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The Rat
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Canada
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 Posted - 06/22/2010 : 06:55:11
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As skeptics we are supposed to avoid dogmatism, but there are times when it can be acceptable. Instance: the people who design low-flow toilets are idiots, plain and simple. They can't even spell the word 'hydrodynamics'. Water pressure is entirely dependent upon the depth of the water column, so if you're reducing the flow you should find a way of increasing the depth. In Britain they were doing this years ago by placing the toilet tank up high instead of just above the bowl, and you pulled down on a chain to release the water. I hope they still use this system otherwise it means another country is getting scientifically dimmer. And what brain-dead excuse for a vertebrate designs a tank that releases more water than the bowl will hold?! It means that if there is a blockage there is no possible way that you cannot have an overflow. Stupidity, that's the only reason for such a design. I will not look for nor accept any other explanation. Dogmatic? Yes. But I am right, so I can afford to be.
As you can probably guess I've just spent a frustrating time clearing a blockage and cleaning the resultant mess. I have a 14 year-old son who eats prodigiously and then gives birth to rugby balls. I am NOT happy. Those designers will feel my wrath. To quote Douglas Adams, they'll be the first ones against the wall when the revolution comes.
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2010 : 07:19:02 [Permalink]
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The Mighty Ferguson: BAH-WHOOOSH!!!
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2010 : 07:39:21 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by The Rat
As skeptics we are supposed to avoid dogmatism, but there are times when it can be acceptable. Instance: the people who design low-flow toilets are idiots, plain and simple. They can't even spell the word 'hydrodynamics'. Water pressure is entirely dependent upon the depth of the water column, so if you're reducing the flow you should find a way of increasing the depth. In Britain they were doing this years ago by placing the toilet tank up high instead of just above the bowl, and you pulled down on a chain to release the water. I hope they still use this system otherwise it means another country is getting scientifically dimmer. And what brain-dead excuse for a vertebrate designs a tank that releases more water than the bowl will hold?! It means that if there is a blockage there is no possible way that you cannot have an overflow. Stupidity, that's the only reason for such a design. I will not look for nor accept any other explanation. Dogmatic? Yes. But I am right, so I can afford to be.
As you can probably guess I've just spent a frustrating time clearing a blockage and cleaning the resultant mess. I have a 14 year-old son who eats prodigiously and then gives birth to rugby balls. I am NOT happy. Those designers will feel my wrath. To quote Douglas Adams, they'll be the first ones against the wall when the revolution comes.
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No shit!!! |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
1370 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2010 : 07:46:11 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
No shit!!! |
No, too much shit!
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Bailey's second law; There is no relationship between the three virtues of intelligence, education, and wisdom.
You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity! Have you ever considered a career in the Church? - The Bishop of Bath and Wells, Blackadder II
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2010 : 09:49:03 [Permalink]
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| In my opinion, rugby balls aren't balls. |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 06/22/2010 : 11:37:09 [Permalink]
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Ball n. : a round or roundish body or mass: as a : a spherical or ovoid body used in a game or sport.
Sorry it qualifies, and it's easier than saying "semi-spheroid inflated sporting device". |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 06/22/2010 : 16:48:52 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Ball n. : a round or roundish body or mass: as a : a spherical or ovoid body used in a game or sport.
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What can I say? I don't like that definition... |
METHINKS IT IS LIKE A WEASEL
It's a small, off-duty czechoslovakian traffic warden! |
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Starman
SFN Regular
Sweden
1613 Posts |
 Posted - 06/23/2010 : 04:18:50 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
What can I say? I don't like that definition...
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Be dogmatic! Reject it! |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2010 : 13:46:01 [Permalink]
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Indeed!
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Ebone4rock
SFN Regular
USA
894 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2010 : 14:25:13 [Permalink]
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| I've tried being dogmatic but my labrador can out-run me, out-jump me,out-catch me, and out-swim me. The only thing I am better at is throwing. |
Haole with heart, thats all I'll ever be. I'm not a part of the North Shore society. Stuck on the shoulder, that's where you'll find me. Digging for scraps with the kooks in line. -Offspring |
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ThorGoLucky
Snuggle Wolf
USA
1487 Posts |
Posted - 06/23/2010 : 20:33:34 [Permalink]
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| I like the adjustable toilets, set for #1 or #2. I'd like one with several flows, from light tinkle to Fat Bastard floater. |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 06/27/2010 : 12:51:27 [Permalink]
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Rat:
Sounds like you need a pressure- assisted toilet. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Fripp
SFN Regular
USA
727 Posts |
Posted - 06/28/2010 : 11:22:57 [Permalink]
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"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?"
"Oh, I'm sorry. I thought my Dark Lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only 2-meters wide! That thing wasn't even fully paid off yet! You have any idea what this is going to do to my credit?!?!"
"What? Oh, oh, 'just rebuild it'? Oh, real [bleep]ing original. And who's gonna give me a loan, jackhole? You? You got an ATM on that torso LiteBrite?" |
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There are times when we can be dogmatic
