Submitted by: Alec via Submit a Kludge!
Favorite Comment: Fixer Dogmeat says, “Despite the snickers and cold, steely comments from the pair of locking pliers, the clothespin held fast. It would not be deterred from fulfilling its apparently only role of providing aesthetic value.
(tearing up and voice beginning to waver) May that little clothespin’s attitude be an inspiration to us all! *sniff* I’ll be alright…just give me a minute. (blows nose)”
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First step: come to grips with the problem at hand.
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Then come to grips that painting over stainless stell and chrome with black paint was a really bad idea.
GRRRR. stell = steel.
That’s not paint… it’s just been broken for quite a while, and thus the sink was not cleaned…
The Bold Look of Craftsman.
*hands interior designer rusty, bloody pipe wrench* Can you design my Zombie house around this?
will they be willing to give up these vices for Lent?
wonderful
Medical or Mechanical student? Perhaps neither. I’d guess an unemployed, autistic engineer who’s clothes dryer is broken. (Damn, those Cheerios are making me hungry.)
I also notice they’re trying to grow an avocado. Good for them!
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No, that’s just a toothpick holder.
Its a med student. Theres no way a Mechanical would sacrifice TWO WHOLE vice grips just to fix some sink that they probably never use anyway.
Not to mention the amount of plants. It’s impossible for us mechies to keep succulents alive…
There’s no way this person is a student. He/she would never waste so much food!
you’d be surprised. some people have incredible trouble adapting to life away from doting, wealthy (and apparently very wasteful) parents. seen a few examples of this, notably from a girl who had to extend her bank overdraft several times during her course of study – but heaven forfend she stop with the shopping trips or tipping half a plate into the bin because she didn’t entirely like the flavour or cooked up a huge meal despite not being all that hungry.
still didn’t wash her crap up for weeks on end, though.
could be a meddie… or maybe life sciences / biology / etc. reminiscent of my block, and most of us were in either one of those disciplines, sports science or psychology.
Despite the snickers and cold, steely comments from the pair of locking pliers, the clothespin held fast. It would not be deterred from fulfilling its apparently only role of providing aesthetic value.
(tearing up and voice beginning to waver) May that little clothespin’s attitude be an inspiration to us all! *sniff* I’ll be alright…just give me a minute. (blows nose)
Cruel taskmasters that they are, vice grips tend to be unwilling or unable to convey compassion for others.
The clothespin is probably there to help move the spout when the hot water is turned on…
I really love the sodden Cheerios in the sink . . .
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One thing’s for sure: it didn’t get broken from cleaning the sink or watering those plants.
Or washing dishes or chasing uneaten food down the garbage disposal, it would seem.
Medical students do need to spend time culturing bacteria. Thumbs-down to this home-built lab, though.
ah, halcyon days of taking our work home with us… when there’s no more room for agar plates in the incubator, the dead will walk th…. no, sorry… i mean, the drying cupboard will do just as well. and the shared lounge table will do double duty as a dissection bench if time runs short.
Two pair of Vise-Grips(tm) dedicated to this kludge cost more than a cheap kitchen faucet.
I’m going to go with “locking pliers” here to avoid the trade mark police. Unless, by ™ you mean you are a telemarketer for the brand, in which case I would like to retract this comment. You never heard of me, and don’t call us, we’ll call you.
*disconnecting cable and phonelines*
Especially when packaged together and sold as The Drip Grip™.
Wasn’t he fixing the fusebox a few pages back?
Are you sure they fixed the problem? I see no running water and the sink is still filthy… I say its a lie
tch. silly mags. don’t you know the only use for the water tap in a student kitchen is to refill the kettle?
Veggins Gone Wild.
Where’s a piece of scrap lumber and two water valves when you need them?
ive seen a number of things like this on this site and cant help but wonder how much would it cost to replace, seriously?
having been an impoverished student doing similar kludges to my bicycle and, later, when I’d saved up the money that now amounts to less than 3 weeks pay to buy it, a ropey old (but better than no) car… I can tell you “not much, but still more than they can afford”.
Who wants to spend £5 (of precious beer/fuel/noodle money) on a new exhaust bracket or bikelight holder when a few pence worth of cable ties or duct tape will do the trick for the few weeks it needs to last til the next loan cheque comes in?
Goingtodiesoonfromanastydisease student.
If this is a home repair done by a medical student, I’d hate to imagine what they use for emergency surgery.
Hand me any random, dirty instrument you can get ahold of, stat.
Hey, you misspelled “staph.”
That Kludge gets two wrenches up.
The clothespin is for their nose! phewie.
I’ve heard of a cramped kitchen, but this is the first I’ve seen a clamped kitchen.
*Sigh* something tells me that either someone was out of duck-tape when they were doing this or they already tried that and couldn’t get it to work right.
It doesn’t tend to stick so well to things that are already wet – or slimy with mildew – or have soap residue on…
Ah, Mole Grips – is there anything they can’t do?
Aww, just some color and it was art…
There you go, if you can’t fix it with a pair of vice grips… you just need an additional pair.
GAH! What a waste of Cheerios. Judging by how full that little … Ziploc (??) bowl/ tupperware thing is, they never really had a chance. I mean, really. Why buy a big box of Cheerios… OOH!
Picture props. “In every picture I take, there must be a common theme! I’ve got it!
Cheerios.”
Who in the hell left dirty dishes in the sink again?? Un-eaten Cherrios? C’mon people a little pride of ownership,huh?