I once worked in an IT environment where several very expensive servers and their accoutrements were prepped for installation, then put in an empty, locked office for a long holiday weekend, after which the servers were to be installed in our data center.
After the servers were put in temporary storage and my team had gone home for the day, there were some construction guys doing some kind of construction work in the area directly above the empty office. Whatever they were doing, they in some way unsealed a radiator unit or maybe cut it away and didn’t plug the tubing (I know a lot less about radiators and plumbing than I do about IT). They, presumably, didn’t realize this and went home for their holiday weekend as well.
After the long break was over, my boss - whose office was adjacent to the storage office - came in and observed that it was unusual for his carpeting to be so squishy. Turns out, as I’m sure you guessed, water from the compromised radiators had dripped onto the servers throughout the entire vacation, then leaked into the carpet and spread out to his office through the shared door between them.
As soon as my team got in, we were all immediately removed from our duties for the day and tasked with helping him to move the servers over some of the forced air sections of the data center to work on blowing the water out of them. These efforts were bolstered by some of the biggest mobile fans I’d ever seen - I have no idea where we even got them.
The servers were there for at least a week, but I think actually weeks. In the end, I think only one of the servers failed to boot and the rest stayed running for the rest of my tenure there. Still, I’m sure it was scary for a while for my boss - the one who authorized the original payment and who decided where to store the servers.
Can anyone remind me where this animation comes from and the name? I am a sucker for stop motion kind of animations
It’s an old Czechoslovakian show called Pat & Mat. Took me a while to remember the name, it’s been a long time since I last saw them on TV. Really good and universal slapstick humor.
Pat a Mat, it’s a Czech show
It’s been popular in the Netherlands for decades under the name “Buurman en Buurman”(Neighbor and Neighbor).
I only learned now that the dubbing was something they did specifically with the Dutch release. Can’t imagine this show being silent.That for me is incredibly strange. Basically means for the Netherlands a massive change was made in the original medium. If it makes it better or worse I can’t tell, but I would personally always check the original to understand better what was the original intent of the show (which I plan to do with this one. I need more stop motion animation in my life)
That explains all the home canned foods in the basement.
Very funny. There’s a channel on YouTube https://youtu.be/XVjbFbOx7Ls
Okay only thing I want to know is that tool to link the pipes a real thing, because damn I want that. I mean I see large versions used to link gasl ines and huge water mains, but never handheld versions.
Is it not just a heat gun with a shaped nose? It’ll soften and expand the pipe slightly before fitting them together, where they’ll cool and constrict into place
Heat guns are also used to make plastics such as PVC piping pliable for the purposes of bending
There are types of pex fittings that you use a special tool to stretch sort of like they show, but they appear to be using grey pvc electrical conduit which would be glued (and not plumbing) so who knows what’s going on.
Yeah I thought that was part of the gag using gray pipe. But I had people like this working on my plumbing and had to fire their ass.
I couldn’t find anything, but I’m a bit confused as it looks like the pipes are plastic. Maybe it’s a thing common in Europe.
In the UK at least I think “push-to-fit” is the standard these days for plastic water pipes and doesn’t require heating.
https://www.screwfix.com/c/heating-plumbing/pipe-fittings/cat831504?pipefittingsystem=push_fit
Where did y’all find video of my current bathroom reno?
It is cheaper!
