#svenja for ts
I’ve spent all day doing plumbing. I am not a plumber. I know next to nothing about it. But the kitchen sink needed a new drain pipe and apparently everyone else is incompetent.
The problem was basically that the pipe that attaches to the sink is a different diameter than the drain pipe that leads outside. But it wasconnected, it was just too short for the new setup, so it needed a longer piece of pipe somewhere in there - as in, just replace one piece of pipe with a longer piece of pipe. Or so I thought. It sounds simple. Apparently it’s the hardest thing in the universe if you’re a plumber.
The guy in the plumbing supply shop: “this is impossible, you need to replace the entire setup”
The actual plumber: “yeah I have no idea how to make that work, you’d probably have to replace the entire setup, I can do that for you maybe next week, you’re okay without a kitchen sink and a dishwasher till then right?”
The lads in the hardware shop: “hmm this is a conundrum, let’s see, maybe you can MacGyver something if you get this thing, and then this other thing, and cut off this piece of the other thing? If you can fit those together, that might work”
… and that’s how I ended up spending the whole day cutting and filing bits of pipe and cursing whoever had the bright idea to mix metric and imperial measurements and slathering connectors in glue. But I found a way to make it fit. And it’s holding together so far, touch wood.
Maybe I should quit this art nonsense and just go be a plumber, apparently I can do the impossible.
also featuring such expert questions as: “who built this” and “is this from a mobile”, as if knowing that a fella named Dave built it for use in a mobile home would magically enable them to do what they just said is impossible
ALSO featuring the hardware shop selling me pipe A and pipe B, both meant for connecting a kitchen sink to a drain pipe, NO WAY TO CONNECT THEM TOGETHER
and then the plumbing supply shop telling me that pipe A does not exist anymore and it’s impossible to get anything like it
and me slowly losing my mind about how any of this can be true, like, how can the hardware shop sell me a pipe that doesn’t exist, how can the plumbing supply shop not know that it exists, and how is there nothing that can connect A to B if both of them exist for the same purpose and are sold by the same shop
on second thought I don’t ever want to be a plumber or do any plumbing ever again
Can I hire you to come fix our broken dishwasher and leaky refrigerator next? I tried troubleshooting/googling but the internet seemed as confused as I am lol
My fridge actually leaks as well LMAO but going by what I learned today, the expert answer is “buy a new fridge", that’ll be €50 please You might have some luck on a DIY subreddit or something, if you ask for input, sometimes DIY guys have clever ideas… that’s all I got
Tbh really all you need to know about me is that today, my mother said that she wasn’t worried about the pipe maybe not getting fixed, because she saw the look on my face and knew I wouldn’t give up until I fixed it, it was just a matter of time. All she had to do was make sure I got something to eat in between.
My mother, hanging up the phone: “plumber guy says it’s not possible, you can’t do that”
Me: “psh, maybe hecan’t”
I’ve spent all day doing plumbing. I am not a plumber. I know next to nothing about it. But the kitchen sink needed a new drain pipe and apparently everyone else is incompetent.
The problem was basically that the pipe that attaches to the sink is a different diameter than the drain pipe that leads outside. But it wasconnected, it was just too short for the new setup, so it needed a longer piece of pipe somewhere in there - as in, just replace one piece of pipe with a longer piece of pipe. Or so I thought. It sounds simple. Apparently it’s the hardest thing in the universe if you’re a plumber.
The guy in the plumbing supply shop: “this is impossible, you need to replace the entire setup”
The actual plumber: “yeah I have no idea how to make that work, you’d probably have to replace the entire setup, I can do that for you maybe next week, you’re okay without a kitchen sink and a dishwasher till then right?”
The lads in the hardware shop: “hmm this is a conundrum, let’s see, maybe you can MacGyver something if you get this thing, and then this other thing, and cut off this piece of the other thing? If you can fit those together, that might work”
… and that’s how I ended up spending the whole day cutting and filing bits of pipe and cursing whoever had the bright idea to mix metric and imperial measurements and slathering connectors in glue. But I found a way to make it fit. And it’s holding together so far, touch wood.
Maybe I should quit this art nonsense and just go be a plumber, apparently I can do the impossible.
also featuring such expert questions as: “who built this” and “is this from a mobile”, as if knowing that a fella named Dave built it for use in a mobile home would magically enable them to do what they just said is impossible
ALSO featuring the hardware shop selling me pipe A and pipe B, both meant for connecting a kitchen sink to a drain pipe, NO WAY TO CONNECT THEM TOGETHER
and then the plumbing supply shop telling me that pipe A does not exist anymore and it’s impossible to get anything like it
and me slowly losing my mind about how any of this can be true, like, how can the hardware shop sell me a pipe that doesn’t exist, how can the plumbing supply shop not know that it exists, and how is there nothing that can connect A to B if both of them exist for the same purpose and are sold by the same shop
on second thought I don’t ever want to be a plumber or do any plumbing ever again
I’ve spent all day doing plumbing. I am not a plumber. I know next to nothing about it. But the kitchen sink needed a new drain pipe and apparently everyone else is incompetent.
The problem was basically that the pipe that attaches to the sink is a different diameter than the drain pipe that leads outside. But it wasconnected, it was just too short for the new setup, so it needed a longer piece of pipe somewhere in there - as in, just replace one piece of pipe with a longer piece of pipe. Or so I thought. It sounds simple. Apparently it’s the hardest thing in the universe if you’re a plumber.
The guy in the plumbing supply shop: “this is impossible, you need to replace the entire setup”
The actual plumber: “yeah I have no idea how to make that work, you’d probably have to replace the entire setup, I can do that for you maybe next week, you’re okay without a kitchen sink and a dishwasher till then right?”
The lads in the hardware shop: “hmm this is a conundrum, let’s see, maybe you can MacGyver something if you get this thing, and then this other thing, and cut off this piece of the other thing? If you can fit those together, that might work”
… and that’s how I ended up spending the whole day cutting and filing bits of pipe and cursing whoever had the bright idea to mix metric and imperial measurements and slathering connectors in glue. But I found a way to make it fit. And it’s holding together so far, touch wood.
Maybe I should quit this art nonsense and just go be a plumber, apparently I can do the impossible.
do you ever get kind of annoyed when shitty people love the same character as you, like you just want to disqualify them from getting to have them as their fave, like “NO this character is awesome and you don’t deserve to enjoy them, go love one of the other idiots, you can’t have this one”
I have two modes when it comes to Eurovision, either I’m all about it LET’S GET RIDICULOUS or I’m totally over it and think it’s ridiculous
this year I guess it’s the latter because I completely forgot, and even when it started appearing on my dash yesterday I was “eh”
my apologies to everyone who followed me during last year’s, if you’re even still here - I’m not very consistent :D
One of the fundamental problems with the pro-life/pro-choice debate is that the two sides aren’t actually opposites. They’re not on opposite sides of one issue, they’re just two different beliefs. And they’re not on the same level, either, because one of those beliefs is shared by everyone, and the other isn’t.
You’ll see pro-choice arguments that agree, for the sake of argument, that the pro-life belief is true. You won’t see pro-life arguments that agree, for the sake of argument, that the pro-choice belief is true. Because pro-life advocates don’t actually disagree with that belief in principle, in fact, they share it. The idea that people have bodily autonomy is already something we all agree on. It’s why we’ve outlawed things like slavery and assault.
Take away the pro-life belief that a fertilised egg is a full human being with full rights, and you’re out of arguments for banning abortion. Take away the pro-choice belief that everybody has the right to decide what happens to their body, and you’re out of arguments for allowing abortion, but also for banning rape, assault, enslavement, and a whole host of other awful things. Whoops.
The problem that pro-life has is that while they certainly share the underlying belief of the pro-choice stance, their own belief is not shared by everyone else. And in order to “win” the argument, they need to somehow prove and justify an exceptionto a principle that we all agree on, without getting rid of or invalidating that principle itself. And ultimately, the only way to do that is by bringing the pro-life belief into it and taking that as fact - which, since it’s a belief, you can’t. And since it’s not shared by everyone, they won’t accept it, so you’re back to square one.
Awkward.
y’know, if actual literal Nazis were on my side in an issue, if Nazis were cheering me on, supporting my cause financially, and fighting for it side by side with me… I would ask myself some very serious questions about my stance on that issue, and whether a stance I share with actual literal Nazis is really the one I want to be going with.
(yes this is about the pro-life thing and also the anti-mask thing but it’s also my opinion in general that if your moral compass happens to align with the Nazis’ then you might want to recalibrate it.)
