Wichitans baffled as to how controversy and plumbing could go together might want to tune in to today’s City Council meeting (9 a.m. on Cox Cable Channel 7), which will feature speakers on either side of a proposal to adopt a new plumbing code. The Sedgwick County district attorney’s office has confirmed it is investigating whether a related Aug. 22 city plumbing board meeting violated state law. As the issue advances, here’s hoping that council members put the highest value on which code best serves consumers.
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Wichita politics is in the sewer?
Nice Wichita-grade no-investigative-reporting story. What What CODE ISSUES were debated? What was the SUBSTANCE of closed-door disagreements that the public was excluded from hearing?
MPS, you’re right; the Eagle didn’t do its job on the issues surrounding the proposed plumbing code.
Without being at any meeting, having no special knowledge, I’m speculating there are issues over use of “plastic” piping for certain installations where the current code calls for copper as an example. I’m sure there are many more, but that one comes to mind.
The Plumbers and Pipefitters union is advocating that all homes in Kansas now come fully equiped with flush toilets.
Sh, I mean Outhouses will still be allowed (good for the old men out working in the fields) but all homes must now have at least one flush toilet. (Mobile homes are exluded from this requirement)
Fully-automatic flush toilets are recommended, but not required.
Concerns expressed about this being a scam to raise money for Plumbers were alleviated by the Plumbers Local agreeing to wear belts and suspenders, as double protection to ensure there is no unnecessary exposure of b*tt cracks.
Also, water usage will be minimized to 0.5 gal/flush in order to make the environmentalists happy.
There is an optional European flush toilet, also recommended (comes in manual or fully-automatic) that has 3 buttons. Button 1 for #1. Button 2 for #2. Button #3 is a combination of #1 and #2 with the added benefit of 12 powerjets for those exceptional situations that may occur. (Most likely to occur with those who sit for long periods of time, getting little exercise)
I just wish someone would automate HAND WASHING after men use the comode!
Unbelievable the guys you see not washing after going. Smart, intelligent, CEO’s, board members, all the way down the chain.
Yuk!!!
If we don’t touch anything in there except for our Johnson, which is clean if you bathe regularly, what’s the problem?
It’s likely you pick up more germs from touching flush handles and faucets then from touching your own Johnson!
Or maybe we need a law for hand washing.
And those police patrols against gays in the toilets can watch out for those not washing hands and throw those bums in jail!
Here is the absolute WORST:
Most guys do NOT know that they should AIM FOR THE WATER!!!
That’s right. They want to pee quietly, and not make noise.
So they aim for the back of the urinal.
What they do NOT know, or have not seen is the huge stream of back splash they are emitting all around them and other pee’rs.
The fine mist is FULL OF BACTERIA!!
It is so bad, in film showing the spray, you can see it filling the entire bathroom!!!
Imagine half a dozen guys doing this at the same time.
And breathing it in, getting the fine particles all over you.
But guys want to pee quietly. So they aim for the back, instead of DOWN AT THE WATER.
Plus, if they fail to flush FIRST, they get the back spray of the guy before them.
This is NOT a joke. Check it out.
It is true. Totally gross, but not realized.
Isn’t there splashback from pissin in the water too?
Amazingly, not hardly any! It seems when you pee into the water, the water acts as a cushion for the flow. Yes, there is some, but not nearly as widespread or as much.
Try it yourself: Pour a glass of water into water. Then, pour an equal amount of water onto concrete.
Did you have to step back, on the concrete so you didn’t get wet?
Waa-laa.
Pass the word. Most men don’t know this. Don’t tell the women. They want us to put the seat down and sit down anyway.
Especially our kids.
Sometimes I just piss on the floor in the corner. Seems to be much less splashback that way.
A Federal Government study completed just last year, shows how Democrats tend to have less accuracy and are also the ones most likely to neglect hand washing.
This really is a political issue that needs to be solved.
We need a debate on the Senate floor.
I said a DEBATE on the Senate floor, what were you thinking?
I’ll bet Bill Clinton is one who doesn’t wash up afterward.
Ar – Kansas heritage.
In Europe, people pee outside. They just pull their cars off the road, get out and water grass. They even do it in the city in Paris and Brussels.
Do this: next summer wear some shorts. Pee in the urinal, either at the back wall, or in the water.You will feel itty-bitty droplets hitting your legs, either way. I garontee it.
So, then you can think about what you normally carry around on your long pants all day.
I usually just piss in the sink when we’re out at restaurants or whatever. I don’t like urinals.