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Caption This for 12/12/14

Posted December 11, 2014 4:45 PM by Kaplin

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12/11/2014 4:55 PM

Now that's what I call a "safety" shower!!

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12/11/2014 5:57 PM

The electrician that installed this supposed 'light fitting' obviously completely misunderstood the concept of 'electron flow'.

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12/11/2014 6:07 PM

Guaranteed to produce hot water.....one way or the other!

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12/11/2014 6:09 PM

His wife wanted one of those showers that would give her a tingly feeling all over.

And it did.

Once.

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12/11/2014 6:13 PM

Jitterbug teaching aid - by Ronco!

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12/11/2014 6:13 PM

It's your fault it's grounded.

(Hopefully its low voltage ~12vac or so, and not 220vac, as suggested by the blue & white conductors).

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12/11/2014 6:18 PM

For hot water, insert:

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12/11/2014 6:37 PM

Bills plumbing needed extra help and hired a unemployed electrician. The first job was a customer complaining he had no hot water, so bill sent out the new guy. And now the customers water is hot. Another success story.

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12/11/2014 7:26 PM

I said connect the shower to the water mains, not the electric mains!

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12/11/2014 7:49 PM

Prototype of the Large Hydro Collider.

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12/11/2014 7:54 PM

Yuk, yuk.

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12/12/2014 3:44 AM

Of course it does not need earthing, but we put a couple of wires in just to be on the safe side

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12/12/2014 3:50 AM

A shower for all the bright sparks on CR4

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12/12/2014 12:09 PM

Sparks for the shower on CR4, you mean!

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12/12/2014 4:28 AM

No shower enclosure, Artex ceiling....

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12/12/2014 7:38 PM

Twice? Funny, she doesn't look blonde.

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12/13/2014 7:27 AM

Shower-proof brunette dye.

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12/13/2014 7:32 AM

At uni we unscrewed the shower heads and put powdered dye in them.

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12/13/2014 7:41 AM

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12/12/2014 5:05 AM

One of the U.S. gov's. recently revealed "interrogation" devices.

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12/12/2014 5:06 AM

Used one of those myself a few years ago. OK if it's earthed :)

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12/12/2014 5:40 AM

I used one this summer in Kenya: the wiring looked almost exactly like the one in the picture. I was a bit apprehensive, but, clearly other people were using them all over the country so I wasn't going to forgo a shower.

For such a small unit, I was amazed at how much power it had, you had to turn the water up to a very high flow to get the temperature down to an acceptable level.

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12/12/2014 9:04 AM

These are very common/the standard in Brazil homes and, from what I have seen, in industrial buildings. It eliminates the need to have a hot water heater with tank that uses (very expensive) propane or electricity to maintain temperature. I was amazed the first time I saw this but I have never heard of any accidents related to the wiring (motorcycles on the other hand are a different story).

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12/12/2014 9:22 AM

"For such a small unit, I was amazed at how much power it had, you had to turn the water up to a very high flow to get the temperature down to an acceptable level."

So to get the water cooler than 'boil the showerer,' you had to turn the water up to a wasteful flow rate? I'd understand that in America, where most people thing water is free and in limitless supply (having 50% of the world's fresh water sitting in the Great Lakes might be a factor in that opinion), but in places where clean water is scarce, using more than you need just seems, stupid.

Okay, even when you've got a huge supply, wasting clean water is still stupid, but it feels like insanity when water is scarce, like throwing away good food during a famine.

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12/12/2014 9:30 AM

I'd have used a white terminal block myself

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12/13/2014 2:26 PM

...perhaps preferably with one made by 'phoenix911 contact'®™ of course!

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12/12/2014 9:36 AM

Jim the Electrician isn't picky at all when it comes to selecting the conduit to run his wiring in.

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12/12/2014 12:31 PM

Joe's new mind stimulator

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12/12/2014 3:09 PM

The guy who installed our Sprinkler System gave me a great " Combo-Deal " that's saving us a lot of money.

The kids shower between 6:00 and 6:15. After that, they're out of luck.

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12/12/2014 3:20 PM

Deer CR4, Hi Friends" I have connected heat water shower spray, now all TV picture is of some fishes in water. What could be wrong?

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12/12/2014 3:39 PM

Friends I have just designed a free energy water heater.

My free energy source comes from my neighbor Bob's outdoor electrical outlet.

Material needed to build your free energy water heater is listed below,

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12/12/2014 3:45 PM

I had one of those showerheads. It kept tripping the breaker, so I replace the breaker with a larger one that doesn't have the stoopid red button on it.

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12/13/2014 2:23 AM

DeER cR4 , pleez hlp! :: i HAV fixEd the sHower for the Mother In Law. i hav bypass swichbox for good mains konnecshun. wIll this bE fine?

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12/13/2014 3:10 AM

"This is our latest model, which does away with the need for a circuit breaker. The circuit opens automatically when EMS shuts off the water."

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12/13/2014 3:20 AM

"Not one of our customers has ever complained or returned a unit. Remarkable, really."

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12/13/2014 11:51 AM

No wonder this doesn't work. This pipe is full of wires!

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12/13/2014 2:19 PM

Guaranteed to rejuvenate your scalp, and start growing new healthy hair follicles, or your money back.

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12/13/2014 3:55 PM

When it's standing room only in your penitentiary, forget that electric chair, now there's the electric shower.

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12/15/2014 3:56 PM

Benefits are:

  • Quick Boogaloo dance lessons.
  • Easier cleanup.
  • Enhanced visual effects.
  • Reduced emissions (smoke).
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12/14/2014 8:32 AM

Is this what they mean by hydroelectric?

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12/15/2014 6:08 AM

Good method to save water. Designed for women and children.
Reduce the amount of bills for water consumption and electricity.

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Guantanamo showers?

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12/20/2014 6:36 PM

GA for correctly identifying the country of installation! The fitting is located in a guest house in Santiago de Cuba, on the south coast of the island.

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12/22/2014 8:15 AM

Would it really happen to be the Mother-in-Law suite? :-)

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12/15/2014 7:34 AM

Igor's dad finally found a way to give someone else a chance.

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Shower head installed by Zapwami Electric, local subcontractor for Halliburton, constructors of military bases in countries who's names end in "stan". An investigation into deaths by electrocution of military personnel was dismissed as "having no grounds".

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12/16/2014 11:59 AM

Now that's what I cal SHOCKING SHOWER

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12/16/2014 12:45 PM

And their first post is Caption this.

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12/16/2014 12:45 PM

Dual Use Technology gadget: Connect the wires to a a bulb to light it, or connect the wires to electric mains to heat water.

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12/16/2014 12:59 PM

The Anonymous Poster considers himself a real handyman, but his house says different.

  • you turn on the faucet in bathroom of the master bedroom, his garage door opens instead.
  • To take a cold shower you turn on the television, that's what turns on the cold shower in the bathroom.
  • To turn on the warm you have to change the channel, and then it's only luke warm, to get it cold you have to flush the toilet
  • when you adjust the house thermostat, the living room lights turn on, to shut the lights off, you have to pick up the phone and dial 8675309.
  • If you want coffee, you have to push the bread in the toaster, then the coffee maker starts brewing.
  • And if you set the alarm clock for 6:00 AM, instead of his alarm going off at 6:00AM, his Chevrolet Cavalier starts instead..... at 7:19 AM. And you're already late.
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12/18/2014 11:23 PM

A major advance in both physics and fashion occurred when Bernie upgraded his double-slit electron beam experiment to the 64-hole electron beam version, and discovered that the quantum interference pattern in his radiation burns drives the girls wild.

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