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Read all about it![^]Quote: The international plumbing community, as represented by the Council, has a vital role in promoting the link between good quality plumbing, health, environmental sustainability and, increasingly, economic prosperity.
I think one could replace the starting of that sentence with most anything, like "cleaning my cat's litterbox has a vital role in promoting the link between good quality litter, health, environmental sustainability and, increasingly, economic prosperity. 
Well, if you are a plumber or know someone that is, please help them celebrate this much needed and not often respected job!
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"The Beer Brewers' Union ... health, environmental sustainability and, increasingly, economic prosperity."
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I completely replumbed our house so I guess it's a celebrate me day. YAY!
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Had it been out of plumb?
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Nothing in this house was plumb, level or square. A bit of a challenge.
Old house, built early 60s in a very rural town of 770.
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Did you ever read "—And He Built a Crooked House—", by Robert Heinlein? 
Your place sounds nice, if one is a "country mouse". I, a "city mouse", wouldn't want to live in a town much smaller than 20,000 people. There would be too few local amenities for my liking.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Did you ever read "—And He Built a Crooked House—", by Robert Heinlein?
No haven't read that one.
We moved here about 3 years ago from a city of 2.5M and I absolutely hated it. When I moved there 35 years ago there were about 200K and that was manageable. But since then New Yorkers fleeing from their home state have moved into Florida and brought big city problems with them.
The town we live in is small, 2 blinking lights. We live on the edge of town and it's quiet, peaceful and very few issues. Everything you do has trade offs; we traded peace and quiet for amenities that are within walking distance.
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Mike Hankey wrote: Old house, built early 60s in a very rural town of 770.
Heh - my house was built in 1910. I still have the old outhouse structure that "dumps" into the creek below, before a bathroom was added later on. And nothing is level. I don't even have doors on the rooms upstairs because the frames are so tweaked. But then again, my mortgage is $650 a month, a third of what rentals go for around here.
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I've worked on houses that bad and they are a PITA to do any kind of work on.
Here we have houses that were built during the depression that they call scrap houses. They were built from what was left over after building other houses. You talk about a house that's not level, square or plumb, they have studs that are different sizes that are spliced together. Door jambs that some are standard size and some were fabricated using 2x6s. This is just the tip of the ice burg. I helped a friend of mine that is a flipper (a guy that buys houses, fixes them then resells) fix one up and swore that I would never do another. Funny story about my friend he originally hired me because he had to do some work under a house and he was terrified of spiders. We ended up doing quite a few houses together.
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I think you've just articulated how ChatGPT works.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Software Zen: delete this;
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Reminds me of this, all too true, joke:
The joke: How would you write "I changed a light bulb" on your resume?
Single-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents.
Jeremy Falcon
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Anyone can make these proclamations; there's no governing body at any national or international level to accept/reject/manage any such proposal.
How very a-propos.
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They manage magnificent eye protectors (11)
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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An hour is way too long for that one!
SUPERVISORS - they manage
SUPER - magnificent
VISORS - eye protectors
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Just trying to give others time to see it otherwise it's just a handful of us doing it ( oh wait ! it already is  )
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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You are up tomorrow.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Maybe being a trail guide wasn't such a good idea after all.
*hikes away*
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Yeah ... my career as a Safety Car driver didn't go too well either ...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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You weren't even that bad, it's when you started overtaking that things went downhill.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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I think it was pulling into the Drive-Thru that did it.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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They didn't even have good coffee. Quick tires change though.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Ahhh, Those were good years.
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