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MURPHY’S LAW FOR BREAKFAST

Motherfuckers.

I woke up to a pinhole leak in my ceiling, an issue I knew would haunt me at some point in my life. See, when I bought this piece of shit house and fixed up the dining room ceilings real nice, coffered style, I found out the hard way the copper piping was of low quality, likely chinese made horseshit. I ended up having to rip the entire ceiling down, stretching all the way into the kitchen. Lo and behold, in my infinite wisdom, I told the plumber to not rip my entire kitchen ceiling down, despite that same bastard chinese copper piping living above the sheeted rock.

Well, guess what?

THE ENTIRE FUCKING CEILING IS COMING DOWN NOW, whether I like it or not.

I feel like going Macho Man Randy Savage today, offering elbows and leg drops to inanimate objects lying around my house.

I see the market is up and Greece is super stupid again. Airlines up and oil stocks are down. Hence is the life of a man living with a time machine. Your stupid charts pick up what I already knew days in advance.

DEVELOPING…

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22 comments

  1. dewey dortmunder

    You should go for a hammered tin type ceiling, tres elegante. I would put one in here at my adobe but it would annoy my great wasteland neighbors.

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  2. pirate

    Er, Cap’n, I’m no expert, but any reason you don’t simply use cheaper plastic pipe?

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  3. fryguy15

    We are reviewing contractor bids for the replacement of riser pipes in my whole building… all the way up to the god-damned fucking 26th floor! Not cheap.

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  4. matt_bear

    why didn’t you use the time machine for the copper piping issue?

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  5. tradercaddy

    Time to repipe.
    Hang on to the cooper until the Chinese start buying again and then sell it.
    If you want to buy a nice 4/3 house on 3 acres 20 minutes from downtown Orlando with a nice pool and wildlife to boot (horses allowed here, too) e-mail me. Make for a nice winter place.

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  6. bruce keller

    Got some GOOGL calls at open.

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  7. budh

    I just got a bid yesterday for repiping a duplex. Dude said copper was 2.5 times more than pex. Nearly all the repipes are pex these days. He said the copper was coming from China and Mexico these day and not of good quality and more expensive. Of course, it may have been all salesman bullshit.

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    • Dr. Fly

      It’s the cold water piping and I don’t want lex, plastic shit.

      Just be sure the grade of the pipe is high. I know for sure they used low quality copper here.

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      • budh

        You better replace the hot too. Same plumbers, same pipe. Or don’t put another expensive ceiling under there.

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      • traderconfessions

        PEX is great. Biggest problem is resistance from old-school plumbers.

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        • jdf

          He’s right, PEX is the way to go. Plus, moron for not getting it all done the first time. Double dumb ass if you leave the same shit copper in place for your hot water. Do the job right the first time. (or the second as the case may be).

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  8. fryguy15

    Did you tell Mrs. Fly that she’s getting pipe for valentine’s day?

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  9. esquared

    Buy some ATCMF, they make some good copper (and gold) in Columbia….viva Columbia!

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  10. gappingandyapping

    You need to give that bitch Angie the People’s Elbow

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  11. boyaj

    Good Dr., sorry for the repeat comment but, I’ve been having trouble logging into the PPT since yesterday. Reached out to customer support yesterday, but haven’t heard back. Anyone else I should reach out to? Thanks

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  12. juicy lickhermore

    these are the times that fry mens souls

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  13. Dr. Fly

    Any login issues email [email protected]

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  14. one-eighty

    Here on the we(s)t coast our water is forest runoff and slightly acid. Our copper pipe tends to etch out slowly from the inside so it is important we use thicker wall pipe and that it is properly grounded.

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  15. thomasjefferson

    I had the very same problem with my ceiling this morning.
    Then my truck crapped out on me.
    I am having a bad day. At least $SN is down and $FEYE is up. But not enough to make a difference with real life problems.

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