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When most people hear the word "plumber," they immediately picture a scowling, unshaven individual, perpetually drunk and foul-mouthed. But today's plumbers are completely different people, not devoid of an appreciation for beauty. Take, for example, the well-known author Slava Se and his unsurpassed humorous book "The Plumber, His Cat, Wife, and Other Details":
Apartment 19 is home to the best shorts in the neighborhood. Her name is Maria, 28 years old. She calls us over one day, leads us into the bathroom, squats down, and points somewhere off in the distance, where it's dark and there are cockroach corpses. It's leaking there, she says. And we started looking. Me — at the woman's knees, Igor — at the overall scene. He doesn't understand legs at all, the Neanderthal. The view of Maria was wonderful. Hills turned into valleys, valleys ran toward the horizon, underwear was visible in the décolletage, you could look at this forever, like a waterfall. Maria, — we say, — my god! We'll fix everything, replace it with something new, imported if needed, we'll take a night shift. Plumbers in general are responsive to beauty, from the late Modigliani all the way to Maria's shorts. Maria replies, okay, come by tomorrow. Then I ask, Igor, did you even see where she was pointing, where it's leaking? What if it's cherry compote, or cucumbers exploded, under the bathtub. And he just sighed in response.
Why am I bringing this up now? Well, here's a LiveJournal post (this entry made it into the top-25 popular entries on LiveJournal), where the author quotes from a plumbers' forum that has a thread featuring private photos of young women from social networks, along with professional commentary on them. Professionals — that's just how they are: whatever they see, they immediately evaluate from the perspective of their own profession. A seasoned photographer, for instance, will look at some picture depicting a magnificent landscape or a girl of unearthly beauty, and immediately grumble displeasedly: "the horizon is tilted," "red eyes," "noise in the shadows," etc. It's the same here. Here's what, for example, plumbers wrote under some of the photos:
Note that the radiator is not hanging, but is practically standing on the floor. That's completely unacceptable... These cold water and hot water pipes need to be boxed in so you don't have to see them... I get very anxious when I see broken tiles in the bathtub. There's always a chance of cutting yourself or, God forbid, it falling on your head with the sharp edge... In this photo, I liked that there's no valve on the bypass. They really used to do radiator piping properly back in the day... Total mess with the pipes... 1. The riser is crooked 2. The radiator is severely tilted... Look how cleverly the window sill issue is solved... reinforced with posts, and shelves created below it... kudos to the designer... There must have been a partition there..... see that piece of wallpaper dangling?.. Why is it that when there are nice radiators, they're in the background, but when there are stupid white tights, they're in the foreground!
Well, why "stupid"? Some may disagree, but I liked them (the first photo, the last one, the one where the tile on the right has come off, and the one where "the radiator is severely tilted"). :) And from the comments on the collection:
Thanks for reminding me of the original meaning of the word RISER.
:)
Воскресайте, камінні душі, Розчиняйте серця і чоло, Щоб не сказали Про вас грядущі: їх на землі не було… (Василь Симоненко. Люди – прекрасні)
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