What government does
Soap doesn’t work. Toilets don’t flush. Clothes washers don’t clean. Light bulbs don’t illuminate. Refrigerators break too soon. Paint discolors. Lawnmowers have to be hacked. It’s all caused by idiotic government regulations that are wrecking our lives one consumer product at a time, all in ways we hardly notice.
No, some of us notice.
May 8th, 2012 at 10:43 am
I have to hardware hack just about everything.. Thank God for Ebay because I can buy very old tools from the 50’s still in perfect working order with many years of life left..
May 8th, 2012 at 11:23 am
>Refrigerators break too soon.
Probably has more to do with margin improvement by using cheaper, but less sturdy parts and materials.
May 8th, 2012 at 11:47 am
Aaron, there’s a term for that I wish I could remember right now. De-something or other-ing. Some Einstein realized that some parts never wore out and decided they could make them cheaper. It isn’t an inherently insane or stupid idea, but overbuilt sure is preferable to underbuilt.
May 8th, 2012 at 11:57 am
To hack your clothing and dishwashing, you can buy trisodiumphosphate from amazon.com
May 8th, 2012 at 12:21 pm
I hate those stupid F%&*$%# new gas cans. The geniuses in the gov’t have managed to mandate a F$%*(&#$ gas can that makes it damn near impossible to transfer fuel from the can to the thing that needs fuel.
I had left over fuel in cans after last years tornados and had to get buy a damn funnel just so I could get the fuel from can to car….
May 8th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
aeronathan: Ditto. I actually went to Harbor Freight and bought a couple of Transfer Pumps because whatever Stupd %^%$&^ Treehugger designed the new cans forgot that Human Beings don’t have THREE HANDS to work them!
May 8th, 2012 at 12:36 pm
FYI: The pump is Harbor Freight “Pittsburgh Multi-Use Transfer Pump,” item #66418. And to the FCC, I PAID for them myself, so F.O.
May 8th, 2012 at 3:27 pm
You can buy decent gas cans … just not as chinese made mass consumer items.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/EAGLE-Safety-Can-2W314?cm_sp=IO-_-IDP-_-RR_VTV70300505&cm_vc=IDPRRZ1
May 8th, 2012 at 3:31 pm
Oh, and this toilet actually works … it was designed from the ground up to operate in an area where water is expensive:
http://www.amazon.com/CAROMA-Caravelle-Toilet-Height-989668W/dp/B002YPNS58/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1336505361&sr=8-2
I own one … I have yet to clog it to the point where flushing it a second time wont clear it.
May 8th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Just bought a brand new Toro lawnmower for the church- no choke, no priming bulb or throttle control. It absolutely will NOT START when cold without a short blast of starting fluid. Thanks for nothing Eco-nazis. Had to buy one of those 3 hands required gas cans to keep it filled up as well. What a pain!
May 8th, 2012 at 11:17 pm
@Nate: the priming bulb is an absolutely jackass idea. The plastic & rubber parts break at an alarming rate. Funny how the old mowers I used as a kid did fine without them.
May 9th, 2012 at 3:37 am
Gas can: buy military surplus ones. Cheaper Than Dirt has them. Transfer kit: buy an outboard tank replacement hose kit with bulb, minus fittings. Bulb starts siphon. For more $$$, buy a “gas caddy”, they come in sizes 9 – 25 gallons, have a delivery hose and nozzle, ride on wheels. Cheaper caddies are gravity-feed, better ones have a pump, best ones have an electric pump.
May 11th, 2012 at 6:38 pm
The mowers are compromises built to run on today’s gasoline. Not much you can do to the mower to fix that; it’s a small engine running on fuel that’s not designed to work well in small engines (at least that’s what I’ve been told.) I’ve had good luck with adding Sta-Bil to all my lawnmower gas.
May 12th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Nate: Mowers with Briggs and Stratton engines usually have a choke and priming bulb on them.
Stop buying Toro crap.