Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 7)
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I'm annoyed beyond reason that a new volume has been started just after I posted a fundamental new annoyance.
So I'm going to re-post it, to make myself feel better
Domestic plumbing.
This isn't a new invention; we've had plenty of time to get this stuff right. But with every passing decade, it just seems become further ens
tified.
Taps. They used to last a lifetime! Maybe a new washer after 15 years. Now, the quality has got so bad, that the anticipation of the hard water killing them within three years has been surpassed by corrosion destroying them in two! What has modern life come to when we create taps which fking corrode?
And toilets - fking hell - could the design of the functional elements be any more infuriating? They now seem to be designed to leak. For the various parts to work together only in the event of a series of pieces which want nothing to do with each other, being perfectly aligned in every plane. And often with further features designed-in, specifically to create additional, potential, points of failure.
Silicon this, PTFE that; the whole fking lot is one big game of chance.
And then - fking fk in the ear - there's the pipe work. A series of locks which all shift together unless you have four hands and four sets of grips to hold the lot together, whilst trying to undo the one nut that was so poorly manufactured that it has seized itself onto the opposing thread. Lest you want water pissing all over the room.
If anyone wants to be a billionaire by this time next year (Rodney), design a simple, leak-proof, corrosion-proof, system of maintainable plumbing modules, which runs from the stop cock to every tap and toilet in a property. Because what we've got at the moment seems like nothing short of the worst kind of fking joke on humanity.
So I'm going to re-post it, to make myself feel better
Domestic plumbing.
This isn't a new invention; we've had plenty of time to get this stuff right. But with every passing decade, it just seems become further ens
tified.Taps. They used to last a lifetime! Maybe a new washer after 15 years. Now, the quality has got so bad, that the anticipation of the hard water killing them within three years has been surpassed by corrosion destroying them in two! What has modern life come to when we create taps which f
king corrode?And toilets - f
king hell - could the design of the functional elements be any more infuriating? They now seem to be designed to leak. For the various parts to work together only in the event of a series of pieces which want nothing to do with each other, being perfectly aligned in every plane. And often with further features designed-in, specifically to create additional, potential, points of failure.Silicon this, PTFE that; the whole f
king lot is one big game of chance.And then - f
king fk in the ear - there's the pipe work. A series of locks which all shift together unless you have four hands and four sets of grips to hold the lot together, whilst trying to undo the one nut that was so poorly manufactured that it has seized itself onto the opposing thread. Lest you want water pissing all over the room.If anyone wants to be a billionaire by this time next year (Rodney), design a simple, leak-proof, corrosion-proof, system of maintainable plumbing modules, which runs from the stop cock to every tap and toilet in a property. Because what we've got at the moment seems like nothing short of the worst kind of f
king joke on humanity.
My airing cupboard has more pipes, stopcocks, valves and power shower paraphernalia than socks, skivvies and shirts.
V8mate said:
I'm annoyed beyond reason that a new volume has been started just after I posted a fundamental new annoyance.
So I'm going to re-post it, to make myself feel better
Domestic plumbing.
This isn't a new invention; we've had plenty of time to get this stuff right. But with every passing decade, it just seems become further enstified.
Taps. They used to last a lifetime! Maybe a new washer after 15 years. Now, the quality has got so bad, that the anticipation of the hard water killing them within three years has been surpassed by corrosion destroying them in two! What has modern life come to when we create taps which fking corrode?
And toilets - fking hell - could the design of the functional elements be any more infuriating? They now seem to be designed to leak. For the various parts to work together only in the event of a series of pieces which want nothing to do with each other, being perfectly aligned in every plane. And often with further features designed-in, specifically to create additional, potential, points of failure.
Silicon this, PTFE that; the whole fking lot is one big game of chance.
And then - fking fk in the ear - there's the pipe work. A series of locks which all shift together unless you have four hands and four sets of grips to hold the lot together, whilst trying to undo the one nut that was so poorly manufactured that it has seized itself onto the opposing thread. Lest you want water pissing all over the room.
If anyone wants to be a billionaire by this time next year (Rodney), design a simple, leak-proof, corrosion-proof, system of maintainable plumbing modules, which runs from the stop cock to every tap and toilet in a property. Because what we've got at the moment seems like nothing short of the worst kind of fking joke on humanity.
And I'm pleased that you went to the trouble because I was going to copy and paste it into a quote to say what a thoroughly excellent piece of Fawlty-esque prose that rant was. Might not make you feel any better about the bugger's muddle that is modern plumbing but I really enjoyed the schadenfreude that came from reading it.So I'm going to re-post it, to make myself feel better
Domestic plumbing.
This isn't a new invention; we've had plenty of time to get this stuff right. But with every passing decade, it just seems become further ens
tified.Taps. They used to last a lifetime! Maybe a new washer after 15 years. Now, the quality has got so bad, that the anticipation of the hard water killing them within three years has been surpassed by corrosion destroying them in two! What has modern life come to when we create taps which f
king corrode?And toilets - f
king hell - could the design of the functional elements be any more infuriating? They now seem to be designed to leak. For the various parts to work together only in the event of a series of pieces which want nothing to do with each other, being perfectly aligned in every plane. And often with further features designed-in, specifically to create additional, potential, points of failure.Silicon this, PTFE that; the whole f
king lot is one big game of chance.And then - f
king fk in the ear - there's the pipe work. A series of locks which all shift together unless you have four hands and four sets of grips to hold the lot together, whilst trying to undo the one nut that was so poorly manufactured that it has seized itself onto the opposing thread. Lest you want water pissing all over the room.If anyone wants to be a billionaire by this time next year (Rodney), design a simple, leak-proof, corrosion-proof, system of maintainable plumbing modules, which runs from the stop cock to every tap and toilet in a property. Because what we've got at the moment seems like nothing short of the worst kind of f
king joke on humanity.DRFC1879 said:
And I'm pleased that you went to the trouble because I was going to copy and paste it into a quote to say what a thoroughly excellent piece of Fawlty-esque prose that rant was. Might not make you feel any better about the bugger's muddle that is modern plumbing but I really enjoyed the schadenfreude that came from reading it.
V8mate said:
And toilets - fking hell - could the design of the functional elements be any more infuriating? They now seem to be designed to leak. For the various parts to work together only in the event of a series of pieces which want nothing to do with each other, being perfectly aligned in every plane. And often with further features designed-in, specifically to create additional, potential, points of failure.
Our cistern has one of those Torbeck type valves. The water comes in at the bottom of the cistern, up a vertical plastic pipe and into the valve thingy. The valve thingy just clips on to the vertical pipe - lord knows how it doesn't blow off at some point. It does come off if you bang the cistern lid against it... king hell - could the design of the functional elements be any more infuriating? They now seem to be designed to leak. For the various parts to work together only in the event of a series of pieces which want nothing to do with each other, being perfectly aligned in every plane. And often with further features designed-in, specifically to create additional, potential, points of failure.
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