Hey guys, what’s up? Been kind of busy around here – just finished changing out the faucet setup on a plastic sink. The hot water was dripping and the first go at changing the washer didn’t work so Dearest One and I decided to replace the whole setup with one that had a flexible hose arrangement.
[doesn't seem very fun so far does it?]
So I go into the local big hardware chain store and look around their faucets. Almost all were in the hundred dollars and up range and were big hunks of metal. Not what you want for a plastic sink. I flag down an employee and explain the situation he points to the plastic sink floor display model and says – like that there.
Yes, this faucet fixture with its flexible hose and four inch spread was the replacement I had been looking for. I could get it, but as a special order. Did I want it? Yes I did. And only forty dollars. Nice.
So after a week, I pick it up, look at the label and laugh inside…
My first thought was, “can’t wait until DAD sees this…”
Next thought was, “huh, not made in China – nice”
The installation went easily. The old one lasted five years before replacement – we’ll see how this one does.
Then I began to imagine what various folks here might say.
Kim would berate me for supporting the Zionist State.
JMK would write seventeen dense paragraphs describing the situation in the Middle East, human nature, and lack of any Absolute Standards of Morality and conclude that Israel is being remarkably restrained in her responses.
DADvocate would agree with JMK, except would argue that Absolute Standards of Morality do exist, however, applying them leads to the same conclusions about Israel as did JMK’s arguments. He would also call me a horse’s ass. Bless him…
FIREBIRD would be very passionate about her views, whatever they happened to be. I forget if she is simply pragmatic about supporting Israel or if she is also inspired by religious fervor. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hyphenated American probably knows the guy who designed it.
Steve would, I like to imagine, do what I’m about to do and see if there is any case to be made for assigning any bad juju to it at all.
Any top level arguments along the lines of buying from Israel at all is bad. Naw, that one doesn’t work for me – not after buying as much from China as I have to date.
Is anyone targeting them for a boycott? Some cursory searching brought up nothing. How about that Kibbutz reference on the label? What does Wikipedia say?
Glil Yam, established 1943 by a group that had ties going back ten years. Bought land from neighboring Arab village.
Seems legit, I just hope the fixture holds up.
I’m sure *somebody* is targeting Israel for a boycott. After all, there are so many available somebody’s to boycott so many other available somebodys …
which reminds me of a story from my college days involving a bag of Nestle’s chocolate chips.
Well, John E, you donkey’s ass, (I’d say “you slut” but that’s reserved for Jane) my issues are several.
How special was that order? More special than ordering a light fixture?
When you say “So after a week, I pick it up,…”, did you mean pick it up from the store or literally physically pick up the faucet?
“laugh inside” – does that mean you were laughing inside a building/structure as opposed to laughing “outside” where the sun is shining or the rain falling? Or, you were silently, mentally laughing to yourself?
Do you feel like telling Israel to take their faucet and spigot.
Donkey’s? Not Horse’s?
It was very, very special.
Both
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So far it seems to be a quality product – a credit to the Tribe. Insofar as the Zionist movement had anything to do with the chain of events that brought that product to my kitchen, I am that much more well-disposed towards that movement and towards the existence of the Israeli State than I otherwise would have been.
By comparison, the website http://shopinpalestine.com/index.php does not show any products that would improve my quality of life, except maybe for the pistachios, but they seem overly expensive compared to the California pistachios I usually enjoy.
So until the Palestinians get their consumer product sales together, and as long as the faucet keeps working well, my sympathies are now with the Israeli State – as long as they don’t sink any more US ships.
Benjamin Netanyahu will be pleased. The Massad’s visit to your house has been postponed indefinitely. Never knew the Isralis made faucets.
What does Wikipedia say?
FWIW, Wikipedia does have a page entitled “Boycotts of Israel.” See
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycotts_of_Israel
Since boycotts aren’t really my cup of tea, and I can’t think of any obscure legal questions such a boycott would present, I haven’t bothered investigating further.
as long as they don’t sink any more US ships.
To what sinking(s) are you referring?
The USS Liberty, of course.
As I understand it, the 1967 attack left the USS Liberty damaged, but not sunk:
Though severely damaged, Liberty’s crew kept her afloat, and she was able to leave the area under her own power. She was escorted to Malta by units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and was there given interim repairs. After these were completed in July 1967, Liberty returned to the United States. She was decommissioned in June 1968 and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register two years later. USS Liberty was sold for scrapping in December 1970.
See history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/agtr5.htm
That said, if the Liberty’s subsequent decommissioning & scrapping was indeed a direct result of the attack (I have no idea, having not studied the incident in detail), then the end result of the attack was basically the same as a sinking.
All right then – as long as they do not attack any more ships. Broader category anyway.
I berate you for supporting the Zionist State.
What do you mean by “Plastic Sink”? One of those tub/sink thingys next to the washing machine?
I’m suitably berated – and yes, one of those thingys.
“You can add images to your comment by clicking here.”
Okay, let’s test that…
My good John E.,
Perhaps our little plugin was initially intimidated.
Rather than include between the img code tags all of Google’s patrimony as well as the wish list of all the girls Google ever wanted to date, then, I instead followed the Google link to the original Lowe’s image itself and inserted only that original Lowe’s image URL between the img code tags.
H. M. Stuart
Alexandria
Thank you very much, My Good Host!
Unless you had your heart set on that particular design, you should have been able to pick that up at any hardware store.
That’s the one I had with the hardware shown in the immediate picture above.
What I had to wait on for the very special order was the pull-hose style shown in the first picture of the original post.
Also, yeah I did have my heart set on that particular style and this model fell right into the price point I had set.