You'd Immediately Hit Trouble
Since this is text and you can't hear how I pronounce it. For all you know, I'm referencing the end of 'Help!' where the end credits put in a complete non sequiteur compared to the rest of the film - Art!
One type of sewer <disappears to dig a bit> ah yes, the reason the name 'Singer' is on that machine is because, whilst Howe came up with the patented design, it was Isaac Singer who added a few tweaks and made it commercially successful.
Incidentally, we've covered this film before, as it features scads of Centurion tanks, which is reason enough to add in another illo. Art!
Conrad is unsure the ambient nose of 40-ton main battle tanks whizzing around would enhance a recording but what do I know.
ANYWAY what we are talking about today is not the machinery to carry out lockstitch but what my 'Collins Concise English Dictionary' defines as "A drain or pipe, especially one that is underground, used to carry away surface water or sewage." The word itself derives from the Old French 'Esseveur', meaning 'To drain' and it probably has a Latin root <hack spit> but I don't care enough to find out. Art!
Sewers are set at a particular angle, in order to create a slope that maintains a flow of sewage that prevents clogs or build-ups of solid waste. Gravity is free, after all. Then there is the heirarchy of sewers. You have 'laterals', which are small-bore pipes carrying sewage from individual homes; 'branches' are the larger versions running along main streets, carrying the sewage from multiple laterals; 'trunks' consolidate several branches into a single, very large sewer - see picture above.
Having established the background, let us now venture forth into the body of today's Intro, one from the 'Slash Start' Youtube channel. Let me introduce the narrator, SEWage Shifter, hereafter SEWS. His mission in service to City Hall was to haul his big truck around to various domestic customers, then use the 600 gallon water tank and compressor to destroy whatever was clogging the lateral. Art!
SEWS secret weapon in his never-ending battle against fatbergs and baby wipes was the Call History function of his phone database. Thus, when a call came in about a clogged lateral, he was able to check the callers background history. We shall dub them Abusive Sewer Spoliator, hereafter ASS. They were on record as being severely chastised for flushing cotton hand towels down the toilet and causing clogs that way, which takes an extra-special dose of stupid to manage. Who on earth sits down and thinks 'I must get rid of this towel, not in the bin but down the toilet'?
ANYWAY AGAIN when SEWS and his workmate arrive at ASS's house, what do they behold outside but a councillor from City Hall, as ASS is a relative of theirs. Oooops. Art!
SEWS and partner check what he called the 'city cleanout', which is a vertical shaft allowing access to the lateral, close to the branch sewer. There was no standing water, meaning no blockage at that point in the system.
Technically, this was where SEWS had fully discharged their duty. However - a word you surely knew was coming - the councillor is unhappy with this and insists they examine further up the lateral, yeah unto ASS's house.
SEWS informs that, if they do that, ASS has to sign a waiver about any resultant damage, and he needs permission from his manager. The councillor in turn harasses the manager via phone, threatening storms, plagues of frogs, spoiled milk and so on. Art!
Problem is, they cannot find the domestic cleanout, which is very probably under ASS's new porch. So instead SEWS has to run a line up the lateral from the branch sewer, using the 600 gallons of stored water propelled at high speed to destroy any clogs in the lateral. First, SEWS got ASS, who was outside watching them, to sign the waiver, which was the most important part of the job.
The tanked water gets shot in at 4,000 PSI, which destroys the clog and also ASS's bathroom as her toilet explodes. She goes mental, to which SEWS responds that she signed the waiver, so there's nothing she can do. As for the councillor, he was on record, as all the manager's calls were recorded, as ordering the lateral to be blasted. Art!
SEWS manager, a canny and crafty individual, took many copies of the waiver form and handed them out at the next City Hall meeting, which quashed any problems about ASS and their councillor relative.
More Of Mordorvia's Malleting
I am referring to 'Professor Gerdes Explains' and his Youtube channel, where he covers the Special Idiotic Operation, and the latest iteration is titled 'The Moscow Attack Was Worse Than Ruffia Admitted'. What do you think of that, Mordorvia being untruthful? Art!
Those blue dots are the targets that the Ukrainian drones hit on the 16th and 17th of May. This is significant because it means the drones got through four layers of air defences around Barad Duh. Art!
It's unclear if the orcs have redistributed their SAM systems around Moscow now that the Victory Charade is done with, or if they're keeping everything around the capital.
The Prof also mentions Prez Zed quoting in the press about how badly things are going for Mordorvia in terms of their economy, quoting 'RBC News'. First thing mentioned is that an orc oil company has shut down 400 oil wells, which is a serious step. As Prez Zed explains, shutting down an oil well in Siberia gets verrrry risky as one draws close to winter, because the oil solidifies and turns to jelly, expanding as it does so. This destroys the well, the pump and the pipeline altogether and has happened already, in the aftermath of the Sinister Union going toes-up. Art!
The Prof also went into the statistics of the latest wave of drone and missile attacks the orcs inflicted on Ukraine, using a Kozaky chart. Art!
As you can see from the totals, the orcs launched 546 drones and missiles, of which 507 were successfully intercepted and shot down. This is a corking shoot-down rate of 93%
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