Reply to post: Re: The new world we're in.

We're late and we're unreliable but we won't invalidate your warranty: We're engineers!

Sir Runcible Spoon

Re: The new world we're in.

I once fixed* a leaking pipe with a hammer.

*I say leaking, more like pissing. It was an old house, and this pipe was about 10mm wide and I (mistakenly) thought it didn't contain any water, so I cut it. Panic isn't something I do very often, I can think of twice and this was one of them. With water pissing everywhere I I hammered the end flat, folded it over and hammered it again until no water came out - apparently that was the correct fix (according to a plumber).

Electricity doesn't leak out all over the floor at least, just to the nearest earth point which could be your light switch ;)

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