inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 24 October 2022, aficionado.
With our toilet blocked, I lacked the skill,
Sought a plumber, to cure all our ills,
We found just one man who knew,
How to unblock the loo,
But took a mortgage to pay the guy’s bill
Mister Bump 
Aha. Yes. Pay through the hose, I have heard.
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Next door’s boy became an electrician, I think. Dumb as… Rich as… That’s what society is become.
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Sorry. Not sure I understand. You think electricians and plumbers are dumb? I know tradies earn a good wage these days. But I think that’s about demand.
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No, he is dumb. Electricians and plumbers are trained. You could do it, I could do it, if we took a course. But not skilled to the point where they stand out as individuals. Not in the same league as a Van Gogh or a Mozart, for example.
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Hmm. I feel like I’m having these kinds of conversations a lot lately. I listened to “Howard’s End” recently and there’s a kind of ongoing question through it about how is the best way to help poor people. There’s an assumption (this is very early 1900s) that poor people are dumb. I mentioned this to somebody I know who works in ER and she thought poor people were dumb too. I think it’s too easy to write off sections of society like that. Sure, as in any group in society, some are dumb. But they’re not all dumb and they are all individuals. And some are definitely better than others. More honest. Better communicators. More punctual. More caring of your property.
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All that being said, I’ve missed a lot of memos lately.
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I don’t necessarily see a link between beiong poor and being dumb. I see a lack of opportunity if you’re poor, esp in 1900 but still today, but that doesn’t equate to “dumb”.
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Okay. I guess I don’t understand what you’re saying about the tradies. Did you mean just that particular guy was dumb?
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Been there 😔
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oh, yes
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When you gotta go ……
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I was flushed by your comment!
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Good! You should always flush!
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We had to do the uppy-downy plunger thingy this past weekend. Messy job when it gurgles all over.
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Mrs B paid £1,000 only a few years ago to get an emergency plumber to replace our toilet. Even so, we have had to have another plumber in since because it hadn’t been fixed properly.
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There are too many so-so workman about nowadays. We had a plumber install new piping from the toilet (a few years ago), and he wedged a brick under the pipe preventing it from a gradual downward slope. The result was a backup of solids, which was solved as soon as a different plumber removed the $#! brick. Trust-a-Trader should be called “Distrust-a-Trader.
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Those sites are all nonsense.
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