Got-dangit!

Knees are overrated.

Sell your Enron stocks immediately!

This is already laughable without even considering the fact that the population of Venezuela is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. Might as well claim to be able to move the earth off it’s axis.

What BMW owners think they have:

The envy of all other drivers on the road.

What they actually have:

An overpriced four wheeled trash can.

The different “interpretations” of the character have always interested me. Most of the screen depictions of bond have not aligned with the literary version, to varying degrees. In my opinion, Timothy Dalton came the closest.

But more to your point, the depictions of both women and minorities in Bond films is kind of an interesting timeline. Live and let Die is a good example. It has the first Black bond girl. Not insignificant in 1973. But, it’s also peak “blaxploitation” and contains so many racist stereotypes that it sounds like a worn out record.

I remember watching it as a kid and thinking the antagonists, most of whom are black, seemed more like cartoon villains than anything, despite some half-assed attempts to sprinkle in a little sophistication here and there. It’s a movie with some strange paradoxes.

I find avoiding social media helps reduce encounters with the insane side of people who somehow appear to be relatively normal in real life.

For instance, I actually like my inlaws in real life, despite having some very different views than they do. On Facebook however, they’re complete fucking idiots that I wouldn’t give the time of day because they would just argue with me about it.

It’s a bitter irony that all the playground bully insults that the MAGA’s have hurled at Biden for the past 4+ years became completely useless in a matter of seconds.

“Sleepy Joe”, “Let’s go Brandon”, etc. are now totally meaningless.

The tend to like the Sparks Notes Jesus who was born and then immediately killed off. There’s a whole lot of “liberal talking points” in between those two events and it’s just easier to pretend those parts doesn’t exist.

If I want to go for a hike, or even for a short walk in my back yard, it’s a choice between slathering myself in bug spray or being eaten alive by chiggers. I choose neither.

…and the Shithouse Latrine Poet strikes again!

They changed their name to “Latrine”. Sometime in the 9th century I believe.

Might be an air admittance valve. Those are usually used when venting to the roof isn’t possible or practical.

Plumbing is one of those things that’s sort of an art. You can do a whole bunch of shit wrong and have it still technically function properly. Nobody will know except you and the next person who actually knows what they’re looking at.

One problem with a “central” P-trap is that if it were done that way, you’re going to get nasty smells somewhere. Sewage frequently doesn’t make it out of your house as fast as you think it will and running water down the drain changes the air pressure in the drain line to varying degrees.

The main reason it’s positioned so close to the drain opening is to accommodate venting. Every drain opening has to be vented, typically with a pipe going through the wall to a vent stack in the attic, to prevent the P-trap from being sucked dry when you do something like flush the toilet or run the clothes washer.

Ever run the washing machine and hear a sink on the other side of the house gurgling during the drain cycle? That’s because the washer draining changes the air pressure in the sewer line and the sink isn’t properly vented causing air to bubble through the the P-trap.

Drains should always have a P-trap within so many inches of the drain opening. That prevents sewer gas from escaping from the drain. This is what should be there if it’s a sink drain.

The issue with a vent 90/elbow in a sewer line is that they slow the water flow and can easily become obstructed. Normal elbows are curved to help prevent the water flow from slowing down.

I feel like I’m the only person here concerned about the fact that that vent 90 almost certainly doesn’t go to a vent. Looks like it was probably installed by someone who would try to use a bong made out of PVC.

If the Cocker Spaniel next door weighed 4 tons and was perpetually in a bad mood, I’d be a lot more concerned.

The fact that the CEO of a company whose primary purpose is facilitating remote work doesn’t believe remote work is effective is peak irony.

You might as well scream to the entire world that you think the service you’re selling is a worthless sham. But then narcissistic executives tend to have this bizarre blindness to irony.

“It’s so great! It automatically writes the [wrong] answers to everything for you!”