Kontextmaschine

25th December 2020

Question reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 10 notes

Anonymous asked:

Did you swim growing up? I always heard that flat feet+flexible ankles were as big a help in water as they were a hindrance on land, apparently high level college and olympic level swimmers all have giant flat feet

kontextmaschine:

Not competitively or even really athletically but yes, our development had a pool we hung out at in the summer

>@tototavros said: the fuck is a “development”?

A chunk of intact land that a single property developer acquires, lays out, builds roads and utilities on, plats and subdivides into individual lots to construct and sell houses on; often with a fractalline cul-de-sac and not thru grid system of streets and some features – like pools, neighborhood clubhouses, and drainage retention ponds – capitalized at whole-neighborhood scale, dipshit

Tagged: gated communities were a subtypelike British 'housing estates' but private for-profit