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The plumber he says, never flush a tampon. This is great information, cost me half a weeks pay.
There is nothing like the plumbing fixtures to remind you that you're not in Kansas anymore. By
It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.
It is quite a three-pipe problem.
History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
If the grass is always greener on the other side, invest in a hosepipe.
Even though the sewer pipelines reach far into our houses with their tentacles, they are carefully hidden from view and we are happily ignorant of the invisible Venice of shit underlying our bathrooms, bedrooms, dance halls, and parliaments.
Well, MacKenzie, YOU'RE the expert on toilets! It's only 8:00 a.m. and your BRAIN is completely CONSTIPATED while your MOUTH has a severe case of DIARRHEA! Please, go FLUSH!
The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.
Where have you been?" he asked slowly.
"Um, in the bathroom, mostly," Larry said. Let's just say my plumbing is not working any better than Mexico City's.
If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.
Even dirty water has a bath
Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.
Ah, hell. Before I met you, the only men I'd hung out with wore more makeup than I wear in a month and weren't interested in my plumbing.
Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
I'm almost afraid to tell you. Let's put it this way: clean toilets are the least of your problems in this country.
I'm sure you already know this, but you need to actually climb into a bath to get clean - not stare at it.
An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.
The scrub sink ... is the place where doctors wash their hands after they operate so that they won't get flecks of your vital organs on their Lexus upholstery.
The walls are cracked and water runs upon them within threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.
water wants to flow,
The history of men is reflected in the history of sewers.
Water is the blood in our veins.
Leo ran down the hall waving a wrench. Man, did you have to destroy the plumbing?
So if he'd been a plumber, _ _ would've been about toilets?
Left blank to avoid spoilers but this is just too funny
I'm a big bath person.
What is it with you and girls' bathrooms?
My life is in the toilet, Red. We're talking a serious septic tank situation.
Anything that's strange is no good to the average American. If it doesn't have Chicago plumbing, it's nonsense.
I can't remember the last time I crapped in somebody's sink, but I think it may be why I'm not allowed in Home Depot anymore.
We're in a blessed drainpipe, and we've got to crawl along it till we die.
I have a pig valve.
Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.
I can't work in a sewer. I come from California.
For many of us, water simply flows from a faucet, and we think little about it beyond this point of contact. We have lost a sense of respect for the wild river, for the complex workings of a wetland, for the intricate web of life that water supports.
I washed walls, polished door knobs and the tiny window. The scales and stench of defeat floated into the pail's dirty water. The
Anybody who has doubts about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.
The sewer is the conscience of the city.
I have created myself a soul, big as the world, that leaks all over, and I have to keep calling for the plumber.
God is the water, and you are the faucet.
Water enters the dark sewer grates with no fear; it travels everywhere; it learns some things from everything and this is the secret of water's wisdom!
Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn't been cleaned in weeks. Nobody had noticed, because nobody who mattered ever went in there.
One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene.
[On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.
One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.
Ah, the toilet is through that first door on your right.
I used to pump the water by hand
But too much going with the flow is heading us into the sewer ...
We all live downstream
It looked like something the Hemlock needed, or a piece of equipment a plumber had left behind. It looked like none of your business.
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.
For those who don't live in a place where water is readily available, it's something you carry on your back for six kilometers, that makes your children sick, that is perhaps the hardest part of your existence.
I couldn't imagine not having clean water.
Nobody ever oohs and aahs over wiring conduits and sewer lines.
Everything wooden swells and shrinks, and the nails in everything wooden, the floors and baseboards and window casings, the nails inch out and rust. Everywhere there are rusted nails to step on or snag your elbow on, and there's only one bathroom for the seven
If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
Exactly! What kind of plumber has pristine nails?"
"A smart one.
Water, we go to you dirty and rise from you clean.
After the passing of irresistible music you must make do with a dripping faucet.
Oh! Who can be ever tired of Bath?
A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.
In Nueva Esperanza, Honduras, community members pooled their resources and organized a local water committee that with CARE's technical guidance built a gravity-fed water system that now provides clean water directly to people's homes.
Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty.
There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn't all the water gush out when you get in?
Most people need a philosophical enema and I'm the bag with the pipe.
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.
I've got my own toilet." -- Grace Harper
One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
The bathroom was made of the finest materials, but underneath it all was nothing but shit.
Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.
I haven't been home for years. My mother's lack of a filter.
Sometimes you need to make a mess. -Loretta, the Rollinses' hosekeeper
You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.
Bend over the sink. I'm going to show you who owns what around here.
I'm the bathroom master
I'm a real bowl blaster
Don't mess with me
'Cause I can mess it up faster
With just one flush
I can make a toilet gush
When my sister cleans it up
I just turn her to mush!
I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.
Everything that matters in life flows through tubes.
I would like to mention that a couple days ago Senator Obama was out in Ohio and he had an encounter with a guy who's a plumber, his name is Joe Wurzelbacher.
No innovation in the past 200 years has done more to save lives and improve health than the sanitation revolution triggered by invention of the toilet. But it did not go far enough. It only reached one-third of the world.
a thousand years without a bath.
There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet but kept pouring out until shut off - a sign, Shevek thought, either of great faith in human nature, or of great quantities of hot water.
There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.
Clean water, the essence of life and a birthright for everyone, must become available to all people now.
At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine steam pipes. This was the only drinking water that we had access to, and though it was hot and very rusty, it was the best drink I felt I'd ever had.
He trotted down the hallway on all fours and started in on his second favorite pastime, conversations with plumbing. Just what I needed: Stone, the Toilet Whisperer.
You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making your toilet.
Las Vegas, the most expensive toilet in the world that still can't flush.
If you're just going to meet consumer or clients' demands, you might as well be a plumber - the work will be more frequently available.
I need a bathroom. And there are way too many people around here for us to
Water is life, and clean water means health.
O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.
I have a beautiful, big bathtub.
living in a stinking
Pipes filled with brine that spied on the inhabitants of buildings watching, listening, hunting. You might obscure the attention of the Londonmancers, with the complicity of a treacherous borough, with strikebreaking hexes strong enough: but nothing could stay hidden from an inquisitive sea.
There's a bond that forms over a sink, where the silences seem natural and the conversation is broken up with practical exchanges about where the dishes go or what kind of detergent works best.
But now that I'm scrubbing
toilets on my hands & knees,
with four degrees,
I realize that one escape route
leads to another
You might be a redneck if you use a radiator hose to fix your kitchen sink.