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Humour (Commonwealth English) or humor (American English) is the tendency of experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. The term derives from the humoral medicine of the ancient Greeks, which taught that the balance of fluids in the human body, known as humours (Latin: humor, "body fluid"), controlled human health and emotion.
People of all ages and cultures respond to humour. Most people are able to experience humour—be amused, smile or laugh at something funny (such as a pun or joke)—and thus are considered to have a sense of humour. The hypothetical person lacking a sense of humour would likely find the behaviour inducing it to be inexplicable, strange, or even irrational. Though ultimately decided by personal taste, the extent to which a person finds something humorous depends on a host of variables, including geographical location, culture, maturity, level of education, intelligence and context. For example, young children may favour slapstick such as Punch and Judy puppet shows or the Tom and Jerry cartoons, whose physical nature makes it accessible to them. By contrast, more sophisticated forms of humour such as satire require an understanding of its social meaning and context, and thus tend to appeal to a more mature audience.

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    Bath Shower Mixer Tap Problems

    Hi all, please can you help with this problem: My original bath shower mixer tap was 12yrs old and developed a problem so I thought I would buy a whole new similar style unit. I fitted the new taps and all was ok for a week or two. Then i noticed the hot tap would only turn two full turns but...
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    Help requested with Bath Shower Attachment Valve Failure

    Hi all - I am new to this but I hope you can help me a little. I put this on the valves & taps forum but have had no answers yet but fewer peole seem to look at that so here goes again... with pictures! We have an old cast iron bath with the mixer tap with a valve to divert the water to the...
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    Bath / Shower Taps - Failed switching valve

    Hi all - I am new to this but I hope you can help me a little. We have an old cast iron bath with the mixer tap with a valve to divert the water to the shower head. A traditional style one - two taps connecting in the centre to the shower diverter valve & then to one central spout. This...
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    Bath / Shower Taps - Failed switching valve

    Hi all - I am new to this but I hope you can help me a little. We have an old cast iron bath with the mixer tap with a valve to divert the water to the shower head. A traditional style one - two taps connecting in the centre to the shower diverter valve & then to one central spout. This...
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    Qualifacations

    Hi I have been doing plumbing now for 33 years and served my time with my Father who was a plumber since 1948 , i never went to collegue or got any papers to say i am qualified but in all the years i have been doing work i have never had any complaints what so ever The only course i have...
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    wall hung basin chrome wate

    Hi just wondering how others install the chrome brass wate that comes with the german basins. i have been using a mc alpine coupler in the wall but i dont like doing this incase it moves on the second fix -fitting the basin.i fitted one a year ago that enabled plastic to be fitted from wall 32mm...
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    Height from bath to shower valve

    I started a bathroom today and I'm putting a bar mixer over the new shower bath, I should have stood in the old bath before I ripped it out to postion the height of the new shower valve. Basic question I know but does anyone have a measurement ?, ideally from the floor. I Know baths vary in...
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    Unidentified slimy waste on lawn.

    Over the last two or three months my parents have noticed a slimy residue forming in the small raised lawn at the front of their property. It is colourless, odourless and occupies a patch less than 1 square metre of lawn. It is also directly above where the underground soil pipes and then join...
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    Floorstanding fire not screwed to wall.

    Hi Guys n Gals, I saw a floorstanding radiant fire today (with my engineer), the fires only means of support was obviously its legs, the gas pipe and the spigot thru the closure plate. There was, and has never been any screws securing it to the tiled wall since it was installed ( must be 15-20...
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    Bubbling toilet

    Hi could any one explain as to why when I empty the bath or basin the toilet starts to bubble up the toilet flushes fine?
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    Was £380 a fair price? Opinions wanted

    Hello, This may be a long one, so please bear with me. I have an alpha combi boiler, but of late it has been struggling to heat the water (heating worked ok). I called in a plumber who changed the diaphragm, and it seemed a bit improved. But gradually it got worse, and it was a struggle to...
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    Brass or Copper Olives ?

    I normally prefer to use copper olives. I feel that they are easier to seal and find that if I want to remove an olive to make alterations I can remove a copper olive fairly easily but I think the brass olives tend to bite into the copper pipe making removal difficult. What do others use? Are...
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    I'm Cringing ...

    Just looked up my first posts on this forum ... Embarrassing or what!!! :o
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    Day from Hell

    Went to fix the waste on a 1 & 1/2 bowl kitchen sink. Water filling main sink when 1/2 used or WM empties. Assumed problem was due to slow water escape. Both waster go into 1 1/2 P trap with spigot. Fall was poor and out let after P seemed too close to base of main sink. Cut out (solvent)...
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    Flux?

    Hi - I know flux does 2 things - helps solder flow and cleans the pipe - Am i right in saying when you heat a pipe up without any flux on you can sort of see a thin layer on the pipe ie when you move the blow torch up and down. Am i right in guessing this is an oxide layer - would this be...
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    Condensate drain adaptor is leaking at soil pipe

    We recently had a new combi boiler fitted in our kitchen. The installer used a rubber adapter to fit the condensate pipe directly into a 40mm boss on an adjacent soil pipe (the adaptor is a rubber ring with ridges around the outside and inside). Now, before putting drywall over this area...
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    Can you name and shame on here?

    Been out to a customer today and after bleeding radiators and sorting water pressure they refused to pay. There is a burst water main up the road and therefore she has no water and so boiler says no pressure. She seems to think that I haven't done my job properly which i know i have. She had...
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    I could kick myself!

    Just completed a new en-suite at home a few weeks ago. tiled all round the base of the shower tray and made a nice job of it too. tonight ive just seen a water mark in the lounge just below, aaarrrhhhhhh Im pretty sure its from the waste connection, i didnt use silicome as i normally do and i...
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    Do olive-pullers work?

    I have a very good success rate of the getting them off using a junior hacksaw. However, it's one of the most annoying things to have to do. Do these work? Because at 20 squids, they want to.
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    What's The Worst That Can Happen?

    I thought with all the talk of a 'double dip' recession us plumbers would need a funny thread to keep morale up. Let's hear the funniest (looking back) things that have happened to you as a plumber. If ever you are in doubt that new-build plumbing standards are slipping in Britain, here's my...
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