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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2020, @01:16AM (2 children)
That 13% is really out of touch.
I saw a man earn his pay. You think I could find a volunteer? Really?
He came over to unclog a sewage pipe that ran across a basement ceiling. It was well beyond what could be handled from above, having clogged slowly over decades. He needed a powerful motorized cutter blade to clear out the gunk, and for that he needed access to the inside of the pipe. He took the end cap off, and that pipe became a shit rocket nozzle. He then worked for hours. He had to change blades, because the one meant for large pipes encountered enough resistance that it stopped the motor. (this motor was the size of a lawnmower engine but electric) By the end of the day he was covered head to toe in human shit, some recent and some decades old.
I've also watched road workers put down tar in the heat of a hot Florida day. That didn't look fun at all. Do you have volunteers for that?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2020, @02:15AM (1 child)
I give up! Was it Runaway?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 27 2020, @03:35AM
Naw, it was Mike Rowe.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Rowe [wikipedia.org] if you don't know who he is.