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I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
US Department of Education Facebook post saying SKILLS THAT PAY OFF, showing an AI image of a White man and a brown-skinned woman wearing blue coveralls and tool belts. He's pointing off into the distance and she's working on a sink that has way too many exposed copper pipes in all the wrong places
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7:57 AM · May 20, 2026
I'm not a plumber. But I'm pretty sure that's not how sinks work.
— Jess Calarco (@jessicacalarco.com) 2026-05-20T11:57:06.791Z
displacedvermoter
(5,005 posts)RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,264 posts)gab13by13
(32,789 posts)Should have used the shark bite conduit.😊
Must not have had a bender for the conduit.
pdxflyboy
(947 posts)n/t
C_U_L8R
(49,536 posts)Brother Buzz
(40,429 posts)awesomerwb1
(5,154 posts)I needed a laugh right now
LeftinOH
(5,677 posts)..outside of an AI prompt for "plumbing tool."
haele
(15,600 posts)The hand grips are aligned in one direction, and the tool head is aligned to an offset dimension.
I've used tools like that in dreams ..
ProfessorGAC
(77,292 posts)Any wrench that use a circle of semicircle that reverses is an Eicher wrench.
An oil filter wrench, a jar lid removal wrench, a basin wrench; all forms of Eicher Wrench.
But, that contraption she has also has what appears to be a ratchet head above the jaws which would render those useless.
Also, for most applications, why would it be made of brass? Brass is usually used on wrenches to assure spark-free uses. I've seen them used on railcar domes where the contents are highly flammable as on, for instance, and ethylene oxide railcar.
Don't think a plumber needs brass which wears out sooner.
rickford66
(6,096 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,292 posts)But, if beryllium was alloyed with copper it might look like brass., so I could have been fooled.
rickford66
(6,096 posts)In the service (1969) I had to do some work close to fuel bladders full of AV gas and was required to use a beryllium hammer. You do what Uncle Sam says. Several years later (mid 70's), I worked at a resort that had held conferences and one was KBI. One of the products they had was beryllium tools, touted as spark-free. I remember this well, because I was unhappy because the corporation was known to be poisoning the environment with their processes. Brass may be in the alloy though.
highplainsdem
(63,112 posts)underpants
(197,199 posts)Ocelot II
(131,246 posts)Just apart from the fact that nobody's bathroom anywhere on Earth has plumbing like that, it looks like one of the copper pipes goes right into a pocket of the guy's tool belt, and another one into his butt. And what is that weird tool the woman is holding?
underpants
(197,199 posts)Are we sure that hes just in the way and one of those copper pipes connects with the nondescript windowless van? 👀
blogslug
(39,223 posts)underpants
(197,199 posts)Wuddles440
(2,132 posts)Hugin
(38,001 posts)Its modeled on MY house.
Nittersing
(8,507 posts)leftstreet
(41,259 posts)Iggo
(50,059 posts)Biophilic
(6,682 posts)lastlib
(28,627 posts)And the pipe going down to the left side of the sink looks like an optical illusion--I've never seen a connector that turns a pipe through two axes. (Pretty sure they don't sell that at Home Depot.....)
ornotna
(11,560 posts)For when you want to do a halfassed job.
gab13by13
(32,789 posts)With 1/2 of the jaw missing.
underpants
(197,199 posts)sboatcar
(871 posts)highplainsdem
(63,112 posts)sop
(19,336 posts)No more woke STEM shit, everyone has to take shop and home economics.
ColoringFool
(1,085 posts)Lines!
BaronChocula
(4,763 posts)And another one of those mystery gadgets the woman is holding. Haven't seen those at Lowe's.
Ray Bruns
(6,763 posts)Devilsun
(385 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,763 posts)Ray Bruns
(6,763 posts)maveric
(17,057 posts)😂
waterwatcher123
(547 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,842 posts)That's what contractors do these days. Upsell.
spanone
(142,064 posts)If that was your first job, it would be your last.
underpants
(197,199 posts)Nondescript
.windowless
.van 🍭🤡 👀
Straw Man
(6,956 posts)You mean skills like making a realistic picture of plumbers at work?
Vinca
(54,340 posts)That's one weird plumbing job.
onethatcares
(17,015 posts)the flag patches?
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