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1/4" per foot?

I THINK that's what they did when they replaced ours from the house to the street two years ago. I might be really off, though, so there's that. It also had to drop down 6 feet from the top tier of the yard to the bottom tier to go under a brick retaining wall... and THEN slope to the street.

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1 inch per 4ft seems fine for water flow, but for turd flow that seems not steep enough. But I'm not a plumber, I'm here looking for education from people who know this stuff.

90% of this board is fricking illiterate.

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Uhh which is why maybe I’m asking

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Supply lines are full of water.

Drain lines are not.

If they are, there's a bigger problem (backed up septic tank, blocked sewer line, etc).

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How would old shite dry out with a line full of water?

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I take it you aren't a plumber and know nothing of plumbing.

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Not if you have enough fall on your drain line.

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Define this for me.

Many of you know this, but many don't, so I'll say it.

The AP was originally a private corporation (still is) that had the great idea of employing journalists all over the globe, either full time or as "stringers" meaning they weren't on payroll but got paid by the article like a contractor. They were a subscription service for newspapers. If some shite went down in Istanbul, the AP had a reporter on scene. The local newspaper in Macon GA wouldn't know shite about it. But with a subscription to the AP Wire (literally a telegraph), the editor would know if there was some shite going down in Istanbul and put it in his paper, with permission by way of subscription to the AP. For decades, it was an excellent business model to get international, or even just national news out to the general public very quickly, in every local paper, and the AP had ethics, very strong ethics and guidelines, on how to report objectively on things. I myself was trained in this, with the AP Stylebook that used to mean something as recently as the 1990's.

The entire premise and business model is now, and has been since the internet was invented, obsolete. The AP is no longer the AP our parents and grandparents respected.

Everything I just said about the AP goes for Reuters too. Same business model.




ETA- it also worked the other way. A journalist at a Macon GA newspaper that was an AP subscriber would write a story about some shite popping off in Macon, and the AP could pick that up onto their "wire" and have it republished in newspapers all across the country. Young journalists craved getting "picked up" by the AP on a story. They didn't make any extra money, but it gave them rock hard nipples. It was a badge of honor to get picked up by the AP. Yall remember that story about UGA fans trashing the campus after a tailgate? The only reason you ever saw that story is because a journalist at the UGA student newspaper (AP Wire subscriber) got that story picked up by the AP and it spread all over the place.

My family is out of town for a week, we get back, the upstairs toilet has had to be plunged twice, and the downstairs toilet once, nobody has been in the house. What the frick is clogging these toilets? Old shite that never made it all the way down and dried out?

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Your posts keep getting more and more dense.

One of the myriad problems with the hiring of illegals is that the justification is built on a false premise:

False Premise: Illegals are needed because they're willing to do the work that Americans aren't.

That's categorically incorrect. They're willing to do the work for wages that are unacceptable to American workers. There's a huge difference.

The illegal problem in Dalton got so bad that they had to open one of the only ICE offices that wasn't centered in a state capital, back in the 90s. Before that, the carpet/textile jobs were ALL filled with American workers. As Shaw Industries & Mohawk got bigger and bigger, they gobbled up smaller independent carpet & tufting factories. Their margins got lower and lower, and they essentially forced themselves to turn a blind eye to the hiring of illegal workers because it was a better decision for their bottom lines.

Reagan's amnesty bill in 1986 basically gave a free pass to illegals to flood the region because the federal government did it once. There was no reason to believe they wouldn't give blanket amnesty again.

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No sir. The false premise is that I think it's OK for illegals to work in factories (or anywhere). That's false. The people that provide these services need some kind of legal status, work visa, etc. It's already been admitted here that the system is indeed broken. In addition to deportations, we need to burn the candle from both ends and allow a better way for good people to do good things in a legal and orderly way. It seems this administration is only burning the candle from one end.

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That sounds like bullshite. Seems like it's just cheaper to hire an illegal and they don't have crazy work restrictions like teenagers do.

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See my ETA.

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So without illegal immigration these people never open a carpet store?

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It's a giant factory, not a store. Not sure your point. Please elaborate.

I'm pretty sure Elmer Fudd was my first exposure to guns as a toddler.