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Yeah, i’ve actually done this before… Wasn’t very fun.
me to, on an outdoor fauced behind a bush. freaking cory barton
Some people get a handle on their vices while others…
I’m jealous of your brain, you just got a real grip on the problem.
They failed to use duct tape to further fix the problem. Red tape for the hot side and blue for the cold.
I think they might be in need of a bathroom refurb….
I hope whoever uses that shower wears their flip-flops…and has all their shots up to date.
I thought the whole point of getting in the shower was to get clean. Um… this fails. HA!
What a surprise, no soap in the filthy soap tray!
Hate to have to use that loo! What a disaster!
Buy some Dynamite and blow that Shi…ouse away
By the looks of the Fungus Humongous growing, I don’t think that soap dish has ever seen actual soap. *gag*
The sad state of our showers after the passing of Billy Mays…
And the vise grips are the cleanest thing around… How sad…
This kinda reminds me of Chaplin’s “modern times.”
gross >P
I think I just vomited on my keyboard a little.
I think there might be a Chia Pet in the soap dish. And the tile- that’s the worst film I’ve seen since The Adventures of Pluto Nash.
Actually, this is evidence of a real pro. I mean, how many amateur Kludgers have *two* pairs of vice grips–to spare!
Ick. But at least this one uses a pair of vice-grips. I once stayed at a friend’s place and had to use a single pair of needle-nose pliers to adjust both hot and cold.
nipple pinch!
@Ralf LOL. That was my first thought as well.
At least you always know where to find the vice-grips…
How are we going to change the channels on the TV set now?
In this shower, regardless of whether you twist the right vise grip or the left, you’re still in hot water.
We got tired of having to find the pliers to adjust our tub faucet so Dad drilled a hole in the little stubs and put a nail through each.
I feel like cleaning my bathroom right now (the slightly larger upstairs bathroom) and it’s not even this bad… I do have a perpetual mold problem in one corner (the tub is not level. we rip out the caulk annually, spray in an antifungal, let it dry overnight, recaulk and go on vacation but there’s little else that I can do to prevent mold growth) and need to bleach that out but it’s no where close to this.
Words just cannot describe…
I do something similar with my girlfriend’s nipples.
I think it’s rather disturbing that people keep typing ‘vice grips’ instead of ‘vise grips’. Is it something Freudian maybe?
I like step 5 the best: go on vacation. Another possible solution: level the tub?
no, some of us on here spell it vice… only you’re usanians spell it vise…
anyroad… I’m amazed the mole grips are still there and hadn’t been nicked…
in the UK, they’re known as mole grips
http://www.stanleyworks.co.uk/Clamps+and+Pliers/Mole+Grips.ctlg
They are Vise-Grips. Thats the name IRWIN tools gave them. i dont know if they were the first to design them but they were the first to name them vise grips
The real WTF is that I’m pretty sure if I went to the hardware store, those vise grips are going to cost a lot more than a couple of shower knobs.
Those are Peterson “Vise-Grips”, the original and best. So the American spelling is correct. Once knew a man who drove the whole way from Dublin to Belfast using one as a steering wheel after some knackers had sheared off part of the steering column in an unsuccesful effort to steal the car. Sadly no photos.
look’s like it’s from the Saw movie
Actually the bathroom in Saw looks better.
Knackers- sounds like a snack food (“Try our new Jalapeno-flavored Knackers!”)
Irwin has the Vise Grip name. And that bathroom doesn’t need grips of any kind…it needs a sledgehammer.
This photo makes me hurt in ways that are vaguely exciting….
Isn’t a knacker also a butcher in the UK/Ireland?
Pine-Sol. Get some. Now.
Srsly, this shower would be in fine condition if you gave it a 144 ounce jug of Pine-Sol, a scrubbing sponge, a ten gallon bucket, and an hour’s scrubbing / rinsing. That dirt seems to be surface dirt at worst, and would probably scrub out easily enough. That “Fungus Humongous” will be slaughtered by the Pine-Sol, and so would all the dirt in the rest of the shower. It won’t handle the rust, but everything else would be clean as a whistle.
@Jim Heckel
Going out on a limb here but could you be, say… the new VP of Marketing for Pine-Sol?
Or just a first time caller, long time fan?
@dono1
Nope – I’ve been a janitor for fifteen years, so I have some experience with this sort of thing.
All I can say is GROSS.
To adapt a quote from Thornton Wilder: “For what human sufferings are not vise-grips at least a momentary reprieve?”
wow dont worry bout the pliers look how dirty it is the mold must have deadly compounds growing in there
SO MUCH FOR SHOWER SHOES
Anyone else thinking “kinky”?
bet you need a vice to turn the “handles”.
Vise-Grips should offer an all stainless steel line of products for “wet” application usage.
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I’d use that shower; I’ve used much worse. What’s everyone whinging about? You won’t get dirty because of the running water.
That’s my shower right now, actually.
The wrenches rust quicker than you think.