No One Knows How to Fix anything Anymore.

[Auld Phart]

when all else fails

 

[Canon Shooter]

You don't have to have a license to replace a toilet or a ceiling fan.

I don't believe I ever said someone does...

 

[Canon Shooter]

It's easier to put off something done than to get someone who takes a $150 job and charges you $2500 for it because he owes someone else a lot of money and when he checked the bottom line of your bank account...

WTF?

Since when does a contractor ever have access to view the "bottom line" of your bank account??

 

[citygator]

You can fix anything with a phone that can access YouTube. At least most things.

 

[lg325]

I earned a lot of my living knowing how to fix things. People who were executive upscale folk who couldn't fix simple things. I guess it boils down to how you were taught and a person's mind is trained.

 

[X.Onasis]

I can't figure what's dumber, thinking you could replace a toilet in 20 minutes or that a plumber would charge $1000 for it.

SMH

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I have been rather reticent to engage myself in matters such as these ever since the very traumatic incident involving my attempt to fix my Great Pyrenees.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

A total lack of curiosity.

I think a lot of them are busy painting their toe nails

 

[Gracie]

It isn't just men. But, regardless, the maintenance man here is not that great although I like him alot. So instead of putting in a maintenance request if something goes wrong, I do it myself. Management said I am not allowed to do that and I told them "so sue me. I do a better job and have done maintenance before when I managed properties". They never responded after that.

 

[strollingbones]

now in all fairness it takes tools to do this stuff..replacing a toilet is a *****...just hope the wax seal holds

i am amazed at the lack of knowing about cars

 

[Canon Shooter]

I can't figure what's dumber, thinking you could replace a toilet in 20 minutes or that a plumber would charge $1000 for it.

After checking the "bottom line" of your bank account...

 

[Canon Shooter]

I have been rather reticent to engage myself in matters such as these ever since the very traumatic incident involving my attempt to fix my Great Pyrenees.

****, dude, that's funny...

 

[Dogmaphobe]

****, dude, that's funny...

The youtube video made it look so easy, too!

 

[Canon Shooter]

The thing that shocks me is how so many young men these days are absolutely ignorant of even the most simple of tasks.

Ask a 20 year old to shine a pair of shoes or tie a necktie. He'll look like a deer in headlights. Iron a dress shirt? Crickets. Ain't happenin'...

 

[strollingbones]

aha my son was in rotc....i think that is what it was called..he can do all that

 

[lg325]

I can't figure what's dumber, thinking you could replace a toilet in 20 minutes or that a plumber would charge $1000 for it.

SMH

disconnect the supply line, disconnect from the floor lift move it away. Depending on a few things it mostly took me an average of 20min at most 30 minutes in a newer type home.

 

[whitehall]

When my Samsung clothes drier started making noises like a freight train I thought it might be a bearing and I googled it up but like everything else it's an electronic gizmo and there are about a hundred wires to disconnect before you get to the problem. I left it alone and it still dries clothes and I pretend I can't hear it.

 

[Blues Man]

I can't figure what's dumber, thinking you could replace a toilet in 20 minutes or that a plumber would charge $1000 for it.

SMH

How long do you think it actually takes to remove an old toilet and put a new one in place? remove 2 nuts from the carriage bolts, lift off the old crapper, put a wax ring on the new crapper put the new crapper on the flange screw on the 2 nuts hook up the water and you're done

I've installed literally hundreds of toilets and I can remove an old toilet and bolt down a new one in 20 minutes

 

[Blues Man]

The thing that shocks me is how so many young men these days are absolutely ignorant of even the most simple of tasks.

Ask a 20 year old to shine a pair of shoes or tie a necktie. He'll look like a deer in headlights. Iron a dress shirt? Crickets. Ain't happenin'...

Shit I can't tie a neck tie and I'm 53. I have never once worn a tie and I doubt I ever will.

I don't even own a suit

 

[Canon Shooter]

Shit I can't tie a neck tie and I'm 53. I have never once worn a tie and I doubt I ever will.

I don't even own a suit

Really?

My Dad taught my brother and I to properly tie a necktie when we were quite young.

The Navy taught me how to properly shine a pair of shoes...