Originally posted by rapalla7no problem, mike!
I don't know why I posted this. It is not debateable. Good plumbing has save the world and extended our life expectancies.
Mike
i'll come to your rescue and post a plumbing joke just in case anyone missed it in the other thread. i don't get too many opportunities for an encore!
The plumber shows up for an emergency call, but the people aren't sure he is qualified so they ask to see his certificate. He says, "I don't have certificate, only diploma." So they let him start, but he works too noisily so they tell him to pipe down.
in friendship,
prad
A person phones the hospital seeking an appointment. They are told that the earliest they can be seen is 31st March 2008.
They ask whether this appointment is am or pm.
The hospital reply that it doesn't matter at this stage, and the person says that it does, as they have a plumber booked for the morning.
Here is a conundrum for you…I worked with a fellow and he was telling me about a service call he had been on. He went to a house to clean a drain; he was met by a frustrated home owner. Apparently this guy was away for two weeks on a business trip, and had come home to slow drains. He complained about the normal suspects of causing this type of clog (women’s products); because he lived there with his wife and a young daughter. Anyway, I digress. The plumber started to snake the drain with the homeowner standing over his back watching to see what came up so he could go yell at his wife and daughter. Soon enough the snake came back and the plumber laughed when he saw what came up. It was a fist sized ball of condoms! He turned to the homeowner smugly and told him not to flush his condoms down the toilet, because this is what happens. The home owner did not use condoms!!! The plumber left without collecting his fee.
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Originally posted by rapalla7and poor plumbing bought an end to the roman empire, mental health issues from the lead poisoning in the pipes :-)
I don't know why I posted this. It is not debateable. Good plumbing has save the world and extended our life expectancies.
Mike
Andrew
Originally posted by latex bishopAcually their is still quite a bit of lead piping out there. You will get very little lead from an active lead water pipe, and I mean very little. Rome had bigger problems.
and poor plumbing bought an end to the roman empire, mental health issues from the lead poisoning in the pipes :-)
Andrew
I did Camp America (working on a children's summer camp) when I was 19 (1990, I believe) and the toilets...well...they were toilets, but quite an ancient style of pipe-fitting...or so I was going to find out. Maybe, just for the hell of it, I'll point out that it was a YMCA summer camp for kids from poorer neighbourhoods. The kids only stayed 1 or 2 weeks a year on it.
Anyway, one day some of the girls were complaining about the toilets not flushing properly. So, I march on in to solve the problem. Please do take careful note that I'm a social worker and not a plumber...and my youth experience training was done with skinheads in the Rotterdam area of Holland....
So I march on in and water is spilling over all three toilet pots. It did not look good. So I tell the girls to go somewhere else and I get one of those plunger-like things Benny Hill was always running around with and get to work plunging the toilets.
To my total exasperation, horrible girl like things came floating out in one large gargle before the water subsided. I was wearing sandals and I was not pleased.
Now, I thought that Terry, the maintanence lad, had entered the toilet/shower area and I stormed out of the cubicle shouting: "Some bitch has been flushing her fucking cunt plugs again."
Alas, it was the camp boss and 7 or 8 of the girls who were standing there in front of me.
Originally posted by shavixmir"We" in the business, referr to them as "manhole covers"😉
I did Camp America (working on a children's summer camp) when I was 19 (1990, I believe) and the toilets...well...they were toilets, but quite an ancient style of pipe-fitting...or so I was going to find out. Maybe, just for the hell of it, I'll point out that it was a YMCA summer camp for kids from poorer neighbourhoods. The kids only stayed 1 or 2 week ...[text shortened]... "
Alas, it was the camp boss and 7 or 8 of the girls who were standing there in front of me.
Originally posted by rapalla7Mike,
I don't know why I posted this. It is not debateable. Good plumbing has save the world and extended our life expectancies.
Mike
I just gained a whole new respect for you.
Next to us carpenters... nobody on earth is as important as you. We can live without the sparkies... but not the house and plumbing!
Long live the sewage process! period.
Ps... you do know the only two requirements of becoming a plumber... right?
Originally posted by StarValleyWyI am afraid to ask what they may be. But do tell.
Mike,
I just gained a whole new respect for you.
Next to us carpenters... nobody on earth is as important as you. We can live without the sparkies... but not the house and plumbing!
Long live the sewage process! period.
Ps... you do know the only two requirements of becoming a plumber... right?
Originally posted by rapalla7Just so you can find a leak... "Sh*t stinks"... and so you can find the plugged drain ... "P*ss runs downhill"...
I am afraid to ask what they may be. But do tell.
Twenty five years of banter with plumbers and sparkies. Don't blame me. The masters of sludge taught me all I know!
😵
Originally posted by StarValleyWyWhen I did my five wonderfull years of "plumbing school" and being an apprentice I learned that no matter what anybody thinks of thier tihs... It does stink. And when you guys were learning to swing a hammer missing a thumb and 2 fingers We learned to pump anything anywhere. 😉
Just so you can find a leak... "Sh*t stinks"... and so you can find the plugged drain ... "P*ss runs downhill"...
Twenty five years of banter with plumbers and sparkies. Don't blame me. The masters of sludge taught me all I know!
😵
Mike
Originally posted by rapalla7My glory days are gone. But I framed over 2400 houses. Not bad for a damned old programmer.
When I did my five wonderfull years of "plumbing school" and being an apprentice I learned that no matter what anybody thinks of thier tihs... It does stink. And when you guys were learning to swing a hammer missing a thumb and 2 fingers We learned to pump anything anywhere. 😉
Mike
At least it contributed to the human condition. If you know what I mean.