Why the fuck should I answer that dumbass question? It’s irrelevant. The one you should be asking is: did dissatisfaction from the neighboring residents prioritize aesthetic changes over life safety improvements? That much is obvious.

Perhaps the neighboring residents should’ve understood that fire safety systems were more important than the building’s appearance. It’s not like the residents of the building itself were shy about the problems within.

You’re exactly right: there was enough money to make the place look nicer for the moneyed residents around the place, but not enough to install a fire sprinkler system or functioning alarm.

No clearly, the ones who control the budget are in neighboring communities.

You get as much respect and civil discourse as you earn, which is zero.

This article is 100% spot-on. Dumbass decisions like these—Reclad it to look better! Achieve an insignificant savings in thermal insulation—are forced upon buildings all the freaking time when that money could be spent so much better on actual needs.

You dunce, don’t you understand buildings at all? If the property manager of Grenfell was under pressure to make it look better for the rich neighbors, that’s millions of dollars that could’ve gone to retrofitting an automatic fire sprinkler system or updated wiring.

This building does not appear to have automatic fire sprinklers, which is criminal negligence. It’s obviously not cheap to retrofit a building with such a system, but consider the following passage from this source:

Apologist? You don’t know the meaning of the word, dunce. I don’t defend their actions, merely point out the obvious: combine religious idiocy of any faith with a shitty environment and what do you expect? If you expect anything other than morons who want to blame everyone else for their problems and slay the…

I’m not sure why you think referring to the atrocities of fundamentalist muslims makes hick town christian zealots any less shit-for-brains. Muslims can throw a million gay men off roofs, and it doesn’t change the fact that hick town christian zealots are still shit-for-brains idiots who circumcise babies, kill gays,…

Such a sad, unfortunate fate for 49 wonderful people and the loved ones they left behind. Doubly unfortunate that bigots decided yesterday (or really, any day) would be a good time to remind the world that they are still pieces of shit who hate them for existing.

Oh look, it’s another fake-as-hell phony tough guy spouting his mouth off because he thinks a gun compensates for the flaccid appendages both between his legs and passing for his arms. This dude couldn’t fight his way out of a wet paper bag.

I’m not sure how the Cavs can win, but I’ll keep watching, both to see the ridiculous, jaw-dropping basketball the Warriors are playing, and the ridiculous, jaw-dropping performance that LeBron is putting up even knowing (probably) that his chances of another upset are slim to none.

As little as I like Cheeto Jesus, I’m perfectly fine with his apt description of the Manchester bombers. It may not be eloquent, but it is succinctly appropriate.

I just don’t get these Trumpsuckers. Do they think Cheetolini’s victory is the end of America’s story? Does his rabid base not realize the reality of demographic change means they (largely white Christian men of limited means and even more-limited educations) will be the minority in the not-too-distant future? Not…

Manu is awesome, and so are Old Man Dunks. Previous examples include 38-year-old Ray Allen throwing one down over Danny Green back in the 2014 Finals:

Agreed 100%. I enjoy the NBA, I watch the NBA, I’m interested to hear about what’s happening in the NBA... But I don’t need to have the updates in real time. Moreover, I’ll actively avoid columnists who seem like dicks, especially when they look like pudgy virgins who shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a basketball…

It’s not just Eastern Europeans who excel at this game. Southeast Asian women have a knack for convincing old white dudes to shell out serious cash, bring them to America, marry them on short acquaintance, and maybe hang around long enough to have a few kids.

Ugh, it’s such a chore to have a meaningful conversation with you, in part because you seem unable to grasp that a word’s meaning has value. First it was “anecdote”, and now you mischaracterize my thoughts as “obsession” over Urban Meyer. Apparently being open to the mere possibility that suffering some consequences…

I can dare all I want, because it’s a conversation worth having.