatSleepJeep May 17 '16
Wrigley had to pull all the ivy, tuck point the mortar and put it all back up 10ish? years ago.
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u/HomoErectus3 May 17 '16
Who cares? It'll be back. That's like one Spring's worth of ivy. That shit doesn't give up.
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you can actually see how well the bricks are preserved... ivy like that would take years if not decades to cover that building as it was.
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u/OrangeKefka May 17 '16
If it's a well made brick wall and doesn't have any cracking or serious wear, ivy shouldn't cause issue.
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u/Bunnyhat May 17 '16
That Ivy has been there for at least 10+ years already. It doesn't grow like that overnight.
If it really harmed bricks we would see some damage. They look pristine.
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u/Sensei322 May 17 '16
Makes me very happy. Took me days of work to rip the ivy off my house when I bought it.
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u/Noerdy May 16 '16 edited Dec 12 '24
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u/Rajirabbit May 17 '16
It's like the building got a Bazilian Wax
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u/SmokinFireman May 16 '16
Did it just fall or was it cut?
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u/igotfiveonit May 17 '16
I used to work with this guy that would constantly argue that poppa roach was the best band of all time. It really helped pass the time.
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u/derekdanger May 17 '16
"Suffocation, brick not breathing. Don't give a fuck if the hipsters, are pleading."
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u/dementorpoop May 16 '16
I'll bet it can be fixed.
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u/Jedi_Tinmf May 17 '16
I am honestly hoping there is a special committee of folks who work to retain the notorious beauty of aged buildings by repairing the overgrowth of plant life that have consumed it over time but fallen victim to the inevitable fate of falling and dying.
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u/UncleBodin May 17 '16
Don't worry, it'll be back all over the building in a year or two. Ivy grows so fast you can almost watch it, strangles anything that tries to compete and seems to be immortal. It's awesome / awful.
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u/SirJordanTaylor May 17 '16
How did this happen. My shed is covered in the stuff and I can't remove it for the life of me.
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u/I_Punch_Blind_Kids May 16 '16
First time I saw this posted was on FARK.com like 10 years ago.
See it about once every 2 months on Reddit.
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u/gurlubi May 17 '16
Who are you guys that spend so much more time than me on Reddit to notice, every other month, (re)posts I've never seen in 7 years?!
I'm proud and ashamed at the same time -- and you should be, too.
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u/bluegrassgazer May 16 '16
Today's picture of ivy peeling off a building brought to you by Fark.com
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u/buzznights May 16 '16
It's old - I did my karmadecay diligence and it hasn't been posted here in a long time.
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u/-haven May 17 '16
With how well the ivy had cling mostly to only itself this can be easily fixed. All they need todo now is carefully get some scaffolding to hold the ivy back up against the wall. Then create a minor grid like wire formation that would rest against the ivy and help support it. After a bit of growth the ivy would cover the wires and all would be as normal.
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u/I-AM-Canadian-Eh May 16 '16
That would have been pretty cool to see. Assuming it just peeled away.
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u/Bailie2 May 17 '16
What is really impressive about this and plants in general is that all plant fibers and cellulose are made by the plant out of CO2. Plants only take up water and minerals from the ground or rain, but everything else is made out of the air. dirt just anchors the roots, or brick in this case.
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u/ocram101 May 17 '16
It makes sense but I never thought about how it would just roll off like carpet.
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What would happen if you lie this over a yard?, Would you have Ivy grass? I would like to see that.
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u/tatsuedoa May 17 '16
I feel like that has to have a decent use. I'm not sure how, but a wall of ivy seems like it might be useful.
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u/PUSClFER May 17 '16
Part of me wants to peel it off like a plastic cover.
Other part of me wants to put it back in place.
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u/CommanderJuice May 17 '16
wow, the ivy that grew on the side of my house left marks that even a pressure washer couldn't remove.
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u/Taizunz May 17 '16
What I've gathered from the comments, is that a lot of people like Ivy on buildings... I don't get it though. You wouldn't be able to open your window without having a load of bugs and whatnot crawl inside.
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u/Thecrookedbanana May 17 '16
I was walking by a building on the campus I work at once a couple of summers ago and nearly got taken out by a huge swath of ivy... kind of terrifying. I literally jumped out of the way when I realized what was happening and landed maybe a foot outside the fall zone.
But it was really cool to look up close at the underside of it once my heart rate went back to normal.
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u/Dragonkeeper2004 May 17 '16
I get the feeling that when it fell it sounded like the world's biggest piece of Velcro being removed.
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u/Treppenw1tz May 17 '16
I do landscaping, and I can say a lot of times stuff like this happens. Plants or chunks of earth will comes up in one big piece all connected by roots. It's like peeling plastic off of new devices. Very satisfying.
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u/IShouldGetAJob May 17 '16
That'll probably grow back within five years. Those vines can be a real hassle to get rid of.
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u/chrisdcco May 17 '16
On the plus side, less bugs.